Thought for the Week

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability.
- John Wooden

Thought for the Week,

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved".

- William Jennings Bryan

Thought for the Week

"Without passion, you don't have energy; without energy, you have nothing. Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion".

- Donald Trump

National Workshop on Online Tutorial Concludes

Digital Library and Information Services Division of IIITM-K organised a Two days National
Workshop on Developing Online Tutorials for Information Products and Services, during 29-30 November 2008.

The Workshop was inaugurated by Dr KR Srivathsan, Pro Vice-Chancellor of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. Dr. CSP Iyer Emeritus Professor, IIIM-K, gave felicitation address during the program. Mr. Sainul Abideen, Workshop Coordinator gave Welcome address and Mr. Radhakrishnan, CTO, IIITMK gave vote of thanks during the Inaugural function.

This hands on training gave insight to the Applications of 'Wink' a free software for developing Online tutorials for various information products like Library automation software, Digital Library applications etc. Mr. Sainul Abideen, Librarian, IIITM-K was the full-time faculty of this practical workshop, who was assisted by digital Library team of the Institute. The hands on sessions we held at the Hi-Tech Lab of IIITMK in Technopark.

During the valedictory session, Dr.V.Sundarapandian, Acting Director, IIITM-K distributed certificates to the participants who came from different parts of the country. This was the third national level workshop organised by the Digital Library and Information Services division of the Institute.

We thank all participants, for making the event a grand success.

Participants of the Workshop with Mr Sainul Abideen P, Workshop Coordinator

Participants of the Workshop

Participants of the Workshop in during their Practice Session


Mr Sainul Abideen P, Librarian, IIITMK giving welcome speech in the inaugural session

Dr KR Srivathsan, Pro-Vice Chancellor of IGNOU speaking During the Inaugural Session, Dr CSP Iyer and Mr Sainul Abideen also seen.

Dr KR Srivathsan, Pro Vice-Chancellor of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) inaugurating the Workshop

Dr. CSP Iyer Emeritus Professor, IIIM-K, giving felicitation address



Mr. Radhakrishnan, CTO, IIITM-K giving vote of thanks during the Inaugural function.

Mr Sainul Abideen P, Librarian IIITMK taking classes

Participants are listening the class


Mr. Yunus T P, Digital Library Trainee assisting the participants

Ms.Sreekutty T S, Digital Library Trainee assisting the Participants

Lab Session in Progress: a view of the Hi-Tech Lab

Particiapnts practicing the Applications of Wink

Participants are Practicing the Software

Practicing Session: Ms Latha Nair, IL&FS Library Mumbai

Dr Sundarapandian, Acting Director, IIITMK addressing the Participants during the Concluding Session


Mr Reju Tom Lal, Asst Program Director, Akshaya Project Receiving the Certificate from Dr Sundara Pandian

Dr Sundarapandian, Acting Director, IIITMK distributing the certificates to Mr Mallikarjuna MK, Asst. Librarian, BMI, Bangalore

Mr Sainul Abideen P, Librarian, Digital Library and Information Services, IIITMK speaking during the concluding session


Participants Feedback: Mr Reju Tom Lal, Akshaya Project Office, Kollam


Participant's Feedback: Ms.Smitha Ramchandaran, Faculty, SCMS, Cochin

Participant's Feedback:Mr. S Radhakrishnan, Technical Officer, NPOL,Cochin

Thouhgt for the week

"How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to".
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Biographical Sources

Following Websites may be used to get Biographical details

1. TIME's The World's Most Influential People

2. s9.com

3. Famous Physicists

4. Biography.com

Note: This entry is made for answering a reference question in Library

Thought for the Week

"If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible."

- T. Harv Eker

Mr Yunus T.P attended Lecture on "Information Architecture"

Mr Yunus T.P, Digital Library Trainee , IIITM-K attended the Prof. K.A Isaac Commemoration Lecture on "Information Architecture" by Dr. A.Amudhavalli, HOD of Information Science, University of Madras on November 18, 2008 at Dept.of Library and Information Science, University of Kerala.

Thought for the Week

"Change is the law of LIFE. And those who look only to the past, or the present, are sure to miss the future."

-John F. Kennedy

Librarian gave Invited Speech at National Conference

Mr. Sainul Abideen, Librarian of the Institute gave an invited Speech on "Open Access Initiatives in India" in the Open Access Journals Session of the National Conference on Free Software, organized by Cochin University of Science and Technology, 15-16 Nov 2008

Thought for the Week

"Don't move the mountain. Just have the strength, motivation and desire to climb it. The process alone will make you stronger and thus make you ready for the upcoming challenges."

-Frank Drummond

IIITM-K Library Paricipation in MDP for Libraries

Mr.Sainul Abideen,Librarian,alongwith Digital Library Trainees Mr Yunus TP and Ms. Sreekutty attended the 3rd Management Development Programme for Librarians and LIS Academia,organized by DCSMAT on 1st November 2008 at Hotel Taj Residency, Thiruvananthapuram.

Thought for the Week

"As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around."

- Oprah Winfrey

National Workshop On Developing Online Tutorials for Information Products and Services

29-30 November 2008 Organised by Digital Library & Information Services Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management – Kerala (IIITM-K), Thiruvananthapuram [established by the Govt. of Kerala] [www.iiitmk.ac.in] Venue: IIITM-K, Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram – 695581 About the Workshop Libraries have been using different Information products like Online databases,e-journals, CD ROM based products, Library automation software, Digital Libraries,Online catalogues, etc. for various services. It is the duty of the Library professionals to train their users on the use of such products having varying functionalities and interfaces, for the effective utilization of these resources, which requires time and efforts from the Library and information professionals. Shortage of adequate manpower in some of the libraries calls for a facility wherein the users can learn about different products and services by the help of online Interactive Tutorials at their own pace. Provision of Interactive Tutorials, enhances the usage of such information products, which might have procured by spending huge amount. Many institutions organize training on different tools for information services including Digital Library development tools like GenISISWeb, Dspace, Greenstone, Eprint, Library automation software like KOHA, NewGenLib etc. Such training events can also be supplemented with an online, self instructional material with step by step instruction, e.g. an installation guide to Dspace or Cataloguing module of KOHA etc. Such self-instructional materials can be reused by the learner for better understanding of the concerned process/procedure. This workshop aims to provide a practical exposure on the application of ‘Wink’ a free software for creating different interactive self-learning modules/tutorials for various requirements, including that of information products. About the ‘Wink’ Software ‘Wink’ is a tutorial and presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using ‘Wink’ one can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective interactive tutorials. Using ‘Wink’ one can create online tutorials viewable across the web. Similar applications sell for hundreds of dollars, while ‘Wink’ is free with several unique features including the multimedia capability. Applications of Wink 'Wink' can be used for various Applications including that of: To demonstrate the working of different Software like LibSys,Dspace, KOHA,WinISIS,MS Word, Adobe Photoshp etc To demonstrate the working of different online/offline databases products like IEEE, ProQuest, ACM, Emerald etc To create Online Tutorials for Education/User Training Purpose To develop Demo of Websites like Library portals/ websites To develop e-learning Modules and self instructional materials To demonstrate the installation/applications of software products like Dspace, Greenstone, GenISISWeb,Libsys etc. Examples of Online Tutorials Developed Using Wink Software Online demo of IIITM-K's WebOPAC created using GenISISWeb Wink based tutorial on using EBSCO host databases used in Trinity Western University, Canada - A self instructional tutorial on drawing shapes using GIMP 2.2 PubMed: Search for an Author from the National Library of Medicine A Demonstration of combining Author and Address search in Web of Science, created by Umass Amherst Libraries Tutorial showing how to start with TargetProcessor Tutorial showing how to create a Pattern using Adobe Photoshop 6 Tutorial showing generating a running application User's Comments on Wink "A wonderful tool to produce visual tutorials for free." - Maria R Malmierca "I have been helping a client produce some screencasts recently. We trialled a number of products first to see which suited them best One of the ones I really like is Wink, which is a great little free tool. I shall be using more of it" - Jane Hart "Great tool for creating screen captures and demonstrations." - Robert Chapman [Source: Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, UK] "WINK has empowered Linux gurus to show others how to use and install software, edit config files and setup network connections with a one time presentation. In our opinion, this is far more efficient than sending people to support forums where they will likely find themselves receiving about half of the "how-to" they really need. Beginners learn by seeing and then doing, not just reading about it." -Matt Hartley [Source: http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=7589] Who can attend? As this software can be used in building interactive tutorials for different applications, participation is not restricted to library professionals only. Participants can be from various fields including that of Library Professionals, Academicians, Students, Workshop organizers, E-journal/ Library automation software/ database vendors, e-learning designers, Software developers, e-governance agencies, government organizations etc. Registration Rupees 2000/= Only Participants from Industry Rs. 3000/= Only. Mode of Payment DD in favour of “Director, IIITM-K” payable at Canara Bank, Kazhakkoottam Branch. (Thiruvananthapuram) Workshop fee covers Lectures, Course material in CD, Working Lunch and Tea. No TA/DA will be given to the participants. Participants are requested to make their own arrangements for Accommodation and Travel. Registration form along with the Fee may be sent to the Workshop Coordinator. No. of seats are limited. Kindly confirm the availability of seats by email to sainul [AT] yahoo [DOT] com before sending the Registration fee. Faculty Workshop will be handled by the Digital Library team of IIITM-K headed by Sainul Abideen P, (VLIR Scholar, Belgium) Librarian, IIITM-K, who has developed several self instructional materials using ‘Wink’.

For Registration and further details Sainul Abideen P Workshop Coordinator & Librarian IIITM-K, Park Centre Building Technopark, Karyavattom PO PIN 695581 Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India Phone 0471-2527567, 3091334, 2700777 exn 119 Mobile: 09496252786 Fax: 0471-2527568 Email: sainul [AT] yahoo [DOT] com Workshop Website: www.iiitmk.ac.in/wink

Thought for the Week

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
--Albert Einstein

Invited Talk by the Librarian

Mr Sainul Abideen P, Librarian gave invited talk in the International Workshop on UNESCO's WINISIS/GENISIS for developing digital libraries and archives,organized by Mahatma Gandhi University in association with Marian College, Kuttikkanam

1st Open Access Day @ IIITM-K

14th October 2008 was celebrated world wide as the open access day to bring awareness and encourage publishing of research and literary works in open access over the web. IIITM-K celebrated the Open Access Day with a day long workshop . Different presentations were made in the workshop. In forenoon session had discussions "on open systems, open architecture and open content" and in afternoon section main topic was 'Trivandrum Science City' concept. The topics discussed include.

EGGS: Education Grid Gateway System, As Open System for E-Learning and Open Content Management in Education and Research by Dr K R Srivathsan (Director, IIITMK). Virtualization: A Green IT Solution for EGGS by Mr Sukant Kole,
EGGS-Video on Demand for Colleges by Mr David Mathew (Design Engineer, IIITMK)
KISSAN, VUAT, E-Krishi and Open Content in Agriculture by Dr C K Peethambaran
KISSAN, Krishideepam and NAIP-AKM- Highlights of Open Content and Open Services for Agriculture by Mr R Ajith Kumar,
Open Access Publishing by Dr S Rajendran (Div.Head, Library, VSSC)
Online Library and Information Services -as Open e-Library and Open Publishing Platform by Sainul Abideen P (Librarian, IIITMK)
Kerala Open Patent Movement by Mr Praveen Raj (NIIST)
Open GIS development by Mr T Radhakrishnan
Trivandrum Science City Concept by Dr M S Gopinathan
ACIIL and Interdisciplinary Education program by Dr K R Srivathsan (Director, IIITMK).

After the presentations, a Panel discussion on 'Trivandrum Science City Concept' was carried out by a panel from the Trivandrum region organizations which was
moderated by Dr C S P Iyer.

IIITM-K Librarian nominated to International Steering Committee of ISIS

Mr. Sainul Abideen, Librarian,IIITM-K representing Asia Pacific attended the 3rd World Congress of ISIS (ISIS3) held in Brazil. ISIS3 was held as part of the 8th Congress on Information for Health Sciences(CRICS) with more than 150 delegates from over 30 countries. The World Congress was attended by over 1200 delegates. ISIS3 witnessed the release of three free/open source products such as ABCD, integrated online automated management system for libraries and documentation centers; ISIS NBP -the new ISIS network-based platform and JISIS - WINISIS replacement software based on Berkeley DB.
At the meeting Sainul was nominated to the International Steering Committee of ISIS. This Steering committee accredited by UNESCO, will assist and collaborate with BIREME, UNESCO and the ISIS Software Developers, user community etc. in promotion, quality control, and monitoring of the ISIS family software products.

Sreekutty Receives Award

Miss. Sreekutty T S , Digital Library Trainee, of the institute secured 3rd rank in the BLISc Examination conducted by the University of Calicut. She was felicitated
by an award constituted by Farook College Old Students Association. Dr U Muhammed (Retd. Principal, Farook College) distributed the award in the presence of MP Abdussamad Samadani, and Prof KA Abdul Jaleel, in a function held at Farook College.

Digital Library Staff Congratulate her for her achievements.

Newly Added Books in the Library

1. B Method an Introduction, by, Schneider, Steve ;

2. Proceedings of National Conference on Methods and Models in Computing, by, Minz, Sonajharia (Ed) ; Lobiyal, D K (Ed) ;

3. Microsensors, MEMS, and Smart Devices, by, Gardner, Julian W ; Varadan, Vijay K ; Awadelkarim, Osama O .

4. Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, by, Pressman,Roger S ;

5. Designing with Web Standards, by, Zeldman, Jeffrey ;

6. Bulletproof Web Design : Improving Flexibility and Protecting against Worst case Scenarios with XHTML and CSS, by, Cederholm, Dan ;

7. Industrial Strength Formal Methods in Practice, by, Hinchey, Michael G (Ed) ; Bowen,Jonathan P (Ed) ;

8. ZUM 95 the Z Formal Specification Notation, Nineth International Conference of Z Users,Poceedings 1995, by, Bowen, Jonathan P (Ed) ; Hinchey, Michael G (Ed) ;

9. ZUM 97 the Z Formal Specification Notation, Tenth International Conference of Z Users, Proceedings, 1997., by, Bowen, Jonathan P (Ed) ; Hinchey,Michael G (Ed)Till,David (Ed) ;

10. ZUM 98, Z Formal Specification Notation, Eleventh International Conference of Z Users, Proceedings, 1998., by, Bowen,Jonathan P(Ed) ; Hinchey, Michael G (Ed)Fett, Andreas (Ed) ;

11. IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering ,ICGSE, Two Thausand Eight, by,IEEE

12. Google Story, by, Vice,David S ; Malseed, Mark ;

13. Essential System Administration, by, Frisch, Aeleen ;

14. Data Crunching,Solve Everyday Problems Using Java, Python, and More, by, Wilson, Greg ;

15. Hundred and One Mathematical Projects, a Resource Book, by, Bolt, Brian ; Hobbs, David ;

16. Open Source for the Enterprise, Managing Risks,Reaping Rewards, by,
Woods, Dan ; Guliani, Gautam ;

17. Specification in B an Introduction Using the B Toolkit, by, Lano, Kevin ; Haughton, Howard ;

Thought for the Week

"We Learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do."
-- Samual Smiles

CD Contents

(1) CD No: D 70
Title: DeveloperIQ Vol.8 Issue 10 October 2008
This CD has five sections.

(i) Source Code:

1. ASP.NET
2. Visual Basic
3. VB.NET

(ii) Antivirus & Spyware

1. Avast Home Edition 4.8.1229.80723
2. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.138
3. Ad-Aware 2008 7
4. 1.0.8
5. Lime Wire
6. Avira AntiVir Personal- Free Antivirus 8.1.0.331
7. Advanced Windows Care Personal 2.8.6
8. Spyware Blaster 4.1
9. ZoneAlarm Firewall (Windows 2000/XP) 7.0.483
10. Spybot -Search & Destroy

(iii) Utilities

1. BitComet 1.03
2. FileZilla 3.1.1.1
3. Flash Player 10 RC (IE)
4. Shareaza 2.3.1.0
5. Notepad ++ 5.0.3
6. SciTE

(iv) Miscellaneous

1. Trillan 3.1.10.0
2. Download Accelerator Plus 8.6.7.1

(v) Open Source

1. Apache Struts
2. Apache Ant
3. Apache Cocoon
4. Apache Forrest
5. Apache HTTP Server
6. Apache Tomcat 6.0.18
7. Apache JAMES 2.3.1
8. Maven
9. AspectJ
10. Java Runtime Environment
11. Open Office
12. eMule 0.49b
13. Spring Framework
14. Plone 3.1.5.1
15. Zope 2.11.1
16. phpMyAdmin
17. FireBird
18. SQuirrel SQL Client

(2) CD No: PC 161
Title: PC Quest October 2008, DVD Xtreme, CD 1

1. Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edn VHD 1.1
2. Zenwalk Linux: A Slackware based GNU/Linux Distro
3. Death Track: A compact racing game with powerful vehicle and road battle

(3) CD No: PC 162
Title: PC Quest October 2008, DVD Professional, CD 2

SPECIAL RELEASES:-
Google Chrome
Windows IE 8 Beta 2
MS VS 08 SP1

OPEN SOURCE TOOLS:-
WordPress 2.6.1 EPIWARE
Bugzilla
Adobe Flex, etc...

HOT UTILITIES:-
Adobe Photoshop Album SE 3.2
NetBeans IDE
IBM Lotus Symphony 1.1
Backup4all 4.0 Build 10
Wubi 8.04
XAMPP 1.6
Xobni, etc....

TOOLS FOR DEVELOPERS:-
MyEclipse
SharePoint Server 1.4
NetBeans 6.5
Android 0.9
JDK 7 Build 33
jMaki
db4o

ANTIVIRUS UPDATES:-
F-Secure Sep 1'08
Avira 7
AVG Aug 30'08
McAfee 5373
Trend Micro 5.5, etc...

Thought for the Week

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."
--Henry Ford

Newly Added Video

Title: Service Models in the Software Industry
Speaker: Mr.Philip John,CEO, Ushustech.
Date: 22--02-07

Abstract:

Discuss the history of Software products and service in India , the relevant of the topic in the present Situation. Makes an evaluation on Indian software products and Service and its exporting.Explain how a particular software project will is undertaking and which are the process behind the project. explain what is Software service and what are the Management techniques comes under the Software Service.


Title : Software development for a poverty alleviation project SUBICSHA Project
Speaker: A.Jyotsna, MSIT Student, IITMK
Date: 18-01-07

Abstract :

Discusses an important Central Government best Awarded, Poverty alleviation project, named SUBICSHA . Explains how far useful the Information Technology effectively in the modern society with the example of this SUBICSHA and says about the project SUBICSHA in detaile , and its objectives, requirements, activities ,etc.There is also discussion about the Software used for this project and the its scope .

Thought for the Week

"The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success"
--Henry Ward Beecher

CD CONTENTS

CD No: PC 160
Title: PC Quest September 2008, DVD Professional
Contents:
10 Network Management Tools

• Engineers tool set
• IP Monitor
• Exchange Monitor
• OpManager 7.0
• Wireshark and more

9 Open Source Security Tools

• KeePass Password Safe
• ClamWin Free Antivirus
• Open SIMS
• IPtop Firewall and more

13 HOt Releases

• Open Office 3 beta 2
• K-lite Codec Pack Full
• Foxy Tunes for Firefox
• WavePod 3.12
• Blender 2.46 and more

4 Antivirus Updates for MacAfee & Kaspersky
4 Linux Distros

• CentOS 5.2
• Dragonfly
• Ubuntu 8.04.1
• Foresight 2.0.4

5 Super Games for Mobile

• Super Cricket
• Milk Riot
• Mech A Move
• Downtown Pursuit
• Alien Conquest

CD No: PC 159
Title: PC Quest September 2008, DVD Xtreme, debian Etch
Contents:

• Iceape
• KDE 3.5
• Icedove
• Perl 5.8
• Iceweasel
• GNOME 2.14
• Apache 2.2.3
• Open Office.org.2.0.4a
• X.org 7.1
• MySQL 5.0.32
• GIMP 2.2.13
• Samba 3.0.24
• PostgreSQL 8.1.8
• Python 2.4.4 and 2.5
• PHP 4.4.4 and 5.2.0
• GNUstep Desktop 5.2
• GNU Compiler Collection 4.1.1
• Linux Kernel version 2.6.18

CD No: D 69
Title: Developer IQ Vol 8 Issue 9 September 2008,Software Ensemble-15
Contents:- Software Ensemble-15 has four sections:
(1) Source Code

• ASP.NET
• Visual Basics
• VB.NET

(2) Design Tools

• Core IDRAW Graphics Suite X4
• Blender 2.46
• GIMP 2.4.6
• Saint Paint Studio 15.0.2
• DAZ Studio 2.1.1.13
• Abrosoft FantaMorph SE4

(3) Software Tools

• Python 2.5
• PHP 5.2.6
• MySQL 5.0
• Ruby 1.8.6
• Tcl 8.5
• Tk 8.5.3

(4) Miscellaneous

• AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.138
• You Tube Downloader 2.1.6
• FLV Player2.0.24
• WinZip 11.2
• Irfan View 4.1
• LimeWire 4.18
• Spybot-Search & Destroy 1.6
• ICQ 6

Thought for the Week

"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only imaginary one that are unconquerable."
-- Theodore N Vail

Thought for the Week

"Education comes from living life, following passions, accessing information, observing, reflecting, and being inspired by wise and courageous elders in the community."
- Claire Aumonier

New Arrival List of CDs

CD No: D 69
Title: Developer IQ September 2008, Software Ensemble -15

CD No: L 110
Title: Linux For You September 2008, KDE 4.1, CD1

CD No: L 111
Title: Linux For You September 2008, KNOPPIX 5.3.1, CD2

CD No: PC 159
Title: PC Quest September 2008, DVD Xtreme, debian Etch, CD1

CD No: PC 160
Title: PC Quest September 2008, DVD Professional, CD 2

Thought for the Week

"The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges."
Martin Luther King Jr

Thought for the Week

"The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed"
--Lloyed Jones

CSVTU Research Journal

A bi-annual publication CSVTU Research Journal published by Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University, Bhilai is now available in library. It contain research articles in various discipline. Main contents of the journal is given below.

APPLIED CHEMISTRY

• Effects of Solvents and Polymers on Solution Properties of Cationic and Anionic Surfactants by Kallol K Ghosh and Jyoti Vaidya
• Removal of Fe(II) from Waste Water by Bituminous Coal by Sujata Kumar, Dhanesh Singh, A.K.Mishra, M.Mishra and Saroj Kumar

APPLIED PHYSICS

• Parametric Instability of a Lower Hybrid Wave in Two-Electron Temperature Plasma by R.Das
• Dating of an Archeological Object by Thermally Stimulated Technique by H.L.Viswakarma, U.S.Patle, Archana Srivastava and K.K.Sugandhi

CIVIL ENGINEERING

• Free Vibration of Laminated Composite and Sandwich Folded Plates Using Higher- order Share Deformable Finite Element Model by Ajay Kumar Garg, Rakesh Kumar Khare and Tarun Kant
• Rainfall-Net Inflow Modeling for Dudhawa Reservoir by M.K.Verma and R.K.Tripathi

COMPUTER SCIENCE

• Intelligent Traveling Agent System for Air Lines Reservation by Aravind Dewangan and P.K.Shrivastava
  
• VHDL Implementation of N-Binary Arithmetic Operations: A Comparative Study by Kamal K Mehta, Anshul Agarwal and H.R.Sharma
• Adaptation of Machine Translation of Digital Technical English Books in Hindi by Vivek Dubey and H.R.Sharma

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

• Application of Radial Basis Functions Neural Network to Locate Line to Ground Fault in a Double End Fed Transmission Lines Using Only One Terminal Data by A.S.Thoke and Anamika Jain

ELECTRONIC AND TELECOMMUNICATION

• Pseudo Random Number + Genetic Algorithm=Evolutionary Security System by Monisha Sharma, M.K.Kowar and Manisha Sharma

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

• Neural Network Approach as a Tool to Achieve Six Sigma in Manufacturing of Steel Plate IS 2062 for Steel Melting Shop by A.M.Kuthe and B.D.Tharakan
• A Computer Aided Heuristic Approach for Job Shop Scheduling Problems by Sanjeev Shrivastava, Prasad V Joshi and Abhleet Ganguly

PHARMACEUTICS SCIENCE

• Fast Release Products of Tolbutamide: Formulation and Evaluation by Ram Alpana and Shruti Rathod

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude"
W W Ziege

Thought for the Week

"Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration."

---Evan Esar

Library Visit by Library Science Students

A Team of Library Science students visited IIITM-K Digital Library, as part of their academic exercise. Students are studying their Library & Information Science Course (BLISc.) in the Dept. of Library & Information Science, Farook College, Kozhikode. Students are accompanied by Dr A Majeed, Faculty of the same Dept.

Dr. KR Srivthsan Addressing the visitors

Mr. Sainul Abideen P, Librarian Addressing the Visitors

Visitors..

Librarian Appointed to Scientific Committee of ISIS3, Brazil

Mr. Sainul Abideen P

Institute Librarian, Mr. Sainul Abideen P, has been appointed as Member, representing the Asia / Pacific Region, in the International Scientific Committee of the 3rd World Congress of ISIS to be held at Rio De Janereio, Brazil from 14 to 16th Sept, 2008. ISIS3 is organized as part of the 8th
Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information (CRICS sponsored by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ) and the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (BIREME/PAHO/WHO). He has also been nominated as reviewer of the proposals submitted for presentation in this World Congress.

This world congress will witness the release of three free/open source products such as ABCD, integrated online automated management system for libraries and documentation centers; ISIS NBP - the new ISIS network-based platform and JISIS - WINISIS replacement software based on
Berkeley DB.

Mr Sainul has been associated with building GenISISWeb based online information service like Digital Libraries, Institutional archives, e-journals gateway systems etc

KLA Seminar Blog from Digital Library Division

Digital Library Team of IIITM-K blogged the entire proceedings of the KLA National Seminar on 'Redefining the Role of Public Libraries in India: The Knowledge Society Imperatives' held during 6th-8th August 2008. This seminar was organized by Kerala Library Association and co-sponsored by Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation. The entire details of the seminar can be accessed from this blog available at http://klaseminar2008.blogspot.com/. Through this blog, IIITMK introduced the concept of 'Conference/seminar blog' through which library professionals were updated with the progress of the national seminar from inauguration to valedictory function instantly, as and when it happened. Now this blog is an archive of this National seminar with details of different sessions,papers presented with its PPT and the photographs etc. This Blog provides facility for posting comments/suggestions by the professionals in future also, thereby providing a platform for continued collaboration and academic discussions. Bloging was coordinated by institute Librarian Mr Sainul Abideen, and assisted by Ms Limu PD and Mr Yunus TP, who are working in the Digital Library Division.

Official Blog of KLA National Seminar 2008

Thought for the Week

" The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."

---Vince Lombardi

New Arrival List of CD's

CD No: PC157
Title : PC Quest August 2008, DVD Professional, CD1

CD No: PC158
Title : PC Quest August 2008,DVD Extreme, CD2

CD No: L108
Title :Linux For You Vol 6 Issue 6 August 2008, Open SUSE 11.0, CD1

CD No: L109
Title :Linux For You Vol 6 Issue 6 August 2008, Database Solutions, CD2

Thought for the Week

" First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

-- Epictetus

Thought for the Week

" If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it."

---William Arthur Ward

eGyanKosh - A National Digital Repository

Indira Gandhi National Open University offers a National Digital Repository of learning resources eGyanKosh. This repository envisages to store, index, preserve, distribute and share the digital learning resources of open and distance learning institutions in the country.This repository supports seamless aggregation and integration of learning resources in different formats such as self instructional study materials, audio-video prorammes and archives of radio and television based live interactive sessions. These all can be accessed and downloaded at free of cost. The repository facilitate any time access to its collection (24*7*365). The collection can be searched and browsed by Subject, Title and Author. Those interested can log on to www.egyankosh.ac.in and register(free membership) before accessing the documents.
For more details: http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/register

Newly Added Books 28/07/2008

1. Business and Competitive Dynamics: Survival and Growth Strategies by Goyal, D.P; Ram, Manoranjan P ; Gautam,Taruna (Eds) .

2. Enterprise Information Systems and Technology, by Goyal, D.P; Puneet Kumar (Eds).

3. Next Generation Design and Verification Methodologies for Distributed Embedded Control Systems: Proceedings of the GM R and D Workshop, Banglore, India, Jan 2007,Ramesh S; Sampath P (Eds) .

4. Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness, by Garey, Michael R, Johnson, David S

5. Distributed Systems Concepts and Design, 4th Ed. by Coulouris, George ; Dollimore, Jean; Kindberg, Tim.

6. Computational Methods in Molecular Biology, by Bernardi, G (Ed); Salzberg, Steven L (Ed); Searls, D.B (Ed).

7. Objective Question Bank for Library and Information Science Ability Tests, 2nd Ed. by Raju, A.A.N.

8. Safeware: System Safety and Computers, by Leveson, Nancy G.

Thought for the Week

" The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them in to the impossible. "

---Arthur C. Clarke

New Arrival List of CD's

Title : Linux For You Vol 6 Issue 5 July 2008 Fedora 9,CD1.
CD No: L 106

Title : Linux For You Vol 6 Issue 5 July 2008, For the Coders,CD2.
CD No: L 107

Title : Developer IQ Vol 8 Issue 7 July 2008, Ubuntu Server.
CD No: D 68

Title : Chip DVD Vol.5 Issue7 June2008,Ubundu CD1.
CD No: C 76

Title : Chip DVD Vol.5 Issue7 June2008, CD2.
CD No: C 77

Title:Chip DVD Vol.5 Issue7 June2008,CD3.
CD No: C 78

Title : PC Quest Feb 2008, PCQ Xtreme, CD1.
CD No: PC 151

Title : PC Quest February 2008, PCQ Professional, CD2.
CD No: PC 152

Title : PC Quest January 2008, PCQ Xtreme, CD1.
CD No: PC 153

Title : PC Quest January 2008, PCQ Professional, CD2.
CD No: PC 154

Title : PC Quest July 2008, DVD Extreme Fedora CD1.
CD No : PC 155

Title : PC Quest July 2008, DVD Professional, CD2.
CD No: PC 156

Thought for the Week

" First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst."
--- Dale Carnegie

Thought for the Week

" You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you are really stop to look fear in the face.You must do the thing which you think you cannot do "

---- Eleanor Roosevelt

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
-- T.S. Eliot

Recently Added Videos 09/06/2008

Following Videos have been recently added to the Multimedia Digital Library.

Visit htt://olis.iiitmk.ac.in [internal to iiitmk]

Videos on “Joint Academies Workshop” jointly organised by IIITM-K and Dept.of Chemistry, Mar-Ivanios College

1. Inauguration- Duration :28Mnts

2. Molecules in Materials- Insight through Computations
Speaker :Radhakrishnan T.P FASc
Duration :1 Hr 29Mnts

3. Introduction to Quantum Chemistry- QM Principles and Atomic and Molecular Orbital
Speaker :Dr.Gopinathan M.S, FNA, FASc. Professor, IIITMK,Trivandrum
Duration :1Hr 48Mnts

4. Computing Reaction Paths
Speaker : Suresh C.H NIST,Trivandrum
Duration :1 Hr 25Mnts

5. Web Resources in Computational Chemistry and Chemo Informatics
Speaker : Dr.Manoj Kumar T.K ,Assistant Professor, IIITMK, Trivandrum
Duration :10Mnts

6. Computational Chemistry: A Means to Solve Chemical Problems
Speaker : Jemmis E.D, FNA, FASc FTWAS, IISc, Bangalore
Duration :52Mnts

7. Variational and Perturbational Methods in Computational Chemistry
Speaker : Ramasesha S.D, FNA, FASc IIISc,Bangalore
Duration :1Hr 16Mnts

8. Towards Virtual Advanced School in Chemistry
Speaker :Dr.K.R Srivathsan Director, IIITM-K,Trivandrum
Duration :1Hr 4Mnts

9. Lecture cum Demonstrations of Use of Gaussian Programmes
Speaker : C.H Suresh, Manoj Kumar and Abraham George
Duration :1Hr 58Mnts

Thought for the week

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten
B F Skinner

How to Create a Malayalam Blog?

Free Sites to create a Blog
www.blogger.com, www.wordpress.com, www.blogsome.com

Visit the following blog to know how to create a Malayalam Blog.
http://www.bloghelpline.blogspot.com/
http://ningalkkai.blogspot.com/2007/11/blog-post_6709.html
http://howtostartamalayalamblog.blogspot.com/
http://epathram.com/home/boologam/Malayalam_Blog.htm

How can we See Malayalam in our Computer?
In order to read Malayalam blogs properly in your computer , we have to download malayalam Unicode Fonts. Some of them are listed below;
1 Mozhi Keymap
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/varamozhi/mozhi_1.1.0.exe?download
2 Varamozhi
http://malayalam.homelinux.net/malayalam/work/varamozhi/convert.php
3 Ilamozhi
http://adeign.googlepages.com/ilamozhi.html
4 Malayalam Online
http://peringz.googlepages.com/mozhi.htm
5 Indic Transileteration (By Google)
http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/malayalam
6 Type it(By Softpedia)
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Text-editors/Typeit.shtml
7 Nila
http://www.clickeralam.org/
8 Aksharangal
http://www.aksharangal.com

To get details regarding the installation process, visit,
http://vfaq.blogspot.com/2005/04/essentials-on-using-malayalam-unicode.html or http://sankethikam.blogspot.com/2007/06/5.html or
http://kannuran.blogspot.com/2007/09/blog-post_5501.html

Blog Aggregators
A software that frequently checks blogs for new content and displays the new content in a single place for easy reading. Some Malayalam blog Aggregators are given below
www.thanimalayalam.org
www.chintha.com/malayalam/blogroll.php
http://bloglokam.org/
www.mobchannel.com
www.smartneeds.net

Music Blogs
Visit the following Music Blogs
http://indianmusicblogs.blogspot.com/
http://swaram.web4all.in/
http://www.musicblog.ro/
http://mevio.com/
http://clickcaster.com/

For any help, visit http://blogsahayi.blogspot.com