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Library Trainees at Central University of Kerala
by Dr.Dineshan Koovakkai 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

Dear All, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod needs Library Trainees for its Libraries. *Qualification required:* 1. MLISc 2. Computer Knowledge. The selection will be based on practical test and interview. Stipend: *Rs. 9000/- *per month. Training period: *1 year*. Interested candidates may attend the walk-in-interview and practical test with all original certificates on *18th June, 2014 at 10am* at the Central University Office at Nayanmarmoola, Vidyanagar, Kasaragod. For details please visit the University website at http://www.cukerala.ac.in/posts/461 Contact Phone No. 04994- 255533 Regards, -- Dr.Dineshan Koovakkai *MA; MLISc; PGDEC; PGDCA; DCHN; NET; PhD.* Assistant Librarian & Publication Officer Co-ordinator, NMEICT Nodal Officer, Higher Education Survey Associate Editor, CUK Newsletter Central University of Kerala Vidyanagar P.O. Kasargod, Kerala, India Mob: 09447468586 Blog: www.dineshkoovakkai.blogspot.com Visit our library website at: www.universitylibrarycuk.yolasite.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IASLIC 26th National Seminar 2014 – Call for papers
by Prof Pijushkanti Panigrahi 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

IASLIC 26th National Seminar 2014 – Call for papers IASLIC takes it as an opportunity to express its gratefulness to the Government of India for constituting the National Knowledge Commission (NKC) envisioning that creation, development and use of multidimensional knowledge are key factors for the steadfast growth of the economy. IASLIC also feels obliged for the report of the Working Group on Libraries under NKC, entitled “Libraries – Gateway to Knowledge: A Roadmap for Revitalization” and its recommendations for fostering the development of library and information science and services in India. The report rightly indicates that ‘Libraries have a recognized social function in making knowledge publicly available to all. They serve as local centres of information and learning, and are local gateways to national and global knowledge’. As per the recommendation of the National Knowledge Commission (NKC), the National Mission on Libraries (NML), the first ever of its kind across the Globe, has been constituted as a High Level Committee for achieving the primary goals of LIS - Creating, disseminating, optimally utilizing and preserving knowledge. They are instrumental in transforming an unequal society to an egalitarian, progressive knowledge society. IASLIC has initiated a nationwide discussion and Library professionals across the country would actively participate in this discussion to find a roadmap which would help NML and the Govt of India to see the dawn of Knowledge Society in true sense. A delegation from IASLIC has given representation to the Minister of Culture, Govt of India and expressed its views to this regardt. Now IASLIC has decided to discuss and delve into “Roadmap to usher in Knowledge Society” as themain theme of its 26th National Seminar 2014 so that the outcomes of the deliberations can help formulating proper guidelines to usher in tomorrow’s Knowledge Society in India. Papers are invited in the following areas for deliberations. IASLIC (Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres) has scheduled its 26th National Seminar 2014 to be held at the Department of Library and Information Science, Gauhati University, Gopinath Borodoloi Nagar, Guwahati, Assam, India, PIN 781 014 during November, 25-28, 2014. For details please visit http://www.iaslic1955.org.in/fckeditor/userfiles/file/IASLIC%2026th%20Semin… http://www.iaslic1955.org.in/fckeditor/userfiles/file/IASLIC%2026th%20Semin… General Secretary IASLIC ========================================================================================================== পীযূষকান্তি পাণিগ্রাহী Dr Pijushkanti Panigrahi, Professor , Dept of Lib and Inf Science, 3rd Floor Asutosh Building, University of Calcutta, 87/1 College Street,Kolkata - 700 073, West Bengal, India, email : panigrahipk(a)yahoo.com, panigrahipk11(a)gmail.com, (M) : +91 94342 43522. General Secretary,Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC), P-291, CIT Scheme No 6M , Kankurgachi, Kolkata – 700 054, India; Associate Editor, IASLIC Bulletin ; Member, Library Committee,The Asiatic Society, Kolkata. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: Refresher course in LIS at MANUU, Hyderabad
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

On Tuesday, 10 June 2014, 15:15, Abbas Khan A. A. > >Dear Professionals >Academic Staff College, Maulana Azad National Urdu University Hyderabad is going to >conduct Refresher Course in Library & Information Science from 6.8.2014 to 26.8.2014, Interested candidates may apply before due date. For more >information go to the below mentioned link: >www.manuu.ac.in/asc.php > >*Regards * >Dr. Abbas Khan > >Dy. Librarian & I/c >Maulana Azad National Urdu University, >Hyderabad-32 >040-23006608 > > > > > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IASLIC Appeals for Donation
by IASLIC Kolkata 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

*Appeal for Donation* *The esteemed members of IASLIC are alive to the spiraling prices in the economy creating an acute financial stringency in carrying on the IASLIC activities. The learned members of its Governing Body in their 3rd GB Meeting held at Puducherry on 10th December 2012 and subsequently in the Annual General Meeting held on 11th December 2012 during the 25th National Seminar decided to make an ardent appeal to the already enrolled Life Members of IASLIC to be generous to donate liberally at least Rs.1000/- to help IASLIC achieve its avowed objective. Accordingly IASLIC extends this ardent appeal to all its esteemed Life Members to please come forward to help IASLIC by donating liberally at least Rs. 1000/- by DD / multicity cheque duly drawn in favour of IASLIC. The names will be published in the IASLIC Newsletter.* *Prof. Pijushkanti Panigrahi* *General Secretary * -- *Prof Pijushkanti Panigrahi*, Hony General Secretary, IASLIC, P-291, CIT Scheme No. 6M, Kankurgachi, Kolkata - 700054 iaslic(a)vsnl.net or iaslic.india(a)gmail.com www.iaslic1955.org.in *Join IASLIC, Contribute to IASLIC, Strengthen IASLIC* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Which University is Good or Bad for PhD?
by Dr. A.T. Francis 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

Dear Library Professionals, This is regarding some comments and suggestions on PhD Research Work. Some professionals argued that deemed universities are bad and government universities are good and hence students should enroll for PhD only in the govt. It is not the right presumption that all govt. universities are good and all deemed universities are bad. In Kerala, we have 13 govt. universities and none of them have university librarians to look after their Library Systems. It is also to be noted that four of these universities not even established the University Libraries (Ref: Francis, A.T. 2014, Library and information systems in universities and quality of higher education and research. University News, 52(20), May 19-26, 2014, 8-13 & 21). So, it should be the first concern of the LIS professionals and Associations to establish good libraries with adequate facilities and library professionals in all schools, colleges, universities and research agencies. Another concern of the professionals was on the language of writing thesis. There is no harm in writing thesis in any language. But it should be as per the academic regulation of the concerned university. If the university permits writing LIS thesis in Malayalam, students can do accordingly. If the student decided to write LIS thesis in Malayalam, he/she should strictly follow the grammar and structure of Malayalam. That is why universities/experts insist thorough editing/checking of the topic/subject, quantitative analysis; and the last one, but not the least, the language editing. I am having the qualifications, MCom, MLISc, NET and PhD (CochinUniversity). I had to wait for 12 years to obtain a Research Guide for PhD. Hence, it is my humble request that please encourage our fellow professionals to do PhD and be good librarians with personal and social status. As majority of the librarians and former librarians in Kerala (not in universities and colleges) are non professionals without any professional qualifications, people generally think that librarians did not have any valid qualifications and the job of librarians need any expertise. If no skill is required for our job, Existence of LIS departments is also under question,. I am a research guide of several universities, including the KarpagamUniversity and BharathiarUniversity. Eight (maximum) students are doing PhD research under me and several students are struggling to get a slot for PhD. So, evaluating a university should be based on its facilities, academic regulations and not on personal grounds. With regards, Dr. A.T. FRANCIS, MCom, MLISc, NET, PhD HEAD, LIBRARY College of Horticulture Kerala Agricultural University Thrissur - 680 656, India, 91-9496839409 (m) francisaloor(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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Innovative Acquires VTLS
by nikesh 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

Hi Colleagues, Hope this information will be useful for VTLS customers and also to keep note of mergers and partnership among Library system developers. *Innovative Acquires VTLS http://www.iii.com/vtls <http://www.iii.com/vtls> * *& announce expanded strategic Partnership with EBSCO Discovery Service * On May 30, 2014 Innovative acquired VTLS, a library automation solutions provider with customers in 44 countries. The combined companies will be led by Innovative CEO Kim Massana. The combined company will offer even greater resources to Innovative customers in solving the challenges of library automation, deepening customer support and product development capabilities worldwide. Innovative now supports an installed base of over 2,400 library systems, totaling 9,500 libraries, in 66 countries. Corporate headquarters will continue to be located in Emeryville, CA, with other major offices in Blacksburg, VA; Syracuse, NY; Dublin, Ireland; Barcelona, Spain; Kuala Lumpur (Selangor), Malaysia; Noida, India; Madrid, Spain; and Taipei City, Taiwan. Innovative now employs more than 500 staff members, including 150 librarians. *Innovative Interfaces and EBSCO Discovery Service Announce Expanded Strategic Partnership * http://www.iii.com/news/pr_display.php?id=573 Discovery/ILS Partnership Leads to Greater Integration of Electronic Resource Discovery and Delivery Emeryville, CA--Innovative Interfaces, Inc. (Innovative) and EBSCO Information Services <http://www.ebsco.com/> (EBSCO) have expanded their strategic partnership designed to improve access to library resources. The expanded partnership will incorporate catalog functionality within the EBSCO Discovery Service(tm) (EDS) experience including real-time circulation status checking, enabling end users to place holds via EDS, providing libraries with single sign-on authentication and displaying patron account status within EDS. The partnership also allows Innovative to sell EBSCO A-to-Z(tm) with LinkSource(R), which will be known as Full Text Finder(tm). Innovative Chief Executive Officer, Kim Massana, says the expanded agreement came out of the success of the existing working arrangement. "As we have developed our current Encore/EDS integration, we saw opportunities for a closer working relationship in other areas that will benefit our library customers and their end users." EBSCO Information Services President Tim Collins say the expanded partnership with Innovative is a great example of two library vendors working together to benefit customers. "We know our customers are looking for a variety of solutions for improving access to library collections and that is what we want to provide. The continuing success of our partnership with Innovative is a testament to what two vendors can accomplish when they decide it is in their collective best interests to develop solutions that leverage their strengths and, most importantly, serve the needs of their customers." The existing agreement has provided for joint development designed to enable more tightly integrated access between Innovative's Encore discovery platform and EBSCO Discovery Service <http://www.ebscohost.com/discovery> (EDS) in addition to facilitating access between EDS and Innovative's Sierra Services Platform. Having access to EDS's unified index expands the quality and amount of content available for Encore users while adding the enhanced features and functionality available from EDS. Encore users are also able to search their EBSCOhost databases via the Encore interface--providing a uniquely powerful article search experience. The partnership has also led to the development of the newly released Encore with EBSCO Discovery Service, which brings the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles available into Encore. The robust metadata offered by EDS is culled from thousands of major journal publishers and information providers, providing the deepest possible indexing for the majority of journals and magazines. In addition, users of Encore with EBSCO Discovery Service benefit from more full-text resources than with any other option. Regards *Nikesh Narayanan **M.Tech, MLIS, M.Com* Discovery Service Engineer (India) *EBSCO* Information Services India Pvt. Ltd., 301-303 Ansal Chamber - II 6, Bhikaji Cama place New Delhi - 110 066 Mobile: +918130995687 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for Article
by Mahesh Moolya 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

Dear Professionals, If any library holds below mentioned article, Please mail it to me. 1. Laryngoscope. 2010 Sep;120(9):1724-9. doi: 10.1002/lary.20993. Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea: a clinical and anatomical study. Tóth M1, Selivanova O, Schaefer S, Mann W. 2. Laryngoscope. 2007 Feb;117(2):345-9. Endonasal endoscopic repair of Sternberg's canal cerebrospinal fluid leaks. Castelnuovo P1, Dallan I, Pistochini A, Battaglia P, Locatelli D, Bignami M. Thank you, with regards -- Mahesh Moolya Jr. Librarian K S Hegde Medical Academy Dearalakatte Mangalore 575 018 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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EPT award presented to Muthu Madhan
by Mailing List Admin 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 20:48:22 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah.arunachalam(a)gmail.com> Dear Friends: We had the long-awaited awards function this morning at the conference hall of the IITM Library. Prof. Pennathur Gautam handed over the EPT Award certificate signed by Prof. Derek Law to Madhan in front of a small gathering of about 40 people. Among those who spoke on the occasion were Prof. Arun Narasimhan, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, IITM, and Prof. Mangala Sunder Krishnan, Professor of Chemistry and the coordinator of NPTEL, India's flagship OER programme. Madhan gave a nice acceptance speech. Regards. Arun

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URGENT NOTICE
by IASLIC Kolkata 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

NOTICE The esteemed members of the Association are hereby informed that we have been publishing IASLIC Newsletters in electronic format (since 2011) in addition to its monthly hardcopy editions. Many of you have welcomed the effort. Due to rising printing and postage costs, the association is facing financial constraints in publishing hardcopy editions of the newsletter. To overcome the situation we had appealed to our members for generous donations (Rs 1000/- or more). But the responses are not satisfactory. In this situation, some members present at the Annual General Meeting held on 27.12.2013 at Pune suggested publication of newsletter in electronic format only from July, 2014 issue, while some members opposed this view. In the circumstances it was resolved to send electronic version of the newsletter to those who have necessary access facilities.Hence our humble request to our fellow members is to let us know their present e-mail addresses to the office of the IASLIC through e-mail (iaslic.news(a)gmail.com) immediately for our record. Feedback/comments of the esteemed members are earnestly solicited on this issue. General Secretary, IASLIC, Kolkata -- *Prof Pijushkanti Panigrahi*, Hony General Secretary, IASLIC, P-291, CIT Scheme No. 6M, Kankurgachi, Kolkata - 700054 iaslic(a)vsnl.net or iaslic.india(a)gmail.com www.iaslic1955.org.in *Join IASLIC, Contribute to IASLIC, Strengthen IASLIC* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IASLIC - Academic Library Section
by IASLIC Kolkata 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

It is to inform all all concerned that the result of the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) 2012 has been published. Result is available here *http://www.westbengalssc.com/sscorg/wbssc/finalResult2lib/ <http://www.westbengalssc.com/sscorg/wbssc/finalResult2lib/>* *IASLIC - Academic Library Section and IASLIC family as whole *extend its heartiest congratulations to all successful candidates. *Best Wishes for the Future* -- *Prof Pijushkanti Panigrahi*, Hony General Secretary, IASLIC, P-291, CIT Scheme No. 6M, Kankurgachi, Kolkata - 700054 iaslic(a)vsnl.net or iaslic.india(a)gmail.com www.iaslic1955.org.in *Join IASLIC, Contribute to IASLIC, Strengthen IASLIC* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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