National Library, Kolkata,

The National Library has been promising easier and wider access to electronic journals and on-line databases once the ICT infrastructure was in place. We are happy to report that the library has now acquired databases such as Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford Bibliographies On-line and ProQuest Dissertations (Full Texts). We are switching to the electronic version of the latter from the current financial year. It will provide access to 2.7 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day, together with 1.5 million full-text dissertations and theses. Every year more than 70,000 graduate dissertations are added to the PQDT FT, the majority of which are full-text. The library has also acquired, on a perpetual-access basis, Early English Books On-line. It would enable users to access full texts of nearly 1,25,000 English titles printed between 1475 and 1700 in the British Isles, i.e. the entire lists in A. W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave�sShort Title Catalogue, and Donald Wing�s Short-Title Catalogue. It also includes the Thomason Collection of the Early English Tracts Supplement.

The Web-OPAC now has around 8,50,000 records, including books in foreign languages, bound journals, and maps. We have plans of digitizing select rare and brittle documents starting in the second quarter of the financial year.� Stock-taking, a recommendation in the last Performance Audit, has started in the financial year 2011-12 after a gap of many years.

The last semester saw a number of important events, including major exhibitions and conferences. These are reported in the following pages. The Library Administration had also promised programmes relating to staff training and development. These are reported in the ensuing pages, including a major six-day workshop on security and fire prevention held for the first time in the National Library. In July, we shall be conducting a gender sensitization programme for the staff with the assistance of the organization Swayam. This year marks 175 years of the founding of Calcutta Public Library, the institution with which the National Library started life.

Man shuts rural library for 6 months

TIRUVANNAAMALAI: The rural library at Narthampoondi near Tiruvannamalai has remained closed for the last six months as its librarian, Saravanan, whose wife Muniyammal was elected as Panchayat President of Narthampoondi, has been allegedly acting as a shadow president. The rural library, which comes under the Public Library Department, was inaugurated on October 28, 2003 with the objective of inculcating the reading habit among rural youth and to provide a wide range of books for rural book lovers. “At present the library has a total of 9,266 books covering topics ranging from literature to space science,” said sources at the district library.

The library should remain open from 9 am to 12 noon and 4 pm to 6 pm on all week days, excluding Fridays, second Saturdays and government holidays. However, the library has not been functioning since Saravanan’s wife was elected� panchayat president six months ago.

“Saravanan is acting as the panchayat president and is busy with administrative works. In the last six months, he opened the library for just five days when officials from the district library came to visit. The books inside the library are gathering dust,” said a resident.

Apart from the books, most of the villagers visit the library in the morning to read the six newspapers and 20 weekly and fortnightly magazines it procures. “Now, the newspapers and magazines are directly delivered to the panchayat president’s house. When we raised the issue, he told us that the library would be kept open only when he wished to keep it open,”� said another villager, on condition of anonymity.

District Library Officer M. Ramachandran, when contacted, said that frequent attempts to get clarifications regarding the defunct library have failed as Saravanan was not responding to phone calls.

TOI and 4 other dailies added to library list after rethink by West Bengal

KOLKATA: The Mamata Banerjee governmentdid a rethink on Thursday and came out with a second list of newspapers to be kept in state-sponsored libraries. 

The Times of India is the only English newspaperin the supplementary list, followed by Bengali newspapers Aajkaal and Saptahik Kolom, Nepali newspaper Himalaya Darpan and a Santhali newspaper. They were added to the existing list of eight newspapers notified on Wednesday - Sangbad Pratidin, Sakalbela, Khabar 365 Din, Ekdin, Dainik Statesman, Sanmarg, Akhbar-E-Mashriq and Azad Hind. However, there is still no mention of some of the leading vernacular and English dailies. 

State minister of mass education extension & library services Abdul Karim Chowdhury said that a departmental decision was taken during the day to include five more names and the order will get the stamp of approval from chief minister Mamata Banerjee. However, sources at Writers' Buildings said that the new inclusions already have the CM's nod. 

Rumour about TOI's inclusion in the library list was doing the rounds since Wednesday night, after Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Derek O'Brien tweeted: "I understand that an English daily (TOI) is in the list of public libraries which has papers of many languages..." On Thursday, Derek again tweeted: "TOI will be stocked even though they got this wrong." However, Chowdhury had said nothing about the government's new plan on Wednesday after his meeting with the CM. 

Chowdhury later explained that the reason the first eight newspapers were chosen was that they are "small and not financially well-off". He said that the other newspapers were widely read, and that's why these were not in the newspaper list. 

About the afterthought that made the government include TOI, Chowdhury said, "In rural areas, language is a problem. So we had not included any English newspaper. However, later many pointed out that there is a demand for English newspapers, so we included TOI." Asked why he had chosen TOI and not the other English language dailies, Chowdhury snubbed the journalists: "What is the problem if we choose TOI?" 

Mamata in a TV interview later said that a section of the media was playing up a "small issue". "It's a small circular from a small department. Why are you all after it? The government is run by the public and not by the media. Do you ask us when you all recruit people for your offices?" the CM said, pointing out that Trinamool mouthpiece Jago Bangla is not on the list. 

Opposition legislators staged a walkout from the assembly for the second consecutive day after Speaker Biman Banerjee disallowed an adjournment motion on the issue. 

Leader of Opposition Surjya Kanta Mishra said: "After coming to power, this government has shown utter disregard for all democratic norms. Whenever we seek any discussion (in assembly) we are not allowed. This never happened during the emergency." 

CPM MLA Anisur Rehman, who had proposed the motion, said: "It is good to see civil society members and intellectuals speaking up against this government decision." A Left Front delegation led by Mishra met Governor M K Narayanan on the issue. 

Advocate Bansori Roychowdhury has filed a PIL against the March 14 order, calling it unconstitutional and undemocratic. The PIL is likely to be heard on Friday. 

Librarian@Central Institute of Himalayan Culture Studies (CIHCS)

Central Institute of Himalayan Culture Studies (CIHCS) Arunachal Pradesh (An Autonomous Body of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India) invites applications from the Indian Citizens for the following Non-Teaching posts to be filled by direct recruitment:

 

3.

Librarian

01

30 Years

PB-2 + GP Rs.4600/-

Application Fee: The application processing fee would be Rs. 200/- for General/OBC (Creamy Layer) candidates, Rs. 150/- for OBC candidates (Non-creamy layer) and Rs. 50/- for SC & ST candidates. Physically handicapped candidates are exempted from payment of application processing fee.

How To Apply: The duly filled up applications in own handwriting in the prescribed format along with application processing fee, recent passport sized photograph, copies of matriculation / SSLC / degree/ certificate (s), mark sheets of all the examinations passed, work experience certificates, testimonials etc should reach by registered / speed post to  the office of the Administrative Officer, Central Institute of Himalayan Culture Studies, P.O. Dahung, West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh - 790116 on or before  28th April 2012.

Librarian at NIMHANS, Bangalore

Faculty and other posts Vacancy in NIMHANS (National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences)

National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences (Deemed University)
Post Box No. 2900, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560029 India
Website: http://www.nimhans.kar.nic.in

NIMHANS Invites applications for the following vacant posts, in the prescribed form from the Indian Nationals residing in India & abroad for the following posts:

LIBRARIAN
LIBRARY ASSISTANT
Application Fees:
Rs.500/- (Rs.300/- in case of SC/ST candidates)
Last date for receipt of filled in application form is on or before 30.04.2012.
Cut off date for calculation of age, experience is 30.04.2012.

Bodoland University Jobs 2012 Non-Teaching Posts

Bodoland University, Assam (A state university established under the Bodoland University Act of 2009.) invites application from from the Indian Citizen for the following Non‐Teaching Posts (Grade III & Grade IV) of Bodoland University. Advt. No. NTS/2012/02

S.No	Name of the Post	No of Posts	Pay Band and Grade Pay	Qualification
1.	Library Professional Assistant	01	PB3 – Rs. 8000 – 35000 GP – Rs. 4500/-	B. Lib. Sc. with at least five years experience in the post of Library Assistant with computer knowledge.

6.	Library Assistant	01	PB2 – Rs. 5200 – 20200 GP – Rs. 3300/-	B. Lib. Sc. with computer knowledge.

Age Limit: Not below 18 years and above 38 years of age as on 31‐03‐2012. Upper Age is relaxable by 5 years for ST/SC candidates.

Application Fee: Candidates will be required to pay an amount of Rs. 500.00 (in case of ST/SC Rs. 250.00) as an application fees for the post by Demand Draft in favour of Registrar, Bodoland University
payable at SBI, Balagaon Branch (Code – 7379), Kokrajhar.

How To Apply: Completed application in the prescribed form along with attested copies of all testimonial in support of qualification, experience, age, caste including mark sheets accompanied with bank draft
must reached: The Registrar, Bodoland University,  P.O. Rangalikhata (Debargaon), Dist. Kokrajhar (Assam), PIN‐783370, latest by 31‐03‐2012.

OhioLINK’s Worldwide ETD Index

OhioLINK’s Worldwide ETD Index is a global index of freely available electronic theses and dissertations, provided by major ETD collections around the world. This index lets you search for information about each ETD (“metadata,” including authors, titles, and abstracts). It does not search the full text of the ETDs.

The Universal Digital Library

The Universal Digital Library: Million Book Collection

         The Million Book Project (or the Universal Library), is a book digitization project, led by Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and University Libraries. Working with government and research partners in India (Digital Library of India) and China, the project is scanning books in many languages, using OCR to enable full text searching, and providing free-to-read access to the books on the web. As of 2007, they have completed the scanning of 1 million books and have made accessible the entire database from http://www.ulib.org

People
Carnegie Mellon University

• Dr. Raj Reddy, Founder and Director of the Universal Digital Library (UDL)
• Dr. Michael Shamos, Director of UDL, Intellectual Property
• Dr. Jaime Carbonell, Director of UDL, Language Technologies
• Dr. Gloriana St. Clair, Director of UDL, University Librarian, Content Selection
• Ram Konduru, Director of UDL, New Initiatives and Operations
• Dr. Erika Linke, CMU
• Gabrielle V. Michalek, CMU
• Ed Walter, CMU
• Lavanya Prahallad (Nilu), CMU
• Vamshi Ambati, CMU

People from India

Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam, Founding Sponsor. Former President of India

Dr. N. Balakrishnan, Chairman, Division of Information Sciences, Indian Institute of Science

Dr. M D Tiwari, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad

Mr. K.V. Ramanachary, Executive Officer of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams

Mr. Nadendla Manohar, MLA, Chairman, A.P Assembly Library Committee

Mr. Subramanyam Bhuman, TTD UDL

Dr. C V Jawahar, IIIT Hyderabad UDL

CDAC, Noida

Dr. A. B. Saha, CDAC, Calcutta

Kiran Kumar Vemuru, Director Planning, UDL India

Mr. Sridharan, Secretary, Arulmigu Kalasalingam College Of Engineering

Dr. Thangaraj, Principal, Arulmigu Kalasalingam College Of Engineering

Dr. Vaidhyasubramanian, Dean, Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy

Asma Mannan,E.Veera Raghavendra ,Rakesh Devineni,Jaya Krishna, MSIT-IIIT, Hyderabad

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.

Free Source to all the Online News Papers of the World

          World-Newspapers.com was started in 2002. Since then they are serving everyone who is interested in what is going on around the globe. In the same year, the site was awarded by Reference and User Services Association and added to the list of "Best Free Reference Web Sites 2002". This was a great appreciation and acknowledgement of their work. World-Newspapers.com provides links to thousands of news sources covering every world's country and many of subjects. All listed sites are in English and provide free online content.

Scientist-B (Library Science)

National Transportation Planning and Research Centre, Thiruvananthapuram

Advt. No.10218/GA1/2011/NATPAC                                                                         06th March 2012

Applications are invited for the post of Scientist-B on regular basis from candidates fulfilling the following qualifications and experience:

Qualifications : Master of Library Science 1st Class
Experience : 1 year in teaching/research after Master of Library Science

Desirable : Preference will be given to those having experience in R&D Institutions under Central or State government

Age limit : 35 years

Scale of pay : PB-3 Rupees 15600-39100 plus Grade Pay Rupees5400 Dearness Allowance and other                     allowances as applicable to the Scientist as per Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment Rules

Relaxation of age limit to the candidates belonging to SC/ST, OBC etc. Will be allowed as per KSCSTE
Rules and in accordance with the orders issued by the Government from time to time. Applications with
detailed bio data, copies of certificates and name of two referees should reach the undersigned on or
before 12.04.2012. Those who are working in Government Department or Quasi Government or
autonomous Institutions should apply through proper channel.

E-Book Directory

E-Books Directory is a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet. You can submit and promote your own ebooks, add comments on already posted books or just browse through the directory below and download anything you need.
           The site is launched in 2008, it is a database-driven web site using PHP scripting language and MySQL relational database. There are currently 6420 e-books listed in 587 categories. E-Books Directory does not support copyright infringement, nor will it link to web sites that trade copyrighted material. If you find a questionable link on this web site, please contact the webmaster.

FREE ONLINE E-JOURNALS

FREE ONLINE E-JOURNALS 

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals

This is an online directory of journals in all fields of knowledge, which provide open access to the users. It covers a wide range of e-journals in library and information subject. It provides abstracts of the research articles published in the journals and in some cases full text too.

http:// www.doaj.org

Gateway For Free E-journals                                  

Library of Congress, Electronic Journals Library                

The Electronic Journals Library offers an effective use of both scientific and academic journals publishing full text articles in the internet.

Internet Library of Early Journals                                                                                

Includes some selected early journals of 18th and 19th centuries. These are; Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Notes and Queries, The Builder and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

ERIC : Education Resources Information Center                               

ERIC is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC provides unlimited access to more than 1.3 million bibliographic records of journal articles and also provides access to a growing collection of full-text journal and non-journal literature.

TÜBİTAK-ULAKBİM Sosyal Bilimler Veri Tabanı (SBVT)                 

Includes journals in the fields of Social Sciences, which is published in Turkey since 2002. Offers full text access to some journal articles.                           

Annals of Library and Information Studies (Q)

Annals of library and information studies is a leading quarterly journal in Library and Information Studies publishing original papers, survey reports, reviews, short communications, and letters pertaining to library science, information science and computer applications in these fields.

Ariadne (Q)

It describes and evaluates sources and services available on the Internet, and of potential use, to librarians and information professionals. Also reports library developments in UK and information services worldwide.

URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/

 ASIS Bulletin (BM)

Each issue of the Bulletin usually deals with a theme or topic, e.g., hypertext, telecommunications, laws related to storage technology, etc.

URL: http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/

Cybermetrics

International electronic journal devoted to bibliometrics, scientometircs and informatrics. It is both an Electronic-online journal and a Virtual Forum. This Journal is devoted to the study of the quantitative analysis of scholarly and scientific communications.

URL: http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/cybermetrics.html

DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology

DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology (DJLIT)endeavours to bring recent developments in information technology, as applicable to library and information science, to the notice of librarians, documentation and information professionals, students and others interested in the field. It is published bi-monthly. The article published in the Journal are indexed in Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA);Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA); Indian Science Abstracts; and Indian Citation Index. The full text of DJLIT is being reproduced in electronic database of HW Wilson Company, namely, OMNIFILE Full Text and OMNIFILE Full Text Mega.

D-Lib (M)

It deals with the all aspects of digital libraries. It gives good coverage to research and development in digital libraries 

URL: http://www.dlib.org/

Digital Document Quarterly

It covers very exhaustive material about the digitization, digital technologies and techniques.

URL: http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq.htm

E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship

It is a refereed electronic journal publishes three times a year. Covers topics on advancing knowledge and research in the areas of academic and special librarianship.

URL: http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/

Ex-Libris (W)

It is a weekly electronic newsletter for librarians from Marylaine Block. It covers articles, Internet information and many more useful for LIS professionals.

URL: (http://marylaine.com/exlibris/)

Information Research: An international electronic journal

Information Research is a free, international journal, dedicated to making freely accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines. LISA and Information Science Abstracts have indexed it.

URL: http://informationr.net/ir/index.html

Information Technology and Libraries

It is a quarterly publication, brought out by LITA. Abstracts and TOC is available from Vol.1, 1982, but full texts of good number of papers are available from 1999.

URL: http://www.lita.org/ital/index.htm

Information Today and Tomorrow (Qly)

This has been brought out by NISSAT, India. The contents include information on new tools and techniques, events concluded and announcements, interesting Internet sites, new database products and services.

URL: http://itt.nissat.tripod.com/

 Infowatch Newsletter (M)

The newsletter aims to raise awareness of new sources of information on the Internet, particularly those that are relevant for higher education and research. It is a product of National Center for Science Information, Bangalore, India. It can be subscribed over e-mail. It is available since 1996.

URL: http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/ncsi/iw.html

Innovations in teaching and learning in information and computer sciences

The journal will contain papers on current learning and teaching specifically in Information and Computer Sciences at higher education level.

URL: http://www.ics.ltsn.ac.uk/pub/italics/

Internet Resource Newsletter (M)

It is a free monthly electronic newsletter, edited by Heriot-Watt University Library staff and published by Heriot-Watt University, UK. The newsletter aims to raise awareness of new sources of information on the Internet, particularly those of relevant to research. It can be subscribed over e-mail.

http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/irn.html

International Journal of Special Libraries

INSPEL is a professional journal primarily for the dissemination of papers written or proposed for publication by members of the IFLA Division of Special Libraries. Full texts of articles are available from1996.

URL: http://inspel.ifla.org/intro.htm

Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship

ISTL publishes substantive material of interest to science & technology librarians.

http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/

Journal of Digital Information

It is a peer-reviewed electronic only journal. The themes currently featured in JoDI are: Digital Libraries, Hypermedia Systems, Hypertext Criticism, Information Discovery, Information Management, etc. Presently it is available for free; in future charges may be levied on few articles.

URL: http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

Journal of Electronic Publishing

Covers most of the issues related to electronic publishing.

http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/

LIBRES

Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal (LIBRES) is an international, refereed, electronic journal devoted to new research in Library and Information Science.

URL: http://libres.curtin.edu.au/index.htm

 Journal of Information Law and Technology

It covers a range of topics relating to IT law and applications. It contains a diversity of materials including peer reviewed and non-refereed articles, commentaries, work in progress articles, book and IT reviews, and conference reports and papers, as well as information papers, news and UK and global conferences.

URL: http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/Jilt/

Journal of the Medical Libraries Association

Full texts of articles are available from 2000 to present and contents and abstracts are available from 1996-1999. Formerly this journal was known as 'Bulletin of the Medical Library Association.

URL: http://www.mlanet.org/publications/jmla/

Research Information

It covers good feature articles on various aspects of information science, electronic publishing, etc.

URL: http://www.researchinformation.info/

RLG Digi news (BM)

Its focus on issues of particular interest and value to managers of digital initiatives with a preservation component or rationale, provide filtered guidance and pointers to relevant projects to improve awareness of evolving practices in image conversion and digital archiving and announce publications (in any form) that will help professionals attain a deeper understanding of digital issues.

URL: http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/

Transforming Traditional Libraries

It is a peer-reviewed e-journal covering aspects of the new library, including digital collections, electronic indices, OPACs, Internet research, bibliographic instruction, information literacy, and the task of integrating these and other new resources with the traditional services of the library.

URL: http://www.lib.usf.edu/~mdibble/ttl/

Webology

Webology is a scholarly journal in English devoted to the various fields of Library and Information Science and serves as a forum for discussion and experimentation. It serves as a forum for new research in information dissemination and communication processes in general, and in the context of the World Wide Web in particular.

URL: http://www.webology.ir/index.html