Inviting research manuscripts to get published in forthcoming edited book "Librarianship in Digital Environment: A Global Perspective"

"Librarianship in Digital Environment: A Global Perspective" provides
a clear picture of innovations, approaches, strategies, management,
practical implications required for successful librarianship in
digital era. This book explores various ideas, knowledge, platforms,
practical practices, and other issues for developing proactive and
user centric services/ products in the different areas which presently
needed for effective librarianship in digital era at global level.

Contributions of Research Papers are invited on following broad
sections/topics but are not limited to below topics:

• Applications of ICT and web technology in libraries
• Open sources and librarianship
• Innovation approaches to information storage and retrieval
• Cloud based libraries-Challenges and Issues
• Consortia
• Cutting Edge Technologies in librarianship
• Virtual Learning Environment
• Digital Libraries
• Digital resources preservation, management and cultivation
• Semantic Web, ontology, Linked data
• E- resources: management, evaluation etc.
• IPR and copyright in digital age
• Marketing of Library service
• Digital humanities and librarianship
• Information literacy
• Knowledge management
• Total Quality Management
•  User satisfaction and behaviour in digital age

Target Audience:

Librarians, Libraries, executives, consultants, instructors, IT
specialists, managers, trainers, LIS students, and other LIS
professionals who intend to keep abreast of current trends in library
information science domain in the digital environment.

Submission Procedure:

LIS Professionals, researchers and practitioners are invited to submit
the manuscript clearly explaining the mission and concerns on or
before August 31, 2014.  Authors will be acknowledged immediately and
the acceptance of the manuscript will be notified within a month as
per receipt date of the manuscript. Authors may be required to help,
if need be, in terms of proof, clarifications, etc.  Manuscripts are
accepted for consideration with the understanding that they are
original and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Style manuals: Submissions must follow the styles outlines in the
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2001,
5th edition)

Abstract: Abstracts of a manuscript should not be more than 150 words.

Author identification: The complete title of the manuscript and the
name(s) of the author(s) should be only on the first sheet and the
main text should begin on the same sheet. Complete contact information
must be supplied for all authors and co-authors, including full
address and postal pin code, telephone, and e-mail address. The
corresponding authors should be identified.

Typescript: Manuscript should be typed on A-4 size paper,
double-spaced, with generous margins at top, bottom, and sides of
page. In soft copy it should be in IBM-compatible MS Word format.
Sub-heads should be used at reasonable intervals to break the monotony
of the text. Words and symbols to be italicized must be clearly
indicated, by either italic type or underlining. Abbreviations and
acronyms should be spelt out with its first occurrence, unless found
as entries in their abbreviated form in a standard dictionary. Pages
should be numbered consecutively.

Length: Manuscript should typically be of 10 to 15 pages including the
reference list.

Notes and reference:  Notes are for explanations or amplifications of
textual material. They are distracting to the readers and expensive to
set and should be avoided whenever possible. They should be typed as
normal text at the end of the text section of the manuscript rather
than as the part of the footnote or endnote feature of computer
programme and should be numbered consecutively throughout the
contribution.

A reference list should contain references that are cited in the text.
These should be accurate and complete. Personal communications
(letters, memos, telephone conversations) are cited in the text after
the name with as exact a date as possible. Examples of references to a
book, a chapter in book, and journal article follow, formatted in APA
style:

Tables, Figures, and Illustrations: Create tables, figure, and
illustrations in their electronic files, separate from the main text.
(You may use one file for all the tables, but place each figure or
illustration in a separate file. Each table should begin in a new
page). Figures and tables should be keyed to the text. The data in the
text need not be described in such detail that tables become
redundant. Figure captions should appear on a separate sheet, not on
the original figures. One high quality, camera ready version of each
figure must be submitted with the manuscript; photocopies may
accompany the additional manuscript copies. Compositors will typeset
the tables.

Note 1: Generalised writings are not encouraged.

Note 2: Any doubt(s) regarding the sub themes of the proposed volume
may be clarified preferably by e-mail before preparing the
contribution.

Note 3:  There will be a free copy to 1st author or corresponding author


Important dates

Submission of full paper: September 30, 2014

Finalization of review process: October 30, 2014

Final intimation/acceptance to the authors: 20 November, 2014

Copyright submission by the authors: 30 November, 2014


How to Submit

The soft copy of the article may be submitted to
drkaushikanna@gmail.com and CC to shriram.ncsi@yahoo.com in
MS-Word-2007/2003 format.

Editors Contact:

Dr. Anna Kaushik

Dy. Librarian and I/C

University of Kota

Kota(Rajasthan)

Mob:+91 9414936675



Shriram Pandey

Asst. Professor & Incharge

Department of Library and Information Science

Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur

Mob:+91 9636383110

JNU Central Library Vaccancy for Professional Assistant

Professional Assistant – Central Library – Group- ‘B’[1 Post- SC] Pay Band-2 (Rs. 9300-34800 plus Grade Pay Rs. 4200/-):

Essential Qualifications:

1. M.Lib. Sc./MLIS or equivalent with 50% marks. OR

Master’s Degree in Arts/Science/Commerce or any other discipline with 50% and B.Lib.

Sc./BLIS with 50% marks.

2. Post Graduate Diploma/Certificate Course in Computer Application/Science/Library

Automation from a recognized institution with minimum of 6 months duration.

Desirable Qualifications:

(i) Atleast three years’ working experience in a reputed library.

(ii) Knowledge of Library Automation activities.

(iii) Knowledge of any foreign language.

(iv) Post Graduate Diploma/Certificate Course in Computer Application/Science/Library Automation

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Dy. Registrar (Admn.), Room No. 310

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Harvard's Head Librarian Is Delighted That Google Books Will Expand Fair Use By Whitney Mallett

Google estimates that there are about 130 million unique books in the world. And the search giant intends to scan them all by 2020.

After an eight-year, multi-branched legal battle, Judge Denny Chin came down on the side of Google Books in a major decision on Thursday, ruling that Google was within its legal right to digitize the books under the fair use provision of US copyright law.

Google started its digitization effort about a decade ago, but was criticized by authors and publishers for violating copyright, eventually spurring a class action lawsuit brought forward by the Authors Guild and the the Association of American Publishers. Chin ruled against the groups last week, in a move that's been hailed as a victory for fair use on the internet.

Robert Darnton, a celebrated book historian and Harvard University's head librarian, has followed the legal saga over the years— always as a strong advocate for the public's access to literature in the digital realm. I talked with Darnton about last week's ruling, as well as the history of fair use and the future of digital publishing.

Motherboard: What was your first reaction to the Judge Chin's decision?

Darnton: My first reaction was delight. I think that his decision will expand fair use and the legal understanding of the communication of literature in the right direction. So I think it's very much in the public interest. I believe that the courts are waking up to the fact that we live in a world very different than the world that existed before the internet—and therefore, that the legal understanding of communication has to be adjusted.

What about monopoly of information in the hands of one commercial enterprise? Is there a conflict when the public good is also in the interest of one private corporation?

I think that we do have general worry of the commercialization of libraries when they are digitized and made available. In that sense, yes there can be a conflict between the public good and the exploitation of the holdings of libraries. But I don't think this case involves that.

In the case of Google Books Search [a settlement proposed in 2011 that would have made Google the default owner of a work's digital rights if no one came forward to claim the book], Google attempted to create a library of millions of books and then to sell access to that library through subscriptions. Judge Chin said in an earlier case this would not hold up legally; it would be a violation of the Sherman anti-trust act. It would be a kind of monopoly by a commercial enterprise that would inhibit access to knowledge and to culture. And I thought at the time that he was absolutely right.

I think this recent decision does the same thing, but it's a very different decision because it's about fair use and the doctrine of fair use is the one that should be reinforced and, I would say, expanded in order to promote the public good.

You are involved in the Digital Public Library of America. Are there repercussions from the verdict for them?

I'm one of its founders and I sit on the board, and it is one of the most exciting efforts to bring literature within the reach of the entire citizenry. So I'm personally aligned with this cause.

It seems to be that the cause of making literature available to public will be strengthened by Judge Chin's decision in this case. Because the cause reinforces fair use, and fair use is a legal provision that has great promise for the DPLA and its attempts to make literature of the 20th century part of a digital library that will be available to everyone.

At the founding of the American republic, there was this commitment to the public good and that was part of the creation of copyright in the first place.

You're a book historian and have studied the print revolution and the Enlightenment. Is that where the seeds of the idea of fair use come from?

The doctrine of fair use was developed in the Copyright Act of 1976, so it's a modern and quasi-technical idea. But if you want to go all the way back to the Enlightenment and the American Constitution in its first article, section 8, clause 8, there is a provision for copyright to be used for limited times and to advance the progress of science and the arts. So at the founding of the American republic, there was this commitment to the public good and that was part of the creation of copyright in the first place.

What happened since then is that copyright expanded beyond these original noted concepts of limited time in the first Copyright Act of 1790—that was 14 years, renewable once. Since then, the time expanded to be the lifetime of the author plus 70 years. So books were excluded from the public domain for more than a century. And the notion of fair use was a way of limiting that because it wouldn't be possible under certain circumstances for libraries to make available to reader certain books without consulting the copyright owners.

So the concept of fair use is a quite recent concept, but it's related to the original inspiration behind copyright, which included a determination that literature should be used for the advancement of knowledge and the arts.

Today we're dealing with a lot of issues that have no precedent. Do you find it helpful to compare to the print revolution? Does that period provide a useful analog when trying to navigate these new spaces?

I think it does. I think that it's vital for us to understand the way the printed word became a force in history when we try to organize the way the electronic word acts as a force today. Of course, there must be boundaries and there must be legal constraints. We have to respect intellectual property, and, at the same time, we need to provide for the public good.

To strike the right balance is especially difficult in the electronic age, but that kind of balance was struck in the whole history of printing and copyright, so we can learn from the past even though we don't have precise examples that we can in some mechanical way apply to the present.

I think we are in for a period of re-conceiving laws and rights, such as the right of expression.

Whenever there's a new technology, it's a bit of a Wild West for a while. Are we nearing a time now when everything is being sorted out, or not?

I think that we will be involved in sorting out these issues for a long time. Technology will continue to change, and so people have to change the rules of the game—the legal constraints on communication—as the technology transforms the landscape. I think we are in for a period of re-conceiving laws and rights, such as the right of expression.

It's a very complicated world we are living in and changing very rapidly. But this case is one example of how the legal system is adjusting to the new technological conditions—and doing so for the public good.

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