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Hot topic for Libsys users
by Vinod Kumar Mishra 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

Dear All, Following are some questions to those who uses Libsys software and claims that they are using all modules, so please let me know how you are managing the below: 1. May i know how you are managing user ID in libsys if it is more than 08 character long? if any how OR auto generated than how you are getting report? are you getting reports which gives you fine and other details along with real/actual ID? 2. Now a days the conversion rate of British pond increased more than 100 (three digit) so may i know how you are feeding conversion rate in concern field and using budget module without any difficulty? Thanking You. With regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library, NIT Rourkela, Mob:91+9439420860 91+6612462103 (O) email: vinod_librarian(a)rediffmail.com : mishravk79(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Koha Project Librarian vacancy
by Prasanth M.P. 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

Dear All, OrisysIndia (http://orisys.in/) Technopark,Trivandrum looking for M.Lib/ B.Lib graduates based in Trivandrum or Kollam area to work in Koha Project.The candidate should have good experience in DDC Classification and Data Entry of books and Journals, Kindly contact Mr. Arun -9946014345 for more inputs. *Thanks & Regards :-Prasanth M.* *P.* *Libraian* *Chinmaya Institute of Technology* *Kannur* 9961858865 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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DRTC Students Seminar
by drtc＠isibang.ac.in 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research and Training Centre Bangalore 560059 Seminar (5) 2012-14 Crowdsourcing: An Overview and general idea of some crowdsource projects Abstract The notion of crowdsourcing has emerged in recent years. It is a new paradigm which combines the individual and independent ideas related to crowd technology and outsourcing. It can be described as a problem solving model for distribution of information which is available online. The word crowdsourcing was coined in 2006. Crowdsourced applications help in the process of creating associated workflows within any organization or system and is aimed towards division of labour for cumbersome tasks. The present talk focusses on the general idea of crowdsourcing, its needs and what the idea of crowdsourcing offers in perspective to library and information science. Besides these, an overview of different crowdsourced projects like Amazon Mechanical Turk, Wikipedia, GooseBerry Patch, Arcbazar has been highlighted. Venue: DRTC Classroom Date: 05/12/2013 Time: 2 PM Speaker : Sumanta Bag, MSLIS, II-year ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED Biswanath Dutta Seminar Coordinator -- 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 Satish S 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

One of our faculty is in urgent need of the following article, anybody who have subscribed this please send the same. Title-On type-2 fuzzy relations and interval-valued type-2 fuzzy sets Author-Ba Qing Hu & Chun Yong Wang Fuzzy Sets and Systems,Volume 236, 1 February 2014, Pages 1–32 Link-http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165011413003059 -- SATISH.S MLISc., M.Phil RVCE, http://www.rvce.edu.in/ BENGALORU -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Opportunity for Librarian Gr. III position at CIPET
by sheeba jasmine 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

Dear friends, Central Institute for Plastics Engineering & Technology (CIPET) is a premier national institution under the Dept. of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, Govt. of India which is devoted to Plastics Technology. CIPET is spread across 16 centres in the country. CIPET has invited applications for Librarian Gr. III (Special recruitment drive for ST candidates) in the pay band Rs. 5200 - 20200, GP:Rs. 2000/-. Last date is 03.01.2014. For more details, visit http://www.cipet.gov.in/job.html with regards, Dr. D. Sheeba Jebaseeli Jasmine AIDO CIPET Head OfficeChennai -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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MyLISA OPENS NET/SLET Mock-Test
by Vasanth 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Dear Sir/Madam, As you are aware that MyLISA has organized a orientation program (Orientation Program for Enthusiasts of NET/SLET-(OPENS)) for NET/SLET exam aspirants, MyLISA OPENS conducted a mock-test for encouraging and boosting the confidence of NET/SLET examination aspirants on 1st December 2013 at the SBRR Mahajana First Grade College. The question paper was set by an expert who has three decades of experience in LIS domain. The mock-test question paper carried 50 objectives questions each question carrying one marks. The time period of the test was one hour. MyLISA OPENS participants were keen to take the test. Fifty participants took the mock-test. They opined that the test was conducted in a highly professional way and lauded the effort of MyLISA for organizing the orientation program (MyLISA OPENS) for LIS students in a second tier city like Mysore. Those who would like to go through the question paper can have look at MyLISA website: http://mylisamysore.weebly.com ------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N. PRO MyLISA, Mysore -- 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 supritha Shetty 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Dear Professionals, If any library holds below mentioned article. Please send me. Semin Fetal Neonatal Med. 2009 Feb;14(1):14-20. doi: 10.1016/j.siny.2008.08.003. Epub 2008 Oct 4. Non-invasive respiratory support of preterm neonates with respiratory distress: continuous positive airway pressure and nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation. Davis PG, Morley CJ, Owen LS. Thank you, with regards Librarian K.S.Hegde Medical Academy Deralakatte -575018 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Experts at ICDL 2013 recommend to set up a national digital library platform that nations can adopt
by N Deepa 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Experts recommend to set up a national digital library platform that nations can adopt India Education Dairy, 30 November 2013 The three day International Conference of Digital Libraries organized by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) came to an end today. Delivering the special address, Mr. V Srinivas. Joint Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India said “ICDL 2013 is a huge success as it has pioneering recommendations with regard to taking digital library movement forward. It is a significant international movement” Mr. Jawhar Sircar, CEO, Prasar Bharti, New Delhi said “Having such a variety of experts can yield benefits only if post conference digestion of knowledge is organized systematically and extraction of relevant recommendations are sent to those who need to work on them”. Read the full report at http://indiaeducationdiary.in/Shownews.asp?newsid=26728 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer: The information contained in this e-mail is intended for the person or entity to which it is addressed, and it may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review or other use of this mail or taking any action based on it by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you receive this e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender, and delete all copies of this mail.This e-mail has been scanned and verified by McAfee SaaS Email Security, formerly MX Logic. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sad Demice of Mr. Ramchandra Potdar
by Ajay Kamble 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Ramchandra Potdar : Multifaceted Librarian. (1928 – 2013) Rambhau (eldest son of Dr. P.B. Potdar) was born on 28th Jan 1928 and brought up and educated at Akola (Vidharbha). He started his career as librarian of Shree Sanatan dharma Sabha library, Akola in 1949. It is worth mentioning that all his 4 brothers and sister also worked there as his successor in the same library and from the last 64 years the Potdar family devoted themselves for the development of this library and brought this public library to repute. This may be the record of the public librarian's profession in the history of the public libraries in Maharashtra. Rambhau was the student of the first batch of dept. of library and information science, Nagpur university in 1957. He got inspiration from late Mr. P.S. Phadake university librarian, late Mr. K.M. Ujalambakar, late K.D. Puranik then assistant director and director of libraries of Maharashtra state respectively and joined Vidharbh public library movement and taken active parts for the development of the public libraries of this region. After his L.I.S. education, he joined Khairagad Sangeet university as Asstt. Librarian and then joined C.P.& Berar college Nagpur. In the year 1964, he joined Nagpur university library and retired in year 1986. During this service he also worked as librarian of l.R.T. Commerce College, Akola on lin and rejoined the university library. After his retirement from the university library on request from the management of the colleges he joined as librarian of H.V.P.M Degree College of Physical Education Amravati, college of engineering Pusad, college of engineering Shegaon to develop their libraries. Rambhau had another facet i.e. journalism. Prior to join library profession, he worked in the different capacities in the editorials sections of Nagpur Samachar, Dainik Matrubhoomi Akola and Nav Hind Times Goa. He did his bachelor of journalism from the Nagpur University. Further, he has delivered radio talks and written articles on different aspects of librarianship journals like Granthpal, Sahitya Sahakar, Granth Parivar etc.... He has written books "Shighra Kase Vachave", Granthalain Grantha Bandhani, Shaleya Granthay, Vidyathyanchi Vachanabhiruchi also edited books like Maharashtra Book World, Vidharbhatil Niwadak Granthachi Granth Suchi, Granthanche Pustak and Abhanga Ramayan (written by his late father Dr. P.B. Potdar). He published these entire books himself thru his Rambandhu Prakashan. During his service as librarian he established Mitra Sahakar Mandal a Registered organization which was established to collect personal valuable books and donated more than 40000 books to public libraries. For this work he was awarded Sant Dyaneshwar Bhushan, Rajya Stariya Gaurav Puraskar in 2012. He was the eldest son in the family with 4 brothers & 1 sister. From his inspiration most of the family members joined library profession. Jayram Potdar hold the post of librarian at Regional languages Library, New Delhi and Shriram Potdar retired as university librarian from Amravati university and Sharau Joshi as the librarian of Govt. Polytechnic Pune. It is worth mentioning that 7 other members of the family have worked in library profession. >From his father, he continued his legacy as musician and used to play organ for Natya Sangeet. He was having 100 yrs. old Organ. He passed away on 28th Nov 2013 at his residence, Jayashree colony, Savedi, Ahmadnagar at the age of 86 and left his wife and 2 daughters and entire Potdar family. We all library Professionals pay homage on his sad demise. -- -- Thanks and Regards, Ajay M. Kamble Librarian Annasaheb Vartak Arts, Commerce, Science College, Vasai Road (W), Dist. Thane - 401202 www.mlsc.co.nr www.ajaykamble.co.nr -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Early Bird Registration till 31st Dec 2013 - APA/C-DAC International Conference on Digital Preservation and Development of Trusted Digital Repositories, 5-6 February 2014
by Dinesh Katre 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Dear Archivists, Librarians and Record Keepers, We are pleased to announce that Centre of Excellence for Digital Preservation, C-DAC, India and Alliance for Permanent Access (APA) are organizing the International Conference on Digital Preservation and Development of Trusted Digital Repositories at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India during 5-6 February 2014. Important links for this conference are given below - The conference programme on 5-6 February 2014, Silver Oaks Hall, Habitat Centre, New Delhi http://www.ndpp.in/APA-DPDTR-2014/ Pre-conference workshops on 4th February 2014 at Deck Suite, 5th floor, Habitat Centre, New Delhi http://www.ndpp.in/APA-DPDTR-2014/pre-conference-workshops Registration for this conference is now open. The early bird discount can be availed if registered before 31st December 2013. http://www.ndpp.in/APA-DPDTR-2014/registration The conference will have keynote addresses by international experts, various case study presentations of digital preservation from different domains, panel discussions and workshops. We look forward to your active participation in this event. With best regards, General Conference Chairs Dr Dinesh Katre Dr David Giaretta, MBE Associate Director & HOD Director C-DAC, Pune, India Alliance for Permanent Access, EU -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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