Dear Authors and Contributors
The organisers of National Seminar On" Management of Digital Information Sources, Services and Systems", July 29-30, 2010, are happy to note that the response is overwhelming. However to encourage the authors further more for the ensuing seminar we have the extended topics of the theme. You may send your papers to :
Prof. Khaiser Nikam
Program Director
University of Mysore
Manasagangothri Mysore-6
Khaiser10957@gmail.com
Cell:98453 28672
Off: 0821- 2419399
OR
Mrs. Shobha H. Prasad
Organizing Secretary
RNS Institute of Technology
Channasandra, Uttarahalli Road,
Subramanyapura Post
Bangalore – 560 061
Ph: +91-80-28603880/81, Mobile: +91-9481800715
E-mail: rnsitlibrarynationalseminar@gmail.com
MAIN SEMINAR THEMES
Digital Information Sources
- Acquisition, Organization, Access and Preservation
Open Access Sources
- Open Access Journals, Institutional Repositories
Web-based Information Services
Information Systems and Enabling Technologies
- Web 2.0 and Lib 2.0
- Open Source Software
- Library Automation Systems
Information Search Techniques
Content Creation and Management
EXTENDED SEMINAR THEMES
Digital Information Resources.
Digital Information life cycle.
Categories of Digital Information Resources: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary
Digital Information Resources - primary resources- E-journals, E-Books: Netlibrary, Project Gutenberg ; E-Theses, E-Newspapers, Blogs, Wikis.
Free online Reference tools- Free Dictionaries: Merriam-Webster Online, 'Thesaurus Dictionary.com,. Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, wordthrill.com.;Glossary, Special Online Dictionaries such as Medical Dictionary, Dictionary of Slang etc.
Non-free online dictionaries: Oxford English Dictionary, Hutchison's, And Free Thesauri: Wordweb.
Encyclopedia: Columbia Encyclopedia, Wikipedia Encyclopedia, Encarta, Britannica, Virtual Libraries - IPL, vlib.org,
Subject gateways and Portals: Ingenta, BUBL link information service, E-Print network, www Virtual-Library and their types . ADAM (http://adam.ac.uk), AGRIGATE (www.agrigate.edu.at.). BIOGATE (httpt/zbicgate.Iub.Iu.se/), Bizled• (www.bized.co.uk), Cherndex (www.chemdex.org), GEM (www.thegateway.org), Phvsics Web Resources (http://physicsweb.org) etc.
Free databases: open J gate, OAIster, RePEC, Suprem Court databases, 1BID, INDIASTAT; Population Index, .Supreme Court Online, DARE Database; poverty Research Institutes Database, Human Rights Institutes Database, Peace institutes Database, Census of India; NIC database, Patents
Fee based Digital Information Resources: Bibliographical and Full text databases: Sociofile, LISA, Economic Literature; Emerald, EBSCO, ProQuest, Psyco-Info, Econlit, Web of Science, Scopus, CAS, INSPEC, AGRIS, BIOSIS, INIS, MEDLARS, ASINFO, COMPENDEX, OCLC, ERIC, inside Science, Embase, Scifinder, Cambridge University Press, American Royal Society of Chemistry- titles, J -Store, UGC-Info net, Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier.
Institutional Repositories: arXiv, Cogprint, eprints@iisc, etc.
Digital Information Search made easy - Search Engines and Search Strategies-Search Engines and meta search engines - Google: Google Blog Search, Google Book Search, Google Directory, Google Scholar, Altavista, ViviSimo, Dog 'pile , Clusty, Met Crawler, Teoma web search, Lycos , Yahoo etc.
Scholarly Literature Search made easy- Google Scholar, Windows Live Academic, Scopus, Web of Science, Scif'inder.
Advanced Search Techniques -Keyword search, Boolean operators, Proximity search, Phrase search, Field searching, concept 'Searching, Wild Card search, Truncation, Field search.
Technical writing and presentation – tools, techniques and standards, Writing a technical paper, Making PPT, Foot notes and references, Software tools for reference management. Citation machine.net. Study of citation styles manuals- APA, MLA, Chicago
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Theoretical, conceptual and application oriented research papers that are original and not published elsewhere are invited from library professionals on various themes mentioned and in related areas.
Guidelines for Authors
• The paper will be in Times New Roman with font size 12, space 1.5, clearly mentioning Name of Author(s), Title of Paper, Affiliated Organization, Contact Number and E-mail ID of Authors.
• Softcopy of the paper in MS Word should be sent through e-mail as an attachment Addressed to Prof. Khaiser Nikam at: rnsitlibrarynationalseminar@gmail.com on or before 15th June 2010.
• Acceptance of the paper will be communicated to the participants on 30th June 2010.
• All the selected papers are to be presented by the Authors. Each presentation will be of 15 minutes duration.
• Mailing Address/author affiliation should be given in the paper.
• Selected papers will be published in the Seminar Proceedings.
Important Dates
Last date for Submitting the full paper : 15th June 2010
Last date for Registration : 15th July 2010
Registration Fee : Rs.500/-*
Registration Details
DD should be drawn in favor of the Principal, RNS Institute of Technology, payable at Bangalore and sent to the address below:
Mrs. Shobha H. Prasad
Organizing Secretary
RNS Institute of Technology
Channasandra, Uttarahalli Road,
Subramanyapura Post
Bangalore – 560 061
Ph: +91-80-28603880/81, Mobile: +91-9481800715 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +91-9481800715 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
E-mail: rnsitlibrarynationalseminar@gmail.com
Accommodation: On campus accommodation can be arranged on first-cum- first served basis against nominal charges. Delegates are required to inform the organizing secretary well in advance, for on campus accommodation.
Seminar Committee
Chief Patron : Dr R N Shetty, Chairman RNSIT
Patron : Dr H N Shivashankar, Director RNSIT
Advisory Committee
Dr M K Venkatesha : Organizing Chair,
Principal, RNSIT
Dr K S Raghavan : Member
Prof., DRTC (ISI), Bangalore
Dr I K Ravichandra Rao : Member
Head & Prof., DRTC (ISI), Bangalore
Dr S P Singh : Member
Prof., DLIS, Univ. of Delhi
Dr Usha Munshi : Member
Librarian, IIPA,. New Delhi
Dr K N Prasad : Member
SRELS, Bangalore
Dr I R N Goudar : Member
Retd. Chief Lib., NAL
Dr H Siddamalliah : Member
Chief Lib., NIMHANS
Sri R Dandapani : Member
Retd. Chief Lib., British Library
Mrs Gayathri Sen : Member
Chief Librarian,PESIT
Mr N Chowdappa : Member
Chief Librarian, BMSCE
Dr R Srinivasan : Member
Dean, Research & PG Studies, RNSIT
Dr K. Uma Rao : Member
Dean, Academics, RNSIT
Dr G T Raju : Member
Prof & Head of CSE, RNSIT
Dr U Bhojanna : Member
Prof & Head of MBA, RNSIT
Prof Sridhar : Member
Prof of ECE, RNSIT
Prof R B Kulkarni : Member
Prof of ECE, RNSIT
Mr. Purnachandra : Member
P.E.D, RNSIT
Mr V Kantharaju : Member
Asst. Librarian, RNSIT
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Regards,
Prof.Khaiser Nikam
MBA;MLISc;PhD
Department of Library and Information Science
University of Mysore
Mysore-570 006
Karnataka
INDIA
Cell:98453 28672
Ph: 91-821-2415202(R) 2419399(O)
email : khaiser.nikam@gmail.com
Skype:khaiser.nikam
Twitter:khaiser10957
http://www.uni-mysore.ac.in/departments/lisc/dr-khaiser.nikam