10 Steps to a Better Library Interior: Tips That Don't Have To Cost a Lot | Library by Design

An interior designer weighs in with simple, effective, and inexpensive steps that can be taken to reinvigorate your library.

At a time when many of our country’s libraries need an update owing to age and higher-than-ever expectations from patrons, available dollars for renovations are all too scarce. Fortunately, there are simple, effective, and inexpensive steps that can be taken to re­invigorate your library interior.

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Website for Helping IAS aspirants

http://www.arise2success.com/index.php?pid=7

A website for helping the peoples preparing for PSC, IAS and other competitive examinations. Website is giving training for PSC tests by online and guideline for IAS examinations. By registering you can participate in online examinations and check your score at the same time.

Early Journal Content on JSTOR, Free to Anyone in the World

Journal content in JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world.  This “Early Journal Content” includes discourse and scholarship in the arts and humanities, economics and politics, and in mathematics and other sciences.  It includes nearly 500,000 articles from more than 200 journals. This represents 6% of the content on JSTOR.

The Early Journal Content will be released on a rolling basis. A quick video tutorial about how to access this content is also available.

You can browse a list of available content by discipline or by title. Please read  Frequently Asked Questions if you have additional questions about the Early Journal Content or contact at support@jstor.org.

Download a brief program description that lists some Early Journal Content highlights.

Financial Assistance for Preserving Manuscripts / Rare Books 2011-12

http://www.nationalarchives.nic.in

UGC lifts ban on Distance PhDs, MPhil courses

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has lifted the two -year-old ban on distance MPhil and PhD courses. The move comes after widespread protests by various universities. Many Open Learning Universities like IGNOU were protesting the ban on the ground that their respective laws, passed by Parliament or legislatures, allowed them to offer such courses.

UGC held a meeting on the issue last month, deciding to lift the ban. “An open university may be permitted to conduct MPhil/PhD programmes through distant education mode subject to condition that it does so strictly as per the provisions of the UGC Regulations,” said the minutes of the meeting.

Speaking on the development, IGNOU vice-chancellor Rajasekharan Pillai said, “We will follow the rules but our regulations are already stricter than those of the UGC.” 

Although, UGC has lifted the ban but it has put another condition for Phd — the principal guide should be from the open university. The UGC had clamped the bar by notifying a rule — the Minimum Standards and Procedure for Awards of MPhil/PhD Degree Regulation — in 2009 saying research courses in the distant mode were of poor quality. 

The regulations had put a question mark on the future of nearly 10,000 students pursuing such courses across the country.“There should not be any blanket ban on MPhil or PhD in distance mode. If institutions meet the required quality parameters, they should be allowed to offer such courses,” said academic M. Madhava Menon, who has been asked by the HRD ministry to draft a policy on distance education. He said he would submit his report next month.

Inadequate infrastructure of many open universities is also a concern for carrying out research work.

A UGC official said the commission’s regulations were silent on the facilities, and a panel headed by academic S.P. Thyagrajan had been set up to suggest the requirements. “We will meet on September 15 to lay the guidelines,” Thyagrajan said.

courtesy: The Telegraph

KohaGSDL Live CD v1.1

DlnetSA (Digital Library Network South Asia) has released new version 1.1 of Live CD of Koha GSDL. The software can be downloaded from the url: 


http://sourceforge.net/projects/gsdlkohalive/

 

or

http://www.dlnetsa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63Itemid=69

 

This Live CD is bundled with the following features:
Ubuntu 11.04
Greenstone V 2.84
Koha  3.4.3
DBWIZ(Federated Search) with sample websites searchable from Koha
Embeded Video Server with GSDL
PhpMyAdmin

Note: It is advised to install other basic required software as it contains only minimal softwares and LXDE desktop enivornment is used for making iso size small.

You can install other software once the live CD is installed in your computer. For example: openoffice, xpdf and others as per command given below:

# sudo apt-get update
# sudo apt-get install openoffice.org

 

# sudo apt-get install xpdf
# sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-* --purge
# sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

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