Quote for the Week

“The first step to getting the things you want out of life is

this: Decide what you want.”

-- Ben Stein

Exhibition-Cum Seminar

An Exhibition Cum Seminar on "Productivity Enhancement Using ICT" organised by Department of Information Technology,New Delhi

Date: 10-11 January,2007

Venue:India Habitat Centre,Lodhi Road,New Delhi

For more Information Visit
www.mit.gov.in

International Conference

An International Conference on "ICT Solution for Socio-Economic Development" organised by ICT Research & Training Centre C-DAC,Bangalore

Dates: Conference 12-13 February,2007
Tutorial 11 February,2007

Venue: Bangalore

For more information visit

http://cdacbangalore.in/ised2007

National Workshop

A national Workshop on "Technology Enhanced Learning for Enriching Engineering Education"organised jointly by Indian Institute of Technology- Madras, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management- Kerala, and Carnegie Mellon University,USA.

Dates:5th and 6th January 2007 (Friday and Saturday)

Venue:Travancore Hall,Technopatk Thiruvananthapuram

For more details visit :

http://www.iiitmk.ac.in or http://www.edugrid.com

Quote for the Week

“Seize the moment of excited curiosity

on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass,

the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.”

--William Wirt

Student Portal for 3D Design

Dear Students,

Autodesk Inc., the world's leading design software and digital solutions company, has announced the launch of its Global Student Engineering and Design Community Portal in India. The launch of this portal is part of Autodesk's global initiative to educate the student community with latest 3D design technologies and prepare them for careers in engineering and design. This portal will provide students in the field of architecture, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, gaming and animation and industrial design free access to Autodesk software and at the same time offer them an opportunity to communicate and collaborate with students across the globe.

For More details visit: http://students.autodesk.com

Precious Moment

Dr.Russell A.Mittermeier,President, Conservation International, Washington DC, USA, has visited IIITMK Digital Library on 24 N0vember 2006 in connection with the STI Lecture.

Quote for the Week

“If we are not free ,no one will respect us.”

--A.P.J Abdul Kalam

Quote for the Week

"The superior man is modest in his speech,

but exceeds in his actions."

----Confucius.

Quote for the Week

“Character is like a tree and
reputation like its shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it;
the tree is the real thing.”

--Abraham Lincoln

Biodiversity Books on Display

Dear Friends,
In connection with the STI Lecture, the following Biodiversity related books will be on display in IIITM-K Library today till 1 PM. These books are having very rare and beautiful pictures and illustration. All are requested to refer the books. These books will be displayed during today's STI Lecture venue(Department of Botany, University of Kerala, Kariyavattom, Thiruvananthapuram) also. (Today's STI Lecture topic:Global Biodiversity Conservation: Hotspots, Wilderness Areas, and Mega diversity Countries).
These books will be available in our Library from Monday onwards for reference.

Details of books on Display:

1.Wildlife Spectacles
Authors:Russell A Mittermeier et al.

2.Transboundary Conservation A New Vision for Protected Areas
Authors:Russell A Mittermeier et al.

3.Hotspots Revisited
Authors:Russell A Mittermeier et al

4.Lemurs of Medagascar
Authors: Russell A Mittermeier et al

Quote for the Week

"Failure comes only when we forget

our ideals and objectives

and principles"

-----Jawaharlal Nehru

Quote for the Week

"All the flowers of tomorrow

are in the seeds of today"

Google has Introduced a New Search Service

Google has introduced a new search service -- strictly for computer programmers only.

Google Code Search, a site that simplifies how software developers search for programming code to improve existing software or create newprograms.Similar to how a consumer might type a few words into a standard Google search box to find an answer, programmers can seek out relevantlines of code at http://google.com/codesearch and find a range of search results that link them to answers

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS TUTORIAL ONLINE FOR LIMITED TIME

A free four-hour tutorial on "Wireless Sensor Networks" is currently
available from the IEEE Communications Society's Tutorials Now! program.
Presented from a systems and networking perspective, this tutorial starts
with a look at potential applications, then covers the major subsystems in
a sensor network, ranging from platforms and hardware up to application
level support for network-level querying.

Visit: http://www.comsoc.org/freetutorials/nsc/

Quote for the Week

Life does not cease to be funny when
people die any more than it ceases tobe serious when people laugh

-- George Bernard Shaw

Workshop on Knowledge Management at Chennai

The CSI Div II on Software and Chennai Chapter in association withXIME, Banaglore is organising a Two day Workshop on KNOWLEDGEMANAGEMENT during 13-14, Oct 2006.

A detailed brochure is available at the URL http://www.accel-india.com/csi-chennai/km-ws-bro.pdf

RESOURCE PERSONS

Prof. R. Natarajan, Former Chairman, AICTE and Former Director IITM-

Prof. J. Philip, President, XIME and Former Director IIMB-

Prof. H.N. Mahabala, Professor IIITB and Former Professor,

IITM- Mr. R. Mohan, Former MD Mphasis and Faculty XIME, Bangalore-

Prof. T.V. Gopal, Dept. of CSE, College of Engg, Anna University-

Prof. K. Subramanian, DDG(NIC) & IT Adviser to CAG of India-

Dr. J.K. Suresh, Head KM Group, Infosys, Bangalore-

Mr. Sukumar Rajagopal, CKO & VP, Cognizant, Chennai-

Mr. A. Kottai, KM Head, Honeywell Technology Labs, Bangalore-

Mr. H.R. Mohan, Chairman, Software Division, CSI-

Mr. K. Adhivarahan, Chapter Chairman, CSI, Chennai-

Plus presentations from SAP, EMC and few KM solution providers

VENUE AND DATES

Hotel Days Inn
Deccan Plaza, # 36.
RoyapettahHigh Road,
Chennai.

Dates : October 13 - 14 , 2006

PROGRAMME FEE

CSI Members: Rs. 3,500/-
For Academics: Rs. 2,000/-
Industry Delegates: Rs. 4,000/-
If a group of three is nominated: Rs. 10,000/-
Last date for Registration: 5th October, 2006
For additional information, please contact:
Mr. K. ADHIVARAHAN, Chennai; adhivarahan AT gmail DOT com; 94442 75315
OR
Mr. H.R. MOHAN, Chennai; hrmohan AT gmail DOT com; 98414 32179

Where can I get details about Drug abuse in Sports?

Ans:
According to a definition from World Book Dictionary,

a drug is a substance (other than food) that, when taken into the body, produces a change in it. If this change helps the body, the drug is referred to as a medicine. If the change harms the body, the drug is referred to as a poison.

For more details on the Impact of Drug on Sports visit the following links

http://www.drugfreesport.com/choices/drugs/index.html
http://www.prn2.usm.my/mainsite/bulletin/sun/1996/sun27.html
http://www.alcoholmedicalscholars.org/athletes-out.htm
http://www.smartplay.net/moves/drugs/drugsinfo.html#whatisadrug
http://www.alcoholmedicalscholars.org/athletes-out.htm
http://sportal.nic.in/handbook.pdf#search=%22drug%20abuse%20in%20sports%20filetype%3Apdf%22

Social and Economic Impact of Information Technology

Documents on Social and Economic Impact of Information Technology is available in the following locations

Good Practice Paper on ICTs for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/2/46/35284979.pdf

ICTs AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/15/54/34663175.pdf

The Social Impact of Information Technology http://www.med.govt.nz/templates/MultipageDocumentTOC____16813.aspx

Economy-Wide and Industry-Level Impact of Information Technology https://www.esa.doc.gov/reports/economy-wide.pdf

THE IMPACT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN SOUTH AFRICA: ANALYSIS OF EVIDENCE
http://www.essa.org.za/download/2005Conference/Breitenbach.pdf

The Impact of Investment in IT on Economic Performance: Implications for Developing Countries
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/dtis/documents/Papers/it&ecperform-ridsarticle-wd0505.pdf

The Impact of the New Economy on Developing Countries
http://www.stanford.edu/~ljlau/Presentations/Presentations/NBS.PDF

The Impact of IT Investment on the US Economy
http://www.cra.org/Activities/snowbird/2004/slides/gurbaxani.pdf

Determining the Impact of Information and Communication Technology on Decent Work in China
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/events_and_information/documents/ann04_china.pdf

THE IMPACT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ON URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING
http://www.tkk.fi/Yksikot/Kiinteisto/julkaisut/verkkojulkaisut/julkaisuB106.pdf

Information and Communication Technology in India and its Impact onBusiness Sectors – a pilot study
http://www.som.iitb.ac.in:8080/bitsurvey/uploaded_documents/ICT_Pilot.pdf

THE IMPACT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES ON SOCIETY
http://www.sam.gov.tr/perceptions/Volume4/December1999-February2000/guvenen.PDF

The Impact of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) on Inter-Urban Commuting and the Demand for Commercial Transportation
http://www.magplane.com/downloads/seminar.PDF

The Impact of ICT on Economic Growth and the Productivity Paradox
http://www.tcf.or.jp/data/19971011_Takeshi_Murakami_2.pdf

Quote for the Week

“Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

Conference Alert

National Conference on Cryptography and Network Security (NCCNS' 06) at Karpagam Arts and Science College, Coimbatore during 22-23 September 2006.

Visit www.karpagameducation.com

IASLIC XXII National Seminar on Open Source Movement : Asian Perspective at National Institute of Financial Management, Faridabad during 26-29 Dec 2006
for More details iaslic@vsnl.net


International conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries at Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute during 21-23 February 2007

More Details at http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/icsd/

HTML color codes and names

HTML color codes and names are available at http://www.computerhope.com/htmcolor.htm

IT Policy of Govt of Kerala

Policy of Govt of Kerala is available at http://keralaitmission.org/web/main/downloads/itpolicy.pdf

New Arrivals List dt 9th Aug 2006

The following Documents have been recently added to the Library

1. Globus Toolkit 4: Programming Java Services Sotomayor, Borja
2. Test Your Unix Skills Kanetkar, Yashavant P
3. C Odyssey Unix The Open Boundles C Gandhi, Meeta; Shetty, Tilak; Shah, Rajiv
4. Time Management for System Administrators Limoncelli, Thomas A
5. Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages: Volume 1- Core Technologies Hall, Marty and Brown, Larry
6. Foundations of Discrete Mathematics Joshi, K.D
7. Discrete Mathematics Johnsonbaugh, Richard
8. Introduction to Algorithms Cormen, Thomas H;Leiserson, Charles E;Rivest, Ronald L
9. Spring in Action Walls, Craig and Breidenbach, Ryan
10. Hibernate in Action Bauer, Christian and King, Gavin
11. Maven: A Developer's Notebook Massol, Vincent and O'Brien, Timothy
12. AspectJ in Action: Practical Aspect-Oriented Programming Laddad, Ramnivas

Table of Contents of Latest Issue of IEEE Spectrum

The latest issues of the IEEE Spectrum Volume: 43, Issue: 8 is now available in IEEE Xplore. Click on the link below to go directly to the table of contents.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=6&isvol=43&isno=8

Sale of Withdrawn Books at British Library

An opportunity to possess books of your choice from British Library Trivandrum's withdrawn collection.

Next sale of withdrawn books
is from 05 to 10 August 2006, 11 am to 06 pm..
Hundreds of books in each subject area.

Books are priced at Rs 30, Rs 50, Rs 75, Rs 100....

Sale is open to members and institutional members.

You are welcome to make use of this facility

Comments from Farook College Library Sc Students

Best Academic Library in Kerala -- Thanseer Student BLISc

Advanced Library having very good Digital Collection --- Hairunneessa, Student BLISc

Higly Suitable library for an IT Institute -- Lincy

User Orientation Program to Library Members

Digital Library and Information Services will provide user awareness program to new batch of MS(IT) students on 3rd August 2006 during 2 PM-4.30 PM. Through this service the users will be given the orentation about how to use the library, library services, library timing, library rules, library resources, advanced digital library services, etc.

The Programme will be coordinated by Mr Sainul Abideen Librarian, IITM-K assisted by Mr Gireesh Kumar TK (Digital Library Trainee) and Ms Nafessa CK (Digital Library Trainee)

Venue: IIITM-K Class Room, Park Centre

A Visit to the Technopark Library also scheduled as pert of the orientation programme

Library Visit by Farook College Students

A Team of Students along with their faculy will be visiting the IIITMK digital Library and Information Service. The visit is scheduled at 2 Pm onwards on 2nd August 2006.

IIITM-K Library welcomes the visitors.

First IEEE Journal From 1913 available online

The IEEE this month made available to its online subscribers the earliestissues of its first technology journal, dating back to 1913. Currentlyknown as "Proceedings of the IEEE," the journal was titled "The Proceedingsof the IRE" when it premiered in January of 1913. The IRE (Institute ofRadio Engineers) was one of two predecessor organizations which merged toform the IEEE in 1963. "Proceedings of the IEEE" issues from 1963 forwardwere previously available online through the IEEE Xplore digital library.This update brings the first seven years of the title online (1913 - 1919);issues from later years will follow in the coming months. Visit:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=10933

To commemorate the recent relaunch of "Proceedings of the IEEE," IEEE isgiving away 1,000 copies of the June 2006 issue on Systems-on-Chip Design &Integration. Visit:http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/procieee/free_issue_form.html

Library heartily invites the new comers of MS IT 2nd Batch

IIITMK Digital Library invites the 2nd Batch students of MSIT, they come from different parts of the country.

Recently Added Books to the Library

IIITMK Digital Library recently added the following books to the Library collection

Test Your Unix Skills by Yashavant P. Kanetkar
‘C’Odyssey Unix: The open, Bundles C by Meeta Gandhi, Tilak Shetty and Rajiv Shah
Time Management for system Administrator by Thomas A. Limnocelli
Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages Second Edition by Marty Hall and Larry Brown

Users can search the details of the books added to the library from the site http://oils.iiitmk.ac.in.

IIITMK Library congratulate those students who got placement

Digital Library of IIIMK heartily congratulates the candidates who have got the excellent placement in various companies. Almost 60% of the MS(IT) students have got the placement with in the first 5 days of Placement Session. Companies like AMDOCS, PCS, MINDWARE, GE and INFOSYS have selected the students.

Congratulations to Ms Vidya

One of the IIITM-K library’s External member Ms Vidya got placement in one of the famous Software firms in Trivandrum. She has been using the Placement Assistance Service of the Library for her preparation. Recently she had got high score in Java Sun Certification
Examination also. Library congratulate her on her colourful achievement.

Exhibition of books on ‘Personality Communication and Career Development’

Digital Library and Information Services of Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management –Kerala Organized an exhibition of Books on Personality, Communication and Career Development on 27th June 2006 at IIITM-K. Main Objectives of this exhibition is to aware the members about the resources available in the library in a particular subject field and thereby improve the library services and help Students to prepare their placement interview by different companies.

IIITMK Library Blog started

According to 'thesiftedlibrarian.com', "people aren't going out to get information anymore. Instead, it's coming to them. The biggest difference is that they expect information to come to them, whether it's via the Web, email, cell phone, online chat, whatever. And given the tip of the iceberg of technology we're seeing, it's going to have a big impact on how they expect to receive library services.

Objective of this blog is a small endeavur to satisfy the changing requirements of the users. This blog make IIITM-K Digital Library and Information Service users abreast of the latest developments in the Library by providing details about the library activities, newly arrived resources, book reviews, notification about forthcoming events etc.
This blog was started on 2nd Aug 2006