Dear Professionals,
 
There is no harm in conducing courses in distance education mode.  But, the problem lies with the quality of the distance education courses.  The prestiges courses like CA, ICWA, ACS, IETE, AMIE, etc. are conducing distance education mode effectively.  No dilution of quality in these courses we have heard.
At the same time, many universities are conducting courses in distance education mode mainly to generate fund and not to provide quality education to the students at their door steps.
Even after the establishment of Distance Education Council, desired positive improvements in quality is yet to be achieved in the courses of most of the universities.
In Kerala, most of the certificates of professional courses received through distance education mode is not recognised by the Kerala Public Service Commission and Kerala University.  At the same time, Kerala University is offering professional courses, including BLISc and MLISc, in distance education mode. 
It is high to frame uniform rules applicable to all over India to clear confusion in this regard.
 
The first aim of the students should be to do quality education and obtain a valid certificate for that.  In Kerala, lots of students are struggling without recognising the certificates by the universities.
Wih regards,

DR. A.T. FRANCIS, MCom, MLISc, PhD
HEAD, LIBRARY
College of Horticulture
Kerala Agricultural University
Thrissur - 680 656, India, 91-9496839409 (m)

francisaloor@yahoo.com
francisaloor@gmail.com


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   2. Request for ILL (Arup Raychaudhury)
   3. Websites for Online Maps (Sainul Abideen P, IIITMK)
   4. news papers archives (S.F KATTIMANI)
   5. Report on the Fourth Dr. TB Rajashekar Memorial Lecture
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helo friends

to initiate and keep pace of the professional activities , i planned to start a non profit Society especially to motivate younger generation professionals.This is being felt on the basis of the experience i hav gained and also on the basis of my observations. THE SUCCESS of the nmlis group had motivated me to do more professional activities. i cannot venture in to the present professional organsiations as they are ful of elected members. every one knows tht there are many organizations, who are ready to fund for gud projects. I wnt to join with committed professionals and take some projects on the name of this Society. It will never work independently but join with any organization or school in organising these programs.ALL THE PROFESSIONALS ARE WELCOME TO JOIN INTO THIS SOCIETY AFTER ITS FORMATION.

friends may suggest a GUD NAME FOR THE SAID SOCIETY.


THANKS

LAXMAN RAO
THANKS


Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO,?
EMERITUS FELLOW, Dept of Library & Information Science,
Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA)
President, Association of British Scholars (Hyderabad Chapter)
91-40-27171565, 27177763?(res): 09246547599 (Mobile)
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We need the following book on ILL for 15 days:

"Nowcasting" by K. A Browning (Editor),  Academic Press. London, 1982


Arup Raychaudhury
Library, Documentation &  Information Science Division
Indian Statistical Institute
203 BT Road
Calcutta 700 108
INDIA

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Subject: [LIS-Forum] Websites for Online Maps
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Dear Friends,

Following online Map websites may be useful for you  .

*'OpenStreetMap* is a free editable map of the whole world. OpenStreetMap
allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way
from anywhere on Earth'.

Website: http://www.openstreetmap.org/

*'Wikimapia* is an online editable map - you can describe any place on
Earth. Or just surf maps discovering tons of already marked places'.

Website:http://wikimapia.org/ <http://wikimapia.org/>

Sainul Abideen P, (BSc,ADIS,PGDCA, VLIR Scholar Belgium)
Librarian
Indian Institute of Information Technology &  Management-Kerala [IIITM-K]
NILA, Technopark, Karyavattom PO
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Ph 0471-2700777,2527567,2700965 exn 111
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dear all

Important archives of british library uk , 1857 riots, important news in
the 19th and 20th century archives available at

  ( source: prajavani 19th june 2009 page no :10)

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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:55:02 +0530
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Dear Members,

Here's is the brief report on the Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Memorial Lecture
(2009) held on Friday, 12 June 2009 at NCSI, IISc.

Topic: "Academic Access in a Globalized World: Scholars without Borders"

Speaker: Dr. Ram Ramaswamy, Professor, School of Physical Sciences,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

The event was set in motion with Mr. Francis Jayakanth of NCSI
welcoming the well-attended gathering. He gave a brief life sketch of
late Dr. TBR emphasizing on TBR's contributions and initiatives while
he served at NCSI.

Later, Francis Introduced Dr. IRN Goudar. Dr. Goudar, presided over
the talk. Dr. Goudar being the alma mater of TBR at the DRTC, narrated
couple of incidences that happened during their DRTC course and also
after they started their careers. These incidences only exemplified
the fact that TBR was very clear as to what he intended to do and went
about in completing it with dedication. Later, Dr. Goudar introduced
Dr. Ram and requested him to deliver the lecture.

Dr. Ram's talk is accessible at:

http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/seminars.html#_2009


Dr. Ram began his talk by giving some insights into the higher
education in the country, which is the largest in the world. GoI is
playing a major role in the higher education system in terms of
framing of major policies for the system. He briefly mentioned about
poor library system in most of the colleges and Universities, which is
hindering access to the library holdings. For accessing the online
journals, though INFLIBNET administered UGC Infonet is in place, poor
Internet connectivity beyond the metros is an hindrance in accessing
the online journals.

He also emphasized on Books and book publishing in the country
especially in the social sciences, where scholars publish their
findings in books rather than journal articles. The speaker also
presented some interesting facts about Books and Book publishing in
India. Annually, India publishes between 70,000 to 80,000 titles,
comes from between 16,000 to 17,000 publishers, ranging from those who
do as many as 300-400 titles a year to one person operations-who may
produce only two or three titles/year. According to Federation of
Publishers, Booksellers Associations in India, the Federation of
Indian Publishers, as well as a study of the Indian book market
conducted by the British Publishers Association (2007) puts the value
of the Indian book market at Rs.10,000 crores. In this 10,0000 crores,
approximately Rs.3500 crores comprises educational books and Higher
education Books market is at Rs.2500 crores.

He also gave some insights into publishing business in the western
world by citing Thomson Reuters as an example.

The speaker expressed his concern in the poor distribution network in
the country for quality textbooks and lack of University Press culture
in the country are contributing to the growth of low quality academic
publishing.

He then touched upon the growth of e-books with big players in field
like Thompson, spending great deal of their budget on e-books. He
cited the example of JSTOR. JSTOR was founded in 1995 to build trusted
digital archives for scholarship. Working with the scholarly community
to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build
a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of
these resources.

In the context of our country, there was a mention of Language/
Literacy barriers such as * Computing in regional languages remains a
somewhat distant goal. * Low investment in local technological
solutions. * Need for more video content if primary educational goals
are to be addressed.

There was a special mention of ALUKA, an international, collaborative
initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources
from and about Africa. Now a part of JSTOR. The speaker said, similar
initiatives in the country are need of the hour to showcase India's
academic publishing.

Then Ram presented the demographies of India

* Total India population: 1.037 billion
* Rural population: 72%
* Literacy: 52%
* Computer ownership per 100 inhabitants: 0.6
* Telephone lines per 100: 4.2
* Internet hosts per 10,000: 0.35
* Internet caf?s/telecentres per 10,000: 0.1
* Internet users per 100 0.33 subscribers: 1.65 users
* Cell phone subscribers 10.81 million
* Number of websites in the national language(s): 20,000
* Number of websites in English and other language(s): 130,000
* National bandwidth to and from the country: 1,670.3 Mbps

Thus he proposed to have something like SwB:
www.scholarswithoutborders.in (Academic Books from India delivered
Everywhere).

Few facts about SwB are:

* Scholars without Borders (SwB) are an online bookstore for academic
books from India.
* Also other material such as journals, periodicals, reports,
documentaries, CDs.
* Facilitates online ordering and purchase.
* Offers a range of payments: money orders, VPP, cheques, cash, credit
card, etc.
* Over 6000 titles from about 100 publishers.

The motivation for such a SwB by Ram is "To make access to quality
academic books simple, regardless of location."

SwB runs a blog on books from India. It has a presence on Twitter,
Facebook and other networking sites.

Ram also presented the visitors to SwB from various parts of both
India and worldwide. SwB's documentary
site(scholarswithoutborders.in/video). This site is developed in
collaboration with TCS. It provides, Semantic search of video content
and partially view documentaries. Presently this site is undergoing
Beta Testing.

Access equity is the major item in Ram's presentation. An initiative
to promote the distribution of books/academic material through the
Internet and mobile phone. This will largely be a vehicle for the
physical product initially, but they are aiming to increase digital
content, especially of textbooks. The distribution of books and other
published matter across India, especially to places with poor access
to books and bookstores will be a major activity of this Initiative.

While talking about future plans and the path ahead: Ram mentioned
about the book readers such as Amazon Kindle and Olai. He also spoken
about Cell phone based services.

After the question and answer session, Dr. Goudar nicely summed up Dr.
Rams talk. Mr. T.B. Anand proposed vote of thanks.

(Thanks to H Rajendra Babu for Preparing this Report)

Regards,

NCSI-NET Co-ordinators

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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:59:03 +0530
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Subject: [LIS-Forum] Need Article
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Dear Professionals,
        One of our library user has need of the below article for his
research work. It will be highly appreciated if any one send me a soft copy
of the below paper at an earliest.

*Article Title:* Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and the Childhood Roots of
Health Disparities: Building a New Framework for Health Promotion and
Disease Prevention.

*Authors:* Jack P. Shonkoff; W. Thomas Boyce; Bruce S. McEwen

*Journal:* Journal of the American Medical Association ;  Vol.
301 No.21 Year 2009  [Pagn. 2252-2259 ]


Thanks and regards.


Ajay Kumar Sharma
Assistant Librarian & In-charge,
Journal Section, Central Library,
Visva Bharati, Santiniketan - 731235,
Bolpur, Birbhum, West Bengal
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