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1. Google Scholar: One place to search peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
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Google Wave is a new real-time communication platform. It combines aspects of web chat, instant messaging, email, social networking, wikis, and project management to build one elegant, in-browser communication client. It has a lot of other innovative features. Just catch them then to read.

As per the recommendation of the National Knowledge Commission (NKC), the government of India has decided to set up an autonomous “National Commission on Libraries”. The commission would be set up as a statutory body to address information and learning needs of the citizens of India. The commission would also oversee the functioning of public and private libraries in India. By this way it hope to bring reform in the Libraries and Information Services (LIS) sector in India.

http://www.ugc.ac.in/policy/notification3amendment.pdf.



http://www.ugc.ac.in/notices/UGCregulations2009.pdf

University Grant Commission (minimum standards and procedure for award of Ph.D Degree), Regulation 2009.

The Yahoo! GeoCities a free web site building service and community will not be available from October 26, 2009. It all mean that the websites hosted over GeoCities will no longer appear on the Web from the above date onwards. So, it’s the time to take a back up of all your information and files or to shift to another hosting service.

Note: This blog post is only a confessional statement at this moment on my part to my “LIS Links” administrator(s), owner(s), author(s), moderator(s), manger(s), compiler(s), editor(s) and lastly to the subscribers.

Two years back when the idea of “LIS Links” was about to implement, I was warned several times by many senior professional in the field. But, I didn’t listen to anyone and devote my two complete years to make it happened or you can say to gives feelings like “one more site! O… Continue

Open Library is an open project with open software (Infobase), open data, open documentation, open site, and open invitation for collaboration. Its aim is to achieve “One web page for every book ever published”. Another goal of the Open Library is to create a new metadata schema for bibliographic records. To achieve it, the project has a working group for discussion regarding the metadata (beyond MARC data) to be included in the records. It i… Continue

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Yes, forget about Web Dewey, now you can find the DDC numbers over the web by other means also. I don’t think any of our LIS professional is following this procedure. It’s really interesting… Here is a simple way
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Some days back, I joined YouMint http://www.youmint.com/ and accidentally I allowed it to invite all my friends to the network (all contacts in my mail address book). Now, the YouMint system regularly is sending (invitation to join it or simply spamming) message with the subject “Wasupp?” to all my contacts in my name. The YouMint system even does not have the provision of deletion of accounts. Beware of it.

All these make me annoyed with the YouMint system. I am really sorry for the trouble ca… Continue