Dear Authors and Contributors The organisers of National Seminar On" Management of Digital Information Sources, Services and Systems", July 29-30, 2010, are happy to note that the response is overwhelming. However to encourage the authors further more for the ensuing seminar we have the extended topics of the theme. You may send your papers to : Prof. Khaiser Nikam Program Director University of Mysore Manasagangothri Mysore-6 Khaiser10957@gmail.com Cell:98453 28672 Off: 0821- 2419399 OR Mrs. Shobha H. Prasad Organizing Secretary RNS Institute of Technology Channasandra, Uttarahalli Road, Subramanyapura Post Bangalore – 560 061 Ph: +91-80-28603880/81, Mobile: +91-9481800715 E-mail: rnsitlibrarynationalseminar@gmail.com MAIN SEMINAR THEMES Digital Information Sources - Acquisition, Organization, Access and Preservation Open Access Sources - Open Access Journals, Institutional Repositories Web-based Information Services Information Systems and Enabling Technologies - Web 2.0 and Lib 2.0 - Open Source Software - Library Automation Systems Information Search Techniques Content Creation and Management EXTENDED SEMINAR THEMES Digital Information Resources. Digital Information life cycle. Categories of Digital Information Resources: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Digital Information Resources - primary resources- E-journals, E-Books: Netlibrary, Project Gutenberg ; E-Theses, E-Newspapers, Blogs, Wikis. Free online Reference tools- Free Dictionaries: Merriam-Webster Online, 'Thesaurus Dictionary.com,. Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, wordthrill.com.;Glossary, Special Online Dictionaries such as Medical Dictionary, Dictionary of Slang etc. Non-free online dictionaries: Oxford English Dictionary, Hutchison's, And Free Thesauri: Wordweb. Encyclopedia: Columbia Encyclopedia, Wikipedia Encyclopedia, Encarta, Britannica, Virtual Libraries - IPL, vlib.org, Subject gateways and Portals: Ingenta, BUBL link information service, E-Print network, www Virtual-Library and their types . ADAM ( http://adam.ac.uk), AGRIGATE (www.agrigate.edu.at.). BIOGATE (httpt/ zbicgate.Iub.Iu.se/), Bizled• (www.bized.co.uk), Cherndex (www.chemdex.org), GEM (www.thegateway.org), Phvsics Web Resources (http://physicsweb.org) etc. Free databases: open J gate, OAIster, RePEC, Suprem Court databases, 1BID, INDIASTAT; Population Index, .Supreme Court Online, DARE Database; poverty Research Institutes Database, Human Rights Institutes Database, Peace institutes Database, Census of India; NIC database, Patents Fee based Digital Information Resources: Bibliographical and Full text databases: Sociofile, LISA, Economic Literature; Emerald, EBSCO, ProQuest, Psyco-Info, Econlit, Web of Science, Scopus, CAS, INSPEC, AGRIS, BIOSIS, INIS, MEDLARS, ASINFO, COMPENDEX, OCLC, ERIC, inside Science, Embase, Scifinder, Cambridge University Press, American Royal Society of Chemistry- titles, J -Store, UGC-Info net, Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier. Institutional Repositories: arXiv, Cogprint, eprints@iisc, etc. Digital Information Search made easy - Search Engines and Search Strategies-Search Engines and meta search engines - Google: Google Blog Search, Google Book Search, Google Directory, Google Scholar, Altavista, ViviSimo, Dog 'pile , Clusty, Met Crawler, Teoma web search, Lycos , Yahoo etc. Scholarly Literature Search made easy- Google Scholar, Windows Live Academic, Scopus, Web of Science, Scif'inder. Advanced Search Techniques -Keyword search, Boolean operators, Proximity search, Phrase search, Field searching, concept 'Searching, Wild Card search, Truncation, Field search. Technical writing and presentation – tools, techniques and standards, Writing a technical paper, Making PPT, Foot notes and references, Software tools for reference management. Citation machine.net. Study of citation styles manuals- APA, MLA, Chicago ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Theoretical, conceptual and application oriented research papers that are original and not published elsewhere are invited from library professionals on various themes mentioned and in related areas. Guidelines for Authors • The paper will be in Times New Roman with font size 12, space 1.5, clearly mentioning Name of Author(s), Title of Paper, Affiliated Organization, Contact Number and E-mail ID of Authors. • Softcopy of the paper in MS Word should be sent through e-mail as an attachment Addressed to Prof. Khaiser Nikam at: rnsitlibrarynationalseminar@gmail.com on or before 15th June 2010. • Acceptance of the paper will be communicated to the participants on 30th June 2010. • All the selected papers are to be presented by the Authors. Each presentation will be of 15 minutes duration. • Mailing Address/author affiliation should be given in the paper. • Selected papers will be published in the Seminar Proceedings. Important Dates Last date for Submitting the full paper : 15th June 2010 Last date for Registration : 15th July 2010 Registration Fee : Rs.500/-* Registration Details DD should be drawn in favor of the Principal, RNS Institute of Technology, payable at Bangalore and sent to the address below: Mrs. Shobha H. Prasad Organizing Secretary RNS Institute of Technology Channasandra, Uttarahalli Road, Subramanyapura Post Bangalore – 560 061 Ph: +91-80-28603880/81, Mobile: +91-9481800715 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +91-9481800715 end_of_the_skype_highlighting E-mail: rnsitlibrarynationalseminar@gmail.com Accommodation: On campus accommodation can be arranged on first-cum- first served basis against nominal charges. Delegates are required to inform the organizing secretary well in advance, for on campus accommodation. Seminar Committee Chief Patron : Dr R N Shetty, Chairman RNSIT Patron : Dr H N Shivashankar, Director RNSIT Advisory Committee Dr M K Venkatesha : Organizing Chair, Principal, RNSIT Dr K S Raghavan : Member Prof., DRTC (ISI), Bangalore Dr I K Ravichandra Rao : Member Head & Prof., DRTC (ISI), Bangalore Dr S P Singh : Member Prof., DLIS, Univ. of Delhi Dr Usha Munshi : Member Librarian, IIPA,. New Delhi Dr K N Prasad : Member SRELS, Bangalore Dr I R N Goudar : Member Retd. Chief Lib., NAL Dr H Siddamalliah : Member Chief Lib., NIMHANS Sri R Dandapani : Member Retd. Chief Lib., British Library Mrs Gayathri Sen : Member Chief Librarian,PESIT Mr N Chowdappa : Member Chief Librarian, BMSCE Dr R Srinivasan : Member Dean, Research & PG Studies, RNSIT Dr K. Uma Rao : Member Dean, Academics, RNSIT Dr G T Raju : Member Prof & Head of CSE, RNSIT Dr U Bhojanna : Member Prof & Head of MBA, RNSIT Prof Sridhar : Member Prof of ECE, RNSIT Prof R B Kulkarni : Member Prof of ECE, RNSIT Mr. Purnachandra : Member P.E.D, RNSIT Mr V Kantharaju : Member Asst. Librarian, RNSIT -- Regards, Prof.Khaiser Nikam MBA;MLISc;PhD Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570 006 Karnataka INDIA Cell:98453 28672 Ph: 91-821-2415202(R) 2419399(O) email : khaiser.nikam@gmail.com Skype:khaiser.nikam Twitter:khaiser10957 http://www.uni-mysore.ac.in/departments/lisc/dr-khaiser.nikam -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.