Internet Library for Librarians

Dear Library Professionals,
Internet Library for Librarians is an information portal designed for librarians to locate Internet resources related to their profession. It provides links to more than 3,000 resources. All the resources are recommended, selected, and reviewed by librarians. Each entry has a full description of the goals and /or scope of the resource, as well as the contact information if provided. This is a handy and useful tool for both novices and experienced library staff.

Details at http://www.itcompany2.com/inforetriever/index.htm

System for Library Information Management

Dear Library professionals,
System for Library Information Management is an effective tool for automating libraries. SLIM++ is the latest and most powerful library software. SLIM++ is user friendly, menu driven, and highly interactive software. To operate SLIM++ no prior knowledge of computers is required. Its powerfull user interface feature like drag-drop makes its user feel very comfortable. The accompanying on-site training and high quality reference manuals ensure smooth transition from the current computerized or manual system to SLIM++. The committed after sales support assures the success of the library computerization.

For more details about the SLIM++ Please visit
http://www.slimpp.com/SlimPPSITE/index.asp

E-LIS for Librarians

Dear Library professionals,
E-Prints in Library and Information Science (E-LIS) is an open archive for Library and Information Science professionals for getting the documents. It includes scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, on Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related areas arranged as recent submission and also as the archives.

E-LIS relies on the voluntary work of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and is non-commercial. It is not a funded project of an organization. It is community-owned and community-driven. We serve LIS researchers by facilitating their self-archiving, ensuring the long-term preservation of their documents and by providing word-wide easy access to their papers.


For more details make use of this link: http://eprints.rclis.org/

Student Portal for 3D Design

Dear Friends,
Autodesk Inc., the world's leading design software and digital solutions company, has announced the launch of its Global Student Engineering and Design Community Portal in India. The launch of this portal is part of Autodesk's global initiative to educate the student community with latest 3D design technologies and prepare them for careers in engineering and design. This portal will provide students in the field of architecture, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, gaming and animation and industrial design free access to Autodesk software and at the same time offer them an opportunity to communicate and collaborate with students across the globe. For More details visit: http://students.autodesk.com

Librarians to Cybrarians

Dear Library Professionals,

We know Librarians are the only one community to organize and manage ever growing information resources under different areas of subjects.In this information technology era librarians are known as cybrarians, content managers, information specialists, and knowledge engineers. The value of the librarians increase every day due to the information explosion.

The talents of the librarian extend far beyond the ability to just organize. It is required that librarians be equally competent with the technology as well. Given the line of work, it is imperative that the librarians know a plethora of software applications, operating platforms, and programming languages such as, Java, XML and Perl. Because of their attention to detail, librarians have also become programmers and web analysts.

more about changing librarianship see http://www.webgrrls.com/wfs.jhtml?/career/advice/cybrarians.phtml

Moodle: An Electronic Course Management System Tool

Dear Professionals,

Have you heard about Moodle?Moodle is an Open Source Course Management System(CMS) tool for more effective learning mechanism. All you need is a PC for each student and teacher and a good Internet connection and you can work wonders using this Course Management System. In some cases the teachers may be physically present in the class room and still use an e-learning platform for effective learning mechanism. In other cases, the teacher and student may be miles apart and yet connected to a virtual class room.

Online interactive learning Platform (OIL Platform) offer an interactive stage for people to communicate in a variety of ways-through real time chats, messaging systems, audio- video conferencing, bulletin boards etc.

OIL Platforms allow teachers to put up a variety of curriculum content in different formats, such as powerpoint slides, links to various web resources, audio/video presentations, quizzes, polls etc. in the e-learning system.

Some popular e-learning platforms include ‘Blackboard’ from Microsoft and ‘Moodle’.

For more details about moodle click on www.moodle.org.

For Blackboard http://www.blackboard.com/services/training/academic_suite/index.Bb

Did You Know About Librarian's Alphabet

Dear Library Professionals,

It is very interesting that awareness about the funny alphabetical poem existing with the concepts of libraries. This charming poem uses amusing couplets to describe librarianship.

See the excellent poem at: http://dplourde.home.netcom.com/sampler/alphabet.html

New Yahoo Messenger Chats in Three Indian Languages Launched

Dear Professionals,
The new Version 8 of its India-specific Internet Messenger tool-IndiChat- launched by Yahoo, you can download what are being called “Audibles”: tiny colored facial icons, which can be attached to your instant messages. When clicked open by the recipient, they will speak a few seconds of dialogue. In International release of Yahoo’s new Messenger, the spoken lines range from flirtatious to slightly risqué: but in India the lines are more chaste, if corny and Bollywood-based.
The India Launch comes with free plug-ins in Hindi, Kannada or Tamil, with other languages promised. They all low the users to relay chat in these languages using a Standard English Keyboard-…thanks to a new International standard known as UTF-8 (Universal Transformation Format).
Yahoo has simultaneously made available its enhanced version of Yahoo Mail-the most used email client in India. New features include drag-and-drop email organization, the ability to view multiple mails at the same time and a Really Simple Syndication(RSS) reader that allows users to get news feeds and blogs pushed directly to their mails in real time.
The release is still being called a beta or trial version. The download sites for the new India-centered messenger tools and the beefed-up mail tool are:
http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/
http://in.gallery.yahoo.com/messenger
http://mail.yahoo.com/all-new

PMB is available now in version 3.0.2

Dear Library Professionals,
New version of PMB is ready for downloading.
PMB is a Powerful databse management open source software.One of the best features of this free documentary software package is its intuitive, to use-friendly interface especially in the cataloging module.One draw back of this software is some documentation parts still in French.PMB Services is a service company specialized for the libraries and the public resource centres, deprived or of company.The application settles very easily under Windows, it turns under Linux, Macintosh, and functions into single-user, Intranet or open on Internet.

Click this link for PMB download page http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sigb.net%2Fdownload.php&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

A Website for Indian Agriculture

Dear All,
A multilingual online question and answer forum - Almost All Questions Answered (aAQUA) developed by Developmental Informatics Laboratory which provides online answers to questions asked by farmers and agri-professionsals over the Internet is supported by Indian Institute of Technology(IIT-Bombay), the Krishi Vigyan Kendra and the Vigyan Ashram.
The forum has 2000 registered members in all and enables farmers to use keywords to view achieved crop recommendations , provides search options to see if a specific question has been answered, and gets market prices for commodities across India. IIT-Bombay's Developmental Laboratory(DIL), which is working on increasing access to the Internet and other communication technologies in rural India, has built this site using open source software based on laboratory-developed algorithms for translation.Experts from various Krishi Vigyan Kendras have joined this project to answer members' questions, while the Vigyan Ashram mainly provides Internet/Telephone services using WLL and has established several Internet kiosks in villages (Each equipped with a multimedia PC, Printer and Web camera) to enable farmers to log on to this site.

If you want to log in and use this site for further information
Please Click on http://aaqua.persistent.co.in/aaqua/forum/login

A New, Customised Search tool on Offer!!!!

Dear Professionals,
Google has introduced a tool that allows websites and blogs to offer visitors a coustomised version of its search engine, narrowing down its vast index so the result are more relevant for users. Called the Google Custom Search engine, its lets website operators choose which pages they want to include in their index and rank the pages. Yahoo has introduced a similsr product, Search Builder.
The service is free.

For Creating your own Google Custom Search Engine
Visit: http://google.com/coop/cse/
For Yahoo Search Builder,
http://builder.search.yahoo.com/m/promo

Online Accessing of Complete Work of Charles Darwin

Dear Professionals,

We can access the complete Bibliography of "Charles Darwin",father of evolutionary biology.



For Further Details Visit:
http://darwin-online.org.uk/

Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians

Dear Library Professionals,
Web technology is used daily by librarians for professional communication, research, and continuing education activities. The importance of the web as a communications tool for libraries has become even more essential than ever. It is therefore imperative that librarians understand the general principles of creating and maintaining web content. Librarians involved with the development of even a basic library-oriented web site need to understand how web documents are created and structured. Adding graphics and multimedia material requires additional knowledge of different media formats.

For More Details Visit:

http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/eric/papers/primer/toc.html

This interactive document provides a general introduction to the concepts involved with creating and providing access to web documents.

Now, Apply Online for Railway Jobs

Dear Friends,

Railway Recruitment Board is introducing an online registration facility.Job seekers can now apply for opportunities in Southern Railway online. Even though the examination can be written online. The answers have to be entered in computers installed at the examination center.
The new initiative is aimed at making the process more candidates-friendly and to put an end to the unethical practices.

Further details will be available on the website of the RRB:
www.rrbthiruvananthapuram.net

Librarians' Information

Dear Professionals,

They are a group of professionals working in the area of library and computer fields. Their objective behind this project is to give maximum information to working library and information science professionals, teachers and students at one place. Here, they have made an attempt to collect information from different sources and given brief description, wherever possible.
InfoLibrarian solutions allow you to catalog, categorize and search information and knowledge assets anywhere documents and data may be found.
Make the use of this link:
http://www.infolibrarian.com/

Literacy, now from Google

Dear Professionals,
Google created a website to literacy, pulling together its
books,video, mapping and blogging services to help
teachers and educational organizations
share reading resources. This site was launched
at the Frankfurt Book Fairin conjugation with
the United Nations and a literacy campaign
organised by Fair officials.

For More Details See
http://www.google.com/literacy/

Best Wishes:

Current Awareness Discovery Tools on the Internet

Dear Library Professionals,
Here is a useful guide "Current awareness discovery tools on the Internet" by Marcus.P. Zillman. This guide is a very informative one and useful for librarians while digging for information in the World Wide Web.


Photo:Marcus.P. Zillman


More Informations in pdf and for other links Click
http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Current%20Awareness%20Discovery%20Tools.pdf

The New ISBN-13

Dear Professionals,
The International Standard Book Number standard will change from 10 digits to 13 digits from 1 January 2007.

The 10 Digit ISBN Number has the following parts:

1. The first part of the ISBN identifies a country, area or language area participating in the ISBN system.(Group identifier)
2. The second part of the ISBN identifies a particular publisher within a group.(Publisher identifier)
3. The third part of the ISBN identifies a specific edition of a publication of a specific publisher.(Title identifier)
4. The check digit is the last digit of an ISBN.(Check digit).

In ISBN 13 in addition to these numbers EAN Number will be added.
ISBN can be transformed into an EAN by adding the 3-digit EAN product code for books (978) in front of the ISBN and recalculating the check digit. So ISBN 0-901690-54-6 becomes EAN 978-0-901690-54-8.{EAN= European Article Number}
More details about ISBN- 13 Digit visit ISBN Agency Australia at
http://www.thorpe.com.au/isbn/isbn13.htm
For ISBN FAQ for Librarians see
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/ISBN.html

International Training Program on Information scholarships

Dear Professionals,
There will be an International Training Program on Information,named as "STIMULATE"(Scientific and Technological Information Management in Universities and Libraries: an Active Training Environment) take place mainly in Brussels, Belgium, for three months, from May 2 to July 27, 2007 at the university campus and study visits are organized in addition to the courses.
For more Details visit:
http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/itp/stimulate7/index.html

Lot of Regards

Library without walls

Dear Friends
Digital libraries could be the next big technological revolution waiting to happen in the Indian education system.
For more Details see
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=137881

Internet Detective

Dear Professionals,
Internet Detective, a free online tutorial designed to help students develop the critical thinking required for their Internet research, is being launched on the Web on June 13th in the RDN Virtual Training Suite. The tutorial offers practical advice on evaluating the quality of websites and highlights the need for care when selecting online information sources to inform university or college work.
For More details visit at: http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/


With Regards
Gireesh

Impact of Drug Abuse in Sports

Dear Friends
Read the details about the Impact of Drugs in Sports

Impact of Drugs in Sports
Definition of Drug
According to a definition from World Book Dictionary, a drug is a substance (other than food) that, when taken into the body, produces a change in it. If this change helps the body, the drug is referred to as a medicine. If the change harms the body, the drug is referred to as a poison.
History of Drug Abuse in Sports
Drug abuse has been reported since the Greeks started the Olympics in 776BC. It was then reported that certain substances were ingested by competitors in attempts to gain some ground against fellow competitors. However, it was not until the early 19th century that the problem of drug abuse became a great menace to the sport.
There were incidents where death ensued following drug abuse. In the late 19th century, it was reported that French athletes drank a concoction of cocoa leaves and wine in order to reduce the sensation of fatigue and hunger. As a result, they were able to withstand strenuous forms of exercise and physical activity.
Athletes and body builders take anabolic steroids to make their muscles bigger and stronger. The drug also keeps their energy high so they can train longer and harder without getting tired and sore.
Student athletes have used different supplements including vitamins and minerals, amino acid supplements, anabolic steroids and other anabolic substances, stimulants, painkillers, and a variety of illegal street drugs. Stimulants, narcotics, anabolic agents, cannabinoids, masking agents, making weight agents, natural body hormones and genetic manipulation are the
Prohibited list of Drugs.
Factors influencing athletes to use drugs
The pressure to win, or to perform better physically, may lead a participant to drug-taking, either to enhance performance or to make it easier to cope with the stress of competition. Expectations from parents, coaches, peers and team-mates may cause a participant to aspire to a radical improvement in their sporting ability, beyond their natural physical capacity.i.e

A. A belief that their competitors are taking drugs
B. A determination to do anything possible to win
C. Pressure from coaches, parents and peers
D. Community attitudes and expectations of success
E. Financial rewards
F. Influence from the media in facilitating these expectations and rewards (8)
G. Belief in multiple benefits to be accrued:
An increase in strength and endurance
Delay in the onset of fatigue
Increased ability to concentrate
Decreased sensitivity to pain
Prohibited substances and doping methods
Stimulants
Anabolic agents
Androgenic anabolic steroids
Non-steroidal
Diuretics
Peptide and glycoprotein hormones and analogues
Narcotic analgesics
Blood doping
Pharmacological, chemical or physical manipulations
Summary of currently prohibited methods and substances by International Olympic Committee

Drugs
Prohibited procedures
Prohibited under certain circumstances
Stimulants
Blood doping
Alcohol
Narcotics
Administering artificial oxygen carriers
Cannabinoids
Anabolic agents
Ø ÿ Anabolic androgenic steroids
Ø ÿ Beta-2 agonists
Other plasma expanders
Local anesthetics
Diuretics
Pharmacological, chemical and physical manipulation
Glucocorticosteroids
Peptide hormones, mimetics and analogs

Beta-blockers
Drug uses in sports
Here we look at three of the better-known drugs in sport – anabolic steroids, human growth hormone and EPO. All are members of a family of chemicals called hormones – naturally occurring chemical messengers that regulate many of the body's functions.
The main hormones are produced by glands and are transported around the body in the bloodstream. Because of their importance in the growth and development of organs and tissue, hormones are the main target in the development of performance-enhancing drugs. But, as we will see, the fact that the drugs occur naturally in the body sometimes makes detecting drug abuse difficult.
A complicating factor in drug detection is that many performance-enhancing drugs occur naturally in the body. For this reason, sporting bodies usually set benchmarks – if the amount of the substance detected is above the benchmark, the athlete is said to be guilty of doping.
Effect of Drugs
• Anabolic steroids are chemically manufactured drugs. They are a man-made
version of testosterone, the male sex hormone.
• Athletes and body builders take anabolic steroids to make their muscles bigger and stronger. The drug also keeps their energy high so they can train longer and harder without getting tired and sore.
• Some men take steroids because they think they will look better with bigger muscles.
• It is illegal to sell anabolic steroids for the purpose of improving a person’s
performance in sports.
• There are a few very specific medical uses for anabolic steroids, including treatment for some forms of breast cancer and blood disorders and for people who are not growing properly.
• Some athletes take 5 to 10 times the amount that a doctor might prescribe for
legitimate medical uses. Some body builders and weight lifters may take 200 times the prescribed amount.
• Steroids are taken by mouth or by injection. Athletes usually take them in a cycle that lasts from four to 18 weeks. The cycle includes starting with low doses of more than one steroid, then gradually increasing the dose, then stopping use entirely. This is called “stacking.”
• Some athletes take other drugs besides anabolic steroids in an attempt to improve their performance. For example: – stimulants (drugs that make them more alert and delay tiredness, allowing them to train longer). These may include
pseudoephedrine or caffeine.
• Analgesics (substances that act on the brain and spinal cord to reduce the amount of pain that is felt). An example is ibuprofen.
• Diuretics (drugs that cause quick but temporary weight loss). An example is
caffeine.
•Marijuana (a drug that may have a calming effect).
Drug Testing
The purpose of drug testing now had two bases – health and welfare and eliminating drug cheating. Athletes during this period were using exogenous substances, those not naturally found in the body. They were relatively easy to find. The Ben Johnson case in 1988 at the Soeul Olympic Games involved Stanazolol. This drug tended to be a little more difficult to detect but eventually the testing improved and Johnson was caught. It is now very easy to detect with the newer lab equipment.
As testing in the laboratories improved athletes moved onto other drugs that were
more difficult to detect. They started using testosterone, a naturally occurring
hormone. Testing shifted accordingly and eventually developed a methodology to
detect exogenous testosterone. And so on and so forth.
The challenges of the Melbourne Commonwealth Games were the detection of blood products, designer steroids and human growth hormone. How accurate was this testing? We only have WADA’s assurances. There will always be a detection gap.
Definition of Doping as per World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
Doping is defined as the occurrence of one or more of the anti-doping rule violations mentioned in the WADA code.
The following constitute anti-doping rule violations:
1. The presence of a Prohibited Substance or its Metabolites or Markers in an Athletes bodily specimen.
2. Use or Attempted Use of a Prohibited Substance or a Prohibited Method.
3. Refusing or failing without compelling justification to submit to Sample Collection after notification as authorized in applicable anti-doping rules or otherwise evading Sample collection.
4. Violation of applicable requirements regarding Athlete availability for Out-of competition Testing including failure to provide required whereabouts information, which are declared, based on reasonable rules.
5. Tampering or attempting to tamper with any part of Doping Control.
6. Possession of Prohibited Substances and Methods.
7. Trafficking in any Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method.
8. Administration or Attempted administration of a Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method to any Athlete or assisting, encouraging, aiding, abetting, covering up or any other type of complicity involving an anti-doping rule violation or any attempted violation.
Conclusion It is clear that that the problem of drugs in sports will not go away soon. However, as the sporting public becomes more and more aware of the situation, the greater the chances of being able to solve this burgeoning problem.

For more details visit the following links
1) http://www.drugfreesport.com/choices/drugs/index.html
2) http://www.prn2.usm.my/mainsite/bulletin/sun/1996/sun27.html
3) http://www.alcoholmedicalscholars.org/athletes-out.htm
4) http://www.smartplay.net/moves/drugs/drugsinfo.html#whatisadrug
5) http://sportal.nic.in/handbook.pdf#search=%22drug%20abuse%20in%20sports%20filetype%3Apdf%22.

Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science

Dear Professionals;
ODLIS is designed as a hypertext reference resource for library and information science professionals, university students and faculty, and users of all types of libraries. The primary criterion for including a term is whether a librarian or other information professional might reasonably be expected to know its meaning in the course of his or her work.
More details and using online dictionary, click the link below: http://monitorlinks.typepad.com/newbooks/2006/08/odlis_online_di.html

Dublin Core Metadata

Dear Professionals,
We will have to know about the Dublin Core Metadata to live with the changing library environment.
The Dublin Core metadata element set is a standard for cross-domain information resource description.
For More Details See;
http://www.cdpheritage.org/cdp/documents/CDPDCMBP.pdf
For Metadata Template See
http://www.lub.lu.se/cgi-bin/nmdc.pl

DSpace: Digital Library Software

Dear Professinals,

DSpace is an open source software platform to capture, store, index, preserve, and distribute digital works in a variety of formats. Jointly developed by MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs, the DSpace software platform serves a variety of digital archiving needs.
Listed here are sources of information on DSpace and links to selected DSpace
installations.
http://www.dspace.org/

Life History:S.R.Ranganathan

Dear Friends,
Look on these site http://www.isibang.ac.in/library/portal/index.htm .
http://www.isibang.ac.in/DRTC/srr/index.htm

It will give you a complete life history of "Father of Library Science".
Warm Wishes

Digital libraries

Dear Library Professonals,
Search the site with theURLhttp://www.ifla.org/II/diglib.htm. It will give a lot of information about the digital libraies

Library of Congress

Dear friends,
View the site of Library of Congress.It is very interesting and wonderful.

Hai search with www.cuexamresults.info for finding the reults published by Calicut university.For other unversity news visit www.calicutuniversity.com.

my world

Dear Friends
Welcome all of you to gireesh's world.