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