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Public libraries are giving away an insane amount of free food - Shareable
by Mohan Hr 02 Oct '20

02 Oct '20

Public libraries are giving away an insane amount of free food Across America, in major cities you’ve heard of and in countless places you most likely have never considered, public librarians are working with local, state, and national partners to bring food to those who need it during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Wait — librarians? Yes indeed. And, when librarians distribute food, they do more than merely give it away. They also use the library’s myriad educational and lifelong learning resources to confront the food insecurity that all too many Americans struggle with every day. https://www.shareable.net/public-libraries-are-giving-away-an-insane-amount… Quite interesting With regards -- hrmohan -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Admission Notification: PG Diploma in Digital Library & Information Mngt @ TISS Mumbai
by Satish Kanamadi 01 Oct '20

01 Oct '20

Dear Professionals, Greetings! Centre for Library and Information Management Studies, Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai is a major Centre involved in capacity building of LIS professionals. It offers PG Diploma, Masters and PhD Programmes in Library and Information Science discipline with a focus on digital libraries, knowledge organization, e-Resources Management and web based information services. TISS is happy to announce admissions to the 11th Batch of "Post Graduate Diploma in Digital Library and Information Management" for the year 2020-21. This cutting edge, one year dual-mode programme uses contact classes for on-campus and Moodle e-learning platform for its off-campus sessions. It is aimed at creating trained human resource to handle digital libraries and electronic resources. There is a burgeoning need for trained librarians in the light of national priorities like Digital India, National Mission on Education through Information and Communication technology (NME-ICT) and National Knowledge Commission (NKC). With an emphasis on open source software, some of the tools we focus are Digital Libraries (DSpace, Greenstone), Content Management Systems (Drupal , Joomla), Library Automation (Koha), OJS,CORAL eResources Management, etc. The salient features of this programme are well crafted curriculum, expert faculty, enhanced emphasis on hands on lab experience, sound theory and experiential learning unique to TISS. Last date for submission of application is 21st October 2020 Please visit the following link to register/apply online. https://admissions.tiss.edu/view/10/admissions/stp-admissions/pg-diploma-in… We will also be happy to answer your queries. Please write to Dr.J.Shivarama Programme Coordinator, PGDLIM Centre for Library and Information Management Studies Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library Tata Institute of Social Sciences MUMBAI -400088 Tel: 022-25525284 Email: j.shivarama(a)tiss.edu OR The Secretariat Centre for Library and Information Management Studies Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library Tata Institute of Social Sciences MUMBAI -400088 Tel: 022-25525272 Email: madhuri.jagtap(a)tiss.edu ,pgdlim(a)tiss.edu Thanks and Regards, Satish Kanamadi PhD Chairperson, Centre for Library and Information Management Studies Librarian, SDTM Library Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) V N Purav Marg, Deonar MUMBAI - 400088. INDIA Tel: 91-22-25525283 Email: satish(a)tiss.edu "Disclaimer: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing it to outside parties, or taking any action on the contents of this information, that is unwarranted and without permission of the sender, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and do not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and please delete this e-mail from your system. "--- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: [CODE4LIB] Sign up for Mini-ELAG, the online mini conference! October 20, 2020
by Mohan Hr 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

Intereresing pgm -- hrmohan ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: HR Mohan ACM <hrmohan.acm(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 9:27 PM Subject: Fwd: [CODE4LIB] Sign up for Mini-ELAG, the online mini conference! October 20, 2020 To: Mohan Hr <hrmohan(a)gmail.com> Date: October 20, 2020 14:00 – 15:00 CEST Registration is free, sign up here: https://forms.gle/5d9Sc91NhCcXnuAu7 We got a program for the Mini-ELAG next month! Join us on Microsoft Teams and learn what our ELAG presenters have been doing the last months. This Mini-ELAG will be filled with 5 to 10 minute lightning talks and is free for registered participants. ELAG is Europe’s premier conference on the application of information technology in libraries and documentation centres. For over thirty years, the ELAG (European Library Automation Group) Conference has provided library and IT professionals with the opportunity to discuss new technologies, to review on-going developments and to exchange best practices. Program Collections as Data and Juypter Notebooks: experimenting in Library Labs Sally Chambers, Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Ghent University, Belgium, Julie M. Birkholz, KBR, Royal Library of Belgium’s Digital Research Lab & Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Ghent University, Belgium and Gustavo Candela, Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, Spain The international GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) Labs Community [1] was established in September 2018 following a “Building Library Labs’’ workshop organised by the BL Labs team at the British Library [2]. This initial event led to a second workshop at the Royal Library of Denmark in Copenhagen in March 2019 [3] which in turn inspired a Book Sprint in Doha, Qatar to write the hands-on guide “Open a GLAM Lab” [4]. Such activities have been catalysts for other Labs activities in a range of libraries, including the establishment of the KBR Digital Research Lab [5], a long-term collaboration between KBR – Royal Library of Belgium and the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Ghent University, Belgium to facilitate text and data mining research on KBR’s digitised and born-digital collections; the emerging DATA-KBR-BE open data platform, facilitating data-level access to KBR Collections and inspired by the North American ‘Collections as Data’ initiative [6], as well as the development of a series of GLAM Jupyter Notebooks [7] set-up by the BVMC Labs as part of the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library, Alicante, Spain and inspired by the GLAM Workbench [8]. In this lightning talk we would like to give you a brief taste of some of our Labs’ experiments from the last few months, and hopefully inspire you to try some similar experiments in your library! References [1] https://glamlabs.io [2] https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2018/09/building-library-labs-aroun… [3] https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2019/02/the-world-wide-lab-building… [4] https://glamlabs.io/books/open-a-glam-lab/ [5] https://www.kbr.be/en/projects/digital-research-lab/ [6] https://collectionsasdata.github.io [7] http://data.cervantesvirtual.com/blog/notebooks/ [8] https://glam-workbench.github.io Duration: 5 minutes Federated Identity Management for Libraries Jos Westerbeke, Erasmus University Rotterdam Access to licensed e-resources is almost always provided based on IP address authentication. However, big publishers tend to move away from IP based access and libraries are facing publishers who want to use Single Sign-On (SSO) configurations. Libraries, then, need to setup SSO in the right way to protect the privacy of its patrons. Several librarians and technical specialists launched the Federated Identity Management for Libraries initiative (FIM4L, http://fim4l.org) to address the lack of a common best practise. A recommendation document is written about how to establish federated SSO for libraries while protecting privacy. It describes the attributes which can be released by the library and recommends two main options: An anonymous and a pseudonymous authentication. These recommendations would be useful for librarians and publishers too, to use FIM and set up federated SSO. Duration: 5 minutes STFC Open Science Portal prototype Vasily Bunakov, STFC UKRI STFC UKRI is a large research organization, and a funder of science. STFC Open Science Portal is a Web application that integrates STFC records of science from a few in-house catalogues and external quality information sources beyond the organization walls. The talk will give a brief outline of the progress made with the implementation of this new information service. Duration: 5 minutes The virtual librarian Peter van Boheemen, Wageningen University & Research Library Since your library user will not visit your library web site and will not use your library catalogue but will find what they need by browsing the internet, why not use browser plug-in technology to build a virtual librarian, that will travel with the user across any web site and assist the user when it is relevant. Duration: 5 minutes OCR-D: An open ecosystem for improving OCR on historical documents Clemens Neudecker, Berlin State Library OCR for historical documents remains a tricky challenge. The German OCR-D project and community have in recent years created a fully open source framework and ecosystem for historical document OCR (https://ocr-d.de) Now the solutions developed will have to demonstrate their effectiveness in real-world implementation scenarios. In this lightning talk we want to introduce the OCR-D stack and its features and discuss the open and participative development strategy of OCR-D in order to encourage others to experiment with OCR-D, engage with its community and contribute their own experiences and findings. Duration: 10 minutes Institutional Digital Archive Dries Vanacker & Dhany dHondt, Artevelde University of Applied Sciences Digitally archiving students’ research in the area of higher education has always been a challenge. Often these repositories are not very visual or lack integrations and transparent restrictions regarding access for external stakeholders is often missing. Moreover, the impact a digital archive has on the climate and physical storage is not to be underestimated. In this lightning talk we want to give you a demo of version one of the in-house developed open source repository that integrates with Learning Management Systems and tackles the earlier mentioned concerns. We will expand on the rationale behind the platform and dive into the technical architecture and infrastructure. Duration: 10 minutes Semantic structure recognition in tables of contents of periodicals and multilingual indexing of abstracts Manfred Hauer , AGI – Information Management Consultants intelligentCAPTURE articles moves metadata and abstract of – old and current – printed articles in periodicals or yearbooks into library catalogs. Metadata are recognized via a semantic structure recognition after scanning and OCR. Text like abstracts can be added and indexed from and into in many languages. Examples from Ibero-American Institute in Berlin will be given. Duration: 10 minutes First steps with FOLIO in Leipzig Leander Seige, Leipzig University Library On June 11, 2020, Leipzig University Library was the first institution in Germany to put services based on FOLIO into productive operation. This was preceded by about two years of intensive work with the system and participation in the international community. This talk briefly reports on the first experiences with the system in terms of technical, librarian and organizational aspects. Duration: 10 minutes Kim Pham Information Technologies Librarian, University of Denver 303-871-2285 @tolloid

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India's STI policy on journal subscrption and APC
by Subbiah Arunachalam 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

Please see https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02708-4 Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009

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Registration open for LIS Academy’s Soft skill and Personality DevelopmentTraining program
by Pandurang Konnur 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

Dear Friends, Registration is open for the Soft skill and Personality Development Training program being organised by LIS Academy in the month of October Last week (Dates will be announced separately). Please view the Brochure of the Soft skill and Personality Development Training program: http://lisacademy.org/softskill/LIS%20Brochure.pdf A demo Class is organized through You tube channel. Please Visit the demo classes and promo videos in the following links: Soft Skill Training Promo: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsBXMi9OD5U* <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsBXMi9OD5U> Brief About the Course by Mr.Paul: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqBvpi3wRWM&t=291s* <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqBvpi3wRWM&t=291s> Demo Lecture of Mr.Paul: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ3bHAnX5ts&t=314s* <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ3bHAnX5ts&t=314s> Registration Process: STEP- 1 Please register for the LIS Academy Membership from the following Link: http://www.lisacademy.org/lisacon/membership/ with this you will be saving 10% of the registration fees STEP- 2 Please register for the Soft skill and Personality Development Training program by entering the last 4 digits of your LIS Academy Membership ID. http://www.lisacademy.org/softskill/ STEP- 3 Make necessary payment. You will get an official receipt for the money paid and printed certificate for the course attendance Thanks & Regards, *Dr. P. V. Konnur* *President* - LIS Academy, Bangalore *Former LIS Professor*, *Fulbright Scholar* - (UIUC, USA) *Adviser - VTU Consortium, * *Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi - 590 018, * *Chairman* - State Level Book Selection Committee, DPL, Karnataka *Mobile* : 09449679737 *E-Mail* : pvkonnur(a)gmail.com Website: *www.lisacademy.org <http://www.lisacademy.org/>* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Webinar on "Demystifying Good Death & Organ Donation" on 3rd Oct 2020
by Mohan Hr 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

*3rd Oct 2020 at 6 pm IST* CSI Chennai, ACM Chennai & IEEE CS Madras cordially invite you to the webinar on Topic: Demystifying Good Death & Demystifying Organ Donation Speakers: Dr. K. Ganapathy Director, Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation Director, Apollo Tele Health Services Past President, Telemedicine Society of India Past President Neurological Society of India Emeritus Professor, Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University Dr. Sunil Shroff Sr. Consultant, Urologist & Transplant Surgeon, Madras Medical Mission President, TN Chapter - Telemedicine Society of India President Elect - Indian Society of Organ Transplantation Managing Trustee, MOHAN Foundation Editorial Advisory Board, Indian Journal of Organ Transplantation Date: Saturday, 3rd Oct 2020 :: Time: 6 pm to 7 pm IST For presentation details & speaker profile, pl see the PDF invite at https ://bit.ly/2Fd02mk <https://bit.ly/2Fd02mk> Flyer at https://bit.ly/2S0wgVk Register at https://forms.gle/owaPvsXuvaUtXwK58 With regards PV Subramanian, Chair, CSI Chennai HR Mohan, Chair, ACM Chennai P Sakthivel, Chair, IEEE CS Madras PS: The other nine pgms in Oct 2020 include: 6th Oct: Demystifying IoT Protocols https://bit.ly/2QGkvm3 10th Oct: Science and Technology Research in India https://bit.ly/3bzbzJ6 13th Oct: The Role of AV in Online Education https://bit.ly/3kl617Y 14th Oct: Design Patterns -- A Quick Introduction https://bit.ly/31FfDnE 17th Oct: AI & ML for Hyperautomation https://bit.ly/2YXocbE 20th Oct: Introduction to Git https://bit.ly/3brKSpF 24th Oct: Demystifying Quantum Computing Technology https://bit.ly/2Z1q0jS 27th Oct: Enhancing Customer Engagement Using Social Media Analytics and NLP https://bit.ly/2REWRHn 31st Oct: Microservices Architectures for DevOps : Kubernetes and Docker https://bit.ly/2Fy9YXU Pl. see the detailed schedule including the pdf invite, presentation, speaker profile and registration links at https://lnkd.in/g_tiSFu -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ASM gives free access to largest Inorganic Materials Data
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

Sourced from Researchbuzz Sep 29 2020 ================================ PRWeb: ASM International Launches Online Access to World’s Largest Archive of Inorganic Materials Data <https://www.prweb.com/releases/asm_international_launches_online_access_to_…> (PRESS RELEASE). "The ASM Materials Platform for Data Science (MPDS) is the world’s largest and most comprehensive repository of inorganic materials data comprised of phase diagrams, crystal structures, and a broad range of properties – physical, mechanical, electrical, optical, magnetic, to name a few. This massive data archive contains more than 1 million experimental and calculated data properties that allow users to dive deep into highly technical materials information that are now easily accessible in one place. In addition, utilizing concise searching technology, MPDS offers effective progressive data discovery of the massive data repository." *Searching appears to be free, while getting detailed search result information appears to be paywalled.* ================= Dr P Vyasamoorthy 30 Gruhalakshmi colony Secunderabad 500015 040-29552016 / 09490804278 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article
by Paramjit Singh 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

Dear Professional Colleague Can I have the following article please *J. A. Konstan and J. Riedl, "Recommended for you," in IEEE Spectrum, vol. 49, no. 10, pp. 54-61, October 2012, doi: 10.1109/MSPEC.2012.6309257.* -- Thanks & Regards <https://www.linkedin.com/in/paramjit-singh-8aa1238/> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/paramjit-singh-8aa1238/> *S Paramjit Rana | **Librarian *| M.A., M. Phil. <https://www.linkedin.com/in/paramjit-singh-8aa1238/> Tel. +91 9968 308970, 9911 270778 <https://www.linkedin.com/in/paramjit-singh-8aa1238/> *"Vidya Vichari Ta Parupkari" <https://www.linkedin.com/in/paramjit-singh-8aa1238/>* *Please consider the environment before printing this email !! <https://www.linkedin.com/in/paramjit-singh-8aa1238/>!* *Useful Links* [image: Logo] <https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/> <https://swayamprabha.gov.in/> <https://swayam.gov.in/> <https://doaj.org/> <https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/>[image: Vidya Lakshmi Portal] <https://www.vidyalakshmi.co.in/Students/> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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UGC to launch guidance document on academic research
by Raghavendra pawar 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

Pls go through the following link. UGC to launch guidance document on academic research <https://indianexpress.com/article/education/ugc-to-launch-guidance-document…> Thank you, Raghavendra R -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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WIPO offers "General Course on Intellectual Property"
by Temin Thomas 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

WIPO Academy Distance Learning Program offers "General Course on Intellectual Property (version 2)". Cost : Free of charge Certificate : e-certificate of course completion. Registration : 23-Sep-2020 to 08-Nov-2020 Course : 19-Oct-2020 to 14-Dec-2020 Exam Date : 13-Dec-2020/14-Dec-2020 For more information and registration https://welc.wipo.int/acc/index.jsf?page=courseCatalog.xhtml&lang=en Regards, Temin Thomas MLISc, Thrissur-Kerala. teminthomas89(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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