XXVI IATLIS NATIONAL CONFERENCE 25-27 November 2009 ON THE THEME ENVISIONING EMPLOYABLE LIS COURSES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES FOR THE EMERGING KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
Invitation and call for papers
Organised by
Department of Library and Information Science
The University of Burdwan
Golapbag, Burdwan - 713104
West Bengal

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http://www.buruniv.ac.in

NCSI-IDRC Workshop on Library Automation Packages and Digital Library Software: July 27th to 31st and August 3rd to 7th, 2009
Two workshops on Library Automation Packages (LAP) and its Integration with Digital Library Software are organised at National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore from July 27th to 31st and August 3rd to 7th. Topics covered include Installation, Staff-Client and OPAC modules of a few LAP and its Integration with Digital Library Software on Linux (Ubuntu) platform.

The workshops are organised as part of a project on ILAP carried out at NCSI, funded by The International Development Research Centre (IDRC), a Crown Corporation and an agency of the Government of Canada. One of the objectives of the project is to test the available open source technological tools for the development of union catalogue and to train manpower to implement union catalogue at their respective institutions/libraries. To fulfill this objective, a series of workshops is organised. First workshop was conducted from 5th to 9th January, 2009. Second workshop (July 27th to 31st, 2009) and third workshop (August 3rd to 7th, 2009) are being organised now.

HAVE TO CRACK NET TO BECOME A LECTURER NOW

To ensure uniform standard of teachers across universities in India, the University Grants Commission has approved the National Eligibility Test (NET) as the minimum eligibility condition for recruitment of lecturers.“All new appointments of lecturers will have to follow the new regulation,” said UGC chairman Sukhadeo Thorat.“But candidates who have already been awarded Ph.Ds in compliance with the UGC regulation for minimum standards shall be exempted from the requirement of either NET or SLET.” Permanent teachers will also be exempted by the new regulation. “Only Ph.D holders whose course is of high standard will get exemption from NET or SLET to get into teachership in universities and colleges affiliated to UGC. The M Phil holders will have to clear NET or SLET,” said Thorat.