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(SIG III) has announced for Infoshare 2007 awards for a group of deserving information professionals from developing countries for complimentary ASIS&T memberships (the financial burden of which would otherwise be prohibitive). ASIS&T is soliciting nominations of candidates for the InfoShare Membership Award. Please send recommendations of deserving candidates to Caryn Anderson (caryn.anderson@simmons.edu). Please include a Curriculum Vitae (or equivalent) and a brief description of why this person is deserving of membership, including their willingness to promote ASIS&T within their networks. Awardees will be decided by a vote of the SIG III officers at the end of 2006. Each membership award will be for one year, with the possibility of renewal for a second year if the new member proves to be a strong advocate for ASIS&T in their home country during the course of the year. Awardees will be asked to submit a report on their activities by next year's Annual Meeting. Please start thinking about candidates among your networks and send your nominations to Caryn Anderson (caryn.anderson@simmons.edu). SATKAL: Call for award nominations: Kindly send your nominations for: * Punjab National Librarian Award* Young Librarian Award * Women Librarian Award Eligibility: The working Library and Information Science professionals of Indian origin are eligible to apply. Age Limit : For Young Librarian Award, Professional must be below 45 years. The nominations can be either self nominations or nominated by someone. Written nominations must include:Name of the nominee, Job Title, Organisation, Mailing Address, Phone No., Email Address, Award Category, A detailed profile highlighting the educational & professional experience, significant contributions made in the field of Library and Information Science, publications etc., a paragraph (limit to one page) stating how you find yourself eligible for the award. The only way the people who make a difference can be recognised is if "you" nominate them. Do it now. Please send the nominations (preferably by registered post) to: Dr. (Mrs.) Devinder KaurPresident, SATKAL TRUST and University Librarian Punjabi University Patiala -147002 Punjab Tel.: 0175-3098224, 0175-3046152 Email : dkaur45@yahoo.co.in Website: www.satkal.org 'Open Index Initiative' (OII) is relatively a new Indian initiative taken by IGIDR Library, Mumbai, India with a basic objective of developing an online database consisting of index to journal articles, book reviews and conference papers published in Indian Social Science Journals (ISSJ). OII model is based on Participatory Approach and expects the data to come from LIS professionals and Libraries voluntarily, free of cost. Each contributor will get due credit and their name will appear each time a record is retrieved. OII is now available for Beta Testing at: http://oii.igidr.ac.in Nominations are invited form the teachers of Library & Information Science for the award of IATLIS – Motiwale Best LIS Teacher Award 2005 Executive Council Members of IATLIS are not eligible for being nominated for the award. The nominee should have at least 10 years of teaching experience at the post-graduate level and should be presently in service. A person can receive the award only once and one person can nominate only one LIS Teacher at a time. The nominations have to be accompanied by Bio-Data , list of publications, details of professional activities, achievements / contribution to LIS Profession including contribution to the IATLIS. An Award Committee will consider the nominations. The award will not be given in case majority of the Committee Members feel that the nominations are not worth considering. Nomination in quadruplicate with all the required documents should reach: Dr. S. Sudarshan Rao, Dept. of Library and Information Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad-500 007 on or before 17th October, 2005. FAO has recently released a self-learning module on "Digitization and
Digital Libraries". This was developed jointly between FAO and UNESCO with
the support of the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) at the
Indian Institute of Science (IISc). This module is intended to train
librarians and other information specialists in the conceptual and practical
bases for the digitization of collections, and in the creation and provision
of access to digital libraries.
The "Digitization and Digital Libraries" module provides 31 lessons
concerned with the creation and sharing of digital library collections.
Lessons cover topics such as copyright issues, electronic formats for text
and images, metadata and subject indexing, preservation of digital material
as well as a comprehensive overview of the creation and management of
digital documents. The module expands upon several of the topics covered in
the module "Management of Electronic Documents" mentioned earlier. The 31
lessons (each roughly of 30-40 minutes learning time) are organized in 6
units. Please register at: http://www.fao.org/IMARK/
to get the copy of the CD-ROM. The Society for Information Science (SIS) awards SIS fellowships every year in recognition of the outstanding contributions made by the SIS members in the areas of information sciences and information technology. Nominations are hereby invited for the award of these SIS Fellowships for the year 2004. Nominations may be sent by individuals, Head of institutions, and university departments SIS Fellows, Life Members of SIS, etc along with complete biodata of the nominee, including his/her main contributions to the field and should reach the Secretary, Society for information Science (SIS)c/o National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies(NISTADS), Dr. K. S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi-110012 by 30 November, 2004. Self-nominations or nominations without bio-data etc will not be considered. The Young Information Scientist Award was instituted in 1989 in memory of Late Shri A. S. Raizada who was the prominent information scientist and the founder Secretary of SIS, Nominations are invited for this award for the year 2004. Nominations may be forwarded to the Secretary, SIS by 30 November 2004 by individuals Professors, Head of Departments institutional Heads SIS Fellows, Life members of SIS Head of libraries librarians library officers etc along with complete biodata of the nominee including his contributions to the fields. Self Nominations or nominations without biodata will not accepted. The age of the nominee should not be more than 35 years on 30 November, 2004. Please send the biodata to the secretary Society for information Sciences (SIS) C/O National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS), Dr. K.S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi-110012 Nominations are invited for the IATLIS-Mrs. Ratna Laxman Rao Best woman LIS Professional Award 2004 from the Indian Woman Professional Librarians. The nominations may be accompanied by Bio-data, list of publications, details of professional contributions, achievements and activities including the contributions to IATLIS (in triplicate). Members of the Executive Council of IATLIS are not eligible for being nominated for the Award. The nominee should be a senior library professional and presently in service. A person can receive the award only once and one person can nominate only one professional at a time. The Award Committee will consider the nominations. The Award will not be given, in case majority of the members of the award committee are of the opinion that no one is suitable for the award. Nominations in quadruplicate with all the required documents should reach the
following address on or before November 5, 2004 Nominations are invited for the 2004 SATKAL (Satinder Kaur Ramdev Memorial Trust for Advancement of Librarianship) Awards given each year to an individual for outstanding achievement in Library and Information services and for promoting Librarianship. The deadline for nominations is September 30, 2004. Kindly send your nominations for: Punjab National Librarian Award; Young Librarian Award and Women Librarian Award Eligibility:The Library and Information Science professionals working in India of Indian Nationality are eligible to apply. Age Limit:For Young Librarian Award, Professional must be below 45 years. The nominations can be either self nominations or nominated by someone. Written nominations must include:Name of the nominee, Job Title, Organisation, Mailing Address, Phone No., Email Address, Award Category, A detailed profile highlighting the educational & professional experience, significant contributions made in the field of Library Science, publications etc., a paragraph (limit to one page) stating how you find yourself eligible for the award. The only way the people who make a difference can be recognised is if "you" nominate them. Do it now. Please send the nominations to:Dr. (Mrs.) Devinder Kaur President, SATKAL & University Librarian, Punjabi University, Patiala 114 Civil Lines Patiala-147004 Punjab Email : dkaur45@yahoo.co.in Kindly mark "SATKAL AWARD" on the top of the envelope and send a signed copy of the profile please. The first generation web site for
NewGenLib (a library automation and networking solution developed as an initiative of the
Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management
in partnership with Verus Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (VSPL) can be seen at
http://www.newgenlib.com. NewGenLib has been installed on Goa University Server. They
propose to build a network of Goa university library and some of the better equipped college
libraries in Goa. Preliminary work on this has just been done and soon hopefully, their
catalogue database should be accessible on a public domain server of the University.
Indian Association of Teachers of Library and
Information Science [IATLIS] has invited nominations for IATLIS awards, 2003. The awards offered
are:
Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka has formed a HELINET
Consortium with affiliated Medical Colleges. Under the HELINET scheme, the member colleges
can get electronic access to around 600 scholarly, international biomedical journals, from 24
leading publishers at about one-third the price of their print subscription. Moreover, the
member colleges can get all time access to the current journals as well as archives i.e. the
back-volumes of journals for a period of 7-10 years. More information regarding this network
can be had from the Consortium co-ordinator National Technical Information
Service [NTIS] has made available its technical reports online with effect from 1990
to till date on its website. Now one can execute search to find out the reports in their
subject areas of interest. Also downloading of any document in electronic format is possible. Downloading up to 20
pages is FREE, and 21 or more pages cost US $ 8.95 per report. You may search NTIS reports
at http://www.ntis.gov Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library
Science, Bangalore in association with Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management,
Secunderabad have organized a demonstration cum lecture on 'NewGenLib-A web-based Library Automation
Software at 10.30 a.m on Saturday Feb 8, 2003. The lecture will be delivered by Mr L.J. Haravu.
The venue of the lecture is at Institute of Information Studies, 702, 'Upstairs', 42nd Cross, 3rd Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore
560 010. Tilburg Innovation Center for Electronic
Resources [TICER], Tilburg, Netherlands is conducting a course 'Libraries, Electronic Resources, and Electronic Publishing',
during this summer between August 24-27, 2003. Elsevier Fourndation is offering scholarship
for 4 participants from developing countries of Asia, Africa and South America to attend this
programme. You may please go through the details given at
http://www.ticer.nl/summer03/admin.htm and apply for the same on or before May 1, 2003. Journal of Digital Information Management
is being published by Digital Information Research Foundation, Chennai.
This peer reviewed journal is edited by Dr P.Pichappan and Dr Daisy Jacobs. Editorial board comprises professionals
from all over the world. It broadly covers digital information processing, digital content
management, digital world structuring, digital libraries, metadata, information management
and other related fields. The journal is available for subscription both in print and online
versions. The first issue is due for release in March, 2003. It can be accessed at:
http://www.dirf.org/jdim/ 2002 Indira Gandhi National Open University
[IGNOU] has kept old question papers of both MLIS and BLIS along with other courses for download
on their website. You may download MLIS papers at:
http://www.ignou.ac.in/qpaper/66.htm and BLIS papers at:
http://www.ignou.ac.in/qpaper/6.htm. The papers are available from 1999. Papers for other
courses may be downloaded from: http://www.ignou.ac.in/qpaper/paperindex.htm
Indian Association of Special Libraries
and Information Centers [IASLIC] will be celebrating its Golden Jubilee Celebration during
Sept 2004 - Aug 2005. Suggestions have been sought from the professionals regarding conducting
various events. You may please mail your suggestions to Mr Dipak Kr. Nag at:
iaslic@vsnl.net School of Information Resources and
Library Science and Arizona Health Sciences Library of University of Arizona have developed
Digital Library of Information Science and Technology [DLIST], which contains papers and
articles related to LIS and IT. Papers or articles can be contributed by professionals by
registering with the service. For more information, please have a look at:
http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu WWWISIS: An Application Description
Manual has been developed by Mr. F. J. Devadason and Mrs. Nancy Canisius of AIT, Bangkok.
It describes how to put library's catalogue on the web using Bireme's WWWISIS with all CGI
coding and listing of relevant files. It can be viewed at:
http://www.geocities.com/devadason.geo/index-webisis.htm.
It is also available for download at
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5041/wisisappn.zip 2001 SAGE Publications is providing free access via ingenta to over 250 electronic journals during the months
of November and December 2001. This includes full text files for the 2001 subscription year, as well as
back files for 2000 and 1999 where available. For more more information, please have a look at..
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/freeaccess Wedgeworth International Fellowship
in Library Leadership created with the Mortenson Center, will provide librarians around the
world with opportunities to develop their leadership skills in information management and
service delivery. The first Wedgeworth Fellow, for Summer 2002, will be selected from one
of the following countries: Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland,
or Zimbabwe, with other parts of the world represented in future years. Application forms available at
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/mortenson. For
more information please contact Ms. Jerrie C. Merridith The Physics Astronomy Mathematics (PAM) Division of the Special
Libraries Association (SLA) is now calling for nominations for the International Membership Award.
The SLA-PAM Division will present this award to a librarian from the Developing World; it provides
a two-year SLA membership, for the years 2002-2003....
more.. ERCIM, The European Research Consortium for Informatics and
Mathematics offers 18-month fellowships in leading European information technology research centres.
This offer is available for PhD holders (or equivalent) from all over the world. The last date
is October 31, 2001. For more details, please go through their website at
http://www.ercim.org/activity/fellows/fellowship.html. NITYA Archives is a product of
Center for Informatics Research and Development (CIRD), India. It provides an interface between
CDS/ISIS and Adobe Acrobat. This can used to organize digital materials. For more information
please contact developers at nitya_archives@yahoo.com
The software group of Electronics Research and Development
Center of India (ERDCI), Thiruvananthapuram have developed LIBRA 2000 library management
software. As per them it will take care of most of the library functions. Also webinterface of
OPAC is possible. It is a Windows based package. For further information you can contact them
at swg@erdcitvm.org and one can also go through their
website at HTTP://203.197.152.75/libraryinformation/index.html
Applications are invited for a PhD
scholarship available at the Royal School of Library and Information Science. The scholarship
period will cover a maximum of three years and the person nominated for the scholarship is
expected to start on 1 August 2001. Last date to send proposal is July 3, 2001.....
more Gaurav Priyolkar, Sharmad Naik and
Hiren Lodhiya (all 21) of the Verna-based Padre, GOA, Conceisao College of Engineering have
developed a library management software. The package is based on the 'Open Source'
Linux-based approach to writing software, it will be freely distributed to anyone who
would to use it and develop it further. The source code will be kept under 'Open Source'. As
per them it is capable to handle most of the library functions.
Its running platform is Linux, it uses a Postgres database, the webserver is Apache, its
scripting languages are PHP and Perl, and its front-end can be any web-browser, making it
easy for any end-user. For more information one can contact the developers at
pgaurav@goatelecom.com.
Dialog Corporation has announced
Roger K Summit Scholarship for 2001. The scholarship is international in nature and award
carries US $ 5000. The scholarship will be given to grduate student in Library and Information
Science, who has demonstrated outstanding performance or interest in electronic information
services. The last date for applying is April 30, 2001.........more Librarycom.com offers state of the art Web based system to build your library collection
and start circulating. With a standard Web browser you can search, catalog or circulate from any location on the Internet. Your data
is always available, backed up and secure. Pricing is based on the size of your collection
and support services required. You get the first 10 megabytes (roughly 7,000 records) for
free with email support. Additional storage and 800 number support is available in small
incremental steps.....more Good Office Committee (GOC) rates have
been made available on the net by Federation of Publishers' and Booksellers Association of India.
You can view rates at:
http://www.kkbooks.com/goc.html Merck Manual Home Edition
a source for complete and comprehensive medical information. Health-care professionals have
turned to The Merck Manual for more than a century. Now this information is available to
everyone online, in easy-to-understand English. It is available in both text and interactive
versions.....more 2000 IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development
Fellowship for 2002 has been announced. The candidates have obtained the qualifying degree no
earlier than August, 1996. It is available to members of the developing countries. Application
deadline is April 26, 2001....more IFLA ALP has announced the availability
of the Danida Travel Grant , to support a number of delegates from developing countries
to attend the 67th IFLA Council and General Conference, to be held in Boston, Massachusetts,
16-25 August 2001....more
Informatics India Limited, Bangalore has entered into an MOU with Algorhythms, a Pune based
software development company, for nation-wide marketing and technical support to Algorhythm’s
popular Library Automation Software – SLIM++ (System for Library and Information Management).
.....more
Most Blackwell Publishers' journals are now available online to members of
institutions which subscribe to the print edition of the current volume for free of cost
through different service providers....
more
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