Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:26:59 -0700 From: Mukesh Anand Dear LIS Professionals', NISCAIR (National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources), a national Information organisation of Council for Scientific & Industrial Rewsearch (CSIR, India) has started two new Short Term Training Course in LIS. Which is detailed below : Recent Trends in Library and Information Science Course Contents: Barcoding; RFID Technology; Open Access; e-Publishing; Web OPAC; e-Consortia; Digital Libraries; Virtual Libraries and IPR issues Dates : Feb 11-15 , 2008 Patents Drafting Course Contents: Detailed overview of Patents; Patent application preparation and filing; Prosecuting Patent applications; Principles of Claim Drafting; Specific types of Claims; Patent claim design; Patent Strategy; Organizing; Education and motivating the Technical Team. Dates :Oct 22-26, 2007 No. of Participiants :For each course, the number of participants are limited to Twenty (20). Duration of the course : One Working Week Other Short Term Training Courses of NISCAIR: 1.Information Technology for Information Management ( 5 weeks) 2.Library Automation and Resources Sharing 3.WINISIS For more details you may visit http://www.niscair.res.in/ActivitiesandServices/act.asp?a=topframe.htm&b=leftcon.asp&c=HRD/hrd.html&d=test With Regards, Mukesh Anand M Lib I Sc Final Year Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi