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