Dear Divya, ABCD is very good library Automation cum digital library FOSS Free open source software available.It is most recent and covers almost all the needs of librarians and documentalists. I am lucky one who got chance to attend the first workshop and training programme of this software in STIMULATE 8 Program in Nov-Dec 2008 at Vrije Univeristy, Brussels and learn the software from Dr. Prof. Egbert De Smet who is Supervisor of whole ABCD project. It is becoming very popular in USA,UK and African countries. Many well known libraries have converted their database in this software and started using it.As it is new many workshops and training programmes are going on in various countries. ABCD is basically from the ISIS family of UNESCO. It is full-fledged application of integrated library management system. Orignial development of it is centrally managed by Bireme and its own programmers, as the project is supported by Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR. ABCD aims at providing an integrated library management tool covering all main functions in a library, i.e. bibliographic database management, users management, loans management, end-user searching on local and external bibliographic databases and library portal. You can download this software from below link http://bvsmodelo.bvsalud.org/php/level.php?lang=en&component=31&item=13 You can refer following link which i have created for tutorials and basic idea of software. https://sites.google.com/site/abcdtutorials/ For more details and features of the software, for arranging training workshops and guidance you can contact De Smet Egbert prof.dr. Information & Library Science, University of Antwerp, Belgium associated consultant INASP, Oxford UK Supervisor of ABCD project With best regards. Sangeeta Dhamdhere Librarian Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Ganesh-Khind, Pune 411 053 Ph.020-25654021-224 http://moderncollegegk.org/ http://sites.google.com/site/sangeetadhamdhere/ --- On Fri, 9/10/09, lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in wrote:

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IRMA 30th Anniversary Conference on Social Science Research and Public Involvement

Dates: 15-16 December 2009

Organised by: Institute of Rural Management Anand, Gujarat, India

Call for Papers The Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) announces the conference on 'Social Science Research and Public Involvement' to be held as part of 30th anniversary celebrations. Established in 1979, to address the inequality issues in rural India, IRMA has combined knowledge production and public action in a symbiotic rhythm. In more recent times, the scenario of higher education has become complex. Specialization has come at the cost of 'appropriateness'; collaborations and financing patterns have eclipsed the right questions; usability of knowledge is diluted in the struggle between truth and power; information abundance has made it difficult to distinguish wheat and chaff in the knowledge world; marketization of research has produced paradoxical effects; Apart from these concerns, public action agenda and policy making has often been ideology-driven than evidence-driven. The nature of social science research needs to be revisited for its relevance and revitalization.

IRMA invites papers on wide-ranging topics around this conference theme (as delineated in the concept note in the conference website). The paper abstracts are to be sent to 30irma[at]irma.ac.in before 25 October 2009.

Important themes are: - Collaborations in Social Research - Financing of Social Research - Social accountability in knowledge production and dissemination - Social science research in vernacular languages - Evidence-based policy making - Revisiting methods - Learning from evaluation research - Politics of knowledge creation

Important Dates - Last date to receive abstracts 25 October 2009 - Decision on abstracts 2 November 2009 - Full Papers to be sent by 30 November 2009 - Conference dates 15-16 December 2009

Please send the abstracts to: 30irma[at]irma.ac.in

Travel, Boarding and Lodging Facilities Authors of the selected full papers will be reimbursed with travel allowance, and free boarding and lodging facilities for the stay during the conference.

Further Details http://cssp-jnu.blogspot.com/2009/10/irma-conference-on-social-science.html

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Message: 2 Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:23:09 +0530 From: "Krishna Raghavendra Yeri" To: "G. K. Sachdeva" ,     Cc: mlosc@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Please Help Message-ID: <4ACF00FC.8110.0073.1@irma.ac.in> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Dear Shri Sachdeva

This information is available in www.indiastat.com up to 2006-07.  Hope it is helpful to your faculty.

Thank you.

Krishna Yeri Librarian Institute of Rural Management Anand Post Box No.60 Anand 388 001 Gujarat   India

Tel: 91 02692 260391 263260 260181 02692 221671 (D) Fax: 91 02692 260188

url: http://www.irma.ac.in ( http://www.irma.ac.in/ )

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"G. K. Sachdeva" 10/8/2009 2:19 PM >>>

Dear Library Professionals

Greetings!!!!!

Please Help. My faculty member want a some data on ?Total Enrolment in Higher Education in Haryana?.

Thanks & Regards

Gulshan Kr. Sachdeva Library Incharge J K Padampat Singhania Institute of Management & Technology Gurgaon ? 122 102 E-mail: gulshan.sachdeva@jkps.edu.in

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