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    May 29th, 2010Gireesh Kumar T KLIS Jobs
    Last Date: 28th May 2010
    Applications on the prescribed application form are invited from Indian Nationals for the Post of Assistant Librarian and  LibraryAssistants in The Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune

    Post: Assistant Librarian
    No of Post: 01
    Pay Scale : Rs.15600-39100 Grade Pay Rs.5400/-
    Essential Qualification : Master’s Degree in Library Science/Information Science Documentation with or an equivalent professional Degree with at least 55 % of the marks or its equivalent grade of B in UGC seven-point scale plus a consistently good academic record, computerization of Library with five years experience.
    Preferential Qualifications : Qualifying in the National Level Test conducted for the purpose by the UGC or any other agency approved by the UGC Post:

    Post: Library Assistant
    No of Post: 09
    Pay Scale : Rs.5200-20200 Grade Pay Rs.2400/-
    Essential Qualification : Bachelor Degree in Library Science or equivalent with at least second division or its equivalent grade and Proficiency and knowledge of computer applications and operations.
    For More Details : http://www.diat.ac.in/~newdiat/pdf/TEXT_OF_ADVT_-_No_02-2010__NTS-DIAT__DU_.pdf


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    May 26th, 2010LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    Norcross, GA — May 25, 2010
    Jonathan Trumbull Library, in Lebanon, CT has gone live with Evergreen open source ILS. This is the third library of Bibliomation’s Evergreen pilot group, joining Beacon Falls Public Library and Douglas Library of Hebron, which have been live since March. The entire consortium is expected live during 2011.

    Equinox Software, Inc. assisted with the migrations and continues to provide ongoing technical support for all the Bibliomation development partner libraries.
    According to Amy Terlaga, Bibliomation Assistant Director, User Services, “Now that the Jonathan Trumbull Library is live, we can see the wonderful interplay between libraries in the Evergreen consortial environment.”

    Brad LaJeunesse, Equinox CEO, says “We are very excited about the success of Bibliomation’s new consortium. As they continue to grow, the advantages of a combined catalog will become even more evident.”

    About Bibliomation
    Founded in 1980, Bibliomation has grown into the largest of the Connecticut networks. They operate as a member driven, non-profit organization with 48 public libraries, 23 K-12 libraries, and 9 development partner libraries across the state. Bibliomation provides a wide array of information, telecommunications, and automation services in order to serve the ever changing technological needs of the network’s member libraries.
    For more information about Bibliomation, please visit http://www.biblio.org/.
    About Evergreen
    Evergreen is a robust, open-source integrated library system best known for its unique ability to meet the needs of very large, high-transaction, multi-site consortia. However, it has also proven equally successful scaled down for the smallest libraries.
    Since its debut in September 2006, the software has sustained the 270-plus libraries of the Georgia PINES consortium. Evergreen has earned acclaim and praise from users worldwide, including a Technology Collaboration Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Evergreen now supports over 500 libraries of every type-public, academic, special, and school media centers. Evergreen’s rapidly expanding community is now known to power live installations in 6 countries including 12 U.S. states and 4 Canadian provinces.
    For more information about Evergreen, including a list of all known Evergreen installations, see http://evergreen-ils.org.

    About Equinox Software, Inc.
    Founded by the original Evergreen designers and developers, Equinox Software is a growing team of skilled professionals who provide services for Evergreen and Koha. These services include software development, consulting, legacy data migration, 24x7 technical support, and system hosting. Equinox also engages and supports a rapidly expanding open source community.

    For more information on Equinox Software, please visit http://www.esilibrary.com.

    Press contact: Corinne Hall, corinne@esilibrary.com, 678-269-6113
    Evergreen and Koha are open source software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL. Evergreen and the Evergreen logo are trademarks of the Georgia Public Library Service.

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    May 26th, 2010Badan BarmanLIS Jobs
    Last Date: 25th May,2010.
    Fresh MLISc Candidates having proficiency in English Language and Computer operation may forward their CV to e-mail: anb321in at yahoo.co.in anbandi at rediffmail.com. The selected Candidates will have an opportunity to work and learn in a total Digital environment of the prestigious National Resource Centrer of NIFT. Such selected candidates will be paid the stipend of Rs 6000=00 PM for the first six Months.


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    May 26th, 2010Badan BarmanLIS Jobs
    Last Date: May 25, 2010.
    Emoluments : Rs.16000/- per month (inclusive all).
    More: http://www.iiap.res.in


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    May 25th, 2010LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    ~ ATLA Historical Monographs Collection: Series 2 (1894-1923)
    Now Available on EBSCOhost® ~

    IPSWICH, Mass. — May 25, 2010 — EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) is announcing the release of ATLA Historical Monographs Collection: Series 2. This is the second of two monograph series offered by EBSCO from American Theological Library Association’s (ATLA) historical monograph archives. EBSCO partnered with ATLA in 2008 to provide new collections of historical monographs and serials in digital format.

    ATLA Historical Monographs Collection: Series 2 consists of digital versions of rare historical primary sources published from 1894 up to 1923. Including more than 14,000 titles, Series 2 is a vast collection containing over five million pages of content.

    This second series presents a comprehensive picture of the growing interest in and understanding of Eastern religions from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. Series 2 includes hundreds of volumes describing the evangelical movement and collections of evangelical sermons including covering the debates between science and religion in the current day that has its roots in the late nineteenth century. The resource also describes the missionary activities of the period and includes books about women and the church as well as Native Americans and their religion. Other subjects include: changing demographics, church life, doctrinal disputes, higher criticism, Judeo-Christian religions and social movements.

    EBSCO provides access via its EBSCOhost® Content Viewer . The state-of-the art interface was designed to enable researchers to navigate historical content in a manner that is fast, natural and preserves the serendipity involved in doing historical research. The EBSCOhost Content Viewer reproduces the best aspects of the physical library research experience while incorporating the advances in modern digital technology.

    About EBSCO Publishing
    EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of more than 300 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). The company’s product lines include proprietary databases such as Academic Search™, Business Source®, CINAHL®, DynaMed™, Literary Reference Center™, MasterFILE™, NoveList®, SocINDEX™ and SPORTDiscus™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as ATLA Religion Database™, EconLit, Inspec®, MEDLINE®, MLA International Bibliography, The Philosopher’s Index™, PsycARTICLES® and PsycINFO®. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world. EBSCO is the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service™ a core collection of locally-indexed metadata creating a unified index of an institution’s resources within a single, customizable search point providing everything the researcher needs in one place—fast, simple access to the library’s full text content, deeper indexing and more full-text searching of more journals and magazines than any other discovery service (www.ebscohost.com/discovery). For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: information@ebscohost.com.

    EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.

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    For more information, please contact:
    Kathleen McEvoy
    Public Relations Manager
    (800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
    kmcevoy@ebscohost.com

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