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Arun needs the full text of a presentation he made in 2004(?) at ASIS&T
by Subbiah Arunachalam 03 Jan '25

03 Jan '25

Friends, Please do me a favour. Here is the abstract of a paper I presented at Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology <https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15508390> sometime in 2004 (?). Please see https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/meet.1450400162. At that time, I was volunteering with M S Swaminathan Research Institute, Chennai, essentially working in the area of ICT4D. The only other speaker at the ASIST event I knew was Dr Paul Uhlir, who was with the US National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC. *Subbiah Arunachalam:* *Ethical, Social, Political, Legal, and Economic Issues and Impacts of the Shrinking Public Domain for Developing Countries* We are moving into a knowledge economy in which information is becoming a major source of power. Having and knowing how to use information effectively make all the difference, be it in making a kill in the stock market, producing drugs and pharmaceuticals, weapons that can rake in huge profits, or even acquiring superpower status and dominating the world. One of the most distressing developments of the modern world is the privatization of research by companies small and big at the cost of public good research. Every conceivable development – be it a new drug or new ways of communicating – is now patented and kept away from free and open access. In many conferences held in the USA, members and fellows who are foreign citizens are not allowed to attend certain sessions. The most widespread discrimination is in the matter of access to published information by pricing it out of reach of the developing world. In crucial areas like food and nutrition (agriculture), health care, and computing, privatization of public knowledge is exacerbating the divide between the rich and the poor, which, if it continues for long and crosses a threshold, might lead to undesirable consequences. *** I want the full text of the paper. I do not remember where this event was held (probably 2004). I will be grateful for your help. With warm regards, Subbiah Arunachalam http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009

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Two-Day National Conference NCMLTS-2025 at MAHE Bengaluru 28-29 Mar'25
by Ishappa C Bandi [MAHE-BLR] 03 Jan '25

03 Jan '25

Dear Members, Greetings!! HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2025 The MAHE Bengaluru Central Library is organizing a Two-Day National Conference on Modern Library Technologies and Services (NCMLTS-2025) with the theme 'Innovations & Integrations for the Next Generation Libraries'. This conference will be held from 28-29 March 2025 at our sprawling green MAHE Bengaluru Campus. We invite you to participate and present your research articles at this conference. You will also be able to connect with LIS professionals, ideas, and good practices from all over India. Article Submission: Please send your research articles to ncmlts.maheblr(a)manipal.edu<mailto:ncmlts.maheblr@manipal.edu> Note: Selected articles will be published in Scopus/WoS Indexed Journals/proceedings; a separate editorial review will be done after the conference. More details on NCMLTS-2025 Website: https://conference.manipal.edu/NCMLTS2025/ Important Dates: * Conference Dates: March 28-29, 2025 * Deadline for Full paper Submission: February 28, 2025 * Notification of Acceptance of paper: March 05, 2025 * Last date for Registration: March 10, 2025 Looking forward to seeing you all at NCMLTS-2025 Thanks With best regards Dr.Ishappa C Bandi Convener | NCMLTS 2025 Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), (Institution of Eminence Deemed to be University) Govindapura, Yelahanka, Bengaluru 560063, Karnataka, India website- https://conference.manipal.edu/NCMLTS2025/ Email: ncmlts.maheblr(a)manipal.edu/<mailto:ncmlts.maheblr@manipal.edu/> ishappa.bandi(a)manipal.edu<mailto:ishappa.bandi@manipal.edu> ________________________________ Disclaimer: This email and any files transmitted with it are privileged and confidential material of Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE). They are intended to named recipient(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please contact the sender and delete the message. This Email message including attachment(s), if any, is believed to be free of any virus. However, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus-free, and MAHE accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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Two-Day National Conference at MAHE Bengaluru Campus from 28-29 March 2025
by Francis Jayakanth 03 Jan '25

03 Jan '25

From: ishappa.bandi(a)manipal.edu Date: 02 January 2025 Dear All, Greetings!! The MAHE Bengaluru Central Library is organizing a Two-Day National Conference on Modern Library Technologies and Services (NCMLTS-2025) with the theme ‘Innovations & Integrations for the Next Generation Libraries’. This conference will be held from 28-29 March 2025 at our sprawling green MAHE Bengaluru Campus. We invite you to participate and present your research articles at this conference. You will also be able to connect with LIS professionals, ideas, and good practices from all over India. Article Submission: Please send your research articles to ncmlts.maheblr(a)manipal.edu Note: Selected articles will be published in Scopus/WoS Indexed Journals/proceedings; a separate editorial review will be done after the conference. More details on NCMLTS-2025 Website: https://conference.manipal.edu/NCMLTS2025/ Important Dates: Conference Dates: March 28-29, 2025 Deadline for Full Paper Submission: February 28, 2025 Notification of Acceptance of paper: March 05, 2025 Last date for Registration: March 10, 2025 Looking forward to seeing you all at NCMLTS-2025 Thanks With best regards Dr.Ishappa C Bandi Convener | NCMLTS 2025 Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), (Institution of Eminence Deemed to be University) Govindapura, Yelahanka, Bengaluru 560063, Karnataka, India website- https://conference.manipal.edu/NCMLTS2025/

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Registration for Special Lecture on "From Taxonomies to Ontologies" by Heather Hedden
by Nabina Khamaru 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

Dear Members, We are pleased to announce a special lecture jointly organized by the Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre, and the International Society for Knowledge Organization (India Chapter). The lecture titled "From Taxonomies to Ontologies" will be delivered by Heather Hedden, Hedden Information Management, Carlisle, MA, USA. *Topic: **"From Taxonomies to Ontologies"* *Speaker: Heather Hedden <https://www.linkedin.com/in/hedden/>* *Abstract: * Taxonomies and ontologies each have their own distinctive benefits. However, uses often overlap. Especially when the goals are improved enterprise information with excellent data findability, analysis, and linking. Fortunately, most currently used taxonomies and ontologies are built on the same basic data model standard - the RDF (Resource Description Framework). Consequently, whether or not taxonomies and ontologies are extended in accordance with other standards they can still easily be connected in the same implementation or wider project. While the technology is not a challenge, what is still needed is a more comprehensive understanding by stakeholders (including subject matter experts) on how, conceptually, to connect taxonomies and ontologies and to extend a taxonomy to have ontology features. *Event details:* *Date*: Tuesday, 14 January 2025 *Time*: 3:00 PM (IST) *Venue*: PJ Auditorium, Indian Statistical Institute *How to Register?* Registration for the lecture is now open. Kindly complete your registration by filling out the following Google Form: *Lecture Registration <https://forms.gle/9E1bfeQLnUWTuzg9A>* We encourage you to secure your spot for this event at the earliest. Please confirm your participation to avoid missing out on this opportunity to engage with global community experts. *Registration Closes by 12 January 2025.* We believe this lecture will be an enriching experience for scholars, practitioners, and professionals in the fields of knowledge organization, information science, enterprise data management, and related domains. We look forward to your response and participation in the event. Presides Dr. Biswanath Dutta Head and Associate Professor DRCT, ISI Bangalore Centre

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BharatSim: An agent-based modelling framework for India | PLOS Computational Biology
by madhan muthu 01 Jan '25

01 Jan '25

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012… BharatSim is an open-source agent-based modelling framework for the Indian population. It can simulate populations at multiple scales, from small communities to states. BharatSim uses a synthetic population created by applying statistical methods and machine learning algorithms to survey data from multiple sources, including the Census of India, the India Human Development Survey, the National Sample Survey, and the Gridded Population of the World.

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Forthcoming Events & Information Resources -- 250101 -- IRAI -- 250101
by Mohan Hr 01 Jan '25

01 Jan '25

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How a food crisis in India fed America's library collections
by Subbiah Arunachalam 31 Dec '24

31 Dec '24

Friends, Here is an interesting article from BBC that deserves to be shared widely among Indian librarians, esp. academic and research librarians. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevj80gld7do Ms Ananya Vajpayee, currently with CSDS, Delhi, was a Ph D student at the University of Chicago, where the great A K Ramanujan was heading the Centre for South Asian Studies and Mr James Nye was heading the South Asia Collection in the library, in 1996. In an interview she gave a few days ago to Mr Soutik Biswas, BBC's India correspondent, and author of this essay, she says, "At the Regenstein Library, I never failed to find the books I needed or get them quickly if they weren't already there." "The books are safe, valued, accessible and used. I've visited libraries, archives and institutions in every part of India and the story in our country is universally dismal. Here they were lost or destroyed or neglected or very often made inaccessible." Shouldn't we, members of the LIS profession, act immediately and make our libraries as user friendly and welcoming as the Regenstein Library in Chicago and other academic libraries in the West? With warm regards and best wishes for a happy, productive and satisfying New Year. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Articles required
by Gaurang Raval 26 Dec '24

26 Dec '24

Dear Sir/Madam Greetings from Rashtriya Raksha University, Gujarat One of our Library Patrons is looking under listed Articles for academic purposes. Details: 1. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2455328X221136385 2. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2455328X231168782 3. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2455328X231186255 4. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03071847.2015.1079068 It will be great if you can help us. [email id: gaurang.raval(a)rru.ac.in] Thank you in advance Regards | सादर *Gaurang Raval *| *गौरांग रावल* Library & Information Officer | पुस्तकालय और सूचना अधिकारी *Rashtriya Raksha University India *| *राष्ट्रीय रक्षा विश्वविद्यालय भारत* Lavad - Dehgam, Gandhinagar – 382305 | लवाड - देहगाम, गांधीनगर - ३८२३०५ Gujarat, India | गुजरात, भारत Contact No: 8160885285; Ext. 41034 | संपर्क नंबर: ८१६०८८५२८५; इण्टरकॉम ४१०३४ https://rru.ac.in/mr-gaurang-raval/ RRU <https://rru.ac.in/>| Library <https://rru.ac.in/library-facilities/> | OPAC <https://opac.rru.ac.in/>| MyLOFT <https://www.myloft.xyz/>|Turnitin <https://rruniversity.turnitin.com/>

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Gentle Reminder Re: Registration for SemTech2025 – Transforming Library Data into Global Knowledge
by Debanjali Bain 25 Dec '24

25 Dec '24

*************************Apologies for cross-posting***************************** Dear Colleagues, The deadline for SemTech2025 <https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/semtech2025/> registration is fast approaching, and only a few seats remain available. To register, please visit: https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/semtech2025/registration *Important Dates*: *Registration Opening Date*: December 2, 2024 *Registration Closing Date*: January 1, 2025 *Workshop Dates*: January 22–24, 2025 We look forward to seeing you at the workshop! If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at semtech.drtc(a)gmail.com or bisu(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in. Sincerely, Biswanath -- Dr. Biswanath Dutta, Ph.D. Head and Associate Professor Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile Mysore Road R. V. College Post Bangalore - 560059 INDIA Email: bisu(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in dutta2005(a)gmail.com Mobile phone no.: +91 94825 43243 Homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/bdutta <https://sites.google.com/site/dutta2005/home> GoogleScholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yhPNpzIAAAAJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3059-8202

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Makiing Indian research immediate non-APC OA
by Kailash Garg 24 Dec '24

24 Dec '24

This concerns Professor Arunachalam's suggestion to stop paying APC. I fully agree with Professor Arunachalam that the GoI should stop this practice. With warm regards, Dr. K. C. Garg, Former Chief Scientist, CSIR-NIScPR Member, Editorial Board, COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics, Annals of Library and Information Studies, and Journal of Scientometric Research. Life Member, International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI), IASLIC, DLA, and Academic Counsellor IGNOU

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