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CURRENT CONTENTS Vol. 3 No. 2 April-June 2018

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Current Contents is a current awareness issue under " NASSDOC Research Information Series" that provides easy access to complete list of articles bibliographic information from the most recently published issues of leading scholarly journals. In this publication, table of contents of selected journals are arranged and at the end author index and keyword index are provided in alphabetical order.

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3rd International Yoga Day at ICSSR

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Practical session on Yoga Asanas conducted by an expert from Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga on 21st June, 2017 from 11 am to 12.30 pm at Chintan premises. All the Staff members are attended the practical session and made this event successful. Some of the glimpses are:

Databib - An Online, Community-driven, Annotated Bibliography & Registry of Research Data Repository

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A partnership between Purdue and Penn State Universities proposes the creation of a new resource called Databib that will provide a “spark” to help engage librarians in data services by providing them with an online, community-driven, annotated bibliography and registry of research data repositories. In addition to being an important reference resource to librarians, data users, data producers, publishers, and research funding agencies, the Databib platform will challenge the concept of the traditional bibliography by serving and integrating bibliographic content in Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0 environments in order to help overcome some shortcomings or perceptions of traditional bibliographies. One technology in particular, Linked Data, shows a great deal of promise for delivering a “web of data” (i.e., the Semantic Web) and giving librarians a new toolkit for describing and classifying data in a relational manner.

An expanded role for research libraries in digital data stewardship was forecasted by an Association of Research Libraries (ARL) workshop report to the NSF in 2006 [1]. This forecast was substantiated in August 2010 by a survey of 57 ARL libraries, of which 21 libraries reported that they currently provide infrastructure or support services for e-Science, and an additional 23 libraries are in planning stages [2]. A number of academic and research libraries are beginning to take a more active role in data management on their campuses, applying library science principles to help address the data deluge. This includes a wide range of activities such as helping researchers formulate funder-required data plans, adapting library practice to help organize and describe research datasets, developing data collections and data repositories, digital preservation, and data literacy.

Librarians are in a good position to provide these services; unfortunately, there is currently no framework in place to support the organization and discovery of data repositories. Many funding agencies are requiring their sponsored researchers to submit their data to repositories without giving further instructions to them. What repositories are appropriate for a researcher to submit his or her data to? How do potential users find appropriate data repositories and discover datasets that meet their needs? How can librarians help patrons who are looking for data find and integrate it into the patrons’ research, learning, or teaching? Databib will begin to address these needs for librarians, data users, data producers, publishers, and funding agencies.

The deliverables of this nine-month project will be 1) a functional and useful Databib platform as described in the project design; 2) the original description and annotation of primary repositories of research data represented by records in Databib; 3) a rubric for evaluating new repositories for inclusion in Databib; 4) documentation and supporting activities to catalyze a community of bibliographers; and 5) a white paper written for IMLS that describes the project design and provides an analysis of the project's results in terms of meeting these outcomes. A small panel of advisers will provide guidance throughout the project as well as to periodically review progress and give input to maximize the effectiveness of the project. The project’s design and evaluation plan establish measurable goals and outcomes for software development, the creation of new Databib records by both project personnel and community bibliographers, the number of integrations accomplished, usage statistics, and user feedback. All source code, content, and data will be sharing and dedicated to the public domain using Creative Commons Zero 1.0.

Databib is supported in part by a Sparks! Ignition National Leadership Grant (LG-46-11-0091-11) from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Source : http://databib.org/

Copyright Amendment Act 2012

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Copyright Amendment Act 2012 comes into effect The Copyright (Amendment) Act 2012 passed by Parliament has come into effect declaring authors as owners of the copyright, which cannot be assigned to the producers as was the practice till now. The act has been published in the official gazette.

It will now become mandatory for broadcasters - both radio and television - to pay royalty to the owners of the copyright each time a work of art is broadcast. It bans people from bringing out cover versions of any literary, dramatic or musical work for five years rom the first recording of the original creation.

The law also seeks to remove operational difficulties and address newer issues related to the digital world.

The amendments to the Copyright Act 1958, aims at according unassignable rights to 'creative artists' such as lyricists, playback singers, music directors, film directors and dialogue writers who will be paid royalty every time the movie they have worked in is aired on a television channel.

A statutory licence is an exception under Copyright Act. It puts limits on the basic principle of the copyright law that authors and creators should have the exclusive right to control the dissemination of their work. Under statutory licensing, the royalty or remuneration for the author or creator is specified by law or such set negotiation.

Source: http://www.radioandmusic.com/content/editorial/news/copyright-amendment-act-2012-comes-effect

Global Open Access Portal of UNESCO (GOAP)

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http://www.unesco.org/ci/goap

The Global Open Access Portal, aiming at presenting a top level view of Open Access to scientific information, was launched at a special side event organized during the36th session of the UNESCO General Conference, on Tuesday 1 November 2011, at Paris Headquarters.

The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) presents a snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information around the world. For countries that have been more successful in implementing Open Access, the portal highlights critical success factors and aspects of the enabling environment. For countries and regions that are still in the early stages of Open Access development, the portal identifies key players, potential barriers and opportunities. The portal has country reports from over 148 countries with weblinks to over 2000 initiatives/projects in Member States. The portal is supported by an existing Community of Practice (CoP) on Open Access on the WSIS Knowledge Communities Platform that has over 1400 members.
The GOAP is a knowledge portal that has the following features:
Country-wise distilled knowledge on the status of Open Access
Key organizations engaged in OA in Member States
Thematic focus areas of OA
Important publications on OA coming from different regions of the world
Critical assessment of major barriers to OA in each country
Potential of OA in UNESCO Member States
Funding and deposit mandates
Links to OA initiatives in the world
The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP), launched together with the revamped Open Training Platform (OTP) and the first UNESCO Open Educational Resources (OER) Platform, provides the information for policy-makers to learn about the global OA environment and to view their country’s status, and understand where and why Open Access has been most successful.
Development of the Global Open Access Portal has been made possible with support received from the Governments of Columbia, Denmark, Norway, and the United States. This GOAP will be a work in progress, and shall be further improved with the support received from the community of OA practitioners.
Open Access is at the heart of UNESCO’s mandate to provide universal access to information and knowledge, and the UNESCO Open Access programme shall continue to facilitate policy dialogue in Member States, share knowledge and best practices in the field of Open Access, and build and share local capacities through North-South and South-South co-operation to build knowledge societies for sustainable development.
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/

Free E-Journals/ Newsletters

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D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) - D-Lib Magazine is a monthly magazine about innovation and research in digital libraries.

Journal of Digital Information (http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/) - E-journal publishing papers on the management, presentation and uses of information in digital environments

Information Research: An international electronic journal (http://informationr.net/ir/) - Information Research is a free, international, scholarly journal, dedicated to making freely accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines.

Journal of Electronic Publishing. (http://www.press.umich.edu/jep) - The Journal of Electronic Publishing is for the thoughtful forward-thinking publisher, librarian, scholar, or author -- in fact, anyone in this new business -- facing those challenges.

Current Cites (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/) - monitors information technology literature in both print and digital forms, each month selecting only the best items to annotate for a free publication.

Ariadne (http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/) - The Ariadne newsletter is aimed at working librarians in academic libraries in the UK.

First Monday (http://www.firstmonday.dk/) - One of the first peer-reviewed journals on the Internet, about the Internet and the Global Information Infrastructure.

Free Online Scholarship Newsletter (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/index.htm) - The purpose of the newsletter is to share news and discussion on the migration of print scholarship to the internet and efforts to make it available to readers free of charge.

Free Pint (http://www.freepint.com/) - Free Pint is a free email newsletter giving you tips, tricks and articles on how and where to find reliable Web sites and search more effectively.

Information Today and Tomorrow (ITT) (http://itt.nissat.tripod.com/) - Quarterly newsletter from NISSAT.

Digital libraries - a column in Library Journal by Roy Tennant, Manager, eScholarship Web & Services Design, California Digital Library

Bibliozine - the e-magazine for librarians. (http://www.bibliozine.com/index.shtml)

RLG DigiNews. Produced for RLG by the Cornell University Libraries Department of Preservation and Conservation, RLG DigiNews is a bimonthly Web-based newsletter focused on issues of vital interest to managers of digital initiatives. (http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/)

Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship (http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/) - A quarterly publication of the Science and Technology Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, USA.

ITPapers.com (http://www.itpapers.com/) - Yellow pages of white papers. Covers several categoires, including libraries.

Australian Academic & Research Libraries (http://www.alia.org.au/sections/ucrls/aarl/) - Quarterly journal devoted to all aspects of librarianship in university and college libraries.

THE INFORMED LIBRARIAN ONLINE (http://www.infosourcespub.com/) THE INFORMED LIBRARIAN is a monthly compilation of the most recent tables of contents from over 180 valuable domestic and foreign library and information-related journals, e-journals, magazines,e-magazines, newsletters and e-newsletters.

Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/index.html).

Information Today (http://www.infotoday.com/it/itnew.htm) Information industry news services for the information professional.

LIBRES - Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal (http://libres.curtin.edu.au/).

Journal of Information, Law and Technology (http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/).

Learning Management Systema (LMS)

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A Learning Management System (LMS) is software that automates the administrative tasks of training, such as registering users, tracking courses in a catalog, recording data, charting a user’s progress toward certification, and providing reports to managers. These system also serve as a platform to deliver eLearning to students.

There are many Learning Management Systems on the market, and their prices and functionality vary greatly.

Ziiva Prosperity™ Learning Management System

Ziiva offers this LMS as a totally customizable solution. Both the LMS and the company are extremely flexible and fun to work with. Prosperity is a scalable, comprehensive platform. You can host it in-house or have Ziiva provide hosting. Left Brain Media™ has worked with many different LMS systems, and, over the years, we grew very impressed with the Ziiva Prosperity system, so we have extra information on this LMS available on www.ziiva.com.

Active Learner

Resource Development Corporation’s multi-level LMS.
www.resources4learning.com

Alpha LMS

LMS designed for schools that gives advanced control over assignments, tracks student performance and competency, and allows sequencing of content within self-differentiating work plans.
www.alpha-lms.co.uk

CentraOne

Centra offers hosting for e-Learning courses and an LMS.
www.centra.com

ClarityNET

This e-learning platform allows you to set up, administer and track individualized, interactive training programs for literally thousands of employees from a single web interface.
www.claritynet.com

Conductor

Sage Corporation’s employee training tracking administration software.
www.Conductit.com

Consensus

Consensus' systems are user-friendly at all levels (for managers, administrators and learners) and designed for speed and ease of implementation.
www.consensus.co.uk

Cornerstone OnDemand Enterprise

Cornerstone provides an extensible platform to build completely integrated Learning Management, Performance Management, Content Management, and Compliance Management systems.
www.cornerstoneondemand.com

Ed LCMS or LMS by Strategia

LMS and content creation package that supports all types of learning experiences.
www.strategia-ed.com

Education Director

The web-based LMS from Results Direct that was developed specifically for organizations to deliver and administer e-Learning.
www.resultsdirect.com

eTrainCenter

eTrainCenter is an LMS and LCMS that combine rich and flexible tools with content management capabilities, customization of the learning experience, and integration with an institution's existing infrastructure.
www.etraincenter.com

FlexTraining Total e-Learning Solution

This software package includes a web-based configuration wizard, course authoring, enrollment, reporting, testing, virtual lockers, and libraries.
www.FlexTraining.com

Gyrus

Gyrus Systems, who for 23 years has been the pioneer in developing the most comprehensive Learning Management Systems, is currently marketing a "DO EVERYTHING" web based LMS. GyrusAim performs all e-Learning functions from scheduling classes all the way to talent management and succession planning including all user required reporting in between from a very operating-friendly dashboard environment.
www.gyrus.com

IBM Learning Solutions

IBM offers learning strategy, delivery, infrastructure, outsourcing, and content services.
www.ibm.com

iLearning

Oracle offers an enterprise LMS that allows organizations to manage, deliver, and track participation of employees, customers, and partners in both eLearning and classrooms environments.
www.oracle.com

Informetica

This company provides an LMS that allows instructors with limited technical knowledge to create, manage, and deliver courses and exams online.
www.informetica.com

IntraLearn

IntraLearn's Learning Management System provides configurable, feature rich, enterprise-class solutions across various vertical markets.
www.intralearn.com

KnowledgeNet

This company provides provides both LMS and LCMS systems.
www.knowledgenetcampus.com

Knowledge Planet

This company provides provides both LMS and LCMS systems.
www.knowledgeplanet.com

LatitudeLearning.com

LatitudeLearning.com is a scalable, robust and highly functional on-demand LMS available for training companies to provide effective training for their clients. The LatitudeLearning.com LMS enables training companies to open a world of new opportunities through a customized Internet portal. Latitude's full-featured LMS serves both small and large organizations. With over one million total registered users on its platforms, LatitudeLearning.com ranks among the top 10 training platforms.
www.latitudelearning.com

Learn.com

The Learn.com family of solutions includes the LearnCenter learning management system (LMS / LCMS), the CourseMaker Studio authoring tool, Mentor EPSS, and the 1,100-title Learn2 online course library.
www.learn.com

LearnFlex by Operitel

LearnFlex ^TM has a multi-language library that delivers appropriate contextual language for discreet user groups. It allows personalization of the user interface, corporate branding, and target audience. The system includes powerful workflow modules for E-Commerce, E-Business, and competency management.
www.operitel.com/LearnFlex.aspx

The Matchett Group

The Matchett Group offers a wide range of education, training and training software services.
www.thematchettgroup.com

Mentorware e-Learning Platform

This system from Mentorware combines learning management and learning content management into one package.
www.mentorware.com

Meridian Knowledge Solutions LMS

Meridian provides industry leading Learning Management Systems for organizations of all sizes. This is the number one ranked learning-technology company for customer loyalty. Their award-winning software aims to deliver learning, distribute knowledge and sharpen business skills, which will make you a leader in your industry.
www.meridianksi.com

Moodle

Easy to install, but sometimes challanging to configure, Moodle is a free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites. Any group with a limited budget but plenty of manpower check this solution out. It also recently ran across this list of 10 alternatives to Moodle.
www.moodle.org

Omnibus LMS

This LMS includes the many of the most requested features for mid-size businesses. The platform contains the KBridge Authoring Tool that allows your SMEs to build eLearning content MS Word.
www.omnibuslearning.com

Online Learning Marketplace

A resource for online learning and education.
www.onlinemarketplace.com

Osiris LMS

Osiris LMS complies with the standards of eLearning technology through encompassing all functionalities of LMS to offer a robust online tool. Osiris LMS was designed considering easily accessible options, available through a simple mouse click.
www.osirislms.com

SumTotal

Docent and Click2Learn combined into a new company. Since there was a lot of overlap in their product lines, it will be interesting to see what their "new" products look like.
www.sumtotalsystems.com

Thinking Cap

Thinking Cap is a 100% XML and SCORM-compliant LCMS and LMS.
www.thinkingcap.info

THINQ TrainingServer

THINQ's web-based enterprise LMS.
www.thinq.com

TLM (The Learning Manager)

An easy to use, web-enabled, fully scalable, SCORM compliant, enterprise LMS system.
www.thelearningmanager.com

VCampus

Vcampus Corporation provides fully hosted, web-based e-Learning solutions using an Application Service Provider (ASP) model.
www.vcampus.com

Vuepoint VLS Administrator and LMS Component

Vuepoint’s learning administration and reporting application.
www.vuepoint.com

WBT Manager

Integrity’s LMS is designed exclusively to organize, deploy, and track web-based training content.
www.ielearning.com

Projects to watch from SourceForge.net

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UniKey: UniKey is a very small and easy-to-use Vietnamese keyboard for Windows.

Camstudio: CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs).

Buildcraft: This is a mod to minecraft aimed at providing advanced building capabilities to the game, such as gears, pipes and quarries.

VideoURLs InstanTempo Plugin: Bypass the Megavideo Time Limit, Regenerate your Megavideo broken links and search for video links.

rEFIt: rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs.

Zekr: Zekr is an open source Quran study software for Windows, Linux and Mac. It's designed to ease access to the most authentic and valuable text of Muslims. Zekr provides Quran translations, recitation, search and other features to study Holy Quran.

Frhed: Frhed is an binary file editor for Windows. It is small but has many advanced features like ability to load big files partially.

ImperiumAO: ImperiumAO client version of ORE 1.0 RPG engine, originally created by Aaron Perkin's from BaronSoft, edition by Maraxus contributed and adapted by Barrin. ImperiumAO was originally based on Argentum-Online, based also on ORE engine.

FTPbox: FTPbox is an open-source application that allows you to synchronize all your files to your remote host, via FTP. This way, you can access your files anywhere, without having to pay for disk space on some 3rd-party website!

J-Gate Newsletter - Volume 3, Issue 8, August 2011

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119th Birthday Celebration of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan

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RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE

(An organ of Ranganathan Research Trust, Regd.:25953, 1995)

J8/123, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi
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RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE

Cordially invites you to the 119^th Birthday Celebration of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan

at the Auditorium of Hall No. VIII (Hall of Special Display) Pragati Maidan, New Delhi

On August 28th , 2011 Sunday at 2.00 P.M.

There will be a Panel Discussion on

“LIBRARY EDUCATION IN INDIA”

Prof. S. Ansari , Former Head & Prof. Dept. LIS, Jamia-Milia Islamia, New Delhi

Chairperson

PANELISTS

Prof. Jagtar Singh, Professor and Head, DLIS, Punjab University, Patiala.

(LIS Prospective)

Prof. K. Kannan, University School of Biotechnology GGSIP University, New Delhi and Former Vice Chancellor of Nagaland University, Nagaland.

(Users Prospective)

and

There will be a Presentation of Library Security System

Dr. P.R. Goswami, Director, Central Secretariat Library, New Delhi

Chairperson

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P R O G R A M M E

1.30 PM Registration

2.00 PM Floral tribute to Dr. S R Ranganathan

2.10 PM Welcome by Mr. Subhash Deshmukh

2.15-2.20 PM About Ranganathan Research Circle

Dr. Ramesh Gaur

2.20 - 4.00 PM Panel Discussion

4.05 - 5.05 PM Presentation of Library Security

System by 3M

5.05 - 5.35 PM Discussion and Summing up

Vote of Thanks Dr. N K Khatri

5.40 PM Tea

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RSVP

Dr. A. Ratnakar 26181325, 9891390300, 9910613694

Shri. K.K. Bhatia 25496916
Shri. Subhash Deshmukh 0124-2578715, 9873680484(M)
Dr. Ramesh Gaur 9810487158
Dr. N.K. Khatri 26513120

HAPPY LIBRARIANS' DAY

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Dear Friends,

August 12th is being celebrated as National Librarians’ Day in India, in remembrance of national professor of library science, Padmashree Dr S R Ranganathan (1892-1972), who had spearheaded library development in India.

We have more opportunities to affirm that libraries are change agents in educating the citizens in public life. In India, lot is to be accomplished, appreciation and motivation of library services will go a long way to make awareness about the importance of information and library services to reach the unreached.

There is a huge task ahead for librarians and information services industry to cultivate the reading habit. Illiteracy, poverty and lack of access to education in still more prevalent among the semi-urban and rural areas in India. While the successive governments and department of culture have neglected the library development, librarians and struggling their way to create the awareness of reading habit among the general public with limited resources. It is strongly believed that the coming days will change the face of libraries as ICT and social media are a big boost to learning and education.

We all the librarians and information professionals has to keep up good morale of service, realize our mission and strive hard to reach out more masses in our country in the process of shaping our tomorrow’s leaders through learning and in national development.

Directory of Open Access Journals

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Find Journals

This Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects and languages. There are now 5828 journals are available in the directory. Currently 2431 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 483307 articles are included in the DOAJ service. 20% of peer-reviewed articles across all disciplines are now freely available. The journal must exercise peer-review or editorial quality control to be included.

The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short a one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals.

From the BOAI definition [1] of "open access" the users have a right to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles" as mandatory for a journal to be included in the directory.

Subjects

Agriculture and Food Sciences
Arts and Architecture
Biology and Life Sciences
Business and Economics
Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
General Works
Health Sciences
History and Archaeology
Languages and Literatures
Law and Political Science
Mathematics and Statistics
Philosophy and Religion
Physics and Astronomy
Science General
Social Sciences
Technology and Engineering

Requires LIS Apprentices

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INDIAN COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH

JNU Institutional Area

Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi - 110067

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Applications are invited from FRESH degree/diploma holders in Library and Information Science for one year training under the Apprenticeship Act, 1961. Stipend Rs. 4000/- p.m. (degree holders) and Rs. 3000/- p.m. (diploma holders). Five positions are available. The candidate must have knowledge of MS-Office software with data entry skill. Please apply within 15 days on plain paper, addressed to : The Administrative Officer, at the above given address.

Quotations about Libraries and Librarians

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BOOKS

To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.
— Anonymous, Chinese saying

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
— "Of Studies". Essays II
Francis BACON (1561-1626)

The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books.... America's greatness is not only recorded in books, but it is also dependent upon each and every citizen being able to utilize public libraries.
— Terence COOKE (1921-1983)

My lifelong love affair with books and reading continues unaffected by automation, computers, and all other forms of the twentieth-century gadgetry.
— Books in My Life
Robert DOWNS (1903- )

As regards anything besides these, my son, take a warning: To the making of many books there is no end, and much devotion to them is wearisome to the flesh.
— ECCLESIASTES 12:12 (New World Translation 1961)

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
— Maksim GORKY (1868-1936)

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.
— Sutton Elbert GRIGGS (1872-1930)

A library book...is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, is their only capital.
— Thomas JEFFERSON (1743-1826)

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up children without surrounding them with books.... Children learn to read being in the presence of books.
— Horace MANN (1796-1859)

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
— Groucho MARX

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
— Moby Dick, chapter 110.
Herman MELVILLE

St. Paul wrote to his son Timothy:

When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas,
also the books,
and above all the parchments.
(2 Timothy 4:13)

In an 1863 sermon, "Paul -- His Cloak and His Books";C.H. Spurgeon said of Paul:

"He was inspired, and yet he wants books!
He had been preaching for thirty years, and yet he wants books!
He had seen the Lord, and yet he wants books!
He had a wider experience than most men do, and yet he wants books!
He had been caught up into the third heaven, and had heard things that it was not lawful for a man to utter, and yet he wants books!
He had written a major part of the New Testament, and yet he wants books!"

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
— Sesame and Lilies. Lect i, Of Kings' Treasuries
John RUSKIN (1819-1900)

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house.
— Joe RYAN

Let books be your dining table,
And you shall be full of delights
Let them be your mattress
And you shall sleep restful nights
— Quoted in Bar Hebraues' Ethicon
St. EPHREM the Syrian (303-373)

'Tis well to borrow from the good and great;
'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to create!
— The Library

John Godfrey SAXE (1816-1887)

BORROWING

He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot.
— Anonymous, Arabic Proverb

For him that stealeth a Book from this Library, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with Palsy, and all his Members blasted. Let him languish in Pain crying aloud for Mercy and let there be no sur-cease to his Agony till he sink in Dissolution. Let Bookworms gnaw his Entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his final Punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him for ever and aye.
— Curse Against Book Stealers
Monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona

[Editor: this quote is NOT anonymous. The quote is inThe Old Librarians's Almanack which is itself a brilliant and very funny forgery by Edmund Lester Pearson. For details see, Wayne A. Wiegand, "The History of a Hoax: Edmund Lester Pearson, John Cotton Dana, and the Old Librarian's Almanack." Beta Phi Mu Chapbook No. 13. Thanks to Ken Miller for pointing this out.]

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
— Anatole FRANCE (1844-1924)

My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.
— The Poet at the Breakfast Table
Oliver Wendell HOLMES (1809-1894)

There are 70 million books in American libraries, but the one I want to read is always out.
— Tom MASSON (1866-1934)

CATALOGUE

Classification, broadly defined, is the act of organizing the universe of knowledge into some systematic order. It has been considered the most fundamental activity of the human mind.
— "Cataloguing and Classification: An Introduction"
Lois Mai Chan

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a 1000 years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.
— "Books". Society and Solitude
Ralph Waldo EMERSON (1803-1882)

A great public library, in its catalogue and its physical disposition of its books on shelves, is the monument of literary genres.
— Cited in World Literature Today, Spring 1982, p.231
Robert MELANCON (1947- )

Shera's Two Laws of Cataloguing.
Law #1 No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger.
Law #2 No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging.
— University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library Science. Occasional Paper #131, Dec. 1977.
Jesse SHERA

CENSORSHIP

"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there."
— Clare Booth LUCE

'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.
— Tempest Tost
Robertson DAVIES

"...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that "everything is permitted," as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of nihilism and has nihilistic implications. I will not pretend that the case against nihilism and for civilization is an easy one to make. We are here confronting the most fundamental of philosophical questions, on the deepest levels. In short, the matter of pornography and obscenity is not a trivial one, and only superficial minds can take a bland and untroubled view of it."
— "Pornography, Obscenity and the Case for Censorship" from On the Democratic Idea in America New York: Harper & Row, 1972. This essay originally appeared in the New York Times Magazine on March 28, 1971.
Irving KRISTOL

"It is clear that censorship is not a cut and dried issue. There is a danger in thinking it is, for then the debate falters and understanding ends. We must realize that censorship will be with us always. It is a weapon to protect the order of society and the peace of communities. However, it is a two-edged sword and must be handled with care and caution. Of all professions librarianship must ensure that both sides of the debate remain alive. If the censorship side predominates, truth and moral progress suffer; if the anti-censorship side predominates, the drift to selfishness and anarchy presents a clear danger to the cohesion and order of the social system, the destruction of which brings us to barbarism, tyranny, and the loss of all freedom."
— "A Clash of Values: Censorship", Canadian Library Journal, February 1988, pp. 35-39
S.D. NEILL

"When a librarian really believes that a book is harmful, that its content is contrary to the welfare of the community, or that it is destructive of good taste, even if those are his opinions only, he has not only the right, but also the obligation to do what he properly can to keep that book out of the hand of those whom he thinks might be injured by it."
— "Intellectual Freedom--Intellectual? Free?" Wilson Library Bulletin, Nov. 1967, 323-4, 345.
Jesse SHERA

CENTRE OF KNOWLEDGE

Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
— Arthur ASHE (1943-1993)

That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues.
— The Elder Brother. Act I, sc. ii, L. 177.

Francis BEAUMONT (1586-1616) and John FLETCHER (1576-1625)

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library
— Shelby Foote

No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures that never cloy.
— John Alfred LANDFORD (1823-1903)

In my day the library was a wonderful place.... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary.... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.
— Cited in American Libraries, July/August 1980, p.411-412
Norman MAILER (1923- )

A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.
— Samuel NIGER (1883-1956)

The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
— Cosmos
Carl SAGAN

CHILDREN

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.
— Vissarion Grigor'evich BELINSKII (1811-1841)

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.
— Jorge Luis BORGES (1899-1986)

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
— "Book Buying". Obiter Dicta.
Augustine BIRRELL (1850-1933)

Libraries are not made; they grow.
— "Book Buying". Obiter Dicta.
Augustine BIRRELL (1850-1933)

Every library should be try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
— The Poet at the Breakfast Table. VIII.
Oliver Wendell HOLMES (1809-1894)

The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library,
is to look at his books. One gets the notion very speedily of his tastes and
the range of his pursuits by a glance round his book-shelves.
— The Poet at the Breakfast Table. VIII.

Oliver Wendell HOLMES (1809-1894)

It does not matter how many books you may have, but whether they are good or not.
— Epistolae Morale
Lucius Annaeus SENECA (3 B.C.-65 A.D.)

Knowing that I loved my books, he furnished me,
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.
— The Tempest. Act I, sc. ii, L. 166.
William SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)

CREATION

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
— Cited in ALA Bulletin, Oct. 1954, p.475
Norman COUSINS (1915- )

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use.
— William DYER (1636-1696)

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
— Life of Johnson. From James Boswell, April 6, 1775.
Samuel JOHNSON (1709-1784)

DEFINITIONS

Books

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
— Maksim GORKY (1868-1936)

Educational Institution

The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
— "The Hero as Man of Letters". On Heroes and Hero Worship.
Thomas CARLYLE (1795-1881)

Librarians

A keeper of books.
— Anonymous

Man, the imperfect librarian, may be the product of chance or of malevolent demiurgi; the universe, with its elegant endowment of shelves, of enigmatical volumes, of inexhaustible stairways for the traveller and latrines for the seated librarian, can only be the work of a god
— "The Library of Babel", Labyrinths
Jean Luis BORGES (1899-1986)

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public... Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.
— Sir William Osler, 1917

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
— In The Gold Bug Variations p.35, 1991.
Richard Powers

A factor and trader for helps to learning.
— John DURY

Unlearned men of books assume the care,
As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
— Love of Fame. Satire ii. L. 83.
Edward YOUNG (1684-1765)

Libraries

The medicine chest of the soul.
— Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes.

A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if to the character of a collector he adds - or tries to add- the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.
—Sir William Osler, 1919

Nutrimentum spiritus.
(Food for the soul.)
— Inscription on the Berlin Royal Library.

Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.
— Libraries

Francis BACON (1561-1626)

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
— Henry Ward BEECHER

A little library growing each year is an honorable part of a man's history.
— Henry Ward BEECHER

A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.
— Star Papers. Oxford. Bodleian Library.

Henry Ward BEECHER

A great library contains the diary of the human race.
— Address on Opening the Birmingham Free Library
George Mercer DAWSON (1849-1901)

A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.
— Samuel NIGER (1883-1956)

Librarianship

New Laws of Librarianship:

Libraries serve humanity.
Respect all forms by which knowledge is communicated.
Use technology intelligently to enhance service.
Protect free access to knowledge.
Honor the past & create the future.

— Michael GORMAN (American Libraries 9/95)

Ranganathan's Five Laws:
Books are for use.
Books are for all; or Every reader his book.
Every book its reader.
Save the time of the reader.
A library is a growing organism.
— Shiyali Ramamrita RANGANATHAN (1892-1972)

FREE ACCESS

My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free.
— Kirk DOUGLAS (1916- )

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.
— Letter to George Johnson, January 1824.
Joseph HOWE

HUMOUR

Si, ténte par le demon,
Tu dérobes ce livre,
Souviens-toi qu'un fripon
N'est pas digne de vivre.
— Anonymous

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.
— "Books". Mr Dooley Says.
Finley Peter DUNNE (1867-1936)

Every library should be try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
— The Poet at the Breakfast Table. VIII.
Oliver Wendell HOLMES (1809-1894)

There are 70 million books in American libraries, but the one I want to read is always out.
— Tom MASSON (1866-1934)

You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.
— Monty Python skit

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house.
— Joe Ryan

IMMORTALITY

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library
—Jorge Luis BORGES (1899-1986)

What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.
— Essays of Elia. Oxford in the Vacation

Charles LAMB (1775-1834)

Shelved around us lie
The mummied authors.
— "Third Evening". The Poet's Journal.

Baynard TAYLOR (1825-1878)

Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe
Where every book is thy epitaph.
— On Sir Thomas Bodley's library
Henry VAUGHAN (1621-1695)

INFORMATION

Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's "capital," and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.
— "Managing the Information Explosion" The Wall Street Journal, April 10, 1980
Peter F. DRUCKER

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Choruses from The Rock
— T. S. ELIOT

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.
— Thomas JEFFERSON (1743-1826)

Information is the currency of democracy.
— Thomas JEFFERSON (1743-1826)

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
— John F. KENNEDY

A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
— James MADISON

How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
— Dunciad, Book 1.
Alexander POPE

LIBRARIANS

A keeper of books.
— Anonymous

A factor and trader for helps to learning.
— John DURY

The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.
— Mission del Bibliotecario
Jose ORTEGA Y GASSET (1883-1955)

Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until the present, the librarian has been principally occupied with the book as a thing, as a material object. From now on he must give his attention to the book as a living function. He must become a policeman, master of the raging book.
— A translation of OyG's address to the International Congress of Bibliographers and Librarians in Paris in 1934.
Jose ORTEGA Y GASSET (1883-1955)

Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely underemployed.
— The Social Audit Consumer Handbook, Macmillan, 1978, p. 41
Charles MEDAWAR

"Mary Kay is one of the secret masters of the world: a librarian. They control information. Don't ever piss one off."
— The Callahan Touch
Spider ROBINSON

Believers and doers are what we need -- faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books.... To be in a library is one of the purest of all experiences. This awareness of library's unique, even sacred nature, is what should be instilled in our neophites.
— A Passion for Books
Lawrence Clark POWELL (1906- )

I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.
— Quoted by J.R. Kidd in Learning and Society
Bernard Keble SANDWELL (1876-1954)

Unlearned men of books assume the care,
As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
— Love of Fame. Satire ii. L. 83.
Edward YOUNG (1684-1765)

PLACE OF LEARNING

Library Here is where people,
One frequently finds,
Lower their voices
And raise their minds.
— Light Armour. McGraw-Hill, 1954.

Richard ARMOUR

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.
— Cited in Writer's Digest, February 1976, p25
Ray Douglas BRADBURY (1920- )

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
— Henry Wadsworth LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)

"There was one place where I forgot the cold, indeed forgot Siberia. That was in the library. There, in that muddy village, was a great institution. Not physically, to be sure, but in every other way imaginable. It was a small log cabin, immaculately attended to with loving care; it was well lighted with oil lamps and it was warm. But best of all, it contained a small but amazing collection from the world's best literature, truly amazing considering the time, the place, and its size. From floor to ceiling it was lined with books - books, books, books. It was there that I was to become acquainted with the works of Dumas, Pasternak's translations of Shakespeare, the novels of Mark Twain, Jack London, and of course the Russians. It was in that log cabin that I escaped from Siberia - either reading there or taking the books home. It was between that library and two extraordinary teachers that I developed a lifelong passion for the great Russian novelists and poets. It was there that I learned to line up patiently for my turn to sit at a table and read, to wait - sometimes months - for a book. It was there that I learned that reading was not only a great delight, but a privilege."
— Esther Hautzig, The endless steppe.
Puffin (pp. 138/9 of the 1981 ed).

I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.
— Quoted by J.R. Kidd in Learning and Society
Bernard Keble SANDWELL (1876-1954)

If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.
— Irving STONE (1903-1989)

PUBLIC LIBRARIES

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it. Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
— I, Asimov. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
Isaac ASIMOV

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
— Andrew CARNEGIE

The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books....America's greatness is not only recorded in books, but it is also dependent upon each and every citizen being able to utilize public libraries.
— Terence COOKE (1921-1983)

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I though it might sober me up to sit in a library.
— The Great Gatsby, chapter 3
F.Scott FITZGERALD (1896-1948)

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
— The Rambler. March 23, 1751.
Samuel JOHNSON (1709-1784)

The public library has been historically a vital instrument of democracy and opportunity in the United States.... Our history has been greatly shaped by people who read their way to opportunity and achievements in public libraries.
— Arthur Meier SCHLESINGER (1888-1965)

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
— Kurt VONNEGUT [In These Times, 8/6/2004]

VANITY

The richest minds need not large libraries.
— Table Talk. Bk. I. Learning - Books.
Amos Bronson ALCOTT

It is vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library.
— The Holy and Profane States. Of Books. Maxim I.

Thomas FULLER (1608-1661)

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
— The Rambler. March 23, 1751.
Samuel JOHNSON (1709-1784)

Source: IFLA

Web Resources for Librarians

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Library and Information Centers
National Center for Science Information (NCSI)
http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/
National Informatics Center (NIC) http://www.nic.in/
National Information Center for Machine Tools and Production
http://www.cmti-india.org/patent_info.htm
National Information Centers (NICs)
http://www.dsir.nic.in/vsdsir/division/nissat/nisnat/nics/map.html
Environmental Information system
http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/envis/Welcomemgraph.html
Biotechnology Information Center http://dbtindia.nic.in/btis/
Information Center S.N.D.T. Women's University http://sndt.edu/
Information Center for Aerospace Science and Technology
http://www.cmmacs.ernet.in/nal/icast/icast.html
Patent Information System (PIS),
http://did.nic.in/vsdid/pis/pisnew.htm
Indian Space Research Organisation http://www.isro.org/
National Natural Resource Management System (NNRMS)
http://envfor.nic.in/envis/nnrms.html#index>
Information and Library Network Centre(INFLIBNET)
http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/>
Agriculture Netwerork Information Center http://www.agnic.org/
Indian MEDLARS Center http://indmed.nic.in/
American Information Resource Centers in India (AIRC)
http://americanlibrary.in.library.net/
Institution Based Multidisciplinary Information System
Indian National Scientific Documentation Centers (INSDOC)
http://www.insdoc.org/
Defense Scientific Information & Documentation Center (DESIDOC)
http://www.drdo.org/
National Social Science Documentation Center (NASSDOC)
http://www.icssr.org/nassdoc.htm
National Institute of Small Industry Extension Training
http://www.nisiet.com/>
Indian MEDLARS Center http://indmed.nic.in/
Bhabha Atomic Research Center http://www.barc.ernet.in/
R & D Center for Iron & Steel (RDCIS) http://www.rdcis-sail.com/
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI)
http://www.ficci.com/ficci/index.html
National Small Industries Corporation http://nsic.nic.in/
National Medical Library, New Delhi.
http://nml.nic.in/NMLNonFlash/main.asp
Environmental Systems Research Institute http://www.esriindia.com/
Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) http://www.teriin.org/index.htm
Small Enterprises National Document Center ( SENDOC)
http://www.nisiet.com/sendoc.html
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) http://www.bhel.com/

Councils
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research(CSIR)
http://www.csir.res.in/
Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR) http://icmr.nic.in/
Indian Council of Agricultural Research(ICAR) http://www.nic.in/icar/
University Grant Commission http://www.ugc.ac.in/
Department of Scientific &IndustrialResearch http://dsir.nic.in/
Delhi Library Network(DELNET) http://delnet.nic.in/

Foreign National Centers
National Earthquake Information Center http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/
National Aeronautics and Space Administration http://www.nasa.gov/
National Vaccine Information Center http://www.909shot.com/default.htm
Uranium Information Center http://www.uic.com.au/

International Information Centers
International Information System for the Agri.Sci.&technologyAGRIS)
http://www.fao.org/agris/Default.asp?Language=EN
World's Leading International Nuclear Information System
http://www.iaea.or.at/programmes/inis/index.html
International Nuclear Information System(INIS)
http://www.iaea.or.at/inis/ws/
Institute of Scientific and Technical Information(VINITI)
http://www.viniti.msk.su/Welcome.html
United Nations Edu.Scientific and Cultural Orga.(UNESCO)
http://www.unesco.org/
International federation for library association and institution(IFLA)
http://www.ifla.org/
International Federation for Information and Documentation(FID )
http://www.kb.nl/infolev/fid/about/
Association for Information Management(ASLIB) http://www.aslib.com/
American library association(ALA) http://www.ala.org/
Special Libraries Association (SLA) http://www.sla.org/
The Library Association(UK) http://www.la-hq.org.uk/
Social Science Information Gateway http://www.sosig.ac.uk/politics/
Social Science Information Center
http://www.social-science-gesis.de/en/iz/
International Sociological Association (ISA)
http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/
OCLC Online Computer Library Center http://www.oclc.org/home/

Subject Gateways
EEVL Engineering Resources http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
BUBL Information Service as an Internet Reference Resource
http://www.bubl.ac.uk/
Clearing House for Subject oriented Intenet Resource Guides
http://www.clearinghouse.net/
UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Department http://www.chem.ucla.edu/
The WWW Virtual Library http://www.vlib.org/
Galaxy http://galaxy.einet.net/
Library and Information Science http://www.infolibrarian.com/

OPACs
Indian Institute of science online public access Catalogue
http://deen.library.iisc.ernet.in/cgi-bin/lsbrows1.cgi
Library of Congress Online Catalogue http://www.loc.gov/catalog/
University of saskatchewan Library Catalogue http://sundog.usask.ca/
Dissertation and theses Online Public Access Catalouge
http://www.umi.com/
NARA Library Online Public Access Catalogue
http://www.nara.gov/alic/opac.html
University Research Libraries copac http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/

Digital Libraries
Berkeley Digital Library http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/
Alexandria Digital Library http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/
Informedia Digital Video Library http://www.informedia.cs.cmu.edu/
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Digital Libraries
http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/idli/idli.htm
University of Michigan Digital Library http://www.si.umich.edu/UMDL/
Stanford Integrated Digital Library
http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/diglib/index.html/
National Resource Centre, NIFT, New Delhi
http://geocities.com/namdevdeepak/list_of_journals.htm

Journals under medIND

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Total number of journals under medIND are now 35 as listed below:
* Endodontology
* Health Administrator
* Indian Journal of Aerospace Medicine
* Indian Journal of Allergy Asthma and Immunology
* Indian Journal of Anaesthesia
* Indian Journal of Chest Diseases and Allied Sciences
* Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry
* Indian Journal of Community Medicine
* Indian Journal of Gastroenterology
* Indian Journal of Medical & Paediatric Oncology
* Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology
* Indian Journal of Medical Research
* Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine
* Indian Journal of Occupational and Enviornmental medicine
* Indian Journal of Occupational Therapy
* Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery
* Indian Journal of Pediatrics
* Indian Journal of Pharmacology
* Indian Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine
* Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
* Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
* Indian Journal of Tuberculosis
* Indian Pediatrics
* J.K. Practitioner
* Journal, Indian Academy of Clinical Medicine
* Journal of Family Welfare
* Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine
* Journal of Indian Rheumatology Association
* Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India
* Journal of The Anatomical Society of India
* Journal of Indian Association of Pediatrics Surgeons
* Journal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry
* Medical Journal Armed Forces India
* NTI Bulletin
* Trends in Biomaterials and Artificial Organs

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Malicious Website Warnings: warn you if you're about to visit a website known to host viruses or malware.
Anti-Phishing Protection: A big, bolded domain so you know if you're at citibank.com or citiphishingsite.com.
Free to download @ http://www.epicbrowser.com//
The Epic Browser is the first-ever web browser for India and the first product from the software company Hidden Reflex. Hidden Reflex is a software product startup founded by Alok Bhardwaj in 2007 and based in Bangalore. Alok, who was raised in the U.S., was inspired by the success of open source software and web 2.0 innovations. Hidden Reflex began as a team of three but soon progressed and now has dedicated teams working on two products simultaneously – the Epic Browser and NewsDrink.

Reach eLibrary - A new SaaS (software-as-a-service) version of eLibrary software

2010-06-10T16:50:00.002+05:30

Integration New Media, Inc. (INM) announced a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of its eLibrary software. The new SaaS version, called Reach eLibrary, is part of the company's Reach ePublishing Family of Products, which was announced at the same time.

Reach eLibrary is designed to help publishers create rich libraries of digital documents. The application's customizable cross-document search functionality allows readers to easily search for content and view results immediately on-screen. An embedded document viewer, based on Reach Docs technology, makes reading content online simple and intuitive.

Reach eLibrary features a back-end control center that provides publishers with self-service access to upload new documents, an area to manage content, and the ability to remove out-of-date documents. The back-end control center also includes management controls to provide users access to the eLibrary, a function to password protect the full eLibrary and a reporting module that delivers details about library access and document views.

Reach eLibrary is available immediately and is licensed on an annual basis for $1,800 per year. Customizations can also be done for clients for an additional fee.
Source: http://reach.inm.com/

Build Your Own Newsletter

2010-06-03T11:30:00.000+05:30

TechDispenser combines a broadest range of tech and IT news sources with purpose-driven customization tools to help one stay on top of what matters—no matter what that means to anyone. TechDispenser aggregates content filtered by editors, then lets one choose the resources and filters one prefers. Based on the selections, one will receive a fully customized newsletter in a convenient digest, right in his inbox. One can choose from over 700 sources and 200+ topics. Build your newsletter at http://www.techdispenser.com/

Download Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Trial Version

2010-06-03T11:25:00.000+05:30

With the recently launched Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, people get a wide range of powerful new ways to do their best work from more places – whether they’re using a PC, smart phone or web browser. From insightful updates to Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook, to new server integration capabilities that make it easier for everyone to track, report and share vital information, Office Professional Plus 2010 offers the complete package through familiar, intuitive tools. To download, visit http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/download-office-professional-plus/default.aspx

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)

2010-05-19T17:13:00.001+05:30

The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations. This website contains information about the initiative, how to set up Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) programmes, how to create and locate ETDs, and current research in digital libraries related to the NDLTD and ETDs.

The NDLTD assists students and universities in using electronic publishing and digital libraries to more effectively share knowledge in order to unlock potential benefits worldwide. The NDLTD also promotes student efforts to transform the genre of the print dissertation through the use of innovative software to create cutting edge hypertext/multimedia ETDs.

NDLTD announced that there are now over one million readily available electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) online worldwide. The NDLTD, OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), VTLS and Scirus maintain and provide access related to the NDLTD Union Catalog of ETDs available in institutional repositories around the globe.

http://www.ndltd.org/serviceproviders/scirus-etd-search

Legend Maker 1.0 - Generates eBooks from RTF files

2010-04-21T13:11:00.000+05:30

ZappTek has launched a new application, Legend Maker 1.0 for Mac OS X, which converts book manuscripts from word processor files to eBooks. The new software generates eBooks files that will work with the iPad, Kindle, Reader and Nook and also software readers ibis reader and bookworm. It can generate eBooks with complex layout and design, using images, indexes, tables of contents and footnotes and endnotes.

Legend Maker works with word processor files that have been converted to RTF, taking text-based tags in the manuscript -- indicating page breaks, bookmarks and images -- and converting the layout references into a fully functional eBook. The converter supports typographical elements like italics, boldface, indentation, hyperlinks, and tables. Newly generated eBooks support user-supplied metadata like titles, authors, genres, publishers, copyrights, ISBN IDs and creation dates.

Legend Maker 1.0 requires an Intel chip and Mac OS X 10.6. It is $100 with lifetime free updates.
Source: http://www.macnn.com/

Latest Projects from sourceforge.net

2010-04-07T15:34:00.003+05:30

IXThemes
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ixthemes
IXThemes is an implementation of innovative methods in the development of qualitative universality themes and templates for content management systems based on the XOOPS Web application platform such as pure XOOPS, ImpressCMS, EXM System, and others.

OrangeHRM - Human Resource Management
https://sourceforge.net/projects/orangehrm
OrangeHRM is an Open Source Human Resource Management System that covers Personnel Information Management, Employee Self Service, Leave, Time and Attendance, Benefits, and Recruitment. Tags: HRM, HRMS, HCM, HRIS, EHRMS, Human Capital Management.

GIMP on OS X
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimponosx
This project provides pre-build GIMP application bundles for Intel and PPC Macs and tools for building GIMP on Mac OS X easily.

Webmin
https://sourceforge.net/projects/webadmin
A web-based system administration tool for Unix servers and services

TinyMCE
https://sourceforge.net/projects/tinymce
TinyMCE is a platform independent webbased java-script HTML WYSIWYG editor control, developed in java-script/ECMAScript, higly customizable. Works in Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Netscape, IE, Safari and Chrome.

Task Coach
https://sourceforge.net/projects/taskcoach
Task Coach - Your friendly task manager. Task Coach is a simple open source todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists. Often, tasks and other things todo consist of several activities. Task Coach is designed to deal with composite tasks.

Sweet Home 3D
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d
Sweet Home 3D is an interior design Java application for quickly choosing and placing furniture on a house 2D plan drawn by the end-user, with a 3D
preview.

CMU Sphinx
https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx
Sphinx is a speaker-independent large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer released under a BSD style license. It is also a collection of
open source tools and resources that allows researchers and developers to
build speech recognition systems

State Public Libraries Acts in India

2010-03-17T12:43:00.000+05:30

1. Tamil Nadu, 1948 http://www.tn.gov.in/kovailibrary/
2. Andhra Pradesh, 1960
3. Karnataka, 1965 http://www.kar.nic.in/publib/
4. Maharashtra, 1967
5. West Bengal, 1979 http://banglargranthagar.gov.in/
6. Manipur, 1988
7. Kerala, 1989 http://www.statelibrary.kerala.gov.in/
8. Haryana, 1989
9. Mizoram, 1993
10. Goa, 1993
11. Gujarat, 2000 http://sycd.gov.in/library/
12. Orissa, 2000 http://hkmsl.gov.in/
13. Rajasthan, 2005
14. Uttar Pradesh, 2005
15. Uttarakhand, 2005
16. Pondicherry, 2007/2008

OPACs from India

2010-03-02T15:21:00.008+05:30

Today libraries in India are providing access to their Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) from their websites to benefit researchers from all over the world. Here few such websites have been listed. Please go through the links provided on each of them for further details.

American Center Information Resource Centers in India
British Council Libraries in India
Cochin University of Science and Technology Library
Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics Library, Pune
Health Education Library for People
ICSSR-NASSDOC, New Delhi
Indian Institute of Science Library, Bangalore
Indian Institute of Technology Library, Mumbai
Indian Statistical Institute Library, Kolkata
Indian Statistical Institute Library, Delhi
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Library, Mumbai
NAL Information Centre for Aerospace Science and Technology, Bangalore
National Institute of Bank Management Library, Pune
National Law School Library, Bangalore
National Science Library, New Delhi
Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Library, Mumbai
Tata Institute of Social Sciences Library, Mumbai
University of Pune Library, Pune
St. Stephens College, Delhi