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Meet the Students From Rural MP Who Collected 10, 000 Books in a Month to Start a Unique Library
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 24 Mar '17

24 Mar '17

Meet the Students From Rural MP Who Collected 10,000 Books in a Month to Start a Unique Library http://www.thebetterindia.com/92494/shivpuri-students-create-library-cum-le… -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: Garfield - Frontline
by Subbiah Arunachalam 24 Mar '17

24 Mar '17

Here is a tribute to Dr Eugene Garfield by Prof. P Balaram. Please share it widely. http://www.frontline.in/other/obituary/science-watcher-and- entrepreneur/article9581641.ece?ref=sliderNews Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009

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Dr Eugene Garfield
by Subbiah Arunachalam 24 Mar '17

24 Mar '17

Here is a tribute to Gene Garfield: http://www.currentscience.ac. in/Volumes/112/06/1282.pdf and another Regards. Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009

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Tribute to Eugene Garfield (1925 – 2017)
by Siva Shankar Kimidi 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

He rose from humble beginnings to reach the pinnacle of fame, but his life was one of ups and downs. It was by sheer persistence and the force of his ideas he made it a success. He was a modern day Ulysses who had enjoyed greatly, had suffered greatly, and be-come a name; for always roaming with a hungry mind much had he seen and known. He was constantly yearning to follow knowledge like a sinking star. Full article link - http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/112/06/1282.pdf -- Regards Siva Shankar Kimidi -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Call for Papers: IFLA Satellite Meeting at Gdańsk, Poland: Open Access: Action Required
by Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

Call for Papers: IFLA Satellite Meeting Theme: Open Access: Action Required Sponsored by: IFLA Section onSerials and Other Continuing Resources Co-sponsored by: IFLA Section on Acquisition and Collection Development& the European Solidarity Center, Gdańsk, Poland Hosted by:Joseph Conrad Voivodship and City Public Library in Gdańsk, Poland Date:16 August (starting at 12 noon) - 17 August 2017 (9:00 am to 6:00 pm) Venue:European Solidarity Center, Gdańsk, Poland Call for Proposals and Papers: Open Access (OA) resources are important to the information needs of today’s researchers. Over the years, the number of OA resources has grown substantially and will continue to do so. They are here to stay. This satellite will address how libraries and others are meeting the challenges of Open Access. It will attempt to answer how libraries are staffing and organizing operations to support OA. Another focus will be how libraries identify OA resources and market them to their communities. The satellite will also consider long term preservation of OA resources. The program will be divided into three sessions titled "Long-term preservation of OpenAccess Resources", "Marketing of Open Access Resources," and "Discovery and Access of Open Access Resources”. Librarians, information professionals, researchers, editors, and others are invited to submit paper proposalsaddressing topics that relate with one of the three session themes. Examples of such topics include (but are not limited to): -Selecting and identifying OA resources -Discoverability of OA resources and datasets -Best practices for staffing and organizing OA operations -Promoting and Marketing OA resources -Partnerships between vendors and librarians for OA -Institutional Repositories and long term preservation solutions -Recruiting authors for OA publishing Submissions and Selection Process If you are interested in submitting a paper proposal,please provide the following in English: ● Name(s) and affiliation(s) of author(s)/presenter(s) ● Proposed title of the paper ● Proposed abstract of the paper (no more than 500 words) ● Brief biographical information of all author(s)/presenter(s) ● Contact information, including email, of all author(s)/presenter(s) The deadline for proposal submission is May 1, 2017.Please email proposals in .PDF or .DOCX format to Meg Mering, Secretary of the IFLA Section on Serials and Other Continuing Resources, mmering1(a)unl.edu All proposals will be reviewed by members of the Conference Organising Committee. Selection will be based on proposal content and fit to the conference theme. Proposal authors will be notified via email by May 15, 2017. Authors should submit proposals only if they are able to attend the Satellite Conference. At least one author for each accepted paper must attend the Satellite Conference presentation. This requirement ensures that the author(s) of the papers and attendees of the conference have the opportunity to engage in thoughtful discussion with colleagues about the presentations and other related topics, leading to a more robust professional experience. The deadline for final papers is July 3, 2017.Papers should be original work written in English, not published elsewhere, and should be no longer than 10 double-spaced pages using a standard 12-point font. Authors will be required to present their papers at the IFLA SOCRS Satellite Conference. Presentations should last about 15-20 minutes and time will be allotted afterwards for questions and discussion. Presentations should be engaging, interactive, and designed to elicit thoughtful discussion from the audience. Use of PowerPoint or other visual program is encouraged for the benefit of the entire audience. The official language of the Satellite Conference is English. In accordance with IFLA's Open Access Statement, allpapers presented at the Satellite Conference will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license. Authors of accepted papers will need to sign IFLA's author form upon notification. Papers and presentations will be freely available online. Important Dates ● May 15, 2017: Notification to submitters ● July 3, 2017: Deadline for authors to submit completed papers Contact For questions about the Call for Papers, please contact Meg Mering, Secretary of the IFLA Section on Serials and Other Continuing Resources, mmering1(a)unl.edu For issues related to Gdańsk, Poland,please contact Matylda Filas or Zuza Wiorogórska, local organizers (m.filas(a)uw.edu.pl; z.d.wiorogorska(a)uw.edu.pl) Additional information about the IFLA Serials and OtherContinuing Resources Section and the Acquisition and Collection Development Section can be found online via the Website https://www.ifla.org/serials-and-continuing-resourcesor OR Facebook https://www.facebook.com/IFLASOCRS/?fref=ts Notice All expenses are the responsibility of the authors/presenters. No financial support can be provided by IFLA or the IFLA SOCRS and ACD Sections. Satellite Planning & Program Committee Sharon Dyas-Correia, Chair, IFLA Section on Serials and Other Continuing Resources Ann Okerson, Chair, IFLA Section on Acquisition and Collection Development Meg Mering, Secretary, IFLA Section on Serials and Other Continuing Resources Christina McCawley, Information Coordinator, IFLA Section on Serials and Other Continuing Resources Sirpa Janhonen, Secretary, IFLA Section on Acquisition and Collection Development Matylda Filas, Local Arrangements, University of Warsaw Library, Poland Zuza Wiorogórska, Local Arrangements, University of Warsaw Library, Poland Gaëlle Bequet, ISSN International Center, France Blanca Rodríguez Bravo, University of Leon, Spain Smita Joshipure, Arizona State University, United States Beata Katrincova, University Library in Bratislava, Slovakia J.K. Vijayakumar, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia Ted Westervelt, Library of Congress, United States

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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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