Saturday, May 31, 2008

LIS International Calendar 2009

LIS Conference in USA in 2009

LIS International calender

This link is a part of School of Bibliotecología and Sciences of the Information which comes under the University of Puerto Rico, USA. Following order can be follow to acces the above said link.
1. University of Puerto Rico, USA. http://www.uprrp.edu/
2. Link for Acedemics http://www.uprrp.edu/academia/
3. Faculties and Schools under the university http://www.uprrp.edu/facultades/
4. Escuela Graduada de Ciencias y Tecnologías de la Información(School of Science and Technology of the Information) http://egcti.upr.edu/
5. Utilidades (Utilites)
6. LIS International Calendar 2009
http://egcti.upr.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=157&Itemid=165

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Over the years, Private and Government aided educational institutes have come up with professional courses for the students. There are no systematic or regular sources neither in print nor in the electronic media where all information relating to admission in various career courses such as Eng, Med, Law, IT, Arts etc are available. Student and the parents are all the time worried for timely access of such news. In this bewildering maize the importance of consolidated source of information has been greatly felt. A range of web links are available to solve this problem, but very few can be considered as worthwhile.
I have tried to shortlisted them as follows---


1. http://indiaedunews.net/
This is an exemplary website for academicians of each category ranging from aspirants to knowledge providers. One must have to visit this site.


2. http://www.successcds.net/Admission-Notification/index.html

On this website a user can get the valuable information about Entrance Exam, Admission Notifications and some solved Question Papers of all branches of universe of knowledge.

3. http://www.entranceexamindia.com/

This blog mentioned all Exam alerts of various subject area conducted by different Universities all over the India.

4. http://www.admissionnews.com/

This portal gives up-to-date information like detail of Indian Universities, Colleges and Institutions which may be helpful for all those who are trying to make a dent in higher education world.

5. http://www.indiastudycenter.com/index.htm
This website claims to be a largest educational portal of India. With the help of various web link this portal gives the up-to-date information regarding Courses, Results, Mark statement and Rank of various examinations, general questions related to Entrance Exam and a small amount of information about Question Papers of some Universities and topmost information related to admissions in various Universities and Colleges.
In order to extended service they have a Discussion Board also where a user can get satisfactory answer from subject experts.


6. http://www.indias.com/WebListings-49/Education.html?catid=2
www.indias.com is as claim by them is one touch resource guide to everything India. It has splendid web directory of various fields and Education link is one of them. This link also has sub link for Education Department and Institutes, in which they tried to provide most current and relevant educational information.



Web Technology &Corporate Library

Web Technology—Tutorial
1. http://www.w3schools.com/
2. http://www.sergey.com/web_course/content.html
3. http://www.roseindia.net/
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2

Web Technology
6. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2006_web_technology_trends.php
7. http://www.w3.org/
8. http://java.sun.com/webservices/technologies/index.jsp

Web Technology &Corporate Library
9. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/015/1999/00000020/00000007/art00004
10. http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=63959

Corporate Library
11. http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2006-July/004325.html

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Higher Education Status in India

India has the largest Higher Education system in the world. This can be prove by following information provised by Dept.Of Higher Education, Min.of Human Resource Development :-

India has 204 Universities emparting education in 27 states.
List is available at gollowing link--http://education.nic.in/HigherEdu/univers.asp

Under that 99.54 lacks Experts and Scholars are busy in sharing their knowledge to 4.57 lacks disciples.
It can be checked with following link-http://education.nic.in/Higedu.asp

Ministery of Human Resource Developmnet has received 398 Proposals for Deemed-to-be University. Inforamtion is available at --http://education.nic.in/deemeduniv.asp

24 Notification for Deemed-to be status has been issued by Govt of India, till date. http://education.nic.in/HigherEdu/deemeduniversitystatus-210408.pdf

If any person can have a knowledge of single word of any college, Name of University and state, he can get the compelete information from following link--http://education.nic.in/collegedir/collegedir.asp

UGC has also issued the list of 21 fake Universities spread all over India.
http://www.ugc.ac.in/inside/fakealerts.html

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Information Science Conferences Worldwide

May 2008
28 INFORUM 2008: 14th Conference on Professional Information Resources Prague Czech Republic
29 Retaining and Sharing Knowledge from an Ageing Workforce, Canberra Canberra Australia

June 2008
02 THE FIRST NORDIC PRAGMATISM CONFERENCE: PRAGMATISM IN SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND POLITICS Helsinki Finland
02 Library: the key to users' success Kraków Poland
04 5th Annual Marketing to Moms Toronto Canada
12 International Conference on E-Learning in the Workplace (ICELW) New York New York
14 Interpreting Architecture Prague Czech Republic
19 Forbidden Fruit: The censorship of literature and information for young people Southport, UK United Kingdom
21 Oklahoma Writing Workshop Tulsa Oklahoma
26 3rd International Conference on e-Learning Cape Town South Africa
29 WALTIC - Writers' and Literary Translators' International Congress Stockholm Sweden

July 2008
04 Characters of the Press London United Kingdom
18 Power Control and Optimization Chiang Mai Thailand

August 2008
19 European eLearning Summit Nottingham United Kingdom Europes best eLearning conference and trainingevent run in association with the eLearning Guildand sponsored by Adobe.Discounts for eLearning Guild members.

September 2008
05 History, texts and texts in waiting london United Kingdom
05 History, texts and texts in waiting london United Kingdom
07 Chymia: International Conference on Science and Nature in Early Modern Europe (1450-1750) Madrid Spain
11 2nd European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation Royal Holloway, University of London, UK United Kingdom
19 The Calgary Body Soul & Spirit Expo The Calgary Fall Body Soul & Spirit Expo Canada

October 2008
03 Authorship and Auteurism Cincinnati Ohio
03 Stepping Into Destiny Chattanooga Tennessee
04 Innovation and Evolution New York New York
09 UNAK'08: Information = Diversity and Awareness Izmir, Turkey
09 Association for Political Theory Middletown Connecticut
10 Things Fall Apart, 1958-2008 London United Kingdom Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, in 1958 was aninspiration for writers and readers not only onthe African continent but throughout the world.Fifty years later, this conference examines itssignificance then and now
16 World HIV/AIDS Conference Johannesburg South Africa
23 4th International Conference on e-Government RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Australia

November 2008
05 The First International conference in Business Management and Information Science Conference Phitsanulok Province , Thailand Thailand
13 Third International Conference on Digital Information Management London United Kingdom 25 World Congress of Muslim Librian and Information Scientists (wCOMLIS 2008) Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
26 International conference of Asian Special Libraries on Shaping the future of special libraries: beyond boundaries New Delhi India

December 2008
09 I International Conference on Intercultural Studies S. Mamede Infesta Portugal January BI

January 2009
28 BOBCATSSS 2009 Porto Portugal


March 2009
11 13th International Association for Sport Information (IASI) World Congress Canberra Australia
16 7th Somerset Conference for Librarians and Teachers Gold Coast Australia

May 2009
28 Change and Stability. State, Religion and Politics in the Modern Middle East and North Africa. Cracow Poland

source :http://www.conferencealerts.com/library.htm

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Full Text of the books of Ranganathan

Full Text of the books of RanganathanFull text of the following books of Dr. S.R.Ranganathan are presentlyavailable OA on dLIST.
Classification and Communication - http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1150/.
Documentation Genesis and Development - http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1748/
Philosophy of Library Classification - http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1747/
Prolegomena to Library Classification - http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1151/
The Five Laws of Library Science - http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1220/
New Education and School Library: Experience of Half a Century
http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1152/

Data Swapping

OCLC/Google Swapping Data
  • Will link Book Search to WorldCat .
  • WorldCat metadata will be accessible by Google directly from OCLC or member libraries .
  • Deal also empowers OCLC to create MARC records describing the Google digitized books
    OCLC and Google have cut a deal to exchange data and link Google Book Search to WorldCat.org, which, they claim, “will drive traffic to library OPACs and other library services.” OCLC said that Google is sharing its data and links to digitized books, “making it possible for OCLC to represent the digitized collections of OCLC member libraries in WorldCat.” WorldCat metadata will be accessible by Google directly from OCLC or member libraries participating in the Book Search program.Google already has been working with OCLC and has released an application programming interface (API) that links to titles in its Book Search via ISBNs, LCCNs, and OCLC numbers and lets WorldCat users connect via a “Get It” link to books that Google has scanned. OCLC said the link “works both ways: if a user finds a book in Google Book Search, a link can often be tracked back to local libraries through WorldCat.org.” The new deal also empowers OCLC to create MARC records describing the Google digitized books from OCLC member libraries and link to them.
Michael Rogers -- Library Journal, 5/22/2008 7:49:00 AM
Source: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6563294.html?desc=topstory

Saturday, May 24, 2008

National Libraries of the World

A comprihensive alphatical list of 161 National libraries across the world is available on Ifla site at followiing link:
http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p2/national-libraries.htm
The last reviosn has been done on Jan8, 2008.
This list include those libraries also who are not exactly a NAtional LIbrary but wrking in same capacity.

Microsoft Will Shut Down Book Search Program

Microsoft Will Shut Down Book Search Program

May 24, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft said Friday that it was ending a project to scan millions of books and scholarly articles and make them available on the Web, a sign that it is retrenching in some areas of Internet search in the face of competition from Google, the industry leader.
The announcement, made on a company blog, comes two days after Microsoft said it would focus its Internet search efforts on certain areas where it sees an opportunity to compete against Google. On Wednesday, Microsoft unveiled a program offering rebates to users who buy items that they find using the company’s search engine.
Some search experts said Microsoft’s decision to end its book-scanning effort suggested that the company, whose search engine has lagged far behind those of Google and Yahoo, was giving up on efforts to be comprehensive.
“It makes you wonder what else is likely to go,” said Danny Sullivan, editor in chief of the blog Search Engine Land. “One of the reasons people turn to Google is that it tries to be a search player in all aspects of search.”
Mr. Sullivan said that the number of people using book search services from Microsoft and Google was relatively small, but it included librarians, researchers and other so-called early adopters who often influence others. These users are now likely to turn to Google with increasing frequency, he said.
Both Microsoft and Google have been scanning older books that have fallen into the public domain, as well as copyright-protected books under agreements with some publishers. Google also scans copyrighted works without permission so it can show short excerpts to searchers, an approach that has drawn fire from publishers.
Microsoft’s decision also leaves the Internet Archive, the nonprofit digital archive that was paid by Microsoft to scan books, looking for new sources of support. Several major libraries said that they had chosen to work with the Internet Archive rather than with Google, because of restrictions Google placed on the use of the new digital files.
“We’re disappointed,” said Brewster Kahle, chairman of the Internet Archive. Mr. Kahle said, however, that his organization recognized that the project, which has been scanning about 1,000 books each day, would not receive corporate support indefinitely. Mr. Kahle said that Microsoft was reducing its support slowly and that the Internet Archive had enough money to keep the project “going for a while.”
“Eventually funding will come from the public sphere,” Mr. Kahle said.
Some libraries that work with the Internet Archive and Microsoft also said they planned to continue their book-scanning projects.
“We certainly expect to go on with this,” said Carole Moore, chief librarian at the University of Toronto. “Corporate sponsors are interested in whatever works for their commercial interests and their shareholders. Long-term preservation is not something you can look to the commercial sector to provide. It is what research libraries have always done.”
Microsoft acknowledged on its blog that commercial considerations played a part in its decision to end the program.
“Given the evolution of the Web and our strategy, we believe the next generation of search is about the development of an underlying, sustainable business model for the search engine, consumer and content partner,” Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s senior vice president for search, portal and advertising, wrote on the blog.
Microsoft said it had digitized 750,000 books and indexed 80 million journal articles.
Google, which works with libraries like the New York Public Library and those at Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan and Oxford, said it had scanned more than a million books. It plans to scan 15 million in the next decade. Google makes the books it scans freely available through its search engine but does not allow other search engines to use its database.
“We are extremely committed to Google Book Search, Google Scholar and other initiatives to bring more content online,” said Adam Smith, product management director at Google.
MIGUEL HELFT


source:- This news appers in "The New York Times " under link"Technology" .


Important Link
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/technology/24soft.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

New TimesMachine from the Gray Lady

New TimesMachine from the Gray Lady
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080523/tc_pcworld/146260

Erik Larkin Fri May 23, 4:02 PM ET
An aptly named "TimesMachine" from
The New York Times offers up online images of historic newspapers from the 1850s through the 1920s. You can view sample papers at http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser, but to browse through the 70-year spread of history you need to be a home delivery subscriber of the paper
Besides the boon to students and history buffs alike, the new site gets my gears going about the online media business and the huge promise afforded by services like Amazon's S3.
That's because while I agree with Silicon Alley Insider that the offering won't be a 'huge money-maker' for the Times, it doesn't have to be.  From what NYT engineer Derek Gottfrid describes, once the papers were all digitized he was able to use Amazon's web services to quickly get the rest of the work done.
In a video interview with Robert Scoble, Gottfrid says "Once we moved it up to Amazon for a couple hundred dollars... we were able to do it in about 24-36 hours...  It was a great use of Amazon for us to be able to churn through the data."
Gottfrid doesn't specifically describe how he used Amazon's services, and I don't want to give Amazon too much free advertising here. But this seems like more justification of my high hopes for the new platforms afforded to enterprising developers, whether they're at resource-starved companies or in their own living room, for getting great stuff up online.
Along with Amazon,
Google is also jumping into this space. I previously wrote about its App Engine Platform, which likewise aims to allow anyone with a great idea to bring it to life online.
This article publishes in The New York Times . The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. It is owned by The New York Times Company, which publishes 15 other newspapers, including the International Herald Tribune and The Boston Globe. It is the largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States.
On 24 May 2008 it has announced the back issue newspapers from Sept 22, 1851 to Dec 30, 1922 as online version. But these are not on open access because to access these issues one has to subscribe the Home Delivery service of this newspaper.
The Home delivery Service is paid service available for within and outside New York inhabitants.
Important link

1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080523/tc_pcworld/146260
2. http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser
3. http://www.nytimes.com/

Thursday, May 22, 2008

LibrarySuport.com

LibrarySupport.com
http://librarysupportstaff.com/
This is a good link for library science journals and other eresources

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Link for Library and information scince news across the globe

BUBUL is a powerful gateway in the area of Lib. Information sc. Here I have found a link which gives latest information on worldwide conferences .
Information Science Conferences Worldwide
http://www.conferencealerts.com/library.htm
On this link one can have the monthwise deatail of forthcoming LIS Conferences on the globe.