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