Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 08:48:43 +0530 From: anitha mk <anitha_m@aurigene.com> Dear All, NCSI-NET, the alumni association of NCSI staff, project assistants and trainees, cordially invites you all for a talk on Library Automation in Germany - by Prof. Achim Osswald on Saturday, 9th December 2006. The following are the details of the talk: Topic: Library Automation in Germany: More a Glimpse than the State of the Art Review Speaker: Dr. Achim Osswald Date and Time: 9th December 2006, 11 AM Venue: NCSI Seminar Hall, NCSI, IISc. About the talk: The presentation will look back at Library Automation in Germany and will then focus on the major players at present: The German National Library and supporting subject based libraries, the Cooperative Library Networks, there role in Library Automation and their services offered. About the speaker: Dr. Achim Osswald is a professor at University of Applied Sciences Cologne, Department of Library and Information Science (now: Institute of Information Science ), Germany. Currently, he is at the DRTC, ISI, Bangalore, as a visiting scientist. The complete CV of Dr. Achim is available at: http://www.fbi.fh-koeln.de/institut/personen/osswald/Osswald_leb_en.htm Kindly confirm your attendance to Mr. Francis Jayakanth at his e-mail id: franc@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Thanks and Regards, Anitha M.K and Ravi Nandhan V NCSI-NET Coordinators