[LIS-Forum] RE: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 16 : Digital Divide among Librarians.

Hi Subscriber, The views expressed by you are really true.about academic Librarians and corporate Librarians.I feel this divide is moreever spread among it professionals and Librarians. The job opprunities have been created for these professionals having literarry knowledge of Library functions and thus this divide is increasing like dissolving post for Librarians even we achieved the skills of It and new developments in computer applications. We expect some solutions from Such forums. sardesai kshipra -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 12:32 PM To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 16 Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in You can reach the person managing the list at lis-forum-owner@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." Today's Topics: 1. XML and MS-Office (Jai Haravu) 2. Re: Sad and Unfortunate demise of Dr T B Rajashekar (Puttaraj Choukimath) 3. {Blocked Content} Digital divide not librarians divide (mohanck1) 4. Re: Sad demise of Dr T B Rajasekhar (Rupak Chakravarty) 5. Sad demise of Dr.T.B. Rajashekhar (prakash gouda) 6. TBR: a tribute (harinarayana@lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in) 7. OpenISIS is Dead:: GNI is the next generation (Saiful Amin) 8. (no subject) (Sanjay Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: 6 Jun 2005 12:05:13 -0000 From: "Jai Haravu" Subject: [LIS-Forum] XML and MS-Office To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Cc: siddartha@newgenlib.com Message-ID: <20050606120513.29265.qmail@mail.rediffmailpro.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Dear List emmbers Mr. Farooque Shaheen has informed us of an important development that MS-Office will now have XML as its underlying format. I think Microsoft has at long last realized that using a proprietary format is no longer sustainable in a fast changing and globalized world. Incidentally, Microsoft is not doing anything new. Sun Microsystems' OpenOffice already uses XML as its format and so is tnerefore considered to be future proof. In this connection, I would like to let members know that in our library automation software, NewGenLib, we already have integrated OpenOffice as the software for all form letters and reports that are possible to be produced from within its functional modules. Best regards. Haravu On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in wrote :

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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 11:45:08 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager Subject: [LIS-Forum] XML will be the default file format for next MS Office To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:43:56 +0530 From: Farooque Shaheen

Microsoft Corp. announced that the next version of its Office software will use Internet-friendly XML technology as the default file format for documents created in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The new format will make it easier for other programs to read Office documents, an improvement the software titan says is aimed at boosting workers' productivity. XML, short for eXtensible Markup Language, is designed for sharing diverse data across different systems with a uniform appearance. Previously, Office saved files in a format that doesn't always translate well when opened in other programs. The current version, Office 2003, already supports XML but some users have complained that it is clunky and documents don't always translate well from that format either. A full dig on this matter can be found here. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/200- 5/06/01/AR2005060101974.html

Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 05:05:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Puttaraj Choukimath Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad and Unfortunate demise of Dr T B Rajashekar To: Navin Soni , lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20050606120506.47030.qmail@web32212.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 It is unbelievable, painful and shocking bad news for us. God must had not been in his seat. We have lost a great icon of our LIS community and ofcourse a good mentor and a kind human being. Our deep condolance to his Family and we pray may his soul rest in peace. Still, He will be with us for ever. Mrs.Uma and Mr.Puttaraj CHOUKIMATH __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 18:19:22 +0530 From: "mohanck1" Subject: [LIS-Forum] {Blocked Content} Digital divide not librarians divide To: Message-ID: <200506061243.SAA24231@WS0005.indiatimes.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Warning: This message has had one or more attachments removed Warning: (msg-23089-485.html). Warning: Please read the "NCSI-Attachment-Warning.txt" attachment(s) for more information. Dear Sir/Madam, Information and Communicatin technologies(ICTs) have affected the library and information science and the profession emmensly.Today we have to implement and practice the habit of uising new technologies in capturing , storage and organising informatiom.Yes the benefit of ICT in capturing and dessimination customer.These are all disscused over the years and we have been trying to adopt/adapt to the present web scenario.And most of the Educational and research Instititution have automated their libraries and they have their own digital library to satisify their internal and external clientele. But at the same time the penetration of IT into the library proffession has slowly creating a gap within LISC profession.Today we have all witnessed that plenty of discussion, seminars, conferences are taking place all over the world to modify and train the library profession ,eventhough the gap seems to be widen over the years. The employment structure of library profession is very diffe! rent one comapre to other profession.Libraries are the house of knowledge ,to capture, organise and to dessiminate information skilled library professionals are very much required there is no doubt it. Educational institutions , corporate firms and other organisations have providing enormous opportunities for Library and Information graduates.But the thing is, if once we get into the job as a school librarian or college librarian it is very difficult to keep up abreast with new developments ,the lack of infrastructure, willingness of librarians, lack of mangement support and all plays a crucial role to keep abreast with new developmets, today high proportion rate of schools and colleges have not provide any facility to librarians to learn and perform his work using new technologies.And most of the seminars and conferences are all centered to corporate and well known institutions not for school are college librarians. this is slowly creating a huge problem that is Librarians di! vide.Today we have to address this issue and carry the LIS profession to more hiegts with providing equal opportunity to everyone. Regards mohanck Indiatimes Email now powered by APIC Advantage. Help! Help