If that is the case, the information officer or BMC officials who need these service shall adopt to one or combination of the following methods: 1. Subscribe to relevant RSS feeds from the online newspaper websites - all most all national and regional newspapers are online 2. Information officer shall be able to classify and make abstract emails, in frequency as required from the RSS feeds of all required newspaper clips in electronic/ print copy and disseminate 3. Create a centralised and indexed database of all the articles in their electronic version and make links to the newspaper websites Atanu Garai ----- Original Message ----- From: "Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy" To: "Atanu Garai" ; Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 6:39 PM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Press Clipping services

I do not look at it that way. When the annual budget of BMC is 12866 crores, spending 1.5 crores on procuring vital information necessary for its functioning is not a big sum. If any public library is given that challenge to provide the service how many will take it up? How many will qualify? How many will deliver? Are they geared up? Do they see an opportunity in govt as a customer for SDI/CAS services? BMC is not offering SDI service. They are consuming that service. Hope I am clear. Vyasamoorthy

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It is surprising how giving an SDI service becomes BMC's mandate. Perfect example of how a gov body can misuse tax payers money without any return.

Atanu Garai

----- Original Message ----- From: "Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy" To: Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 1:23 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Press Clipping services

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Many librarians offer press clipping services. Do they know the value of their services? Can the put a price tag? (and recover the costs involved?).

Following message gives an idea how much BMC (Bombay Municipal Corporation) is spending on acquiring information through press clippings.

Vyasamoorthy

================= 16. bmc does read newspaper articles Posted by: "karmayog.org" info@karmayog.org Date: Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:06 pm ((PDT))

It seems that BMC gives a yearly contract of Rs. 1.5 crores to read and cut and file articles from newspapers.

One would like to know how the files are circulated internally. =================

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