Open Source Systems for Libraries

--- On Thu, 28/1/10, Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev@...> wrote:






 



  


    
      
      
      Dear Friends,



Latest Ranking of World's Open Access Repositories is now available

(January 2010 Edition) at

http://repositories .webometrics. info/index. html



I have culled out ranking of Indian Repositories.



These are ranked as below in the top 400 world repositories:



82 - Indian Institute of Science Bangalore ePrints -

http://eprints. iisc.ernet. in/



148 - Openmed National Informatics Centre India  - http://openmed. nic.in



180 - Indian Statistical Institute Digital Library - http://drtc. isibang.ac. in/



218 - Indian Institute of Astrophysics Dspace - http://prints. iiap.res. in/



245 - National Institute of Oceanography India Digital Repository -

http://drs.nio. org/



278 - Raman Research Institute Digital Repository - http://dspace. rri.res.in/



370 - National Aerospace Laboratories Institutional Repository -

http://nal-ir. nal.res.in/



Their methodology for ranking is available at

http://repositories .webometrics. info/methodology _rep.html



Interestingly, SIZE does not matter when compared to VISIBILITY!



Where does India Stands?



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Deadline for nominations is Friday, February 5, 2010

Is there a technical services librarian in your life who has inspired you?
Do you have a colleague who has tackled today's challenges in technical
services and triumphed? Do you know a person who leads the way in
innovation, collaboration, or data integration? Is there someone you know
who puts the service in technical services? If you know of a person who
merits any or all of these descriptions, please tell us. We ask you to
include documents of support along with the name of your nominee. The
requirements are outlined below. The successful nominee will be presented
with the Award at the NETSL Annual Spring Conference 2010: Crosswalks to the
Future <http://www.nelib.org/netsl/conference/2010/index.htm>,* April 15,
2010*****, at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.

Eligibility for nomination is as follows:

*Nominees may be NETSL/NELA members, but membership in the Association is
not a requirement.

*A nomination must be accompanied by a written statement that includes the
reasons for nomination and a narrative summary of the nominee's career and
achievements. The person's resume or CV may be used to meet this
requirement.

*You do not have to be a NETSL member to make a nomination.

*Please send your nominations and the above documentation to the NETSL
Vice-President no later than Friday, February 5, 2010. Contact information
for Amira Aaron, NETSL Vice President, appears below.

*Current members of the NETSL Executive Board are not eligible for
consideration

Additional details, including past recipients, are available on the NETSL
section of the NELA Web site:

 http://nelib.org/netsl/ <http://nelib.org/netsl/award2009call.htm>
award2010call.htm <http://nelib.org/netsl/award2010call.htm>

Please send nominations and inquiries to:

Amira Aaron
NETSL Vice-President/President-Elect
libconsultaa@...
781-248-1806 (cell)

NETSL is a section of the New England Library Association and is affiliated
with the ALCTS Council of Regional Groups. For more information on NETSL,
visit our website at: http://nelib.org/netsl/

Deadline for nominations is Friday, February 5, 2010

Is there a technical services librarian in your life who has inspired you?
Do you have a colleague who has tackled today's challenges in technical
services and triumphed? Do you know a person who leads the way in
innovation, collaboration, or data integration? Is there someone you know
who puts the service in technical services? If you know of a person who
merits any or all of these descriptions, please tell us. We ask you to
include documents of support along with the name of your nominee. The
requirements are outlined below. The successful nominee will be presented
with the Award the NETSL Annual Spring Conference 2010: Crosswalks to the
Future <http://www.nelib.org/netsl/conference/2010/index.htm>,* April 15,
2010*, at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.

Eligibility for nomination is as follows:

*Nominees may be NETSL/NELA members, but membership in the Association is
not a requirement.

*A nomination must be accompanied by a written statement that includes the
reasons for nomination and a narrative summary of the nominee's career and
achievements. The person's resume or CV may be used to meet this
requirement.

*You do not have to be a NETSL member to make a nomination.

*Please send you nominations and the above documentation to the NETSL
Vice-President no later than Friday, February 5, 2009. Contact information
for Amy Hart, NETSL Vice President, appears below.

*Current members of the NETSL Executive Board are not eligible for
consideration

Additional details, including past recipients, are available on the NETSL
section of the NELA Web site:

 http://nelib.org/netsl/ <http://nelib.org/netsl/award2009call.htm>
award2010call.htm <http://nelib.org/netsl/award2010call.htm>

Please send nominations and inquiries to:

Amira Aaron
NETSL Vice-President/President-Elect
libconsultaa@...
781-248-1806 (cell)

NETSL is a section of the New England Library Association and is affiliated
with the ALCTS Council of Regional Groups. For more information on NETSL,
visit our website at: http://nelib.org/netsl/

HI

Openoffice.org is planning an exhibit at the upcoming ALA conferernce in DC
in June: http://www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/upcoming/annual/index.cfm We
will also be giving out information on the Opendocument format for Open
Access.

A wiki page has been set up:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/US/Home/ALA-2010

If anyone is interested in helping with this effort, it would be greatly
appreciated if you would let me know.

Thank you so much

Russell Ossendryver

(not meaning to start a flamecon...)

I have some code I'm about ready to publish, and I hope other people hack on it too.  It'll have a free-as-in-libre license.  I'm sold on distributed version control.

I've been developing it under bzr and enjoy that just fine, but I'm not a huge fan of launchpad.  A lot of people seem to like github; a lot of python people (this is a python app) seems to like mercurial too.  In the past I've posted tarballs on sourceforge and had run my own trac instance.

This all makes me wonder where to put it.  I guess I could just try bitbucket, but does it make sense to host it there and keep an up-to-date clone/copy on google code too?

I guess my priorities are:

 - manage it in a reliable dvcs 
 - post it in a reliable dvcs host
 - integrate ticket tracking with checkins (close/ref a ticket with checkin comments)
 - let other people get it for free
 - don't take on a lot of additional hosting requirements like my own trac again
 - have a second place where up to date branches are available
 - cream cheese frosting


This isn't exactly a lot to ask for (well maybe the frosting) but given so many options it's just hard to decide.  Has anybody else made this decision lately?  How did you decide?  Any regrets?

Maybe I should just pick one and let the license and the dvcs allow a thousand (well maybe a half-dozen) flowers to bloom elsewhere.

  -Dan

Library & Technology Services (LTS) at Lehigh University is seeking a 
Senior Library Services Developer to work on the Library Technology 
team.  The initial two-year assignment is to work on the Kuali Open 
Library Environment (OLE) project (http://www.kuali.org/ole), a 
multi-institution collaboration working to build a community-source 
next-generation library management system.

This Senior Developer will play a lead role with high-level 
responsibilities for major design and programming deliverables, 
including representing Lehigh University on the Kuali OLE Technical 
Council; working with agile development teams at multiple institutions 
around the world, as well as with subject matter experts.

Responsibilities:
* Design and develop software services and systems in Java and related 
technologies for the Kuali OLE project
* Develop modules for collection management SOA-based platform
* Model, design, develop, and test Web Services, service wrappers, 
service interfaces, APIs, and messaging systems (e.g. via enterprise 
service bus technologies)

Requirements & Qualifications:
* Three to five years experience in a technical role in the design and 
development of database-driven web applications characterized by:
   * complex domain requirements
   * large system integration
   * transactional and reporting functions
   * service-oriented architecture (analysis, modeling, and design)
* Degree in Computer Science or related field of study and/or equivalent 
experience/training
* Advanced knowledge and skills in Java and Java-based frameworks
* Advanced skills with web application frameworks, technologies, and 
languages such as Ruby-on-Rails, Ajax/jQuery, and relational databases 
(preferably MySQL)
* Experience with Web Services, REST, SOAP or equivalent
* Experience with enterprise service bus technologies
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
* Demonstrated problem-solving skills and ability to meet deadlines

Desirable:
* Experience working with libraries, archives, higher education 
institutions
* Good understanding of issues around metadata, semantics, and ontology

http://cf.lehigh.edu/jobs/job_post_detail.cfm?PostID=452


Lehigh University offers an equitable & competitive benefits package 
including partner benefits. Hiring salary in the $50’s based on 
education & experience. Review of applications will begin February 1, 
2010. Please send a letter & resume either electronically 
(inasg@...) or via US Mail to Pamela Steigerwalt, Employment 
Coordinator, Library & Technology Services, 8A E Packer Avenue, 
Bethlehem, PA 18015 AA/EOE

ABOUT LEHIGH UNIVERSITY:  Lehigh University is located in Bethlehem, PA 
(pop.75,000), which is in the center of the Lehigh Valley (pop. 
600,000+).  A convenient location between New York City and Philadelphia 
provides access to many corporations and financial institutions.  The 
Lehigh Valley provides the best of urban, suburban, and rural living.
Founded in 1865, Lehigh University is a private research institution 
with about 4,500 undergraduates and 2,000 graduate students.  Lehigh is 
ranked 35th in the 2009 US News & World Report “Guide to America’s Best 
Colleges.”

(apologies for the cross-posting)


-- 
Tim McGeary
Team Leader, Library Technology
Lehigh University
610-758-4998
tim.mcgeary@...

timmcgeary@...
GTalk/Yahoo/Skype: timmcgeary

~~ Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2010: Call for Proposals ~~

 * where: London, UK
 * when: Saturday 24th April, 2010
 * www: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/
 * last year: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/2009/
 * cfp: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/cfp/ (deadline: Jan 31st 2010)
 * hashtag: #okcon2010

## Introduction

OKCon, now in its fifth year, is the interdisciplinary conference that
brings together individuals from across the open knowledge spectrum for
a day of presentations and workshops.

Open knowledge promises significant social and economic benefits in a
wide range of areas from governance to science, culture to technology.
Opening up access to content and data can radically increase access and
reuse, improving transparency, fostering innovation and increasing
societal welfare.

This is a time of great change. In addition to high profile initiatives
such as Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap and the Human Genome Project, there is
enormous growth among open knowledge projects and communities at all
levels. Moreover, in the last year, many governments across the world
have begun opening up their data.

And it doesn't stop there. In academia, open access to both publications
and data has been gathering momentum, and similar calls to open up
learning materials have been heard in education. Furthermore this
gathering flood of open data and content is the creator and driver of
massive technological change. How can we make this data available, how
can we connect it together, how can we use it collaborate and share our
work?

Join us to discuss all of this and more!

## Topics

We welcome proposals on any aspect of creating, publishing or reusing
content or data that is open in accordance with
http://opendefinition.org. Topics include but are not limited to:

### Technology

 * Semantic Web and Linked Data in relation to open knowledge
 * Platforms, methods and tools for creating, sharing and curating open
   knowledge
 * Light-weight, adaptive interaction models
 * Open, decentralized social network applications
 * Open geospatial data

### Law, Society and Democracy

 * Open Licensing, Legal Tools and the Public Domain
 * Open government data and content (public sector information)
 * Open knowledge and international development
 * Opening up access to the law

### Culture and Education

 * Open educational tools and resources
 * Business models for open content
 * Incentive and rewards open-knowledge contributors
 * Open textbooks
 * Public domain digitisation initiatives

### Science and Research

 * Opening up scientific data
 * Supporting scientific workflows with open knowledge models
 * Open models for scientific innovation, funding and publication
   ('open-access')
 * Tools for analysing and visualizing open data
 * Open knowledge in the humanities

## Submission Details

 * Submission deadline: January 31st 2010
 * Notification of acceptance: March 1st
 * Camera-ready papers due: March 31st

We are accepting three types of submissions:

 1. Full papers of 5-10 pages describing novel strategies, tools,
    services or best-practices related to open knowledge.
 2. Extended talk abstracts of 2-4 pages focusing on novel ideas,
    ongoing work and upcoming research challenges.
 3. Proposals for short talks and demonstrations

OKCon will implement an open submission and reviewing process. To make a
submission visit:

  * http://www.okfn.org/okcon/submit/

Depending on the assessment of the submissions by the programme
committee and external reviewers, submissions will be accepted either as
full, short or lightning/poster presentations.

Proceedings of OKCON will be published at http://ceur-ws.org. If you
want your submission to be included in the conference proceedings you
have to prepare a manuscript of your submission according to the LNCS
Style.

### Programme Committee

 * Sören Auer, AKSW/Universität Leipzig
 * Christopher Corbin, UK Advisory Board on Public Sector Information
 * Adnan Hadzi and Andrea Rota, Goldsmiths College, University of London
 * Claudia Müller-Birn, Carnegie Mellon University
 * Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge
 * Rufus Pollock, Open Knowledge Foundation and Emmanuel College,
   University of Cambridge
 * Joseph Seddon, Wikimedia UK
 * John Wilbanks, Science Commons
-- 
Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org

Twitter/Identica: jwyg

One problem with OSS in libraries is lack of education. As a 
  library school professor, I am trying to help. 

  Last week, I ran an intensive course. Students, without any previous
  system admininstration experience, installed debian, then rented
  debian servers (since we can't host the servers at the school) and
  then installed koha. All 17 students managed to do it. For what
  it's worth, I am making my syllabus available

http://openlib.org/home/krichel/courses/lis508p10w/

  with slide presentations, and the installation documentation. 

  I have not seen the course evaluations yet, but I believe it was a 
  success.


  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
                                http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1
                                               skype: thomaskrichel

I have begun to create a list of commercial support vendors for library-related open source software, and it is temporarily located here:

  http://infomotions.com/tmp/support.html

I know the list is not exhaustive, and I know the list can be improved in many ways. I will be doing that work shortly. (Thank heavens for relational databases and XSLT!)

In the meantime, is your favorite vendor missing from the list? Can you recommend others? The only limitation is that the vendor needs to be supporting library-related software which is broadly defined, yet I do not necessarily want vendors who support things like Drupal, MySQL, Apache, etc. I'm looking for the more library-centric applications. The other applications have a very broad appeal.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-- 
Eric Lease Morgan

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>Message: 1
>Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:08:35 +0000
>From: Michael Fraser <mike.fraser@...>
>Subject: Re: [oss4lib-discuss] good and best open source software
>To: OSS4Lib OSS4Lib <oss4lib-discuss@...>
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>Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
>> What qualities and characteristics make for a "good" piece of open source software? And once that question is answered, then what pieces of library-related open source software can be considered "best"?
>> 
>> I do not believe there is any single, most important characteristic of open source software that qualifies it to be denoted as "best". Instead, a number of characteristics need to be considered. For example, a program might do one thing and do it well, but if it is bear to install then that counts against it. Similarly, some software might work wonders but it is built on a proprietary infrastructure such as a closed source compiler. Can that software really be considered "open"?
>> 
>> For my own education and cogitation, I have begun to list questions to help me address what I think is the "best" library-related open source software. [1] Your comments would be greatly appreciated. I have listed the questions here in (more or less) personal priority order:
>> 
>>   * Does the software work as advertised?
>>   * To what degree is the software supported?
>>   * Is the documentation thorough?
>>   * What are the licence terms? 
>>   * To what degree is the software easy to install?
>>   * To what degree is the software implemented
>>     using the "standard" LAMP stack?
>>   * Is the distribution in question an
>>     application/system or a library/module?
>>   * To what degree does the software satisfy some
>>     sort of real library need?
>>   
>> What sorts of things have I left out? Is there anything here that can be measurable or is everything left to subjective judgement? Just as importantly, can we as a community answer these questions in light of distributions to come up with the "best" of class?
>
>OSS Watch, the open source software advisory service for UK higher
>education has some pointers to existing frameworks for evaluating open
>source software (see
><http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/strategists.xml> and then
>following links to e.g. Business Readiness Rating
><http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/strategists.xml>). I suspect the
>baseline requirements for software evaluation have already been defined.
>As another correspondent points out, the list is more likely to be
>interested in the anything specific about library-related open source
>software (standards-based, of course, would apply to both open source
>and proprietary software).
>
>Michael
>
>--
>Dr Michael Fraser
>Head of Infrastructure Systems and Services
>Oxford University Computing Services
>13 Banbury Road
>Oxford OX2 6NN
>Tel: 01865 283 343
>Fax: 01865 273 275
>http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mikef/
>
>
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>Message: 2
>Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:12:31 +0000
>From: Michael Fraser <mike.fraser@...>
>Subject: Re: [oss4lib-discuss] good and best open source software
>To: OSS4Lib OSS4Lib <oss4lib-discuss@...>
>Message-ID: <4B39031F.8080407@...>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
>Michael Fraser wrote:
>
>> OSS Watch, the open source software advisory service for UK higher
>> education has some pointers to existing frameworks for evaluating open
>> source software (see
>> <http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/strategists.xml> and then
>> following links to e.g. Business Readiness Rating
>> <http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/strategists.xml>). 
>
>That second link should have read,
><http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/brr.xml>.
>
>Michael
>
>
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>Message: 3
>Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:42:10 -0500
>From: Eric Lease Morgan <eric_morgan@...>
>Subject: Re: [oss4lib-discuss] good and best open source software
>To: OSS4Lib OSS4Lib <oss4lib-discuss@...>
>Message-ID: <BB2CE389-F8DC-4A15-8283-C9E731C7657A@...>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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>
>On Dec 28, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Daniel Chudnov wrote:
>
>> I don't see anything on this list that doesn't more broadly apply to "all software".  Like you suggest, I'd rather have proprietary software running on a LAMP stack than proprietary software running on a proprietary stack.  I'd rather have a license that offers two of the basic software freedoms (the four being "use, copy, modify, distribute") than a license that offers none of them.  I'd rather have proprietary software with good support options than no support options.
>
>Dan, thank you very much. The enumeration of basic software freedoms is an important distinction. Very nice. Yes, many of the qualities I have outlined can just as easily be applied to any type of software. 
>
>-- 
>Eric Morgan
>
>
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>Message: 4
>Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:07:48 -0500
>From: Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan@...>
>Subject: Re: [oss4lib-discuss] good and best open source software [oss
>	watch]
>To: Code4LIb Libraries <CODE4LIB@...>, OSS4Lib OSS4Lib
>	<oss4lib-discuss@...>
>Message-ID: <4589155A-4861-4243-B1AB-DFD3CD35AE4C@...>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
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>
>On Dec 28, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Michael Fraser wrote:
>
>> OSS Watch, the open source software advisory service for UK higher
>> education has some pointers to existing frameworks for evaluating open
>> source software:
>> 
>>   http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/strategists.xml
>>   http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/brr.xml
>> 
>> --
>> Dr Michael Fraser
>> Head of Infrastructure Systems and Services
>> Oxford University Computing Services
>> 13 Banbury Road
>> Oxford OX2 6NN
>> Tel: 01865 283 343
>> Fax: 01865 273 275
>> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mikef/
>
>
>Very nice, and thank you for bringing OSS Watch back into my consciousness. I am sharing your well-done resource links with the Code4Lib community because, rather ironically, this thread has gotten more attention there. [1] I believe more people need to know about OSS Watch.
>
>[1] Code4Lib thread - http://tinyurl.com/ychwxzq
>
>-- 
>Eric Morgan
>
>
>
>
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>Message: 5
>Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:43:41 -0500
>From: Helen L <celestihel@...>
>Subject: [oss4lib-discuss] NETSL Award 2010: Call for Nominations
>To: OSS4Lib Listserv <oss4lib-discuss@...>
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>New England Technical Services Librarians (NETSL) Executive Board is seeking
>nominations for its annual NETSL Award for Excellence in Library Technical
>Services.
>
>The NETSL Award recognizes and honors significant New England-based
>contributions to the field of library technical services. Contributions may
>have been made in New England by librarians from throughout the United
>States, or nationally by librarians residing in New England, through
>publications, service, or innovations in practice. The NETSL Executive Board
>members select a recipient at their February meeting based on nominations
>received. The Board reserves the right to suspend the Award for a year if no
>suitable candidate is nominated.
>
>The next NETSL Award will be presented at the NETSL Annual Spring Conference
>2010: Crosswalks to the
>Future<http://www.nelib.org/netsl/conference/2010/index.htm>
>,* April 15, 2010*****, at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.
>
>Eligibility for nomination is as follows:
>
>   - Nominees may be NETSL/NELA members, but membership in the Association
>   is not a requirement.
>   - A nomination must be accompanied by a written statement that includes
>   the rationale for nomination and, if a resume of the nominee is not
>   appended, a narrative summary of the nominee's career and achievements.
>   Provision of a resume is strongly recommended.
>   - Nominations may be made by NETSL members, or by non-members.
>   - Nominations and statement(s) must be received by the NETSL
>   Vice-President no later than Friday, February 5, 2010.
>   - Current members of the NETSL Executive Board are not eligible for
>   consideration.
>
>Nominees shall have made contributions to library technical services in one
>or more of the following areas:
>
>   1. Leadership in professional associations at local, state, regional or
>   national level
>   2. Contributions or innovations in technical services
>   3. Significant contributions to professional literature
>   4. Conduct of studies or research in technical services
>
>Past Recipients include:
>
>Lynda Kresge, Birdie MacLennan, Dr. Sheila Intner, Robert L. Cunningham,
>Matthew Beacom, Catherine Willis, Lisa Palmer, David Miller, and Martha Rice
>Sanders.
>
>Please send nominations and inquiries to:
>
>Amira Aaron
>NETSL Vice-President/President-Elect
>libconsultaa@...
>781-248-1806 (cell)
>
>NETSL is a section of the New England Library Association and is affiliated
>with the ALCTS Council of Regional Groups. For more information on NETSL,
>visit our website at:
>
>http://www.netsl.org
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>Subject: [oss4lib-discuss] DRTC-ISI Workshop on Knowledge Transactions
>	(Paper Submission dates extended to 20th Jan. 2010)
>To: DLRG <dlrg@...>, NMLIS <nmlis@...>,
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>Dear All,
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>The paper submission dates for DRTC-ISI Workshop on Knowledge Transactions (Feb. 15 to 17th) have been extended to 20th January 2010.? For further details kindly visit the following URL:
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>http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/DRTC/KT
>
>Regards,
>
>Dimple Patel, Ph.D.
>
>Assistant Professor, Library & Information Science,
>
>Osmania University, Hyderabad.  (http://sites.google.com/site/dimplerp)
>
>Contribute to LDL: Librarians' Digital Library (https://drtc.isibang.ac.in)
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>DLIS, OU (http://sites.google.com/site/lisosmania)
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Dear All,

The paper submission dates for DRTC-ISI Workshop on Knowledge Transactions (Feb. 15 to 17th) have been extended to 20th January 2010.  For further details kindly visit the following URL:

http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/DRTC/KT

Regards,

Dimple Patel, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Library & Information Science,

Osmania University, Hyderabad.  (http://sites.google.com/site/dimplerp)

Contribute to LDL: Librarians' Digital Library (https://drtc.isibang.ac.in)

DLIS, OU (http://sites.google.com/site/lisosmania)

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New England Technical Services Librarians (NETSL) Executive Board is seeking
nominations for its annual NETSL Award for Excellence in Library Technical
Services.

The NETSL Award recognizes and honors significant New England-based
contributions to the field of library technical services. Contributions may
have been made in New England by librarians from throughout the United
States, or nationally by librarians residing in New England, through
publications, service, or innovations in practice. The NETSL Executive Board
members select a recipient at their February meeting based on nominations
received. The Board reserves the right to suspend the Award for a year if no
suitable candidate is nominated.

The next NETSL Award will be presented at the NETSL Annual Spring Conference
2010: Crosswalks to the
Future<http://www.nelib.org/netsl/conference/2010/index.htm>
,* April 15, 2010*****, at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.

Eligibility for nomination is as follows:

   - Nominees may be NETSL/NELA members, but membership in the Association
   is not a requirement.
   - A nomination must be accompanied by a written statement that includes
   the rationale for nomination and, if a resume of the nominee is not
   appended, a narrative summary of the nominee's career and achievements.
   Provision of a resume is strongly recommended.
   - Nominations may be made by NETSL members, or by non-members.
   - Nominations and statement(s) must be received by the NETSL
   Vice-President no later than Friday, February 5, 2010.
   - Current members of the NETSL Executive Board are not eligible for
   consideration.

Nominees shall have made contributions to library technical services in one
or more of the following areas:

   1. Leadership in professional associations at local, state, regional or
   national level
   2. Contributions or innovations in technical services
   3. Significant contributions to professional literature
   4. Conduct of studies or research in technical services

Past Recipients include:

Lynda Kresge, Birdie MacLennan, Dr. Sheila Intner, Robert L. Cunningham,
Matthew Beacom, Catherine Willis, Lisa Palmer, David Miller, and Martha Rice
Sanders.

Please send nominations and inquiries to:

Amira Aaron
NETSL Vice-President/President-Elect
libconsultaa@...
781-248-1806 (cell)

NETSL is a section of the New England Library Association and is affiliated
with the ALCTS Council of Regional Groups. For more information on NETSL,
visit our website at:

http://www.netsl.org