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Request for scholarly resources on "Reading Cultures in Precolonial India"
by Anoop Simha 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

Dear LISians I am looking for possible resources on reading cultures in precolonial India. It may include book history with topics ranging from religion, literature, science, philosophy or anything related to social aspects. Thanks! Kind Regards Anoop WKW School of Communication and Information Nanyang Technological University Singapore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Contents of World Digital Library Vol. 7 No. 2, 2014
by Rabishankar Giri 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

The recent issue (Vol. 7 No. 2, 2014) of World Digital Library is just published Contents with abstract is available at http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:wdl&volume=7&issue=2&ty… | | | | | Editorial Michael Seadle Digital Library of Kashmiri Willow Wicker Items: A Small Step towards Preservation of Culture Mohammad Ishaq Lone, Zahid Ashraf WaniAwareness, Use, and Impact of Electronic Information Services on the UG and PG Students at JNMC Library, AMU, Aligarh, India Tanveer Haider NaqviOpen Access Journals in the Field of Education: An Informative Study Fayaz Ahmad LoneThe Effect of Facebook Adoption in an Academic Library Rabishankar Giri, Debal C Kar, B K SenUse of RFID Technology by Students in Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Indian Law Institute, Delhi: A Survey M Madhusudhan, Parul Gupta Book Alert | | | | | Rabishankar GiriAssistant LibrarianPresidency University -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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GOOGLE INDIA'S #TOGETHERONLINE PROMOTES DIGITAL LITERACY AMONG WOMEN
by Ragaavendra R 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

GOOGLE INDIA'S #TOGETHERONLINE PROMOTES DIGITAL LITERACY AMONG WOMEN Google India has launched an initiative to promote digital literacy among women. Snapdeal, Axis Bank, HUL and GSK have partnered with search engine for its initiative #TogetherOnline. According to a statement from the company, the nine-week-long initiative will see a number of activities across India starting with a concert with Farhan Akhtar to raise awareness amongst the youth in metro cities. While Axis Bank will host special digital literacy workshops for women customers in their branches, e-commerce firm Snapdeal will run awareness campaigns amongst its shoppers and educate women on the entrepreneurial opportunities on their platform. Google will also launch custom designed 500 Internet carts that will reach out to 5,000 locations to engage women in towns and villages. Sandeep Menon, Director Marketing, Google India said "Internet has completely transformed the way we live our lives. Everyday people are discovering new opportunities and finding newer and better ways of doing things on the web to get ahead in life. We want to encourage all these users to extend this power of the web to women in India. #togetheronline is an effort to empower women in India with the knowledge of Internet and how they can use it to do different things in their daily lives. We along with our partners will host a number of initiatives to play our part and we invite all Internet users to play their part and help get more women online." The company has also partnered with PopXo to cover easy to know and follow steps for day to day living for various categories. Under the helping women get online initiative, Google has imparted basic Internet training across 950 educational institutes training over 45,000 girl students and over 5,000 teachers who can continue to educate and inform more girl students across India. REFLINK: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/features/smartbuy/tech-news/google-indi… Best Regards, Raghvendra R The information contained in this electronic message and in any attachments to this message is confidential, legally privileged and intended only for use by the person or entity to which this electronic message is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please notify the sender and system manager by return email and delete the message and its attachments and also you are hereby notified that any distribution, copying, review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this electronic transmission or the information contained in it is strictly prohibited. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not represent those of the Company or bind the Company. Any commitments made over e-mail are not financially binding on the company unless accompanied or followed by a valid purchase order. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Mail Scanner, and is believed to be clean. The Company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.jubl.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article request
by Harish Y S 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

Dear All Professionals, Our Research scholar need below articles, If anybody have access please send me the same http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pol.1963.110011107/pdf Crystallization of nylon 6,Luis G. Roldan and Herman S. Kaufman DOI: 10.1002/pol.1963.110011107 Regards Harish Y S Librarian National Institute of Engineering, Manandavadi Road, Mysuru -570 008, Mob - +919886384826 Ph : 0821-4004907 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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UNESCO's Open Access (OA) Curriculum is now online
by Puna Das 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

UNESCO's Open Access (OA) Curriculum is now online Curriculum for Researchers Module 1: Scholarly Communications Module 2: Concepts of Openness and Open Access Module 3: Intellectual Property Rights Module 4: Research Evaluation Metrics Module 5: Sharing your Work in Open Access Curriculum for Library Schools/ Librarians Module 1: Introduction to Open Access Module 2: Open Access Infrastructure Module 3: Resource Optimization Module 4: Interoperability and Retrieval Full-Text PDF Download: http://cssp-jnu.blogspot.in/2015/03/unescos-open-access-oa-curriculum-is.ht… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.in/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article request
by Vijaya Kumar 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

To LIS-FORUM Sir, I request you to kindly arrange to send the following article as early as possible. The details of the article are given below for your consideration. *Requested article details:* Article Title The Use of Global Positioning Systems in Promoting Safer Walking for People with Dementia Journal Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare Authors Brian McKinstry; Aziz Sheikh Vol 19 Issue 5 Publication Date 01-07-2013 Page(s) 288-292 Thanking you, Dr.J.Vijaya Kumar Engineering College Library Andhra University Visakhapatnam- 530 003 Andhra Pradesh India. E-Mail Address: kumarjammala(a)gmail.com kumarjammala(a)rediffmail.com jammalamadakavijayakumar(a)yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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PhD Thesis : Open defence
by Saji S Nair 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

Dear All, I would like to cordially invite you to the public defence of my Ph.D. thesis, entitled ‘An evaluative study of Library and Information Centres in the field of Allopathic Medicine in Kerala’. The defence is scheduled to be conducted on Tuesday, the 24th March 2015, at 11 am, in the Lecture Hall, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kerala. It will be a pleasure to share with you the research outcome. With my best regards. Saji -- Saji S. Nair Library & Information Services Division Regional Cancer Centre Medical College Campus Trivandrum - 695011 Kerala, INDIA ----------------------------------------------------------- 91 471 2522225 (O) 91 471 2394252 (R) 09446014130 (Mob) Email: sajisnair(a)rcctvm.gov.in <saji(a)rcctvm.org> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Golden opportunity to share your research work on International Forum at JNU, New Delhi
by sanjeev sunny 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

Dear Friends, I take this opportunity to invite you to submit your research papers in an international symposium "*ETD 2015 India*" being organized by *Jawaharlal Nehru University*, New Delhi in association with *NDLTD* ( http://www.ndltd.org) and *INFLIBNET* (inflibnet.ac.in) . Do hurry up, *last date for submitting abstract is 31st March, 2015*. Submit your abstract before the last date and get an opportunity to present your research report in front of delegates from around the globe. website: *http://etd2015india.in <http://etd2015india.in>* Call for papers: http://etd2015india.in/Call_for_Paper With best wishes! -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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UNESCO Open Access Curricula for Researchers & Library Schools
by Shamprasad Pujar 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

Dear All, UNESCO has made available Open Access modules for researchers and library schools. According to UNESCO's press release, the curricula will soon be converted into self-directed e-learning tools. You may have more information and download modules at: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-a… Regards, Dr Shamprasad M. Pujar Deputy Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen Vaidya Marg, Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065, India Phone: ++91-22-2841 6547 E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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OR2015 NEWS: Registration Opens, Speakers from Mozilla and Google Announced
by Imma Subirats 16 Mar '15

16 Mar '15

- OR2015 NEWS: Registration Opens; Speakers from Mozilla and Google Announced - We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 10th International Conference on Open Repositories, to be held on June 8-11, 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America. Full registration details and a link to the registration form may be found at: http://www.or2015.net/registration OR2015 is co-hosted by Indiana University Bloomington Libraries, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, and Virginia Tech Libraries. -- OR2015 Registration and Fees -- An early registration fee of $450 USD will be available until May 8. After May 8, the registration fee will increase to $500 USD. This registration fee covers participation in general conference sessions, workshops, and interest group sessions, as well as the conference dinner on Wednesday, June 10 and poster reception on Tuesday, June 9. For a draft outline of the conference schedule, please see: http://www.or2015.net/program/schedule-at-a-glance Participants may register online at: http://www.or2015.net/registration. If you have any questions about registering for OR2015, please contact the Conference Registrar at iuconfs(a)indiana.edu. Any other questions about the conference may be directed to the conference organizing committee by using the form at: http://www.or2015.net/contact-us -- Hotel Reservations -- The OR2015 conference will take place at the Hyatt Regency Indianapolis hotel, conveniently located in the heart of downtown Indianapolis. Special room rates at the Hyatt starting at $159 USD per night have been negotiated for conference attendees and will be available for booking through May 16. More information on hotel reservations and travel is available at: http://www.or2015.net/conference-hotel-and-travel -- Keynote and Featured Speakers -- Reflecting the significant milestone of the 10th Open Repositories conference and this year's theme of "Looking Back, Moving Forward: Open Repositories at the Crossroads," we are pleased to announce the conference's two plenary speakers: Kaitlin Thaney will be giving the opening keynote talk on the morning of Tuesday, June 9. Kaitlin is director of the Mozilla Science Lab, an open science initiative of the Mozilla Foundation focused on innovation, best practice and skills training for research. Prior to Mozilla, she served as the Manager of External Partnerships at Digital Science, a technology company that works to make research more efficient through better use of technology. Kaitlin also advises the UK government on infrastructure for data intensive science and business, serves as a Director for DataKind UK, and is the founding co-chair for the Strata Conference series in London on big data. Prior to Mozilla and Digitial Science, Kaitlin managed the science program at Creative Commons, worked with MIT and Microsoft, and wrote for the Boston Globe. You can learn more about the Science Lab at http://mozillascience.org and follow Kaitlin online at @kaythaney. Anurag Acharya will be the featured speaker at the plenary session on the morning of Wednesday, June 10, presenting on "Indexing repositories: pitfalls and best practices." Anurag is a Distinguished Engineer at Google and creator of Google Scholar, and he previously led the indexing group at Google. He has a Bachelors in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon. Prior to joining Google, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park and an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. We look forward to seeing you at OR2015! Jon Dunn, Julie Speer, and Sarah Shreeves OR2015 Conference Organizing Committee Holly Mercer, William Nixon, and Imma Subirats OR2015 Program Co-Chairs -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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