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Invitation for KALA Monthly Lecture @ RRI
by Subhash Reddy 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

Dear LIS Professionals, Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) is happy to invite you to the Monthly Lecture series. The second lecture of the series has been scheduled on Friday, 24th March 2017 at 5.00 pm at Raman Research Institute, C. V. Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Bengaluru - 560 080. [High-Tea at 4.45 PM] Title: *“Professionalism and Ethics”* Speaker: *Dr. B.A.Kanchan Garg,* Professor, COE & Dean Research (In-charge) PES University, Bengaluru About The Speaker: *Dr. B.A. Kanchan Garg* is currently the Professor in Civil Engineering, Controller of Examinations and Dean Research (In-charge) of PES University. She has served PES Institute of Technology (PESIT), Bangalore as Associate Dean Evaluation and has nearly 20 years of experience in teaching, research, industry and training. She has been actively involved in the automation of examinations in the University. She holds a Masters (1995), M.Phil (1998) and Ph.D (2002) in Environmental Sciences from Bangalore University. Her specialization includes Enviromental Resource Management, Environmental Impact Assessment, Apllications of Remote Sensing and GIS. She is a trained NBA accrediator. She is on the Editorial Board of Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment. You are cordially invited. Thanks and Regards, Subhash Reddy __________________________________________________________________________________ Librarian PES University 100 Feet Ring Road, BSK 3rd Stage, BENGALURU - 560085 Ph: 080-26721983 Extn:229 http://library.pes.edu -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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New database highlights cumulative chemical dangers | News | Chemistry World
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

May be of interest to Chemical Industry / research librarians. I am not sure if lis-forum is still plain text only or partially "html-tolerant" !! Therefore I am giving URL in plain text as well wherever possible. =========================================== New database highlights cumulative chemical dangers BY REBECCA TRAGER 20 MARCH 2017 Collaborative efforts offers information on hazardous chemical reactions and allows users to add their own incident reports A collaborative and publicly available database of previously inaccessible hazardous chemical reactions has been launched by the Pistoia Alliance, a not for profit group based in Boston, US. This new Chemical Safety Library (CSL) ( http://www.pistoiaalliance.org/projects/chemical-safety-library/ ) service features a submission tool that allows researchers to add safety data in just minutes, helping to prevent dangerous events from being repeated. The system was designed in conjunction with Pistoia’s industry members, including Bristol-Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca and Pfizer. Although many commercial and open resources already offer information on the hazardous properties of individual reagents, often there are no details about the effect of combining such reagents, according to Steve Arlington, the Pistoia Alliance’s president. In addition, such events are often not shared within or between companies. The CSL’s chemical reaction incident dataset can be downloaded, and it can also be configured to alert scientists if there is a known safety risk before they carry out a research project. Within hours of Pistoia announcing the CSL on 16 March, 150 people had already signed up to use the new system, says Carmen Nitsche, a business development consultant for Pistoia. Users have access to the base set of about 25 incidents with which Pistoia pre-populated the system, and they can enter their own incidents, which will then be reviewed before being approved. ‘If we are successful, this will be a resource for academia, for chemical companies, for anyone who has lab scenarios where this could be useful,’ Nitsche tells Chemistry World. https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/new-database-highlights-cumulative-chem… -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Two Days National Conference on Professionalism in Library and Information Services for User Empowerment: Opportunities and Challenges @ Mangalore University on April 27-28, 2017
by Ali, K. S 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Dear Professionals, With great pleasure we would like to inform you that Department of Library & Information Science, Mangalore University, Mangalore is organizing two days National Conference on “Professionalism in Library and Information Services for User Empowerment: Opportunities and Challenges” (PROFUSE 2017) on April 27-28, 2017 at Mangala Auditorium, Mangalore University Campus, Konaje, Mangalore *Call for Papers*: Original Papers focusing on the theme /Sub theme of the Conference are invited for the presentation as well as for the Posters. The conference theme/ sub theme of the topics are listed below: *Theme of the Conference* “Professionalism in Library and Information Services for User Empowerment: Opportunities and Challenges” *Sub-Themes includes the following but not necessarily confined to the following.* · LIS education and Research · Library and Information Profession · Ethics in Academic Writing and LIS Research · Trends and innovations in LIS studies · Information Resources, Services and Search strategies · Information Literacy · Information Literacy Instructions · Standards and Best Practices · Digital Resources · Procurement and Management · Content Management System · Social Networking · Big Data · Marketing of Information Resources and Services · Search and Web Scale Discovery · Accessibility to information resources · Librarian as Access facilitators · User Collection, User Studies · Evaluation of Library and Information Services · Numeric Scholarly Output · Open Access · Institutional Repositories · Managing change in Library and Library Services · Higher Education, innovative practices in libraries, librarianship and library services · Cloud Competing · Cyber Security/IPR issues *Important dates to remember:* Last date of Submission of Full text Papers on or before : 5th April, 2017 Acceptance Notification : 7th April, 2017 *Mode of paper (s) submission:* Conference paper should be sent to the E-mail: *profuse2017(a)gmail.com <profuse2017(a)gmail.com> * for peer review. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceeding with ISBN. *Registration Details:* *EARLY BIRD OFFER:* *Registration before*20/04/2017 Rs.1,500.00 (without accommodation) Rs.2,000.00 (with accommodation) Rs.1000 ( for accompanying person with accommodation & without kit ) Students/Research Scholars/Retired Professionals Rs.600 (without kit and accommodation) *Registration after *20/04/2017 Rs.2,000.00 (without accommodation) Rs.2,500.00 (with accommodation) Rs.1200.00 (for accompanying person with accommodation & without kit) Students //Research Scholars/Retired Professionals Rs.800 (without kit and accommodation) The brochure & registration form has been attached to the google drive. The details of the conference are available at the below given link: *http://profuse2017.weebly.com/ <http://profuse2017.weebly.com/>* We request you to actively participate in the conference and make a successful event. ***Conference Communications:* *Organizing Secretary* *Dr. Khaisar Muneebulla Khan* Professor & Chairman Dept. of Library and Information Science Mangalore University, Mangalore -574 199. E-Mail: khaisarmk(a)yahoo.com Phone: 09845504886, 0824-2287316 (O) *&* *Joint- Organizing Secretary* *Dr. T. Y. Mallaiah* Dy. Librarian Mangalore University Library, Mangalore -574 199. E-Mail: mallaiahty(a)yahoo.com Phone: 09448004946, 0824-2287394(O) -- With regards *K. S. Ali, * MLISc, (PhD) Research Scholar Dept. of Library and Information Science Mangalore University, Mangalore -574 199. Mobile no. 9686618671 Conference Brochure.pdf <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7U_a-N_jQ1QOGhDbWpUeTYzaGM/view?usp=drive…> Conference Registration Form.doc <http://drive.google.com/views/app.html?state=%7B%22ids%22:%5B%220B7U_a-N_jQ…> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vocabulary Control
by Salman Haider 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

VOCABULARY CONTROL The term ‘vocabulary control’ refers to a limited set of terms that must be used to index documents, and to search for these documents, in a particular system. It may be defined as a list of terms showing their relationships and used to represent the specific subject of the document. An information system may help the user by explicitly assigning index terms (that is, words or notations) to the documents and controlling, at least in the case of alphabetical (word) systems, the semantic and often the syntatic relationships between these index terms the words (which may be subject headings or descriptors) are assigned from recognized subject heading lists or thesauri, and the notations from recognized classification schedules, and thus use controlled vocabulary. A controlled vocabulary is one in which there is only one term or notation in the vocabulary for any one concept. The Library of Congress List of Subject Headings is an example of a controlled alphabetical vocabulary, and the Dewey Decimal Classification is an example of a notational vocabulary (By definition, all notational vocabularies must be controlled). The controlled vocabulary performs several tasks: - It usually explicitly records the hierarchical and affinitive/associative relations of a concept. Examples: Allergy, narrower-term: Hay fever; 385 (Railroad transportation), 381.1 (economic aspects of railroad transportation) - It establishes the size and scope of each topic. For example, whether or not the word baseball or the notation 796.357 is to include the concept softball. In addition, for word based systems, the controlled vocabulary identifies synonyms terms and selects one preferred term among them. For homonyms, it explicitly identifies the multiple concepts expressed by that word or phrase. In short, vocabulary control helps in overcoming problems that occur due to natural language of the document’s subject. Hence, if vocabulary control is not exercised different indexers or the same indexer might use different terms for the same concept on different occasions for indexing the documents dealing with the same subject and also use a different set of terms for representing the same subject at the time of searching. This, in turn, would result in ‘mis-match’ and thus affect information retrieval. Contents ------------------------------ Vocabulary Control - Subject Heading List - List of Subject Headings-General Principles - Thesaurus - Structure of Thesaurus - Relationship Between Terms - Thesauri and Subject Headings List - Thesauri and Classification Schemes - Thesauro-Facet - Classaurus - Systematic Arrangement *Read full article on Librarianship Studies & Information Technology <https://librarianshipstudies.blogspot.com/>: https://librarianshipstudies.blogspot.com/2017/03/vocabulary-control.html <https://librarianshipstudies.blogspot.com/2017/03/vocabulary-control.html> * LIKE Facebook Page - Librarianship Studies & Information Technology: https://www.facebook.com/librarianshipstudies/ and JOIN Google+ Community - Librarianship Studies & Information Technology: https://plus.google.com/communities/117182147088697693349 for more important updates on Library and Information Science Regards Salman Haider <https://salmanhaider.blogspot.com/> - Librarian Cataloger Blogger -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Step by step procedure to create koha-plugin-coverflow for opac
by Suresh Kumar Tejomurtula 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

Hi, Step by step procedure for creating koha coverflow images for the OPAC which useful for the basic koha users is below. http://blogssuresh.blogspot.in/2017/03/step-by-step-procedur e-to-create-koha_15.html I did this on a 14.04 and koha 16.11 version. Source for doing the procedure is: http://bywatersolutions.co m/2016/06/28/koha-coverflow-setup/ If any issue with this procedure or any easy way to achieve this, please let me know. -- Regards T. Suresh Kumar -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request to publish
by vasappa gowda 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

Dear sir,Please publish the following matter Sad demise of a Librarian- Mrs Bindu K- Librarian- Govt. First Grade College- Haleyangady It is sad to inform to all the library professionals that Mrs Bindu K- Librarian, Govt. First Grade College, Haleyangady- Udupi District- KARNATAKA STATE-INDIA has passed away on 17th March, 2017. She was 46 years. She was the 1992-94 batch MLISc student of Mangalore University. She served for more than 23 years as library professional. Soon after her MLISc she joined as an assistant librarian at Fisheries College, Mangalore. She also served at Fisheries College, Shivmogga Center. She passed her UGC SET and joined Karnataka Govt. Service in the year 2008 as Librarian at Govt. First Grade College, Haleyangady- Udupi district. She was an active member of Dakshina Kannada & Kodagu Library Assiciation and served as an Executive member. She was a very simple, humble, efficient and committed librarian served for the cause of the profession. She is survived by she husband, son and family members and a big band of well wishers and friends. The members of Karnataka State College Librarians Association, Bangalore and Dakshina Kannada & Kodagu Library Association, Mangalore prays Lord for her soul to rest in peace and also to give the strength to their family members and friends to bear the loss and pain With Regards Dr. VASAPPA GOWDA, MCom, MLISc, PGDCA, PhDSELECTION GRADE LIBRARIAN, BESANT EVENING COLLEGE, MANGALORE-575 003, KARNATAKA STATE,INDIA.Ph (0824) 2491204(O) (0824) 2453109(R)Mob: 09448150365

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MINIBIB: YOUR LITTLE LIBRARY at the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore
by sheshagiri kulkarni 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

Dear All, We are delighted to inform you that we have started a new initiative “MINIBIB: YOUR LITTLE LIBRARY” at the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore. It is a baby step to promote reading culture. The glass box is filled with books and is placed next to our security post for public use free of cost. We have a simple rule to ensure sustainability: take one, give one. It did not cost us much and we have received great feedback. You are invited to have a look at our post on Facebook in the link below: https://www.facebook.com/goetheinstitut.bangalore/posts/10155135133714283 Thanks a lot for taking interest in our project. Best regards, Sheshagiri Kulkarni Librarian Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan 716 CMH Road Indiranagar 1st Stage Bangalore 560 038 Ph: +91 80 2520 5305/06/07/08-206 kulkarni(a)bangalore.goethe.org www.goethe.de/bangalore www.goethe.de/india -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for full text article
by Ravi Hullur 9740638831 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

Dear Sir/Madam, One of our staff is in need of the following article, if you have in your Library, please forward to me. *A rash and a rare cause of unilateral diaphragmatic paralysis * - Zakariye M Ashkir, - George Tsaknis *BMJ Case Reports Published 1 March 2017; doi:10.1136/bcr-2016-218440 * *Takotsubo cardiomyopathy secondary to spontaneous right-sided pneumothorax * - Mouhanna Abu Ghanimeh, - Bhaskar Bhardwaj, - Abdelrahman Aly, - Paramdeep Baweja *BMJ Case Reports Published 1 March 2017; doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-219384 * *Pituitary tuberculoma with subsequent drug-resistant tuberculous lymphadenopathy: an uncommon presentation of a common disease * - Geethu Antony, - Riddhi Dasgupta, - Geetha Chacko, - Nihal Thomas *BMJ Case Reports Published 9 February 2017; doi:10.1136/bcr-2016-218330 * *Multiple myeloma presenting with bilateral ankle pain (microangiopathy) and complicated by streptococcal meningitis and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia * - Louise Dunphy, - Neeraj Singh, - Elizabeth Keating *BMJ Case Reports Published 7 February 2017; doi:10.1136/bcr-2016-217289 * *Cephalic tetanus as a differential diagnosis of facial nerve palsy * - Yuki Kotani, - Kenji Kubo, - Satoko Otsu, - Toshihide Tsujimoto *BMJ Case Reports Published 20 January 2017; doi:10.1136/bcr-2016-216440 * *A rare cause of constrictive pericarditis * - Shane Patrick Flood, - Omar Ayah, - Satoshi Furukawa, - Robert B Norris *BMJ Case Reports Published 18 January 2017; doi:10.1136/bcr-2016-216813 * *Contained ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm presenting as cauda equina syndrome * - Serge A Engamba, - Dovile Garaleviciene, - Jonathan Baldry *BMJ Case Reports Published 6 January 2017; doi:10.1136/bcr-2016-216602 * *Upper lobe cavity with intracavitary mass: an unexpected diagnosis * - Jose Paxiuta, - Maria João Lobão *BMJ Case Reports Published 2 January 2017; doi:10.1136/bcr-2016-218312 * -- Regards Mr.Ravi Hullur Asst.Librarian KLE University, Belagavi Telephone: 0831-2444 444 extn- 4004 Mob.No.9740638831,9743716931 http://digitallibrary.webnode.com/ Blog:http://ravihullurs.blogspot.in/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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The Delhi University Copyright case
by Subbiah Arunachalam 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

*Breaking News: OUP and other Publishers Withdraw Copyright Suit Against Delhi University and Photocopier* by Shamnad Basheer <https://spicyip.com/author/shamnad-basheer> March 9, 2017 <https://spicyip.com/2017/03/breaking-news-oup-and-other-publishers-withdraw…> In a stunning development, OUP, CUP and Taylor & Francis just withdrew their copyright law suit <https://spicyip.com/tag/d-u-photocopy-case>filed against Delhi University (and its photocopier, Rameshwari) 5 years ago! They indicated this to the Delhi high court in a short and succinct filing made this morning. This withdrawal brings to an end one of the most hotly contested IP battles ever, pitting as it did multinational publishers against academics and students. The law suit was filed as far back as 2012 and it dragged on for 5 long years! For those interested, a brief timeline of the dispute is as below: 1. Leading publishers sue Delhi University (DU) and Rameshwari for copyright infringement in 2012. Alleging that the creation and distribution of course packs containing excerpted copyright content violates copyrights in several of their books. 2. Delhi high court immediately grants interim injunction in favour of publishers, preventing DU and Rameshwari from photocopying and creating/distributing course-packs. 3. A society of students (ASEAK) and academics (SPEAK) intervene in the dispute and are heard by the court. 4. The Delhi high court hears the main matter on merits and rules in favour of DU and students, holding that the photocopying for the purpose of creating educational course packs falls within the bounds of the educational exception in the indian copyright act (section 52(1)(i)). 5. Publishers appeal to the division bench of the Delhi high court. While taking issue with some of the findings of the trial judge, the division bench nonetheless upholds the ultimate finding that the photocopying is covered under the terms of the educational exception contained in section 52(1)(i) of India’s Copyright Act. The court however rules that each instance of photocopying has to be tested individually against the terms of section 52(1)(i) which mandates that copying has to be “in the course of educational instruction”. 6. Therefore, the Delhi Division bench remands the matter back to the single judge of delhi (trial court) to decide whether each of the alleged instances of copyright fell within the bounds of the educational exceptional or not 7. IRRO (a collecting society of publishers) files an application to be impleaded in the Delhi trial court. Court refuses and the IRRO appeals to the division bench 8. Publishers file an application this morning asking that suit be withdrawn. So those of you expecting some fireworks at the Supreme Court, this is it! End of an era. End of a saga. But one that ultimately tested the bounds of copyright law in India. And clarified that while educational photocopying is permissible, there are limits to this as well. And that any copying must comport closely with the intended purpose (“in the course of instruction”). In that sense, publishers have made some gains in at least ensuring that a complete free for all regime is not what is intended by the law. But a circumspect one, where the copying has to fall within the bounds of the educational exception. Overall, this is a huge victory for educational access and public interest in India. And very welcome in a world that was witnessing a rather one sided ratcheting up of IP norms, at the cost of all else! One hopes that the coming years will see a more progressive partnership between publishers and academics/students and the embracing of newer models of creation and content distribution, open access and the like. ps: For those interested, all our posts on this case can be found here <https://spicyip.com/tag/d-u-photocopy-case>. -- 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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Re: [LIS-Forum] Award to Article on Koha-Congrats to Vinodji and team-Karunakar.N
by Karunakar N 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

Congrats to Dr. A K Sharma, Mr. D P Tripathi and Mr. Vinod K Mishraji. for your work. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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