Dear Professionals,   There is no harm in conducing courses in distance education mode.  But, the problem lies with the quality of the distance education courses.  The prestiges courses like CA, ICWA, ACS, IETE, AMIE, etc. are conducing distance education mode effectively.  No dilution of quality in these courses we have heard. At the same time, many universities are conducting courses in distance education mode mainly to generate fund and not to provide quality education to the students at their door steps. Even after the establishment of Distance Education Council, desired positive improvements in quality is yet to be achieved in the courses of most of the universities. In Kerala, most of the certificates of professional courses received through distance education mode is not recognised by the Kerala Public Service Commission and Kerala University.  At the same time, Kerala University is offering professional courses, including BLISc and MLISc, in distance education mode.  It is high to frame uniform rules applicable to all over India to clear confusion in this regard.   The first aim of the students should be to do quality education and obtain a valid certificate for that.  In Kerala, lots of students are struggling without recognising the certificates by the universities. Wih regards, DR. A.T. FRANCIS, MCom, MLISc, PhD HEAD, LIBRARY College of Horticulture Kerala Agricultural University Thrissur - 680 656, India, 91-9496839409 (m) francisaloor@yahoo.com francisaloor@gmail.com --- On Fri, 19/6/09, lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in <lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: From: lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in <lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 75, Issue 16 To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: Friday, 19 June, 2009, 6:05 PM Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to     lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit     http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to     lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in You can reach the person managing the list at     lis-forum-owner@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." Today's Topics:    1. new society formation suggestion for name (Prof. N. Laxman Rao.)    2. Request for ILL (Arup Raychaudhury)    3. Websites for Online Maps (Sainul Abideen P, IIITMK)    4. news papers archives (S.F KATTIMANI)    5. Report on the Fourth Dr. TB Rajashekar Memorial Lecture       (Arumugam Pitchai)    6. Need Article (Ajay Kum Sharma) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:09:11 -0700 (PDT) From: "Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman@yahoo.com> To: nmlis@yahoogroups.com, iatlis@yahoogroups.com,    list forum     <lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] new society formation suggestion for name Message-ID: <385054.7609.qm@web65706.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 helo friends to initiate and keep pace of the professional activities , i planned to start a non profit Society especially to motivate younger generation professionals.This is being felt on the basis of the experience i hav gained and also on the basis of my observations. THE SUCCESS of the nmlis group had motivated me to do more professional activities. i cannot venture in to the present professional organsiations as they are ful of elected members. every one knows tht there are many organizations, who are ready to fund for gud projects. I wnt to join with committed professionals and take some projects on the name of this Society. It will never work independently but join with any organization or school in organising these programs.ALL THE PROFESSIONALS ARE WELCOME TO JOIN INTO THIS SOCIETY AFTER ITS FORMATION. friends may suggest a GUD NAME FOR THE SAID SOCIETY. THANKS LAXMAN RAO THANKS Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO,? EMERITUS FELLOW, Dept of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Association of British Scholars (Hyderabad Chapter) 91-40-27171565, 27177763?(res): 09246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman@yahoo.com OR naglaxman@gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:18:04 +0530 From: "Arup Raychaudhury" <arup@isical.ac.in> To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Request for ILL Message-ID: <20090619034628.M47777@isical.ac.in> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" We need the following book on ILL for 15 days: "Nowcasting" by K. A Browning (Editor),  Academic Press. London, 1982 Arup Raychaudhury Library, Documentation &  Information Science Division Indian Statistical Institute 203 BT Road Calcutta 700 108 INDIA This mail is scanned by Ironport -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:06:11 +0530 From: "Sainul Abideen P, IIITMK" <sainul@iiitmk.ac.in> To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Websites for Online Maps Message-ID:     <22ae80220906182136s64bb7632yc484cc19ac1712b7@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Friends, Following online Map websites may be useful for you  . *'OpenStreetMap* is a free editable map of the whole world. OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth'. Website: http://www.openstreetmap.org/ *'Wikimapia* is an online editable map - you can describe any place on Earth. Or just surf maps discovering tons of already marked places'. Website:http://wikimapia.org/ <http://wikimapia.org/> Sainul Abideen P, (BSc,ADIS,PGDCA, VLIR Scholar Belgium) Librarian Indian Institute of Information Technology &  Management-Kerala [IIITM-K] NILA, Technopark, Karyavattom PO Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Ph 0471-2700777,2527567,2700965 exn 111 Mobile -9496252786 www.iiitmk.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.