Happy New Year 2011

Librarians will be appointed on Plus Two Schools

 

courtesy: http://news.keralakaumudi.com/news.php?nid=e621d26dee0e04cba34847f4992da4c5

How to Search PDF Version of Books in "Google Books"

Finding books with Google Books is very easy. Enter the keyword in search box and click on the result. You can limit your results to books that are fully viewable by using the Advanced Search feature of Google Books. 

Just select the "Full view only" option, enter your search terms and click "Google Search."  this will help narrow your search results closer to books that are downloadable. Clicking on the Download button shown on public domain books will allow you to download a PDF of the book to your computer. 

Although not all books that are fully viewable are also downloadable as PDF files.

Perspective in International Librarianship (E-Journal )

QScience.com : the innovative and collaborative, peer-reviewed, online publishing platform from Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ) publishes Perspective in International Librarianship (E-Journal ). It is an Open Source Journal published in the field of Library and Information Science. Th Journal aims to to communicate issues and experiences in libraries and librarianship from a global perspective.
Articles will address international perspectives on all areas of librarianship

PSC to appoint non-teaching staff in Universities of Kerala

The Kerala Cabinet on Wednesday decided to entrust appointments of non-teaching staff in all universities of the State to the Kerala Public Service Commission (PSC). The decision follows High Court strictures over the appointments made by the University of Kerala a few years ago. 

Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan told the media after the weekly Cabinet meeting that immediate steps would be taken to leave the appointments to the PSC. He said irregularities that had taken place in the appointments made by the University of Kerala and the court orders and strictures over them had to be considered seriously.

Read more.http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/article955623.ece

The world's most expensive book

A copy of the world's most expensive printed book has sold at auction in London for £6.5m ($10.3m).

The largest version of the book was in what printers call double elephant folio - an enormous 39.5 by 26.5 inches (100cm by 67cm), to allow lifesize illustration of birds.

read more  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11937736

UGC-NET to be held on 26th December 2010

Written test for University Grant Commission-National Eligibility Test (Junior Research Fellowship / Lectureship) will be held on 26th December 2010.

Scheme of test is given here  http://www.ugcnetonline.in/sch_o_test.php

Structure of Paper III  http://www.ugcnetonline.in/strc_of_paper3.php

Question Papers of NET Exam June 2010 http://www.ugcnetonline.in/question_papers_june2010.php

Koha Geeks

An useful website for installing and configuring Koha for your institution. You can read the latest documentation for installing the koha3.02.01


http://www.vimalkumar.oksociety.in/

Exempt teachers who did MPhil before July 2009 from NET/SLET

Teachers under the banner of Bombay University and College Teachers’ Union (Buctu) have written to the vice-chancellor of Mumbai University, asking for exemption from National Eligibility Test (NET) or State Level Eligibility Test (State Level Eligibility Test) for those teachers who had acquired MPhil prior to July 11, 2009, followinga recent court order.

The second amendment of the University Grants Commission (UGC) came into force in 2006. It said that NET/SLET is compulsory, but all those who have MPhil or PhD qualifications are eligible to teach and can be exempted from it.

The third amendment came into effect on July 11, 2009. It said only those who had PhD can be granted exemptions from NET/SLET.

Meanwhile, some teachers, who had obtained MPhil before July 11, 2009, had moved the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court so that their appointments are approved. The court recently passed an order which said that all candidates holding MPhil degree on or before July 10, 2009, shall remain exempted from the requirement of NET for the purpose of appointment as lecturer or assistant professors.

These teachers had come into service after July 11, 2009, but since the advertisement for their appointment was issued before the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) third amendment came, the court said their appointment must be regularised.

Following the order, Buctu’s letter now wants the university to regularise the appointment of several teachers belonging to Mumbai University.

“Many Mumbai University teachers who got their MPhil before the third amendment came, are still working on a contractual basis. We have, therefore, asked the university to grant them approvals so that they can enjoy the benefits of a regular service,” said the spokesperson.

Courtesy: http://www.dnaindia.com/

LibLive Dspace Manual

 the LibLive CD/DVD Dspace Manual-taken the screenshots of each and every step of Installations, How to upload the documents in Dspace.

LibLive CD/DVD - Dspace Manual

Indian Citation Index Launched

Indian Citation Index (ICI) is a home grown citation database, planned to have multidisciplinary information/knowledge contents from about 1000 top Indian scholarly journals. It provides powerful search engine to perform search and evaluate researchers, policy makers, decision makers, institutions, subjects, city, state etc. Presently, ICI have five years back files data depth of 400 plus journals which would go over to 1000 journals by March/April 2011. ICI is equipped with all major search features including analytics to serve the requirements of users. Also, by the end of December 2010, few more specific and elaborative search features will be in place to meet local needs more specifically.

Indian Citation Index (ICI) is developed by a society named "The Knowledge Foundation" which is fully supported by M/s Divan Enterprise. ICI as a product for sale, distribution, enter into agreements, receive revenue etc is exclusively owned by M/s Divan Enterprise. The ICI may be accessed by its URL: www.indiancitationindex.com.
 

Indian Citation Index (ICI) has been launched on 25th October 2010 at New Delhi, India.

For further details please contact:

Prakash Chand
Head ICI Project & Former Scientist, NISCAIR
Email: prakash[at]indiancitationindex.com
www.indiancitationindex.com