Dear Friends at Lis-forum I remember, http://www.infolibrarian.com had similar database. They were/are offering such registration facility using some third party (free) service. I declined to fill in my details because I was in doubt if such data could be used by tele-marketing firms. I have bad experience in past due to disclose of my personal details like email, Phone Numbers and postal address. In India there is no law to protect persons from unsolicited tele-maketing spams (all forms, email, letter and phones). My experience say that even reputed firms like India Today sell their subscription data to thrid parties. No wonder you soon start receiving junk all forms of spam. Phone calls from Banks offering Credit Cards (Even on your Mobile phone if you particpate in some SMS contest). I receive atleast one phone per month at my office for Credit Cards. ICICI Bank was one step ahead, they sent me credit card with out mine filling up any application form. Latter on When I prostested and asked them the source of my personal details, I was informed they had taken it from my application form which I had filled up for purchasing Tax Saving Bond some time ago. I am not discouraging from building up a experts database. But then privacy policy should be very clearly stated. It may also give the intented use and any likely misuse of such data by third party. With regards Sukhdev Singh

From: "Shalini Urs" Reply-To: shalini@vidyanidhi.org.in To: CC: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Indian Library Professionals Database-concrete steps Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 16:23:54 +0530 (IST)

Dear All,

I am writing this mail in response to the ongoing discussion in this Forum regarding developing an Indian Librarians Database, especially since there was a specific reference to Mysore University and also a comment' are any LIS schools listening?

My response is as follows: I agree with Dr.Vyasamurthy regarding building on the existing databases and getting it done by some student of LIS.However this requires sharing of data.

I have the following suggestions and services to offer. ---- * As part of some of the activites that I have been involved with in the last couple of years, I already have built up a database of more than 800 Librarians in a database form * I could get one of my students to take it up as a Project and get it updated * I would welcome anyone to send me lists/databases that they might have and we will use that to check duplicates/update the database * We have also developed a web based Experts database, which permits filling up and submission of data by the experts themselves.This could also be used to get LIS professionals to update the database.I am ready to make it available to have an exclusive LIS professionals database * May be we could use both the stratgies to come up with a Indian LIS professionals database * I would offer to host the database on the Vidyanidhi Website

Comments and suggestions are welcome!ANY TAKERS?

Best

Shalini ------------- Prof.Shalini R.Urs Project Director Vidyanidhi-Indian Digital Library of Electronic Theses Department of library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore.570006. India Ph:91-821-2514699 Fax:91-821-2519209 Website:http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in

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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 17:16:41 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD

Dear Friends:

Prafulla's Suggestions have profound intent. However the question is always "who will bell the cat?" (Who will pay for the expenses involved?) I have some suggestions in this respect.

To have a good database of Indian librarians, why not use the existing librarians directory in www.infolibrarian.com ? OR you may try Inflibnets Experts Database as well. The latter is academic librarians oriented; Inflibnet database's Data Entry Form is far too detailed and this might deter many from adding their own data. Infolibrarian is for ALL librarians. Every librarian, big or small, may be persuaded to enter his details here. It so happens that only Juniors enter their data in such databases. Seniors are too proud to lend their names to be included. To obviate this problem each institute/library may request one of the colleagues to enter all library professionals names into this infolibrarian directory.

We have a number of sources for details of librarians like INFLIBNET, INFOLIBRARIAN. ILA, IASLIC, SIS, ALSD, BONET, CALIBNET etc Let us not proliferate more directories that are difficult to keep updated. Let us strengthen just one (ANY ONE) and make it a BIG success.

Library Science Schools can ask their students to take up projects of 'mass population' of such databases. For instance some student in SNDT or Mysore University can say collect details of all librarians in Mumbai or Mysore and enter say a substantial part of it into infolibrarian database. Here teamwork mught help large scale data entry. SHe will get project credit from the library school. And the directory would serve him later on in his/her professional life as well.

Incidentally the SNDT had (has?) website with a directory of suppliers of Library Requisites -- If this is up and updated our friends like Usha Kumari of Bangalore need not ask FORUM members for sources regarding Electronic display Boards (and hoping for some answer!).

Are some Library Schools listening?

*Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre *ICICI Knowledge Park, Turkapalli Village, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA *Ph: +91(40) 2348 0053; Fax:+91(40) 2348 0007 Ph. Res: +91(40) 2784 6631 *Website: http://www.vic-ikp.info and http://www.iciciknowledgepark.com _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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