The British Library – Research Libraries-I

The National Library of Great Britain, situated at London. It works through British Council library network, is one of the world’s largest research libraries. They hold 14 million books, 920,000 journal and Newspaper titles, 58 million patents and 3 million sound recordings and almost 30,000 treasures of collection. What a huge collection ?
OK, Now we have a small look on its history. It was established in 1973 (British Museum period 1753-1973), the national library was part of the British Museum. In 1983, the Library absorbed the National Sound Archive their collections known as the 'foundation collections'. These include the books and manuscripts of Sir Robert Cotton, Sir Hans Sloane, Robert Harley and King George III. However, since 1997 the main collection has been holds in a single new building on Euston Road (The largest public building in UK in the 20th century) since 2000 the Chief Executive / Director of the British Library has been Dame Lynne Brindley.
As part of copyright services, are as follows:
Submission of material for legal deposit Copies from document supply services (includes Declaration Forms for Library Privilege copies) Copies from research collection based in St Pancras Copies from newspapers Permissions clearance (for further reproduction of British Library images in any form) Legal disclaimer
Among them, document supply service is one of the most important and regular service used by most of the Research Libraries. Because The British Library manages its collections as a single entity. Material is selected according to their collection development policy and a significant portion is available for loan. British Library collection is probably the largest in the world devoted to the provision of remote document delivery. It covers every aspect of scientific, technical, medical and human knowledge, in many languages. They hold journals, books, conferences, reports, patents, theses, official publications, music scores and images. To search their collection on the web is free or to find more information about their collection, catalogues and publications.
Before we get the facility from document supply service, first we need to know how to search an article/document and how to order an article/document, it could be an interesting service through an ARTweb. These things we will learn in the NEXT stage.
Till than have a nice look on its website http://www.bl.uk/

ISBN-13

I don't know how many of you aware of ISBN-13 check digit.
In order to accommodate the growing number of books being published each year, beginning January 1, 2007, all 10-digit International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) will be converted to new 13-digit ISBNs. ISBN 13 (in use January, 2007) is equal to the EAN-13 code (European Article Number) found underneath a book's barcode. It can be used for error detection, the decimal equivalent of a binary checksum.
The Manual calculation of an ISBN-13 check digit begins with the first 12 digits of the thirteen-digit ISBN (thus excluding the check digit itself). Each digit, from left to right, is alternately multiplied by 1 or 3, then those products are summed modulo 10 to give a value ranging from 0 to 9. Subtracted from 10, that leaves a result from 1 to 10. A zero (0) replaces a ten (10), so, in all cases, a single check digit results. For example,
the ISBN-13 check digit of 978-0-11-322799- is calculated as follows
s = 9×1 + 7×3 + 8×1 + 0×3 + 1×1 + 1×3 + 3×1 + 2×3 + 2×1 + 7×3 + 9×1 + 9×3 = 9 + 21 + 8 + 0 + 1 + 3 + 3 + 6 + 2 + 21 + 9 + 27 = 110 110 / 10 = 11 remainder 0 10 – 0 = 0 Thus, the check digit is 0, and the complete sequence is ISBN 978-0-11-322799-0.
Bowker is excited to introduce the new 13-digit. You can also convert Ten digit numbers to Thirteen digit numbers with the following link http://www.isbn.org/converterpub.asp

Scientific/Technical Officer-I @ INFLIBNET

INFLIBNET Centre, its head-quarters at Ahmedabad invites applications from IndianNationals belonging to OBC category (non-creamy layer for all Indiaemployment) for the post of Scientific/Technical Officer-I(Library Science)-1 post.
Job Description : The incumbent will be a member of the team of Libraryprofessionals involved in the areas relating to library automation, creationof database, digital library consortium, providing information service,conducting training programmes for the library professionals, organizingseminar/workshop/convention etc.*Qualification & Experience:* M.Lib./M.L.I.Sc. OR B.Lib./B.L.I.Sc. witheight years post qualification experience in a regular position. The degree must be from a recognized university only.Upper Age Limit: 30 years plus 3 years age relaxation applicable to OBCcategory.
Pay Band & Grade Pay: *Rs.9,300-34,800 (PB-2) plus Rs.4,200/- (Grade Pay) (At present GrossRs.24,010/- per month at the minimum of thescale). Website: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/jobs/advt.01-2009.pdf <http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/jobs/advt.01-2009.pdf%20> <http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/jobs/advt.01-2009.pdf>

Sixth PRC recommendatios _HRD Letter to UGC

It is very hapy to inform you all that According to Dr.P.V.Konnur (Presidet, Indian Academic Library Association (IALA) message, Ministry of HRD has given a good New year gift to the Academic community. On 31st of Disember the HRDMinitry has issued its order to the UGC for implementation of PRC Recommentions. Some of you might have already read the same. However I have located the fultext of the order on the IALA website. You may visit the same from the followin link: http://iala.org.in/subfiles/pay.pdf Friends, given to his understanding there are atleast 60% of theUniversity Library posts specially University Librarian positions are vacant in the entire country. We have seen several Universities advertising two to three times for want of suitable candidates. One best example is that Bangalore University could not recruit its Librarian post for 17 years. Though it had advertised for three to four times. Hence there may be similar examples all over the country. I request all of you to kindly send him the relevent documents likea dvertisements etc., to putforth our arguement for enhancement of the age of Superannuation of Library professionals to Sixty five as in the case of Teachers. He also request all of you to kindly give your feedback on the HRD orders immediately to them. So that, they can sumit our memorandum to the appropriate bodies in time. Follow the address for feedback: Dr.P.V.KonnurPresidet, Indian Academic Library Association (IALA)Fulbright Fellow (University of Illinois)University Librarian,Bangalore University Library,Jananabharati, Bangalore-560056Phone: 080-22961131, 23215510Website: http://library.bub.ernet.in