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Are subscription journals doomed?
by Subbiah Arunachalam 28 Jul '17

28 Jul '17

Here is an interesting analysis of the impact Sci-Hub can have on the subscription journal publishing industry: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/sci-hub-s-cache-pirated-papers-so-bi… Best wishes. Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Congratulations to Kemparaju sir and Anand
by srinivasa ragavan 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

We the faculty and students of department Iof Library and Info. Science Bharathidasan University extend our heartiest congratulations and best wishes for Prof. Kemparaju fir assuming the highest academic position as iVice Chancellor and Anand bairappa for becoming Chief Librarian of nation's no 1 institution and wishing them all the successwith regards andt from Yahoo Mail on Android

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Congratulations to Mr. Ananda Byrappa Joined as IISc Librarian
by mailman＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- From: "T M Devendrappa IMU Mumbai Campus" <tmdevendrappa(a)imu.ac.in> Date: Wed, July 26, 2017 4:05 pm To: mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Sir, Please post the below message in LIS Forum for wide circulation. .............................. Dear Professionals, On behalf of NCSI-NET I heartily congratulation Mr. Anand Byrappa alumni of NCSI. Taken charge as Librarian at JRD Tata Memorial Library, IISc, Bangalore. I wish him best wishes. With Regards ----------------------------------------------- Devendrappa T M Assistant Librarian Indian Maritime University (A Central University, Govt. of India) Mumbai Campus, Karave, Nerul, Navi Mumbai- 400706.

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Informatics Studies - Invitation to Contribute Papers for Volume 4.4 (2017)
by editor＠informaticsstudies.in 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

The rapid growth of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has thrown up enormous possibilities for managing knowledge resources. ICT has great potential as a tool for learning and bridging the knowledge gap. But there are numerous challenges for harnessing its power countries like India using many languages and scripts. Such countries need giving priority to research and development in areas like language technology. The journal - Informatics Studies promoted by Centre for Informatics Research stresses on such areas of concern to Asian and African countries, The journal also focus on areas –Information Infrastructures, Knowledge Management, Institutional Repositories, Digital Library/Archive, Cloud Computing Solutions for Libraries, Unicode, Multi-linguality and Interoperability Issues, Thesauri and Ontologies, Semantics, Metadata and Retrieval, Resources Discovery Solutions, Online Resources Usability Issues, Open Access Initiatives, OAI –PMH, MARC 21, Consortia, IPR, Information Literacy, Training and education of Professionals, Performance Measurement and Metrics, Setting Service Quality Standards etc. The journal is in its fourth year of publication and Volume 4. 3 published on 1st July 2017 is accessible at: http://52.205.22.215/index.php/informatics. We invite papers for publication in the journal from Volume 4.4 onwards. Papers for publication in volume 4.4 to be published in 1st October 2017 will be accepted upto1st September 2017 . Papers are to be uploaded in the journal site. A copy can be send by e-mail as MS Word file attache. For author guidelines and other details you can refer http://www/informaticsstudies.org or contact: editor(a)informaticsstudies.org R. Raman Nair Editor. Informatics Studies Centre for Informatics Research and Development Trivandrum – 69043, India -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: Dr.Anand Byrappa Joined as Librarian of IISc, Bangalore
by Pandurang Konnur 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

Dear Professional Friends, It is a pride moment to inform all the professional friends that after a decade IISc has filled up its Librarian from among LIS Profession. Dr Anand Byrappa has Joined IISc on 24-07-2017. earlier to this assignment he was serving as Global Leader - Knowledge Center, Six Sigma Belt, GE John F Welch Technology Center, GE, Bangalore. Friends, our profession was in need of a true academic leader and it is filled now. Let us all congratulate Dr.Anand and also welcome him to the Academic Librarianship. Best Regords, *Dr. P. V. Konnur* *Former Director Prasaranga,* *Adviser, VTU Consortium,* *Visvesvaraya Technological University,* *Belagavi - 590 018* Mobile : 09449679737 E-Mail : pvkonnur(a)gmail.com

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Fwd: Dr.Anand Byrappa Joined as Librarian of IISc, Bangalore
by S.K.Vijaianand 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

Congratulations to Dr.Anand Byrappa !!! Indeed it is a good news for our profession and hope his LIS leadership will support IISc to ahead in the global status. With kind regards, Dr.S.K.Vijaianand ------------------------------------------------ Deputy Librarian, P.K.Kelkar Library, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur - 208 016 (UP), India Ph: 91-512-2596055(Off) E-mail: vanand(a)iitk.ac.in URL: http://pkklib.iitk.ac.in/ --------------------------------------------- On Thu, July 27, 2017 12:40 pm, Pandurang Konnur wrote: > Dear Professional Friends, > It is a pride moment to inform all the professional friends that after a decade IISc has filled up its Librarian from among LIS Profession. Dr Anand Byrappa has Joined IISc on 24-07-2017. earlier to this assignment > he was serving as Global Leader - Knowledge Center, Six Sigma Belt, GE John > F Welch Technology Center, GE, Bangalore. > Friends, our profession was in need of a true academic leader and it is filled now. Let us all congratulate Dr.Anand and also welcome him to the Academic Librarianship. > Best Regords, > *Dr. P. V. Konnur* > *Former Director Prasaranga,* > *Adviser, VTU Consortium,* > *Visvesvaraya Technological University,* > *Belagavi - 590 018* > Mobile : 09449679737 > E-Mail : pvkonnur(a)gmail.com >

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Hearty Congratulations to Prof. Kemparaju
by Shekar H P 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

Dear Professional Colleagues, It is an immense pleasure to share with you that, *Prof. T D Kemparaju*, Department of Library and Information Science, Bangalore University Bangalore appointed as the *first Vice-Chancellor* of Bangalore North University for the period of four Years. Prior to this, He served as Dean at Bangalore University, Registrar at Mangalore University, and Special Officer for Bangalore North University. Moreover, He has known to the professionals as a very strict, efficient and honest officer in the field of LIS. Sir, you deserve this post. Let us join hands to congratulate him on his great achievement. *HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU DEAR SIR.* -- *Dr. Shekar HP* *MLISc.,M.Phil., B.Ed., PGDHRM., Ph.D.,* *Chief Librarian* *The Oxford Educational Institutions* *HSR Layout* *Bangalore-560102* *Mob: 09945799927 * *Ph: 080-30266346* *Web:http://drshekar.weebly.com <http://drshekar.weebly.com>* *WWW.theoxford.edu <http://WWW.theoxford.edu>* P *Please don't print this email unless you really need to; and preserve trees on planet Earth* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Warning before availing Voluntary support
by Mahesh Angadi 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

In addition to what Mr. Vinod Mishra has pointed out, I would like to say that:- 1. Maintenance, Upgradtion and Daily Operations are a full time job. So installation or hosting is just beginning. 2. Most of the Popular Library OSS like KOHA and DSpace have free demo sites. If any Library Professionals want to use these software's in the library, then I suggest them first to study and practice on these free demo sites. 3. Considering the environment of Academic Institutions in India, Library Professionals will face lot of problems if they try to depend on vendors or IT professionals for even small aspects. 4. I addition to demo sites, Library Professionals can even practice by installing live dvd and practice on it. 5. I don't say that you have to be competent as IT professional, but try to learn important aspects by exploring free resources available on the internet, with which you can reduce your dependency and their by also increase your professional value. At the out-sight, I take this opportunity to acknowledge all my seniors in library automation field who comparatively had much less resources and support as compared to our generations, yet their dedicated hard work, guidance and posting of free resources, tips, and manuals have helped our generations to conveniently automate our libraries. -- Mr. Mahesh M. Angadi, Librarian, Model College, Dombivli (E). Contact No. 9869120258, (0251) 2470010. On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 8:58 PM, vinod mishra <mishravk79(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > Now a days open source solutions are dominating the Library and information > services and many of us are using it. We have implemented these solutions > either by commercial firms or by help of any Volunteer/In-house manpower. > The commercial firms are bound to provide you services after sells but > volunteers are not therefore dependency on volunteers to avail there help > in future is doubtful. > > Therefore if you want long term voluntary supports from person who has > implemented OSS in your libraries please inquire from others who have avail > their services before inviting such volunteers. I am getting lot of > feedback of such victims who got the volunteer support but now they > stopped, may be because it has been already added in their profile?. Please > apply the same procedure as you followed to avail any commercial support > like feedback with previous client, meeting to know the attitude, how they > may support after implementation, what will be their alternatives etc. It > would be much better to join forums, social media etc. from where you can > get supports as well in a better way. > > With Regards, > > Vinod Kumar Mishra, > Assistant Librarian, > Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL), > NIT Rourkela, > Sundergadh-769008, > Odisha, > India. > Mob:91+9439420860 > Website: http://mishravk.com/ > > *"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical > relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul" -- Mahatma > Gandhi* > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > >

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Peer review
by Subbiah Arunachalam 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

Friends: Please promote good peer review practices in your campuses. Here is a two-page guide: http://www.the-aps.org/mm/SciencePolicy/Agency-Policy/Peer-Review/PeerRevie… -- Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Gentle Reminder! ADINET 2017: Librarians’ Day 2017 Seminar Registration - Deadline is Extended till July 31, 2017
by Manu T.R 26 Jul '17

26 Jul '17

Dear Professional Colleague, A gentle reminder for registration for the ADINET Librarians’ Day – 2017: 125th Birthday Celebration of Dr. S. R. Ranganathan by holding a Seminar on, Saturday 12, August 2017 at the Adani Institute of Infrastructure Seminar Registration - Deadline is Extended till July 31, 2017 We are very glad to inform you that we have received overwhelming submission of papers for the ADINET 2017 seminar. The Editorial Team has accepted *35 Papers* (17 papers from Gujarat, 17 papers from other states and one paper from Dubai) for presentation during the seminar and also for publishing in the pre-seminar volumes. You may browse the paper details at http://ld2017.alibnet.org/. We request you to participate as delegates in the seminar by registering as per the details available at http://ld2017.alibnet.org/registration/ . Early registration will enable us to make the necessary arrangements. We count on your support for a successful seminar and look forward to your contribution in the seminar. Sincerely Manu T R & Organizing Team Organizing Secretary, ADINET - 2017 Assistant Librarian Adani Institute of Infrastructure Shantigram Township, Nr Vaishnodevi Circle, SG. Highway, Ahmedabad 382421 | Gujarat | India Mo: +91-9824249757 | Off +91-79-2555 6528 Email: manu.tr(a)aiim.ac.in | libariansday2017(a)gmail.com | manutr91(a)gmail.com Website: http://ld2017.alibnet.org/ | http://www.aii.ac.in/librarians-day-2017/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ADINET17 | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ALIBNET/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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