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SoFerence 2024: Transformation of Libraries: The Design Thinking Way" - A Place to Make A Difference
by Nagappa Bakkannanavar 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

TCS Confidential Dear All, Season’s Greetings…!!! SoFerence is a leading biennial National Social Conference on Library & Information Science (LIS) organized by India’s largest Corporate Information Resource Centre from Tata Consultancy Services. This year, the 7th edition is scheduled on Saturday, 20th January 2024. The theme of SoFerence is “Transformation of Libraries: Design Thinking Way”. Libraries are continuously evolving in the fast-paced technological milieu, making it increasingly imperative for Libraries to reimagine its collection, services as well as infrastructure in the pursuit of aligning with New Normal. Reimagining involves out-of-the-box thinking and decision-making which are pivoted tightly around library users. Design Thinking is a process applicable to all types of libraries interested in creating innovative services and solving problems iteratively. This year, in SoFerence, we will be conducting an in-person Design Thinking workshop for Library Professionals, focusing on live library problems. The takeaway from this workshop would be a practical understanding of the complete design thinking process with a tailormade roadmap for transforming your libraries. Registrations are invited for in-person SoFerence conducted at TCS Bangalore on Saturday, 20th January 2024. A Pre-SoFerence online workshop will be held on Saturday 6th January, 2024. REGISTRATION & SUBMISSION OF PROBLEM(S)/CHALLENGES: § No Registration Fee (Free for all) § 150 Seats only available (First come first serve basis) § All participants will be rewarded with an E-Certificate. § Submit your library problem(s) for brainstorming during SoFerence to elicit workable ideas. Register & Submit Problem | Click Here →<https://forms.gle/szjmuQfEhpCMtRg8A> OR Copy the below link paste on the internet browser https://forms.gle/szjmuQfEhpCMtRg8A AWARDS § Best Articulated Problem (Individual Awards) § Best Pre-SoFerence Workshop (Group Awards) IMPORTANT DATES § 31st December 2023 | Last date for Registration § 2nd January 2024 | Registration Confirmation § 6th January 2024 | Online Pre-SoFerence § 20th January 2024 | SoFerence SPEAKER @ WORKSHOP Reeta Mehrishi Head, Corporate Design Tata Consultancy Services SPEAKER PROFILE: Pioneering the concept of Connected Design, she leads transdisciplinary design projects, focusing on transformational innovation for inclusiveness, sustainability, and improved long-term quality of life. She has designed brand strategies, products, games, data visualization, simulations, learning experiences, and built environments working with technologies ranging from image recognition, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, to social media and text analytics, GIS and the IoT. VENUE Tata Consultancy Services | Gopalan Global Axis H Block | Opp. to Sri Satya Sai Hospital | ITPL Road | Whitefield, Bangaluru Karnataka, India SoFerence Brochure Click here<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lQQ-EsMfUNFSelJ0-tQpZtVAgxg73Ayu/view?usp=…> → OR Copy the below URL paste on the internet browser to download the same. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lQQ-EsMfUNFSelJ0-tQpZtVAgxg73Ayu/view?usp=… For more details visit the SoFerence website: https://sites.google.com/view/soference/home For queries, please write to us at: soference(a)gmail.com<mailto:soference@gmail.com%3cmailto:soference@gmail.com> With Best Regards, Dr. Nagappa B |Head | Information Resource Centre Tata Consultancy Services | Gopalan Global Axis H Block | Bangalore Ph: +91 80 66821890 | Cell: +91-8147001193 | Mailto: bangalore.IRC(a)tcs.com<mailto:bangalore.IRC@tcs.com> TCS Confidential =====-----=====-----===== Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you

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Publication of a new book titled 'Librarian's Companion to Legal Literacy' reg:
by Joseph I Thomas 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

Friends, It's with much satisfaction and excitement i wish to tell you all that my book titled 'Librarian's Companion to Legal Literacy' co-authored with Neethu Mohanan has been published. The book consisting of 14 chapters elaborates upon various laws that librarians need to know. The book also provides a plethora of legal information sources like databases, law reports, law dictionaries, law Universities etc. Reading the book will be a unique experience to all readers as it provides solutions to various challenges that are being faced by Indian information professionals in their professional life. Bibliographical details: Title: Librarians Companion to Legal Literacy Authors: Dr. Joseph Immanuel Thomas Neethu Mohanan Publisher: Book enclave Place of publication: Jaipur Price : ₹1295 ISBN: 978-81-19684-01-4 Please gpay to publisher - 9462655885 (book enclave)

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LibraryGPT: Inviting academic and private libraries to pilot
by Atanu Garai 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

Dear All, SocialWell is a data and content startup, bringing enterprise data and content management system, including digital library framework. We have developed and tested a LibraryGPT, a custom GPT model specific to library catalog, holding, and circulation data using college library datasets. We have used LibraryGPT on top of Koha ILMS. We are inviting interested academic and private libraries to join us for a month-long testing and evaluation to understand search behavior among the patrons using standard OPAC search compared to use of natural language-based search. Libraries should be using Koha and ideally have medium to high daily usage, e.g., 100 – 400 searches. We intend to work with 10 libraries in India. Best regards, Atanu Atanu Garai SocialWell w: www.socialwell.net<http://www.socialwell.net/>

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IRAI -- 231211 -- Interesting Reads And Information & Forthcoming Events in Dec 2023
by Mohan Hr 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

*IRAI -- 231211 -- Interesting Reads And Information* Read the stories of IRAI -- 231211 at https://bit.ly/irai-231211 How ChatGPT can help you do archival research — but never replace archivists Implementing AI into software engineering? Here's everything you need to know What is an automation engineer? A growing role to address IT automation Disinformation is rampant on social media – a social psychologist explains the tactics used against you How to Create a Pitch Deck -- a series of blog posts I asked DALL-E 3 to create a portrait of every US state, and the results were gloriously strange Books to increase productivity, concentration and success at work Archives of The Academic Insider -- Weekly newsletter on how to secure a tenure-track job in academia, and climb the academic ladder Why Narayana Murthy is wrong about the 70-hour work week Super failure: Horrors of IIT dream *Quiz* The program AlphaZero, which was taught by reinforcement learning from self-play has recently achieved the superhuman performance and convincingly defeated a world champion program in the games of Chess and Shogi as well as Go. What is Shogi? (Answer in the next post IRAI -- 231221) Answer to the Quiz in IRAI -- 231201: Disk Drive Density *Past IRAI Posts* Stories in IRAI -- 231211: https://bit.ly/irai-231211 Stories in IRAI -- 231201: https://bit.ly/irai-231201 Stories in IRAI -- 231121: https://bit.ly/irai-231121 Stories in IRAI -- 231111: https://bit.ly/irai-231111 Earlier Posts of IRAI and Archives: https://lnkd.in/ewR3UdD *Forthcoming Events* 14th Dec 2023 at 6 pm IST. Webinar CSI, IEEE CS Madras & ACM Chennai cordially invite you to the webinar on "Analytics Development Life Cycle and MLOps" by Dr. K. Satya Sai Prakash, Practice Director, HCL Technologies, USA. Register at https://bit.ly/49j93E2 20th Dec 2023 at 3.30 pm IST. Webinar HCC, IEEE CS Madras, ACM & CSI Chennai cordially invite you to the webinar on "FUTURE PROOFING YOUR BUSINESS: Thriving in these times of unprecedented change" by Ms. Madiha Mouchtak, MBA, Mentor and Business Accelerator, Founder and Managing Director @ Answer Inside Transition and Scale up, Author of Amazon Bestseller: The Sustainable Turnaround. Register at https://bit.ly/47VoGzV Participant Gifts: A Free Growth Mindset Scan (For All); A Free Digital Business Scan (For Business Founders and Leaders) - Small and Medium sized businesses (not Micro); and A free Digital Copy of Madiha’s Amazon Bestselling book: The Sustainable Turnaround More Events in Dec 2023: https://bit.ly/dec2023events

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Survey on Adoption of Generative AI(ChatGpt) in Academic context of Library services
by Dr. M F Kumbar 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

Dear Professionals, Survey Link : https://forms.gle/LFnCL9a8KT85X24c8 This is First Anniversary of Chatpgt. The whole world is talking about Generative AI. We are exploring adoption of Generative AI in Academic context of Library services. You can contribute by taking this small survey or you can also agree to personal interview online and please feel free to enter your views in the comment section. Your insights are very invaluable to the study and help in understanding the adoption of this technology disruption of 21st century. Please carefully review the following statements and provide your feedback by indicating the extent to which you agree or disagree with each statement. Use the provided 5-point Likert scale, where: • 1 (SD): Strongly Disagree • 2 (D): Disagree • 3 (N): Neutral • 4 (A): Agree • 5 (SA): Strongly Agree Ensure to select the option that best represents your opinion for each statement. Additionally, in the sections related to the adoption of ChatGPT tools in your library and the constraints associated with their adoption, please provide relevant information as instructed. Please be assured that your data will be strictly confidential your identity will not be disclosed. Survey Link : https://forms.gle/LFnCL9a8KT85X24c8 Data collected will be used only for Academic purposes. Thank you for your time and valuable input Thanks & Regards Dr. M F Kumbar Librarian SPJIMR

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The Dream of a Universal Library | Robert Darnton | The New York Review of Books
by madhan muthu 09 Dec '23

09 Dec '23

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/12/21/the-dream-of-a-universal-librar… To be sure, the complex realities of technology, publishing, libraries, and authorship cannot be reduced to a Manichaean notion of progressives battling money-grubbers, because most of the participants in the knowledge industries pursue self-interest, whether it is profit or prestige. The recent history of academic books and journals shows how these interests have collided, driven by tectonic shifts in the global order of research and publication.

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Forthcoming Events of IEEE CS, ACM, CSI & HCC in Dec 2023
by Mohan Hr 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

*Forthcoming Events* 14th Dec 2023 at 6 pm IST. Webinar CSI, IEEE CS Madras & ACM Chennai cordially invite you to the webinar on "Analytics Development Life Cycle and MLOps" by Dr. K. Satya Sai Prakash, Practice Director, HCL Technologies, USA. Register at https://bit.ly/49j93E2 20th Dec 2023 at 3.30 pm IST. Webinar HCC, IEEE CS Madras, ACM & CSI Chennai cordially invite you to the webinar on "FUTURE PROOFING YOUR BUSINESS: Thriving in these times of unprecedented change" by Ms. Madiha Mouchtak, MBA, Mentor and Business Accelerator, Founder and Managing Director @ Answer Inside Transition and Scale up, Author of Amazon Bestseller: The Sustainable Turnaround. Register at https://bit.ly/47VoGzV Participant Gifts: A Free Growth Mindset Scan (For All); A Free Digital Business Scan (For Business Founders and Leaders) - Small and Medium sized businesses (not Micro); and A free Digital Copy of Madiha’s Amazon Bestselling book: The Sustainable Turnaround More Events in Dec 2023: https://bit.ly/dec2023events *Interesting Reads And Information (IRAI) Posts* Stories in IRAI -- 231201: https://bit.ly/irai-231201 Stories in IRAI -- 231121: https://bit.ly/irai-231121 Stories in IRAI -- 231111: https://bit.ly/irai-231111 Stories in IRAI -- 231101: https://bit.ly/irai-231101 Earlier Posts of IRAI and Archives: https://lnkd.in/ewR3UdD

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Words Algorithm Collection - finding closely related open access books using text mining techniques
by madhan muthu 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

Words Algorithm Collection - finding closely related open access books using text mining techniques Open access platforms and retail websites are both trying to present the most relevant offerings to their patrons. Retail websites deploy recommender systems that collect data about their customers. These systems are successful but intrude on privacy. As an alternative, this paper presents an algorithm that uses text mining techniques to find the most important themes of an open access book or chapter. By locating other publications that share one or more of these themes, it is possible to recommend closely related books or chapters. -- https://liberquarterly.eu/article/view/10938 -- Madhan, M

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Charting the future of science
by Subbiah Arunachalam 07 Dec '23

07 Dec '23

Friends, Here is a brief article on reforming scientific publishing for a new era of open knowledge written by Prof. Geoffrey Boulton of the International Science Council, and two related documents. Blog https://council.science/current/blog/charting-the-future-of-science-reformi… Paper 1 https://council.science/publications/key-principles-for-scientific-publishi… Paper 2 https://council.science/publications/reform-of-scientific-publishing/ These should be of interest not only to researchers but also to academic and research librarians. Your comments are welcome. Please forward them to me with a copy to Dr Mouumita Koley [moumita.koley(a)council.science]. With warm regards, Subbiah Arunachalam

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Webinar - BLOCKCHAIN: Technology & Applications by Ashutosh Saxena | 25th Oct 2023 | 4:00 PM
by Saxena, Deepak 06 Dec '23

06 Dec '23

Dear Sir / Madam, Please share the following information in your forum as it will be useful for your members Webinar - Blockchain Technology & Applications Date - 25th October 2023 Time - 4 pm onwards Link to register - https://wiley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtcu2orzMjG9ba9P92s0376F2OKkLhkHyv… About the speaker - Ashutosh Saxena began his career as a lecturer and computer engineer in the university and IUC-DAE facilities at Indore. He has also worked as a faculty member (Associate Professor) at the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (established by Reserve Bank of India), Hyderabad, for eight years, supervised three PhD and many Masters students. Has been a member of the review board for many international journals, conferences, and committees. He has served as Adjunct Faculty at NIT Warangal for one year. He has also worked as a Professor (CS) at CRRAO-AIMSCS, UoH Campus, Hyderabad for two years. Joined Infosys in June 2006 and worked as Principal Research Scientist & AVP, at Infosys Labs, Hyderabad (till Sep.2016). If you need any further assistance, then feel free to contact me. Warm regards Deepak Saxena Sr. Manager Marketing Phone: 72900-12190 Noida, India [A picture containing text, clipart Description automatically generated] [cid:image002.png@01DA071F.7585BB10] ________________________________ The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and intended only for the person or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, review, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete all copies of the email and any attachments. Click here for translations of this disclaimer.<https://secure.wiley.com/email-disclaimers> ________________________________

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