Retroconverstion

Retroconversion of documents

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A Day in a LIS Professional’s Life

  On a typical day a librarian might perform some of the following duties:-

 

1. Analyse users’ needs and provide the information they need;
2. Show users how to efficiently search for information on the Internet and in other online resources;
3. Select and purchase materials and prepare those materials by classifying them according to subject matter;
4. Supervise assistants who prepare cards, computer records, or other access tools that direct users to resources;
5. Collect and organize books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and other materials in a specific field, such as rare books, genealogy, or music;
6. Coordinate programs such as storytelling for children, and literacy skills and book talks for adults;
7. Conduct classes as per need for junior professionals;
8. Publicize services;

Om Shashi Shekhar Singh 
Chief Librarian, Navodaya Vidyalaya, Mewat - 122108, Haryana,
E-mail: shekharlib@yahoo.co.in

Source: Employment News  Nov 13-19 2010

PhD Viva Voce

Mr. Ashok Kumar Upadhyay, Research Scholar will defend his PhD thesis entitled “Retro-conversion of documents in Central Secretariat Library, Zakir Husain Library, JMI, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library: an evaluative study” in an open viva voce will be held on 27th November 2010 (Saturday) at the seminar library of this department.
Mr. Upadhyay conducted this research under the guidance of Prof. (Dr.) Masoom Raza. We congratulate Mr. Upadhyay for successfully completing his research and wish him all success in his viva examination and best wishes in future career.
Mr. Upadhyay has participated in many national and international seminar and conferences and presented FIVE research papers. He has published FOUR research articles in international journals and TWO in national journals. We hope his active contribution for the LIS profession in India in the coming future also.

Natioanal Semianr at AKGEC, Gaziayabad

A National Seminar on “Re-engineering the information profession for the emerging knowledge society” was held at AKG Engineering College, Gaziabad on 20th November 2010. The seminar was a great success with the active participation of LIS professionals and the thought provoking discussions and presentation by eminent scholars from various parts of the country.
The research scholars, Mr. Mohamed Musthafa, Roshan Khayal and Muzammil Mustaq of this department attended the seminar.

iLEAD Fellowship for MLIS

iLEAD (International Librarians Enhancing Access and Development) Fellowship Opportunity (deadline: Nov. 30, 2010)

The Department of Library and Information Studies (DLIS) at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) invites applications from international students to its iLEAD Fellows Program. An iLEAD Fellow will be an international student taking the Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) Program, supported by an International Graduate Assistantship (IGA) with tuition waivers. The iLEAD Fellows Program is one of the Department’s iLEAD initiatives http://lis.uncg.edu/about-us/international/.
Two iLEAD Fellows will be selected from the new incoming international students, starting in Fall 2011, on the basis of demonstrated academic ability, evidence of commitment to enhancing library and information access and development in their home country, and financial need. To be considered for the iLEAD Fellows Program, applicants must submit both a UNCG Graduate School application for admission to the MLIS Program and the Department’s IGA application by the stated deadline.
The application includes an essay of 750 words or less on applicant’s experience with and plans to enhance library and information access and development in your home country, especially to diverse and underserved communities.
More information at: http://lis.uncg.edu/admissions/financial-support/ilead-fellows-program/

"Openness and Access: An India Survey"

The Centre for Internet and Society is planning to bring out a book
charting out the state of various kinds of 'opennesses' in India,
tentatively titled "Openness and Access: An India Survey". This book
will include India-focussed surveys of Open Access to Law, Open
Government Data, Open Access to Scholarly Literature, Open Educational
Resources, Open Standards, Free/Open Source Software, and Open Content,
each of which will be a self-contained chapter in the book. We are
presenting an open call for researchers for each of these surveys.

Each of the surveys will broadly have to include:
1) Literature review
2) Policy scan
3) Institutional scan
4) Project scan
5) Case studies and interviews
6) Observations, analysis of policy tensions and recommendations
7) Directory of stakeholders
8) Further readings

Each survey, depending on the subject matter and the scope agreed to
between the researcher and CIS, is expected to be roughly between 22,000
words and 35,000 words. The deadlines of these projects will, of
course, vary, but they will range from between two months and four. Each
researcher will be given a separate travel bursary on a need basis,
which will be agreed upon at the commencement of the research.

The exact remuneration for each survey depends on the extent of the
project as is finally worked out between the researcher and CIS, but the
following can be taken to be indicative:
1) Open Access to Law ~ Rs. 50,000
2) Open Government Data ~ Rs. 50,000
3) Open Access to Scholarly Literature ~ Rs. 80,000
4) Open Educational Resources ~ Rs. 80,000
5) Open Standards ~ Rs. 50,000
6) Free and Open Source Software ~ Rs. 80,000
7) Open Content ~ Rs. 80,000

If you have a background in research, academics, or policy analysis and
would be interested in working on one of these, please write in to
Pranesh Prakash by Tuesday, November 30, 2010,
with a copy of your résumé, your specific interests in the area, and a
writing sample.

details at http://cis-india.org

Training in Advanced WINISIS at NISCAIR

A short term course on 'Advanced WINISIS' will be held during 6-10 December 2010 at NISCAIR.

The course fee is Rs. 2000/- (without accommodation) and Rs. 2600/- (with accommodation). Interested professionals may please send and email to training@niscair.res.in or visit the NISCAIR website.

G. Mahesh
NISCAIR

Safari Books Online Launches Free Global iPad App

New Delhi, India – November 9, 2010 – Safari® Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com), the leading on-demand digital library for technology, digital media and business professionals, today announced that it is offering a free app for Apple’s iPad which allows subscribers of Safari Books Online to view book content in their library. Subscribers will also be able to view content offline. The free app, called Safari to Go, is available for download now at Apple’s iTunes App Store [itms://itunes.apple.com/us/app/safari-to-go/id385824712?mt=8].

Safari Books Online, which is already available for iPhone, iPod Touch, Blackberry and Android smartphones on its mobile site, m.safaribooksonline.com, built the new Safari To Go app from the ground up specifically to leverage iPad capabilities such as pinch-to-zoom and drag and drop functions.

Source | http://www.webnewswire.com/

Free access to Springer Journals

Dear Friends,

Springer Publisher is giving Free access to some of the journals from it's publications. You can view&download fulltext articles for free of cost. No registration is required for downloading&viewing. and this upto 30th Nov 2010. Please click on the below link.


http://www.springerlink.com/ journals/

Semi. Professioanl Assistant in AMU Centres

Applications for the post of Semi Professional Assistant (1 post in Malapuram, Kerala and 1 post in Murshidabad, WB)on the prescribed form are invited by 15.12.2010

Scale/PB Rs. 5200-20200 GP Rs. 2800 plus allowances

QUALIFICATIONS-ESSENTIAL :
M.A./M.Sc/ M.Com. with B.Lib. Science OR one year Diploma in Library Science .
OR
B.A./B.Sc./B.Com. with B.Lib. Science or one year Post Graduate Diploma in Library Science
DESIRABLE :Ability to prepare Catalogue cards in English/Urdu Typewriting.

The appointment will be made on ontractual / deputation basis. Candidates are required to fill up the separate appllication form for each post / Centre.

For details visit; http://www.amuregistrar.com/

Academic Ranking of Indian central universities

Mr. Muzamil Mustaq (Research Scholar)presented the following paper at 6th International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics (WIS) and 11th COLLNET Meeting held at University of Mysore on 19-22 Oct. 2010.
"Academic Ranking of Indian central universities in Science and Technology as Represented in Science Citation Index - Expanded (Web of Science): A Scientometric Study of last five years from 2005-2009" by Prof. Shabahat Husain and Mr Muzamil Mushtaq.

ABSTRACT:

There are a number of parameters to evaluate an academic institution and one of them being the publication output of the institutions. Keeping this parameter under eye,the present paper was compiled which focuses on the various publication output patterns of Indian Central Universities, depicting the picture of the Scientometric constructs with the data collected from the widely used database-Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-E).The Individual Universities were searched out and the data was recorded using the distinct limiting options of the database. The data so obtained were worked out and interpreted in accordance with the Scientometric methods and thus obtained the results. It was found that the University of Delhi occupies the first rank leading other Universities in the country, normal linear growth trend of output with least publications in 2005 and highest in 2009, article form the most widely used, english language to be frequent medium of communication, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology followed by Materials Science, Multidisciplinary with highest publications, Current Science evolves the first ranked journal title, etc.

Technological Motivation of Staff

Mr. Md. Imran Ahmad, Research Scholar presented a paper on "Technological Motivation of Staff in Academic Library in AMU, Aligarh" at National Seminar on Personality Development in the Library Profession (PDITLP) organized by The Dept. of Lib. and Info. Sciece, North East Hill University, Shillog held on 21-23 Oct. 2010

Admission Notification for AMU Centres at Kerala and WB

AMU invites application for MBA and BALLB in newly esatblished centres at Malappuram and Murshidabad. Last date for receipt of application form is 23, Nov. 2010. Admission test will be help at Aligrh, Kolkata and Kozhikod on 19.12.2010.
The detailed inforamtion is available at www.amucontrollerexams.com

Microsoft to launch Wikibhasha

MS to launch Wikibhasha to boost multilingual content

Microsoft revealed that they will soon launch the beta version Wikibhasha, a multilingual content creation tool for Wikipedia. The tool will help to
simplify and speed up the process of creating multilingual content in
Wikipedias.

Wikibhasa derives from the well-known term 'wiki' denoting collaboration,
and 'bhasha' which means 'language' in Hindi and Sanskrit and will serve
multiple purposes to contributors of wiki like finding content from other
Wikipedia articles, translate the content into other languages and then
compose new articles or enhance existing articles in multilingual
Wikipedias. It will support content creation in more than 30 languages and
also enable easy content creation in non-English Wikipedias by leveraging
the large volume of English Wikipedia content as the source of information.

Microsoft Research and Wikimedia Foundation will also work closely with the Wikipedia user communities focusing on content creation in Arabic, German, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. They also hope to inspire a new wave of multilingual content creation. "We're always happy to see work on improving multilingual collaboration between wikis," said Danese Cooper, CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation. "Microsoft Research is doing some interesting work with WikiBhasha, and we're very pleased that it chose to share its client code in open source as well."

The browser-based tool offers a user interface layer on top of the
target-language Wikipedia during content creation, integrating content
discovery with linguistic and collaborative services and focusing the use on content creation in the target Wikipedia through a three-step process which guides the user through content discovery and sourcing, composing a
local-language article and publishing it in the target Wikipedia.

The tool which is supported by MS Machine Translation system and MS
Collaborative Translations Framework and conceptualized by Multilingual
Systems Group currently works on Windows Internet Explorer (7.0 and 8.0) on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 and on Firefox (3.5 or above) on Linux Fedora (11 and 12), Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Source:
http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/MS_launches_Wikibhasha_to_boost_multilingual_content-nid-72808.html?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Subscriber

M.Phil/ PhD Admission 2011

Application for admission to M.Phil/ PhD for the session 2010-2011 is notified in AMU. Last date for application is 10 Nov 2010. Details available at http://www.amucontrollerexams.com/phd.html

IFTAR Get-together

A social get-together on the occasion of Holy Ramadan was organised by the students of the department on 30th August 2010. All Faculty members, Research Scholars, MLISc and BLISC students attended the program. The function was a great success in the sense of organization and participation. We appreciate all those who were in the organizing committee.

DST Research Project Launched

A Research Project on 'Subject Information Gateway in Information Technology' (SIGIT) funded by Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India is launched in the department. The SIGIT, a portal, will fulfill the information requirement of IT professional by providing all relevant web resources at a single platform. Dr. Naushad Ali. PM, Chairman of the department is the project director.

Librarains' Day Celebrated

The Department of Library and Information Science, Aligarh Muslim University celebrated Librarians' Day 2010 with various activities. Earlier, on 12th August, conducted a Debate on "conventional vs digital libraries" in which Ms Mehnas Siddiqi bagged the first prize and Mr. Muzammil Mushtaq second prize. On 13th August, LIS Quiz was conducted. Four teams namely 'Personality', 'Matter', 'Energy', 'Space' participated and the audience was named as 'time'. The Quiz was focused on Dr. SR Ranganathan, his contribution to Library Science. Team 'Personality' bagged first prize and Mr. Mohamed Musthafa acted as Quiz Master. On 14th August, Prof. PB Mangla, a student of Dr. SR Ranganathan delivered ‘Ranganathan Memorial Lecture’. Prof. Mangla stressed on the need for establishing a National Institute of Library and Information Management as an umbrella organization to coordinate various LIS research activities in the country.
Prof. Shabahat Husain, Librarian-in-charge, Maulana Azad Library presided over the function and Dr. Naushad Ali PM, Chairman, DLIS, welcomed the audience. Certificates and prizes were distributed to the winners.

Photos @
http://picasaweb.google.co.in/107080751435141321924/LibrariansDay#

PhD Viva-Voce

Ms Faisul Nisha will defend her PhD thesis in an open viva-voce on 11 August 2010 at the seminar library of the department of LIS, AMU. Ms Fasizul Nisha conducted her research under the supervision of Dr. Naushad Ali PM.

Best wishes.

Celebrating Librarians Day

Department of Library and Information science, AMU organizes various programs in the occassion of Librarian's Day as per the following schedule.
Date: 12-14 Aug. 2010

LIS Quiz
Debate
Ranganathan Memorial Lecture

All are welcome..