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Dr. S R Ranganathan's 125th Birthday and Felicitation to Library Veterans
by Shivaram Gowda 17 Nov '17

17 Nov '17

Dear Members Karnataka state Library Association is Celebrating a Dr. S R Ranganathan 125th Birthday Celebrations and Felicitation to the Library Veterans for their extraordinary contribution to the profession on 10.30 AM, 20th November, 2017 at Granthagana Auditorium, City Central Library, RPC Layout Bengaluru. I request all LIS professional community to join this function and make it grand success. For More Details and Invitation kindly click http://kalaonline.com/ With warm regards -- Shivaram BS Senior Technical Officer ICAST, CSIR-NAL Govt. of India (Autonomous) HAL Airport Road Kodihalli, Bangalore-560017 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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13th Dr. TB Rajashekar Memorial Seminar (2017): CORAL – Open source electronic resource management tool - Final Reminder
by Madhuresh Singhal 17 Nov '17

17 Nov '17

Dear Members, NCSI-Net foundation (http://ncsinet.org) a registered trust, comprising of erstwhile NCSI staff, trainees, and alumni, cordially invites you to the 13th Dr. TB Rajashekar Memorial Seminar (2017). This year’s seminar topic is, Electronic Resource Management using CORAL for LIS professionals. It is a one-day seminar targeted for the benefit of Library and Information Science (LIS) students and budding LIS professionals. The details of the seminar are given below: Title: 13th Dr. TB Rajashekar Memorial Seminar (2017): CORAL – Opensource electronic resource management tool Date: November 18, 2017 (Third Saturday) Venue: Choksi Hall, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru - 560012 About Seminar Theme: Electronic resource management (ERM) is the practices and techniquesused by librarians and library staff to track the selection, acquisition, licensing, access, maintenance, usage, evaluation, retention, and de-selection of a library's electronic information resources (Wikipedia). Number of proprietary ERM tools is available for the effective management of E-resources, to name few Innovative Interfaces, Serial Solutions, ExLibris etc. CORAL is an open source electronic resource management system built by the University of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Libraries. It is designed tobe both simple and highly customizable – each module can be installedindependently or used together depending on your library’s needs. Objective of the Seminar: To demonstrate the basic features of CORAL, Installation and configuration, and various modules. At the end of the seminar, theparticipants should have a clear understanding of CORAL functionalities. Resource Persons: NCSI-Net members who have practical experience in using CORAL andInfographics tools for managing online resources and reporting theusage of online resources, will serve as resource persons Registration Fee: Rs. 300 for Students (Should carry ID Card) and Rs. 600 for workingprofessionals, for NCSI-Net members Rs. 250. Fee covers Seminar kit,working lunch and tea / coffee Please do note that no arrangements for accommodation are being made for outstation participants. Seminar Topics:_________________________________________________________08:45-09:30 am Registration09:30-09:45 am Inauguration09:45-10:30 am Overview of e-Resources and ERM Systems10:30-11:00 am Coffee Break11:00-11:45 am E-Resource Licensing11:45-12:45 pm Introduction to CORAL and Installation on windows======================================================12:45-01-30 p.m LUNCH======================================================01:30-02:30 pm Modules of CORAL - Resources & Licensing 02:30-03:15 pm Modules of CORAL - Organization, Usage and Management03:15-04:00 pm Career Advice for LIS professionals04:00-04:30 pm Certification Distribution and Closing the Seminar Kindly bring this to the attention of the LIS students and budding professionals and encourage them to attend the seminar. Participants will get an opportunity to interact with fellow professionals working in the industry and academia. For further information, please visit the Seminar website at:http://www.ncsinet.org Please contact Dr. Francis Jayakanth franc(a)library.iisc.ernet.in OR Mr. Shivaram BS shivaram(a)nal.res.in for further details. With warm regards Madhuresh Singhalon behalf of NCSI-Net Foundation

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THINKERS50 2017 RANKING OF MANAGEMENT THINKERS ANNOUNCED
by Dr. Sandeep Bhavsar 16 Nov '17

16 Nov '17

Dear All *THINKERS50 2017 RANKING OF MANAGEMENT THINKERS ANNOUNCED* *November 13,2017 * *CHAMPION OF INTEGRATIVE THINKING TOPS THINKERS50* *NEW GENERATION OF THINKERS MAKES DEBUT* Who is the most influential living management thinker? The Thinkers50 2017 global ranking provides the answer. Published every two years, it is the essential guide to which business thinkers and ideas are in – and which have been consigned to business history. See the Thinkers50 2017 Ranking at http://thinkers50.com/t50-ranking/ -- Warm Regards Dr. Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian *Prin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research (AUTONOMOUS)* L Napoo Road | Matunga (CR) | Mumbai- 400 019. Tel: 022-2419 8377 | Mob: 9870 18 9999 Library Portal*: http://elearn.welingkar.org/infowe <http://elearn.welingkar.org/infowe>* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Pl. send the details of Visually Impaired Ph D students for invite to Research Methodology workshop
by Dr Ramesh C Gaur 16 Nov '17

16 Nov '17

Dear colleague, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Central Library, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi is organizing a Ten day workshop on “Research Methodology and Reference Management Tools” for Visually Impaired Ph. D. students. The workshop will cover various topics related to Research Methodology and Reference Management. The programme is sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi under special component plan for in social sciences. The tentative dates of the workshop will be in January to March 2018. Please send the details of the Visually Impaired Ph.D. students of your university who would wish to attend the above Workshop. It will be appreciated if this information is circulated to concerned Departments in your Institute/University. There will be no registration fee. Accommodation and other local hospitality will be provided during the Workshop. Further, participants need to arrange their travel support/cost etc. An early response in this regard will be appreciated. Pl. feel free to circulate it to all concerned. Regards Ramesh Sent from iPad ************************************ Dr. Ramesh C Gaur PGDCA, MLISc,Ph.D. Fulbright Scholar (Virginia Tech, USA) University Librarian Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) New Meharuli Road, New Delhi - 110067 Tele +91-11-26742605, 26704551 Fax : +91-11-26741603 Email: rcgaur(a)mail.jnu.ac.in ;rcgaur66(a)gmail.com URL: www.jnu.ac.in Brief Profile: https://jnu.ac.in/librarian -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Workshop on Research & Publishing - Sunday, Nov 19, 2017 @ Mysore - Invite
by Sunil MV 16 Nov '17

16 Nov '17

Dear All, Greetings from MILAN Mysore! Mysore University Information and Library Science Alumni Network (MILAN) cordially invites you for the One-Day workshop on 'Research and Publishing' organized by MILAN and SDMIMD on Sunday, November 19, 2017 between 10:00 AM and 4:30 PM at MDP Hall, SDMIMD, Mysore. The workshop is organized as a part of National Library Week Celebration 2017. Dr. R. Jagadeesh, Dean - Academics & Professor - Operations, SDMIMD will be the Resource Person for the workshop (Profile: http://sdmimd.ac.in/rjagadeesh) Please visit the following link for more information about the workshop. Link:http://www.sdmimd.ac.in/nlw2017/workshop With regards and Good Day:) Dr. Sunil M.V. Secretary, MILAN, Mysore -- Dr. Sunil M.V. Librarian Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Institute for Management Development (SDMIMD) No. 1, Chamundi Hill Main Road, Siddharthanagar Post, Mysore - 570 011, INDIA Mobile: 99864 39832 | Telephone: 0821-2429722 Extn: 3006 * Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Announcement of Three Days National Workshop on Organizing Research with Reference Management Tools during 27th - 29th December 2017 at INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar - regd.
by Roma 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

Dear All, Greetings from INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar! As you are aware that INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar has announced the Three Days National Workshop on Organizing Research with Reference Management Tools during 27th - 29th December 2017. The aim of this workshop is to give the participants a sound overview of reference management tools and their usefulness in organizing research. Use of reference management tools like Zotero, Mendeley and EndNote are very helpful to create research workspace & carry out research works, creation & organize bibliographies, to construct references while writing research, collaborating and discovering new research. These standard tools can reduce the task of writing bibliographies, references manually while writing research, thereby cutting the time, human efforts & errors on the part of research scholars. The following major topics will be covered in the workshop: - Introduction to Research and Research Ethics - Demo Presentation on “RefWorks” by Proquest. - Use of Reference Management Tool- Zotero with "hands-on-practice" - Use of Reference Management Tool- EndNote with "hands-on-practice” - Use of Reference Management Tool- Mendeley with "hands-on-practice” - Referencing / Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism, Use of "URKUND" anti-plagiarism s/w. Please, request you to circulate/share this information in your work circle. If anyone of your colleagues or anyone from other Institutions nearby to you wishes to attend then please ask them to do register themselves fully for this workshop on or before 20th December 2017 by paying the registration fees as a limited number of seats are available. For more details and registration process, please go through https://www.inflibnet.ac.in/hrd/ and attached brochure. Please visit for more details: https://www.inflibnet.ac.in/forthcoming/Reference_Management2017.pdf <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.inflibnet.ac.in%2Fforthcomin…> Thank you! -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Open Access / Solutions but not illegal affair: Some Points to Ponder
by Vasanth 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

Dear Sir/Madam, Just to understand why we need Sci hub kind of tools to access information and how unrestricted access to knowledge is addressed previously. - Aaron Swartz and The Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto Aaron Swartz was an Internet wizard who was behind the development of Creative Commons License and RSS Syndication. He took his own life in 2011. But what he did in a span of 26 years of his life was something very extraordinary and interesting. He was a fierce proponent of open access movement. He wrote the “Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto” to propagate free and unrestricted access to knowledge. Swartz did then what Sci hub is allowing us to do now. He downloaded millions of articles from JSTOR through MIT computer networks. The “Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto” reads like this “Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations….”. - Delhi University and Copyright Tangle with Major Publishers We all know how Oxford University Press, Cambridge and Tylor and Francis didn’t allow photocopy of the course materials they publish for students at Delhi University. They filed a copyright suit against the sale of photocopy materials at Delhi University, however Delhi High Court dismissed this copyright infringement petition. This was done by the major publishers to restrict the access to reading materials. How many of them in a country like India able to afford thousands of rupees to purchase books and other reading materials? - German Researcher boycotting Elsevier Publications Early 2017 some 60+ German Universities tried to cancel the subscriptions to Elsevier journals citing increasing costs. They demanded to make German publications open Access. German Universities wants their research publications available openly for them to access without paying exuberant fees to access their own published materials and others. This was an interesting developments in journal subscriptions and pricing models. There are other intricacies which is not needed here to discuss. But this issue brought up the debate on free access to knowledge. - Microsoft Windows Operating System and Piracy We are all familiar on this. Most of us are using pirated Windows OS for running other applications in our computers. Interesting fact is that except in few occasions Microsoft has never made this issue an important one and also there was no substantial information to claim that pirated Windows OS has lost their financial benefits considerably. Even at times we have heard that the company itself allow general users to have pirated Windows OS versions so that they will be familiar with this OS and help them to thrive their business in a different way. Today we can download songs and films of all kinds through Torrent. Is this legal or illegal? Today Internet itself at the centre of creating an unequal world which was not the vision of the creators of Internet. This is an unending question. ------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N.Mysuru

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PG Question papers 2015 to 2017
by Naveen. KS 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

Dear Professionals, Our College students need *AIIMS* PG old question papers 2015 to 2016 and 2017 May & Nov papers. If any body have this papers kindly send to my mail. * naveen.ks100(a)gmail.com <naveen.ks100(a)gmail.com> * -- Thanks Naveen K .S *Chief Librarian,* Subbaiah Institute of Medical Sciences, Holehonnur Road, Shimoga. Karnataka. 8884000300. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IFLA Library Map of the World - more than 2 million libraries counted
by mailman＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- From: "Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> Date: Tue, November 14, 2017 1:28 am -------------------------------------------------------------------------- IFLA is happy to share a quick update from the Library Map of the World. We have an incredible result from the first phase of data collection which ended on 31 October. Thanks to data contributors from around the world IFLA was able to count more than2 million libraries in 99 countries. During this initial phase of the Library Map of the World project we have learned about the state of libraries in these countries and moved closer to our shared goal of having reliable global library statistics. We would like to thank our data partners â those who submitted their data and those still in process â for this fantastic response. This is just the beginning and we are looking forward to the next year as the Library Map of the World becomes an annual activity, managed and maintained by IFLA. We are now analysing the results of the first phase to provide an annual summary report very soon. Visit the Library Map of the World at librarymap.ifla.org and stay tuned for news! Library Map of the World â visualising the power of the united library field Kind Regards, Gerald Leitner IFLA Secretary General

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Final Reminder, SoFerence 2017: A Place to Make a Difference!Regisration will be closed on 20th Nov 2017
by mailman＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- From: "Bk Panda" <Bk.Panda(a)tcs.com> Date: Mon, November 13, 2017 12:10 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Professional Friends, Final Reminder, SoFerence 2017: A Place to Make a Difference! Registration will be closed on 20th Nov 2017 Request you all to do the registration because it is essential /mandatory or entry into TCS Campus .Registered yourself with this link. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdlSdAZGu7hpd6Gv3YbAKaPowBN3N0E3iX… TCS Information Resource Center (IRC) Bhubaneswar in collaboration with Odisha Library Academy announces the 4th edition of "Soference" to be held on Saturday, 2nd December 2017. SoFerence is a bi-annual conference organized by TCS IRC for sharing experience on Library and Information Science (LIS) and related areas. First two editions of SoFerence were held at TCS Bangalore in 2011 and 2013 in collaboration with Karnataka State Library Association (KALA).Third edition of SoFerence was organized at TCS, Hyderabad in collaboration with Academy of Library Science and Documentation (ALSD) in 2015. This year's theme is "Digital by Default: Make Yourself Future Ready" SoFerence 2017 invites unpublished and original papers from LIS Professionals, Students, Research Scholars, Content Managers, Information Managers, Publishers, ECM/KM Professionals, Academicians and others on case studies, success stories, best practices and lessons learnt on the following topics but not restricted to: 1. Analytics/Big data Application in LIS 2. Data Science and Visualization 3. Disruptive Innovation and Technology 4. Internet of Things and Libraries 5. Cloud Computing and its Impact on Library Services 6. Social Media and Social Networking Services for Library 7. Plagiarism and Reference/Citation Management Tools 8. Evaluating Library Services and Quality (LibQUAL/SERVQUAL, Gap Analysis) 9. Web Learning and open source Learning Management System 10. Seeking Impact and Visibility of Scholarly Communications Last date for completed paper submission: October 30, 2017 Last date for registration: November 20th , 2017 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdlSdAZGu7hpd6Gv3YbAKaPowBN3N0E3iX… Best Regards, Bijoy Ketan Panda Information Resource Centre Tata Consultancy Services (UNIT-I)- KALINGA PARK IT/ITES SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE (SEZ),PLOT NO. 35, CHANDAKA INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, PATIA, Bhubaneswar - 751 024,Orissa India Ph:- 91-0674-6645275 Buzz:- 467-5509 Mailto: bk.panda(a)tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com ____________________________________________

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