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Wishing you all Happy Librarians Day, In fond memory of Dr. Harish Chandra.
by Binu Thomas 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Dear Library Professionals, On behalf of entire team at Éclat Engineering I wish you a very happy Librarian’s Day. Also we would like to dedicate this Librarian’s day to The Late Dr. Harish Chandra who has always inspired us to make and deliver innovative technology solutions for library patrons. In his fond memory we would like to adopt two potential libraries for automation based on our service offerings. Click (http://www.eclateng.com/request-demo-0#demo) to submit details about your library for the same. Best regards, -- Binu Thomas | Sr. Project Manager Eclat Engineering Pvt. Ltd. | E-212 Titanium City Center | Anandnagar Road | Ahmedabad - 380015 | INDIA M: +91-8460206292 | L: +91-79-40057878 |E:binu@eclateng.com <mailto:binu@eclateng.com?Subject=Hello> Website:www.eclateng.com <http://www.remotexs.in> -- This email (including any file attachments) is for the use of intended recipient(s) only. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete it. Éclat Engg Pvt. Ltd. accepts no liability for loss or damage caused by software viruses and you are advised to carry out a virus check on any attachments contained in this message. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Librarians Day by MyLISA Mysore
by Sunil MV 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Dear Library Professionals, Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (MyLISA) is celebrating the Librarians’ Day in a unique way. As a reach out activity of this year the members of MyLISA visit schools and other institutions on August 12 and give a motivational lecture on ‘Reading habits’ and ‘Library use’. The libraries identified / covered under this programme are: "St. Joseph School, Vijayanagar", "Taralabalu Math School, T.K. Layout", "Harividyalaya High School, Bogadi", "Gangothri School , Manasagangtri", "Sarada Vilas College, Krishnamurthy Puram", "City Central Library, Sayyaji Rao Road", “Good Shepard High School, JP Nagar”, "Sadhvidya High School, Ramavilas Road", “Ideal Jawa Rotary School, JL Road” and other institutions. A manual on ‘Guide to setting up an open library in schools’ prepared exclusively for the day prepared by Ms. Usha Mukunda, Bangalore will also be circulated among these schools on August 12. More updates on the happenings will reach you in my next mail. This is for your kind information. Regards, 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: 998639832 | 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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Librarian's Day Program - a reminder
by Meera B. M. 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Karnataka State Library Association in collaboration with The Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, The Ranganathan Centre for Information Studies, ISKO (India Chapter), Informatics (I) Ltd and Raman Research Institute Cordially invites you To Celebrate 122nd birth anniversary of Dr S R Ranganathan and Librarian’s Day on 12th August, 2014 Venue: Raman Research Institute, C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivnagar Bangalore - 560080 Contact Ph No: Mr. Manjunath - 9449033923 Come and participate in the programme to know more about eBooks & tablets and the ways to adopt tablets in library and information centres. PROGRAMME CHAIR: Prof. V G Talwar, Vice Chancellor, REVA University KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Prof. Shalini R Urs, University of Mysore Launch of SRELS Journal of Information Management Online Archive: Prof I K Ravichandra Rao, Visiting Scientist, Centre for knowledge analytics and ontological engineering, PESIT, Bangalore PANEL DISCUSSION: Dr I R N Gowdar, Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser, Bangalore University Library, Dr. Satish Tiwary, Head, Intellectual Property, Airbus, India (Reader perspective) Haja Sheriff, Co‐Founder & Partner at Prost Innovation Labs, Former Country Director Kobo Inc, (Industry Perspective) Ananda T Byrappa, Global Leader, Knowledge Center, GE John F Technology Center (LIS Perspective) Arnab Pal, Research Fellow, Raman Research Institute (Student Perspective) Pogramme: Registration (Free) : 4 PM “Tour of C V Raman Museum” - 4.15 PM to 4.45 PM - Do not Miss Invocation: 5 PM Welcome address by Mr. I H Jahagirdar, Secretary, KALA Release of the poster to mark the occasion Librarians Day: 5.15 PM Launch of SRELS Journal of Information Management Online Archive: 5.30 P M Address By Program Chair: 5.45 PM Key note Address: 6.00 PM Panel discussion: 6.30 PM to 7.30 PM Vote of thanks by Dr M V Sunil, Joint Secretary, KALA: 7.30 PM Followed by Dinner -- Dr B M Meera Librarian Raman Research Institute C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar P O Bangalore 560 080 Ph: 09480836045 -- 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 janet lobo 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Dear sir/Madam, The following articles are required to one of my library user. If available in your Library , please forward to me. 1.Norazah Mohd Suki, Jennifer Chiam Chwee Lian, Norbayah Mohd Suki, (2011) "Do patients' perceptions exceed their expectations in private healthcare settings?", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 24 Iss: 1, pp.42 - 56. 2.Mark J. Kay, (2007) "Healthcare marketing: what is salient?", International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing, Vol. 1 Iss: 3, pp.247 – 263. 3.Aditi Naidu, (2009) "Factors affecting patient satisfaction and healthcare quality", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 22 Iss: 4, pp.366 - 381 Thanking you Yours sincerely, Dr Janet Dotty Lobo Librarian Fr Muller Central Library Mangalore -- 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] Library Automation- User Self Service Kiosk
by Emmanuel E (RBEI/ETI) 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Dear Pavan, Your point is valid and I appreciate this ! While planning for the Kiosk we had the following things in our mind, hence we thought that Kiosk would be better than keeping a normal PC. · To make circulation activities library staff independent- Unmanned · To save the time of Library staff & users (waiting at the circulation counter). · To provide a solution which is cost effective or at least a reasonable one. · To avoid errors in the entries that may occur when done manually (Users/staff)- This Kiosk has RFID reader for reading user’s card and barcode reader for reading book barcode labels. · To provide the finest user experience-similar to what we can see with Bank ATMs or kiosks in shopping malls etc · To provide proof of issue/return of books: While users taking the book out of the library this Kiosk generates a small check-out slip similar to what we get in ATMs. Further users show/submit this to the security at the gate/exit as a proof of issue out book – Kiosk has POS printer. · To make the transactions at kiosk secure, especially for the books which are returned- If you don’t have a Kiosk with drop-in box, then there is a chance of missing of returned books. This also make users to feel confident that the book they returned is safe in the Kiosk till the library staff takes it out & confirms. Other advantages are: · Kiosk has two separate drop-in slots for books & CDs · This Kiosk has a touch screen monitor. · This Kiosk has a metallic trackball with keyboard and also has virtual Keypad. · This Kiosk also comes with the speaker for user’s instruction/information. · On this NewGenLib Touch application provides options like , check-out, check-in, renew, search OPAC, reserve etc. Also provide secure login either through user cards or with login ID & password. Though keeping a single computer helps but will not provide the same advantages/benefits and user experience what we get from the “User Self service Kiosk”. However I feel that this “Kiosk” is not an ultimate solution, it should be continuously improved/upgraded. We all (LIS community) need to work together, influence the manufacturers and software developers to make more useful and effective technologies or tools available at the low/affordable cost for all type of libraries. Regards Emmanuel Deputy Manager K-Centre & Information Services, Robert Bosch Engineering and Business solutions Ltd, #123, Industrial Layout, Hosur Road, Koramanagala, Bangalore-560095, INDIA Tel: 918061013229 / Mobile: 09886677094 From: Pawan Agrawal [mailto:pawanagrawal4u4u@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2014 2:18 PM To: Emmanuel E (RBEI/ETI) Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Library Automation- User Self Service Kiosk Sir, Why kiosk is used.. what if we use a simple computer for the same... HOW kiosk is more useful than a pc.... On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Emmanuel E (RBEI/ETI) <Emmanuel.EC(a)in.bosch.com<mailto:Emmanuel.EC@in.bosch.com>> wrote: Dear All, Electronic media is omnipresent & omnipotent now and there is no escape from this, we can only ignore this at our own peril. Libraries have to work on a strategy to be competitive, relevant in this electronic/information age. As internet, mobiles, e-book readers, tabs have given more content in users hand. This leading to change in user's reading habits and user experience(rich content) and taking away some library users from the libraries. While welcoming the electronic media as our future, some of us may ask ourselves a question as to what to do with our print media that we already have ? as the good number of users (Gen X) still demand printed books. And the younger generation (Gen Y) /tech savvy users prefers electronic resources. The best solution could be to balance both, the printed collection & electronic media. If so, how to achieve this with the same limited staff ? There could be several approaches to handle this situation, but I am sharing what we tried at our corporate library. We decided to retain and continue with the print media & its related services and also to add electronic media (e-books to start with)/electronic media based information services. This we had to do with the limited staff or with no additional staff. We had to save the time of our team from the mundane activities and utilize the saved time in handling e-resources. We achieved this through complete library automation, in simple words: 1. We put barcode labels to the library resources 2. Installed a barcode based "User self service Kiosk" (with book drop-in box) 3. Installed "NewGenLib Touch application" on this Kiosk. It is less expensive as each label costs less than a rupee and the approx cost of a Kiosk is less than Rs. 1.5 lacs- cost may increase based on the features that you want to have in kiosk and the "NewGenLib Touch Application" is open source( free of cost). Now user themselves check-in & check-out the books, search OPAC on Kiosk and our team free from routine activities and is involving themselves in electronic newsletter designing, information/database search, e-books procurement and related activities. RFID based kiosk is also one option but it is expensive and not affordable for the large number of libraries in India. If you have similar experience or better ideas on this, then please share with all (LIS community) so that we can learn from each other's best practices. Thank you ! Regards Emmanuel Deputy Manager K-Centre & Information Services, Robert Bosch Engineering and Business solutions Ltd, #123, Industrial Layout, Hosur Road, Koramanagala, Bangalore-560095, INDIA Tel: 918061013229 / Mobile: 09886677094 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20140808/3bfa40c4…> _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in<mailto:LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- Thanks and Regards ------- Join hands, Join eLibrarian https://sites.google.com/site/theelibrarians/ ------- Pawan R. Agrawal Registered freelancer: NewGenLib Academic Councellor: IGNOU and BAOU Assistant Librarian Learning Resource Centre (Library) Silvassa College Govt. 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Librarians Day Celebrations
by SARADA RANGANATHAN ENDOWMENT FOR LIBRARY SCIENCE 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Dear Moderator : Please arrange to announce the following for the benefit of LIS colleagues. SRELS, Bangalore --- SRELS and RCIS invites to you to participate in : - Celebration of Librarian’s Day - Release of Online Archives of 50 years of SRELS Journal of Information Management - Panel Discussion on Books and Tablets Organized by KALA, RRI, SRELS, RCIS, ISKO(India Chapter) and Informatics (India) Ltd., On 12th August 2014 from 4.00 PM onwards at Raman Research Institute, Sadashivanagar, Bangalore 560080 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Kerala pay revision 2014(PRC2014) preparing proposals
by pradeep 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Sir, Kerala Govt. constituted a Pay revision Commission(PRC 2014) for govt. employees. The committee invited suggestions from individuals and associations. I am requesting you to kindly give your (library staff in Kerala state) valuable suggestions for preparing proposal about University library system, please reply through email at the earliest. -- *Pradeep P. A, MLISc.,MPhil,NET* *Librarian i/cCollege of Dairy Science & Technology Mannuthy, Thrissur09995087645* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Library Automation- User Self Service Kiosk
by Emmanuel E (RBEI/ETI) 10 Aug '14

10 Aug '14

Dear All, Electronic media is omnipresent & omnipotent now and there is no escape from this, we can only ignore this at our own peril. Libraries have to work on a strategy to be competitive, relevant in this electronic/information age. As internet, mobiles, e-book readers, tabs have given more content in users hand. This leading to change in user's reading habits and user experience(rich content) and taking away some library users from the libraries. While welcoming the electronic media as our future, some of us may ask ourselves a question as to what to do with our print media that we already have ? as the good number of users (Gen X) still demand printed books. And the younger generation (Gen Y) /tech savvy users prefers electronic resources. The best solution could be to balance both, the printed collection & electronic media. If so, how to achieve this with the same limited staff ? There could be several approaches to handle this situation, but I am sharing what we tried at our corporate library. We decided to retain and continue with the print media & its related services and also to add electronic media (e-books to start with)/electronic media based information services. This we had to do with the limited staff or with no additional staff. We had to save the time of our team from the mundane activities and utilize the saved time in handling e-resources. We achieved this through complete library automation, in simple words: 1. We put barcode labels to the library resources 2. Installed a barcode based "User self service Kiosk" (with book drop-in box) 3. Installed "NewGenLib Touch application" on this Kiosk. It is less expensive as each label costs less than a rupee and the approx cost of a Kiosk is less than Rs. 1.5 lacs- cost may increase based on the features that you want to have in kiosk and the "NewGenLib Touch Application" is open source( free of cost). Now user themselves check-in & check-out the books, search OPAC on Kiosk and our team free from routine activities and is involving themselves in electronic newsletter designing, information/database search, e-books procurement and related activities. RFID based kiosk is also one option but it is expensive and not affordable for the large number of libraries in India. If you have similar experience or better ideas on this, then please share with all (LIS community) so that we can learn from each other's best practices. Thank you ! Regards Emmanuel Deputy Manager K-Centre & Information Services, Robert Bosch Engineering and Business solutions Ltd, #123, Industrial Layout, Hosur Road, Koramanagala, Bangalore-560095, INDIA Tel: 918061013229 / Mobile: 09886677094 -- 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] Are we really publishing scholarly and peer reviewed Journals in LIS?
by Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar 10 Aug '14

10 Aug '14

I agree with the views of Anil, Vinod and Rajesh. But it is not the LIS to be blamed alone. This is a practice in all fileds, especially in India. I would like to bring attention to a major issue that India is facing due to this kind of "publish anywhere" syndrome. Currently, the world of scientific research presents a different and ever-changing landscape. The scientific output of the nations is tracked based on the indexed publications. The concepts of “quality in research”, “reviewed research” and “reviewed publications” are discussed widely and we understand that only reviewed and indexed research pieces qualify for the ratings and rankings of Universities and Institutions worldwide. It becomes essential to bring a large number of ‘reviewed’ research papers from Indian institutions, not only just to keep a good "global ranking", but also to ensure a high level scholarly environment in the country. As a yardstick to measure the research contributions and research impact of individuals, research publications reflect the character of the innovative research, and it is critically looked by agencies and institutions in deciding funding, tenures, promotion and other related activities. In nutshell, the publications indexed in the databases such as Scopus and ISI Web of Science are considered in the global level, where a large number of Indian papers are not accepted in ranked journals and many researchers do not gain an understanding of producing better content. Publishing the papers in peer-reviewed and internationally indexed journals by Indians is increasingly important, which will increase researchers’ index and wide acceptance and academic profiling. This is also very important for the ranking of the institutions and the country at global level. According to Thomson Reuter’s analysts, the rise of China in the internationally influential journal literature indexed by Thomson Reuters ISI—in terms of share of world output—is the most significant event in the structure of scientific research in the past 30 years. In 1983, China produced just 6 percent of articles in the Science Citation Index (Web of Science). Now, China produces some 13 percent of the literature, second only to the United States at 29 percent. (Source: Research fronts 2013: 100 Top-Ranked Specialties in the Sciences and Social Sciences, Thomson Reuters, April 2013). This is also can be validated by from another Citation database, Elsevier’s Scopus Citation Database. Librarians have a major role in creating awareness among young faculty, researchers to address research publication process, global research network, optimization of research publication, structuring of research publications, review and indexing process, methods of generating good publications, demonstration of global indexing databases, research networks and other citation and evaluation metrics. Hope UGC will consider this important factor in their forthcoming reformation under Prof. Hari Gautham and include research and faculty evaluations based on quality of research and publications. The views in this notes are purely personal. ---------- Dr. J. K. VIJAYAKUMAR, Manager, Library Research & Reference, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, -------------------- Dear Anil You have hit the nail. It requires lot of guts to criticize in this profession as everyone knows to everyone and equation of their relations is very much important for them. I appreciate your view and look it towards healthy discussion. I don't know about what other professionals think. It could be complete opposite from my view as well. With best regards Rajesh Chandrakar ----------------------------- On Thursday, July 24, 2014 9:52 AM, Anil Singh <dr.anilsingh5 at gmail.com> wrote: When I check my e-mail account, I observe that on an average I receive one request in a week to send a paper for a particular LIS Journal. It seems that there is mushrooming of LIS Journals. In India it is very easy to start a journal. Just register the Journal with RNI (Registrar of Newspaper/Magazine in India), constitute a dummy editorial board, get the ISSN from NISCAIR and journal is ready to be launched. In LIS there are approximately 80 journals. There is also no restriction to make the journal National or International, it depends on us. After the implementation of API/PBAS by UGC for evaluation of performance of faculty & librarians for career advancement and recruitment, a trend has emerged in the last five years to start an in-house journal within the organization, or by individual association and NGOs to get articles published at any cost, simply to meet their scores for promotion/recruitment. By December 2009, there were 7425 journals registered in India in all areas as per ISSN register whereas this number reached 16161 in 2013. In many Indian universities, for the selection process the journals are classified into national & international for allotting the marks whereas they should have been classified as "Indian" or "Foreign" Journals. It has been seen that many times journal having word "International" is treated as foreign publication and it got more marks. Therefore, most of these journals started with "International Journal of ........" A new trend has also started to take the handling charges from the authors who want to publish their paper/article. It seems that authors are able to get anything published that is in type form without refereeing or revision. Here nobody will reject the paper. Such paid journals have become a booming business in India but this trend has tarnished the standard of research journals in LIS. An influential person can get his or her paper published easily, whether it has any novelty or not. People with little experience in a editing and reviewing become Chief Editor and Expert Referees. There are instances when heads of the department tend to insert their names in most of the papers, communicated from their department. Here, the main point is that if somebody publishes his/her paper in LIS journals like IASLIC Bulletin, SRELS Journal of Information Management, Annals of Library and Information Studies etc. and another person publishes in "International Journal of XYZ" published from India, then who will get more point as per the UGC rule. Can we compare the standard of above mentioned journals with any other so called International Journal published from India? Therefore, we should have a strict code for Academic and Research Journals and it may be prepared by ISSN giving agency i.e., NISCAIR. It is also necessary that, while evaluating the quality of publications, emphasis should be given to those publications which are indexed and cited by international databases like SCOPUS, Web of Knowledge etc. Feedback and comments are welcome. Anil Singh NCERT Library New Delhi -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: [NMLIS] Fwd: Re: Google SCholar
by Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar 10 Aug '14

10 Aug '14

Apart from the structures or behind the screen technology of databases/search engines, I am trying to provide another dimension (purely user's so Librarian's too). For a user, which one is more important for literature review and for research institutions? Just an article index/database or a citation index/database? As we know, article databases usually allow us to search and find journal literature (now many of them includes book chapters, theses and many OA documents). These were introduced by aggregators or compiled by individual libraries, especially when we were in 100% print based. When the scenario changed to online, the records provide direct hyperlinks to articles. Then we have online indices/databases (Web of Science/Web of Knowledge, Scopus etc) and search engines (Google Scholar) that provide the citation details of articles, in addition to direct links, enabling us to gauge the influence and impact of that work, plus links to related articles and cross references. Citation indices/databases are used for a "comprehensive literature search/review", where the quality of your references is important for your assignment/paper/thesis. In addition to the literature search and the bibliometric/scientometric studies (individual performance analyses metrics carried out by using Citation index/database), recently Institutions started using them to measure the impact of their research and evaluating their programs/staff/funding etc. There are tools developed (Incites, Research-In-View, Scival, PURE etc) based on these databse/indexes. I also understand that these tools will also be utilizing new altmetrics components (like how many times articles downloaded, shared on social networking, news medias etc) . So my question is, having subscribed to just an article database (whatever the coverage be) is not going to serve the purpose of a researcher (literature review) or a new generation institution (research evaluation). As librarians, it is time to rethink, and do not miss the chance to get in to institutional wide efforts, with appropriate tools. We have to come out of the shadows of just "information retrieval" to a broader scope of "information analysis", "research impact analysis". Who else can do this for an organisation? Just my thought, many people will have different opinions. We have to move out of vendor defined tools, and look forward to user/institutions wanted tools....if we need to redefine ourselves. ---------- Dr. J. K. VIJAYAKUMAR, Manager, Library Research & Reference, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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