The British Library – Research Libraries-III

If you are a non-Registered member means occasional user or order small quantities of items, they recommend using one of credit/ debit card based. Before placing an order you have to search a document in British Library directory, if you know already. No problem if you don’t know the full article information. If you have keywords in your hand which you are looking for, then you enter those keywords in basic search window, (use this link to search http://direct.bl.uk/bld/Home.do ).

To know the complete picture of ordering Take a tour of British Library Direct (uses Flash) (available on basic search page). Once you complete this tour, you will be familiar in ordering the document as Non-Account holder.
Use the following link for price information of document delivery. http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/atyourdesk/docsupply/help/pricing/nonreg/pricelisnon-registered08.pdf

Then Account customers, order document via ARTweb. For Account Customers they will provide Customer code and Password. Using this code and password fill up ARTweb Order form and submit the request. Before submit, confirm the delivery method and speed of service. Use the following link to see the ARTweb order form https://www.bl.uk/reshelp/atyourdesk/docsupply/artweb.html
You can also search your document through British Library Integrated Catalogue -http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/28XQA2R7JX8Y53TQ9PTBJJNNMEGN7L671F7URT8FN9PMTG57GL-64331?func=file&file_name=find-b&local_base=blac
After submitting the order form immediately filled order form appears on your screen (see sample copy)

You can save/take a print of this ordered copy for future reference. Once your ordered request has been received by them immediately you receive an auto reply from British library stating that your request has been accepted, in that reply mail Transmission time and Requested Number is available. This also you can preserve for future reference.
Based on your request and availability of document, what reply codes they can confirm, based on this code what will be the further action, that will learn in the next stage.Till than have a nice look on its website http://www.bl.uk/

HAVE A WONDERFUL PONGAL

“WISHING THAT THIS FESTIVAL IS ONE, WHICH BRINGS GOOD LUCK AND PROSPERITY AND HOPING THAT IT IS JOYOUS, AND FILLS YOUR DAYS AHEAD WITH HAPPINESS. HAVE A WONDERFUL PONGAL." Pongal is one of the most popular harvest festival of South India, mainly Tamil Nadu. Pongal falls in the mid-January every year and marks the auspicious beginning of Uttarayan - sun's journey northwards. Pongal festival celebrates for four days. Celebrations include drawing of Kolam, swinging & cooking of delicious Pongal.
Bogi festival or Bhogi is the first day of Pongal and is celebrated in honor of Lord Indra, "the God of Clouds and Rains". Lord Indra is worshiped for the abundance of harvest, thereby bringing plenty and prosperity to the land. Thus, this day is also known as Indran. On Bhogi all people clean out their homes from top to bottom, and collect all unwanted goods. This day is meant for domestic activities and of being together with the family members.Homes are cleaned and decorated with "Kolam" - floor designs drawn in the white paste of newly harvested rice with outlines of red mud. Often pumpkin flowers are set into cow-dung balls and placed among the patterns. Fresh harvest of rice, turmeric and sugarcane is brought in from the field as preparation for the following day.Farmers worship the sun and the earth by anointing their ploughs and sickles with sandalwood paste. It is with these consecrated tools that the newly-harvested rice is cut. Another ritual observed on this day is Bhogi Mantalu, when useless household articles are thrown into a fire made of wood and cow-dung cakes. Girls dance around the bonfire, singing songs in praise of the gods, the spring and the harvest. The significance of the bonfire, in which is burnt the agricultural wastes and firewood is to keep warm during the last lap of winter. In Andhra Pradesh this day is celebrated by girls burning their old clothes and wearing the new ones after an oil massage and bath. Then follows Pongal Panai, a ritual in which new earthenware pots are painted and decorated with turmeric, flowers and mango leaves.
The second day of Pongal is known as 'Surya Pongal' and is dedicated to the Sun God. It is the day on which the celebration actually begins and is also the first day of the Tamil month Thai. On this day the granaries are full, the sun shines brightly, trees are in full bloom, bird-songs resound in the air and hearts overflow with happiness that get translated into colorful and joyous celebrations. Women on this day create elaborate 'kolam' on the grounds in front of their doorway or home. Kolam is created with colored rice flour placed on the ground carefully by using one's hand. The women take several hours to finish the kolum. On this day the new rice is collected and cooked in pots until they over flow. It is this overflowing which means Pongal. This overflowing of rice is a joyous occasion, and the children and adults as well will shout out 'Pongal-o-Pongal!'The Sun God is offered boiled milk and jaggery. A plank is placed on the ground, a large image of the Sun God is sketched on it and Kolam designs are drawn around it. In the centre of the plank is drawn a large figure of the Sun God with his effulgent rays. The "Puja" of the Sun God starts after the auspicious moment of the birth of the new month Thai. Prayers are rendered to the Sun God to seek his benedictions.The Sun God is given pride of place during Pongal. The pot in which the Pongal is cooked is decorated with flowers, sugarcane pieces, turmeric plant etc. The first offering is made to the Sun. The rice is cooked and prepared as a dish called Pongal, which is rice with dhal and sugar. This Pongal variety is called venpongal, ven meaning white. Another variety is also prepared with dhal and jaggery (sweet), called chakra pongal, chakrai meaning sweet. To accompany the venpongal, people eat brinjal (eggplant) sambar (stew), vadai, idli and spicy accompaniments.Sweets, puddings, cooked rice or 'Sarkarai Pongal' are prepared on this day. On all the three days of Bhogi, Pongal and Maattu Pongal, women adorn the entrance of their houses with colorful kolams. Large patterns, decorated with colorful flowers and powders are drawn, crowding the entire street.
The third day of Pongal is dedicated to cattle and is called Mattu Pongal. People offer prayers to the bulls, cows and other farm animals. Cows and bulls have always held a special place in India.Thus, Maatu Pongal is a day when cattle are given a well deserved day of rest and are given pride of place. Therefore the farmers honor their cattle friends by celebrating it as a day of thanks-giving to them.On this day, Lord Ganesh and Goddess Parvati are worshiped and Pongal is offered to them in the 'puja'. According to a legend, once Shiva asked his bull, Basava, to go to the earth and ask the mortals to have an oil massage and bath every day and to eat once a month. Inadvertently, Basava announced that everyone should eat daily and have an oil bath once a month. This mistake enraged Shiva who then cursed Basava, banishing him to live on the earth forever. He would have to plough the fields and help people produce more food.
The cattle are washed, their horns are painted and covered with shining metal caps. Multi-colored beads, tinkling bells, sheaves of corn and flower garlands are tied around their necks. They are fed with Pongal and taken to the village centres. Devotees pay their respect to cows by bending down, like praying in temple, and touching their feet and foreheads, followed by an aarthi (showing fire to the object of praise) and offering the cattle prasadam (food offering, in this case, Pongal).A festival called Jallikattu is held in Madurai, Tiruchirapalli and Tanjavur on this day. Bundles of money are tied to the horns of ferocious bulls which the villagers try to retrieve. Everyone joins in the community meal, at which the food is made of the freshly harvested grain. This day is named and celebrated as Tamizhar Tirunal in a fitting manner throughout Tamil Nadu.
The fourth day of the three-day Pongal celebrations is called Kaanum Pongal. In few places this day is also known as Karinaal or Thiruvalluvar Day. It is dedicated to the sun god, Surya and has its roots in ancient Brahminical tradition. Since Pongal is a rural, agrarian based festival that celebrates the harvests, the sun is a vital part of the proceedings. This is because the Sun is the symbol of life on Earth. Without the Sun, crops cannot sprout and grow. Without the Sun, harvests will not be plentiful.On Kaanum Pongal, elaborate powdered chalk designs of the sun god, Surya are drawn. As soon as the auspicious month of Thai is underway, Surya is worshiped. Sheaves of sugarcane dot the prayer area. Freshly cooked food including the typical sweet dish 'Sarkarai pongal' is first offered to Surya. Sugarcane that is offered is symbolic for sweetness and happiness in life. Sugarcane stalks and coconut- both auspicious symbols of plenty- are also offered to the Gods in propitiation of a plentiful harvest in the forthcoming yearThis day is very similar to Rakhsa Bandhan and Bhai Dhuj in that it is predominantly a festival where women offer prayers for the wellbeing of their brothers. Arati is performed for the brothers with turmeric water, limestone and rice, and this water is sprinkled on the kolam in front of the house.On this day, people travel to see other family members and the younger members of the family pay homage to the elders, and the elders thank them by giving token money. Another thing many do is leave food out on banana leaves for birds to take. Many South Indian people take the first bit of rice cooked in any given day and set it outside for the crows to take, so this is not necessarily a habit only for Pongal. Some also go to temple to worship and thank god for all good things that are bestowed on them.

Thank you Have a Nice day.

The British Library – Research Libraries-II

Before begin a next stage of The British Library – Research Libraries-II, I am very much thankful to the viewers, who were made attempt to access(ing) my blog. Before ordering the document through British Library, we have to decide ourselves that whether British Library services can be utilized on regular base or non regular, because British library document supply service having an option of both, Account Customers and Non Account Customers. If you order regularly, they recommend that you register with them.

The advantages are:
You can manage all of your purchases from one place You will be able to loan materials from their collection (Not open to individuals) You will be enrolled in their free Customer Care Programme To register and open an account, download and print the registration form with the following link. http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/atyourdesk/docsupply/help/register/registrationform.pdf Complete your details, then fax or post it to the British Library at the address given in the form.

While filling registration form, British Library had given an option on Types of Accounts.
Options were 3 -
a) Deposit Account – if you would like to pay in advance
b) Billing Account – if you would like us to bill you each month
c) Parent/satellite account – if you want to control the purchases of multiple users

Choose your Account type, whichever is better suit to your industry/Academic after all enough discussions with your co-staff and higher authorities. Choosing this Account type may also depends on mode of payment.
British Library offers two ways of payments.
Debit/credit card
Charge to an account
You don’t want to open an account to purchase items from their collection. Using a debit or credit card is the quickest and easiest way to process your order and has become the most popular method.
If you want to have a look on pricing, one click on
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/atyourdesk/docsupply/help/pricing/index.html

If you have any doubt on or need more information on your account options, please call Customer Services team on +44 (0)1937 546060 or send an e-mail to customer-services@bl.uk.
Once you concluded your Account type and mode of payment, now you are ready to place your order either as Registered or Non Registered Customer. Once you familiar with these things, we place an eye on method of placing your order in the next stage.Till than have a nice look on its website http://www.bl.uk/

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

Open Source Tools

The tools which Mr.Ehtesham suggested in my blog are well known and are being used world wide. I will provide you the Gist and website from where you can get more details and for DSpace and OpenURL suite. 1. DSpace: It is a well known Digital repository software developed by MIT. It has all the inbuilt features which is required for any ideal institutional repository. Details you can get from the official website of DSpace : http://www.dspace.org/ You can also look at Mr.Ehtesham project report on DSpace testing of its features and functionality. Here is the link :https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/handle/1849/415 2. ePrints: It is a digital library software being used by IISC, IIT for there digital repository. Feature wise it is as good as DSpace. You can look for more details at http://www.eprints.org/ 3. Moodle: It is one of the best free elearning tool used across the world. At DRTC we implemented it for many organisation and conduted workshop and training session. We are using it in our company. Details you can get from : http://moodle.org 4. Joomla & Drupal: - These are free content management system tool. It can be used to manage the different forms of online collection for the organization. Go to there website where you can get more information:http://joomla.orghttp://drupal.org 5. WordPress : With advent of w3 and the era of web 2.0 it became very easy to become a writer and invite others to read our articles and thought. This tool is meant for such kind of idea.Get more details from http://wordpress.org 6. MediaWiki : Yes Wikipedia are there from centuries to make our self informative on some given subject. Now we are into digital age and our need and volume of information also increased. We need to have information at a single mouse click. So to fulfill all this mediawiki a free tool has been designed. To get more information look at : http://mediawiki.org. 7. OpenURL reSearcher suite (CUFTS, GODOT, DBWIZ): Developed by SFU. This is entirely a new initiative and efforts are being done. You can look at SFU websit and my project report : http://software.lib.sfu.ca/ https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/handle/1849/414

UGC-NET Dec. 2008 (Paper III)

Based on Memory by Mr.Vivek Kumar Yadav and Tapas Kumar Das 15*5= 75 Marks 1. Teleconferencing 2. What is Web browsing? 3. Define TQM 4. Decision making process 5. Role of Multimedia In Library 6. Define Digital Repository 7. Difference between Dictionary & Glossary 8. Define ISDN 9. Importance of Style Manual 10. Importance of Library Cess 11. What is Information Repacking? 12. Barriers of Communication 13. Significance of between Use Studies and User Studies 14. --- 15. --- 5*12= 60 Marks 1. Characteristics of CCF 2. Modes of Subject Formation 3. Describe, Spiral of Scientific method 4. Evaluation and major steps of IR system 5. --- 1*40= 40 Marks 1. Write main networks in India 2. UGC gives a Sufficient fund to University libraries & Colleges, whynot developed far away from library automation and networking? 3. ---

LOK SABHA INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME 2009

The completed application in the given format should reach the JointDirector, Bureau of Parliamentary Studies and Training (BPST), Lok SabhaSecretariat, Room No. F-077, ?J? Block, Parliament Library Building, NewDelhi-110001, latest by 30 December 2008 Down load the Application form from the following link http://164.100.24.209/newls/bureau/advt121208.pdf Stipend and Other Facilities: The Interns will be paid a consolidatedstipend of Rs. 18,000/- per month during the Internship period. In addition,a sum of Rs. 10,000/- shall be given as a one-time expenditure towardsstationery and typing expenses. Expenses on accommodation, travelling, etc.shall be borne by the Interns themselves.

116 librarian Posts

Dear All Wish you a happy and Prosperous new Year 2009, Here is a good news to Job seekers, Andhrapradesh Public Service commission announced 116 Librarian posts for recruitment. Visit http://www.apspsc.gov.in/home.appsc for more information and online apply.

IGF 2008@Hyderabad

3rd Meeting of Internet Governance Forum (IGF) facilitated by UN in Hyderabad, December 3-6, 2008. The overall theme of this meeting is"Internet for all". In estimation over 1400 were participated even in tragic event of Mumbai and get succeeded. IGF secretariat has been released some photographs thru their website http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/ and For photographs click: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=IGF+hyderabad Through the following site we can access all daily evnets in vedio clippings and pdfs http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/internet_governance_forum_2008

Greenstone Digital Library Softare-Beginners guide

Greenstone-2.81rc-win32 beginners guide. http://greenstonesupport.iimk.ac.in/Documents/GSDL%20Begineers%20Guide.pdf

Anomalies in the UGC 6th PRC

It would be an appreciable step regarding submitting memorandum under the Chairmanship of Prof. Chadda to The Minister for HRD and UGC towards removal of dispartities in promotion and benefits to Librarirans in colleges and Univerisities. http://iala.org.in/subfiles/prc.pdf Asking feed back to IALA (konnur@bub.ernet.in) for additional input and submit further memorandum.

Librarian - Vacancy

One Librarian post is available at Centaurex Academy Of Business Studies, kinldy click on title of this post for further information. / follow the link http://www.careerage.com/dispjob.php?file=/20081223/75dd03964c20da52d6dab13bfff95ce5.html&kwd=librarian

Librarin - Vacancy

Kindly open the below link to apply for the Librarian post. http://www.timesjobs.com/candidate/JobDetailView.html?_q=b91cfa33103feeae074fbffde7b4a4e0

Librarian vacancy

Librarian Vacancy at VIT University, Vellore, Tamilnadu. Open a link for more details. Send your Resume with details of qualifications, experience and latest passport size photo etc., within 10 days to the registrar@vit.ac.in

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The Bhagavad Gita - Solution of Life

It is a conversation between Krishna and Arjuna taking place on the battlefield before the start of the Kurukshetra war. Responding to Arjuna's confusion and moral dilemma, Krishna explains to Arjuna his duties as a warrior. The Bhagavad Gita is also called Gitopanishad as well as Yogopanishad, implying its status as an Upanishad, or a Vedantic scripture. The Gita is also called a mokshashastra, or scripture of liberation. The Bhagavad Gita occurs in the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata and comprises 18 chapters from the 25th to the 42nd and consists of 700 verses. Follow the link for Beautiful Images of Bhagavad Gita. http://www.bhagavad-gita.us/articles/687/1/The-Bhagavad-Gita-in-Pictures/Page1.html

Sadguru Sainatha - FOR ALL

Anantha koti brahmandanayaka Raajaa di Raajaa Yogi Raajaa Parahbrahma Sachhitananda Sri Sadguru Sainath Maharaj ki jai.......