Dear Authors and Contributors I am very thankful to all those who have quickly responded to our announcemnet to send articles. We have eloborated on other topics on which you can contribute. Please look in to the details and send in your papers to the organizing Secretary so as to enable us to include them in the seminar volume. Warm Regards, Shobha H Prasad Organising Secretary. Mail: rnsitlibrarynationalseminar@gmail.com ************************************************************* Library and Information Center R N S INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Approved by AICTE, New Delhi & Affiliated to VTU, Belgaum) CHANNASANDRA, Uttarahalli Road, Subramanyapura Post, BANGALORE – 560 061 Is organizing a National Seminar On" Management of Digital Information Sources, Services and Systems", July 29-30, 2010 About the Seminar Library and information services today are changing very rapidly. Present Internet age has a lot of positive impact on Digital Information Systems and Services Management. Innovations in technology have lead to the emergence of a new phase in library development through timely application of digital technology. Added to this is the accelerated convergence of communication technologies with publishing and the media. Services become possible in the libraries only by implementing digitization activities. This upgrades libraries to provide better quality and a greater diversity of services and management than they currently are able to do with analogue technology. Utilizing these opportunities, libraries are harnessing better quality services to users. This national seminar is designed to provide an opportunity to discuss various aspects of “Digital Information Systems and Services Management” across the country. It aims at bringing together librarians of various engineering colleges and related premier institutes to deliberate on the challenges and issues concerning the theme of the seminar. Take away · Educationists, Research Scholars and Library Professionals will be exposed to emerging technologies like Digital Information System, Open Access Sourcess and Web-based Information Services etc. · Applicability and Adoptability of Digital Servises will be identified and new ideas are shared and learnt to install in libraries. About RNSIT RNS Institute of Technology (RNSIT) established in the year 2001 is the brain- child of the Group – Chairman, Dr. R. N. Shetty. The Murudeshwar Group of Companies headed by Dr. R. N. Shetty is a leading player in many industries viz., construction, manufacturing, hotel, automobile, power & IT services and education. The group has contributed significantly to the field of education. A number of educational institutions are run by R. N. Shetty Trust, and RNSIT is one among them. With a continuous desire to provide quality education to society, the trust has established RNSIT, an institution to nourish and produce the best of engineering and management talents. About the Library Library at RNSIT was established in the year 2001. It endeavors to provide value-added services to support engineering and management education of the institution. The key motive is to improve education through quality information system and services. It ensures well equipped library facilities along with printed and electronic resources. Over the years RNSIT library has developed with necessary and relevant resources like books, journals, standards and specifications, trade catalogues, reports, etc., providing excellent information services. Seminar Theme 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Related Topics 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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 Dr Khaiser Nikam : Member and Program Director Prof. ,DLIS, Univ. of Mysore Mrs Shobha H Prasad : Organizing secretary Librarian, RNSIT ===== National Seminar On Management of Digital Information Sources, Services and Systems (July 29-30 , 2010) Registration Form Name …………………………………………………… Organization …………………………………………………… Designation …………………………………………………… Address …………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………… Phone …………………………………………………… E-mail …………………………………………………… Details of Registration Fee: Name of Bank and Branch……………………………………….. Applicant Signature Seal and Signature of the Head of the Institution For more Details please visit: http://www.rnsit.in/ =========== Organizing Secretary Mrs. Shobha H Prasad Librarian, Library and Information Center R N S INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CHANNASANDRA, Uttarahalli Road, Subramanyapura Post, BANGALORE – 560 061 Ph: +91-80-28603880/81 Fax: +91-80-28603882 M: +91-9481800715 +91-9481800715 Email: rnsitlibrarynationalseminar@gmail.com, shobhahprasad@yahoo.co.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.