UGC NET Results

The results of June 2005 UGC-NET exam is available on the UGC website

http://www.ugc.ac.in/inside/net.html

Any successful candidates from our Department? Congratulations in advance for successful ones and better luck next time for the rest.

Today I come to know that Ms. Shivashanthi has passed the UGC Lecturership. Congradulations Shivashanthi for your success. I wish you all the best in your career.

Survey

I am one of the members of the Indian team in a IEEE sponsored study. This study is done by a group of faculty members from University of Tennessee. Though Prof. Shalini Urs, an Indian team was constituted to assist them to collect the data from two prestigious IT companies in India. I was asked to associate myself a team leader for one of the group.

The study aims at collecting data regarding how technologists use and communicate information in their workplace. The study collects information about the ways and means of communication process that takes place in corporate sector. A well designed data collection instruments is being used for collecting the data.

Dr. Suzie Allard from University of Tennessee introduced the study details to the particpants on the Monday, December 18, 2005. The particpants had given their consent for being observed by an observer from our team. Each observer was associated with one pariticipant. S/he will be observering the participant in his/her workplace for a day. We expect to obseve atleast 12-15 people from each company by the end of this week.

Yesterday's experience was good and funny. The funny part of it is that the observer has to "chase" the participant wherever s/he goes and observe what is s/he doing. First few minutes, participants (as well as observers) found it little uneasy for being observed. Later, they tend to forget the presence of the observer and were involved in their work. Even the observers tried their best to be unobstructive to the extent possible.

I am in the midst of a new kind of experience. I hope to write about my feelings at the end of this week's exercise.

Counseling

The 3rd December 2005 was one another day which gave me some sort of relief and satisfaction about my own deeds. I noticed a few days back that one “person” was suffering from depression in his/her life. . The person was suffering from inferiority complex and thus lacked self esteem. I found out that the person has lost interest in life. I thought that there is a need for counseling this person. I could identify one counselor who happily volunteered to do the work of counseling. I am greateful to the counselor for this. On 3rd December I made arrangements for a meeting of the "person" and the counselor. The Person was not aware about the meeting. In the view of the Person, the meeting was mere accidental. The counseling session last almost two hours. The counselor found it little difficult to get the real situation from the Person for first few minutes. Later, the Person started revealing the facts in tits and bits. The counselor patiently heard the feeling of the Person. The counselor inspired the Person by giving examples from real life incidences and situations. This helped the Person to gain certain level of confidence. One of the reasons for lack of confidence for the Person was his/her lack of knowledge of English. The counselor provided some tips for improve the language skills. In my opinion the counselor developed a good rapport with the “Person” and has assured of any help in future.

Adjudciators comment

Comments of Ms. Ayesha Taranum (Oneofthejudge):
Ashwini P
Very good range, participated whole heartedly and loved writing in the competition. Would have been cherry on the cake, had she responded to comments or added her friends on her blog list

Mahadev Swamy
Excellent example of learning and trying, kept the spirt and wrote well as days went by, should have concentrated on spellings and grammer, but thought process has to be appreciated. Major Greek fan :), very vocal about his feelings and thoughts, he has.

Divakar
Has tried his best to improve

Nagaveni
Wrote well whatever little she put in.

Raghavendra N
Looks like he digged in deep to understand the way of blogger working. Intersting posts.

Mary
Language is an issue again, but a good try

Pradeep Raju
Kept users updated of latest happening, lost password and bounced back, but if he was a little more frequent, would have done wonders :)

Chithra Sastry
Writing what u like is what makes blogging interesting, this girl spoke her heart, hopefully she should continue blogging

Karuna N
Good job, played around with words, images, but lacked the zing

Nagashayana
Could have done a great job, but somewhere lost the enthu I guess

Manjunath SR
Could have done a better job, language must be a constraint for him, but well tried

Chaitra
Though her blog was named Ambitious, she had her feet on the ground. Good writing ability and explains the concepts in a understandable laguage

M Sunil
Has tried his best to overcome the nuances of writing, would have been great, had he been regular and more informative!!?? (BTW >> I like this guy, he thinks I am kewl, check his last blog post ;))

Asha
Good range of subjects have been choose, am not sure if those are her own words or copy pasted from else where. Nevertheless a very informative blog. Would have been good, if the sources were acknowledged

Ramamani
Has tried his best, got a little hay-way, but a good job nevertheless

Pramodini
Played safe, picked a subject and is still continuing!!!

Ashok R
Dabled with pictures etc, but content was rare

Chidananda
Has the capability, but utilised it in putting up quotes.

Meenakshi
Language

Raghu TK
Variety of topics touched, though off 15 days blogged for less than 6 days..Good try, could have been good competion, but never got into the real race!

Ravikumar K
Has tried utilising the image features etc. Atleast tried giving it a new background, but hasn’t bothered about formating the text etc.

Shivaprakashy
Has played around with some of the pic tools and colors etc. Choice of work posted is good. Would have been great, had he written with more concentration on sentences and spellings.

Smitha Prahalad
Started with some promise, but lost the race very early

Hari GRG
Some more meat, and concentration at what he writes, he would have been a close competition

Ashwini Shetty
Stayed on the safe path, cut paste from everywhere, but the topics were quite interesting, atleast I learnt how to put my best foot forward

Raghavendra
Tried various options of posting pictures etc, but failed at the color of the text and just lost interest?

Skumar
Good range, took some pains to atleast make an effort to post on what he thought, promising, but did not venture more

Srinivasa Naika
Has played around with color, text formating etc, but none of the blog posts are orignial, as in they are cut paste from other websites. Frequency, content are high, but what lacks is, making it personalised. Am lost in giving ranking here. I liked the bl

Alvin
Has a flair to write, but did not leverage on it

Harish
Well…laziness prevailed

Harish HT
Played around a lot with images, but never got to put words to pictures.

Amrutha N
quite capable, but Alas!

Syed Mudassir
Must be suffering from writer's block, did not visit after first two days!

Mahadev Prasad
Lazy????

Siddalinga Swamy
Interest level low or is it am busy and lazy?

Rajendraprasad HN
Did not even participate in the race???!!!

Naveenama
I don’t want to give her any marking, but a special prize for saying what she feels. Sir, please help me meet her, when I am there



Comments of Sri Sreeharsha (2ndJudge):
Alvin John Chandra
Except couple of Blogs like Man of words… & Love birds, there is hardly anything to read

Amritha
No exuberance

Asha
Most of the content are CTRL+C & CTRL +V. But looks like she has searched well to get them

Ashoka R
Just pictures with quotes, will not do any wonders

Ashwini P
Good to watch this girl's blog. Chosen topics has a variety. Looks like she is good in academics too

Chaitra
She could have put much more effort in collecting and organising the content

Chithra S
Good work done

Divakar Babu
Nicely written blog

Harish G R
No Comments

Harish H T
Just Pics and no writeup??? Colour combination..aaah!!!!!!

Harish P N
Except "To My Beloved Friends" nothing else is worth mentioning

Karunakar N
Could have used his blog more effectively

Meenakshi MA
Education important for girls is good one. Others worth skipping

Nagashayana
Except the name - nenapinangaLa nothing is good

Nagaveni
Selection of topics are good. Need to watch the Vocabulary

Pramodini
Where did she find source to put all those words???

Raghavendra N
A Blog about Bloggers/blogging???

Raghu B
Need to improve his grammar. Otherwise good one

Ramamani
Could have used the colour effectively

Ravikumar K
Laws of Impariality was the only substance to read

Shiva Prakash Y
Did not continue the initial spirit

Smitha Prahalad
Did not continue the initial spirit

Sreenivasa Naika
Has chosen my favourite topic - Search Engine.:-) And also played with colour. With right color combination it could have been a treat to watch his blog. For ex. Blog on "About Search Engine" doesn't exist unless you block the whole text. Good work on Quotes too.

Sthuthy
Good to watch!!!

Sunil M
Special Oota reminded me my MLIS days when I used to stay @ hostel during exams…Apart from that its ok ok

Syed Mudassir
Did not continue the initial spirit


Final remark: Above remarks are given just to improve your abilities. Take the comments positively.

Blogging Competition Results

The blogging competition results are finally ready. Sorry for the delay due to some unavoidable circumstances.

The adjudicators for the competition were Ms. Ayesha Taranum of HCL Capital Market Services and Sri. Sreeharsha of i2 technologies. They were communicating with you as OneoftheJudge and 2ndJudge respectively. They have communicated to me that they enjoyed participating in the competition ananymously. I thank both of them for their services. The criteria used by them for assessing your postings are Appearance of the blog (20), Content (30), Comments received (15), Frequency (10) and Style of writing (25). The maximum marks for each facet is shown in the bracket.

My thanks are due to Prof. Shalini Urs who has been behind this competition right from the beginning. Her suggestions and encouragements have gone a long way in conducating this competition successfully.

The top ten bloggers during the competition are:

Ashwini P
Divakar Babu
Mahadev Swamy
Chithra Sastry
Nagaveni
Sreenivasa Naika
Raghavendra N
Raghu B
Ashok R
Chaitra M



Ashwini P, Divakar Babu and Mahadev Swamy have won the first, second and third prizes respectively. Congradulations prize winners. I wish very best blogging career for the rest of the participants.

Unit 5 - Information Organization

The Unit 5 is missing in one version of syllabus. Students are hereby informed to incorporate the following unit in the Information Organization paper.


Unit 5 : Facet analyses and Information Organisation on the Web. Need and Principles. Facet analyses and markup languages. Facet analyses and hyper media and hyptertext. Case studies: CMS Review (http://www.cmsreview.com/Directory.html); Epicurious (http://www.epicurious.com/) ; lawforwa.org (http://lawforwa.org/)

Project work of Pradeep

I have asked Pradeep to understand the concept "RSS feed". I intend to give a topic on this to him

Refeerences - Information Organization

Bliss, H. E. (1934). The organization of knowledge in libraries. New York: H.W. Wilson.

Marcella, Rita and Maltby, Arthur, ed.( 2000) The Future of Classification. Aldershot, Eng.; Brookfield, Vt.: Gower.

Husain, Shabhat (2004). Library classification: Facets and analyses. 2nd rev. ed. Delhi: B.R. Publishing Corportation.

Pushpa Dhyani (1998). Library Classification: theory and principles. New Delhi: Wishwa Prakashan.

Marcella, Rita and Newton, Rita (1997). A new manual of Classification. Mumbai, Jaico.

Langridge, D. W. (1992). Classification: its kinds, elements, systems and applications. London: Bowker.

Foskett, A.C. (1996). The subject approach to information, 5th ed. London: Library Association Publishing.

Hunter, Eric J.. (1988). Classification made simple. Aldershot, Eng.: Gower

Ranganathan, S.R. (1967). Prolegomena to library classification. 3rd ed. Asia: Bombay.

Shera, Jesse H. (1966). Documentation and the organization of knowledge. Hamden, CT: Archon Books.

Ranganathan, S.R. (1959). Elements of library classification. London: Association of Assistant Librarians.

Sayers, W.C. Berwick (1962). Manual of Classification. 3rd ed. London:Andre Deutsch.

Thanks one and all

Tomorrow is the last day for blogging competition. Hurry up! record your last minute thoughts in your blogs. I hope this competition has helped you to develop habit of maintaining your dairy and blogging your opinions. Even after the competition is over, I suggest you to continue this good habit. I hope you all enjoyed this competition. Send your opinions and criticisms to me.

I convey my thanks to all the participants. They made this competition a great success. I fail in my duties if I do not thank the judges who have done an excellent job anonymously. The source of inspiration for all these is Prof. Shalini R Urs. I thank her too. My thanks for my senior colleagues in the Department who have guided me and supported me in all my venture, however little they might be.

I have the satisfaction of organizing this event. No body can take away that from me.

Best Blogger

One of the DLIS alumni has come forward with a prize for the best blogger. Participants take note! Make you blogs more attractive and interesting. Lots of prizes are awaiting you.

Blogging

I have been enjoying the blog entries of all my students. They are writing on different aspects. I can see the improvement in the blog entries. I am envious about them as their blogs have attracted the comments and not mine. Any way, I have learn to take it positively!!

IASLIC Seminar

Travel grants are available for students and Ph.d Scholars for attending the 25th All India Conference on LIS Profession in India: Vision for 2010. Applicants should enclose a bio-data containing address of correspondence (Department's address), email, phone number and an one page write up on the plan to utilize the experience by attending IASLIC 2005. Please pay attention for writeup

Interested students may give the details to NSH on or before 10th November 2005. He will be transmitting all your applications to the Chairperson.

Assignment

The following is the list of assignments for MLISc 1st Semester. The last date for submission is 30th November 2005. Include the references that you consult for preparing the assignments.

Asha PT	Need and Purposes of Information Organization
Ashoka R	Guiding principles for presentation of ideas
Ashwini N	Modes of formation of subjects
Ashwini P	Organization of information on the websites
Bharat Raj R	Organization of information in the books
Chidananda	Oraganization of information in the journals
Chithra S	Oraganization of information in the newspapers
Divakar H S	Organization of knowledge through Ranganathan’s schematic diagram.
Harish H T	Rounds and Levels
Krishna Kumar S	Categories and Philosophers
Made Gowda K R	Categories and Library Scientists (other than Ranganathan)
Manjunatha S R	Facet sequence
Manohar M	Fundamental categories
Mary Kutty Sebastian	Theories for information organization
Munsaasar Ali Ahmed	Contribution of E.W. Hulme for library classification theory
Nagashayana	Sayer's contribution to the theory of library classification
Naveen Kumar G	CRG and it contibution
Naveena M A	E C Richardson's contribution to the theory of library classification
Pradeep S	Ranganatha's Dynamic theory of classification
Raghavedra J	Salient features of CC
Rajendra Prasad H N	Salient features of DDC
Rajeswari H P	Salient features of UDC
Ramamani	Historical development of classification schemes
Ravichandra C	Use of facet principles for Information organization in Epicurous homepage
Ravikumar K	Use of facet principles for Information organization in CMS Review
Shiva Prakash Y	Use of facet principles for Information organization in lawforwa.org
Siddalinga Swamy	Hypermedia
Smitha Prahalad	Hyptertext
Syed Mudassir	Use of facet analyses on the web

UGC Questions

The following information was sent to me by Mr. U.M. Pradeep Kumar, Librarian, Institute of Clinical Research. I am putting this on my blog as I thought it might be useful for UGC aspirants.

These are the UGC questions which we have faced in June 2005.

1. Cost Benefit Analysis
2. User Education
3. Search Engines
4. Applied & Basic Search
5. Communication Barriers
6. Information as Commodity
7. Pre-requisites of Resource sharing
8. Function of IFLA
9. E-documents
10. Difference b/w Information Source & Information Resource
11. Faceted Classification
12. Pre-coordinate & Post coordinate Indexing
13. Search strategy & expression
14. Performance evaluation
15. RECON
16. CIP
17. World Wide Web
18. Difference b/w Digital library & Virtual Library
19. Difference b/w System Analysis & System Approach
20. Information Science as Commodity


Essay Type Questions:-

1. Information profession is more concentrated towards storage
collection of information & neglect the more important user, Comment.
2. What is the advantage of Retrospective conversion of manual
catalogue to automated cataloguing system.
3. During preparing information policy giving more importance to
storage, collection, why. Explain relevance to Indian context.

Downtime

Attention Blogging Participants: Don't get panic if you do not get access for few hours on Saturday. You can try after few hours. Following is the message available on your blogs also:

Maintenance on Saturday

We will be upgrading our network access this weekend which will require downtime for both Blogger and Blog*Spot. The outage will occur at noon (PST) on Saturday and last for 2 hours. Thanks for your patience during this maintenance window.
– Jason G. [11/01/2005 04:48:00 PM]

Blogging Competition

Attention Participants: Please visit the following url of the judges of the competition. You may get very useful tips. Both of them are expert bloggers.

http://2ndjudge.blogspot.com/ 

http://1ofthejudge.blogspot.com/

Holiday Work

After a long time, I am able to come to office on holidays. I worked on almost all hodiays this week . I could complete 3 articles and a few other work that was pending for the past several months. I am very happy that I could do it.

I have been seeing the blog entries of the students. It is wonderful experience, particularly the way they responded to my call. I congradulate all of them. Really it gives me satisfcation that I could initiate at least 2/3 people for online culture.

I passed on the workshop money to Ayesha. List of 9 students name was also given to her (one person has to still give the money to me.

Now it is 8 pm. I am hearing the crackers sound. But in my office I am alone and enjoying the work.

Seminar

The following is the list of seminar topics assigned to MLISc first semester students.

Name	Canon
Asha PT	Canon of Differentiation
Ashoka R	Canon of Relevance
Ashwini N	Canon of Ascertainability
Ashwini P	Canon of Permanenance
Bharat Raj R	Canon of Concomitance
Chidananda	Canon of Relevant Succession
Chithra S	Canon of Consistent Succession
Divakar H S	Canon of Exhaustiveness
Harish H T	Canon of Exclusiveness
Krishna Kumar S	Canon of Helpful Sequence
Made Gowda K R	Canon of consistent Sequence
Manjunatha S R	Canon of Decreasing Extension
Manohar M	Canon of Modulation
Mary Kutty Sebastian	Canon of Filiatory Sequence
Munsaasar Ali Ahmed	Canon of Context
Nagashayana	Canon of Enumeration
Naveen Kumar G	Canon of Currency
Naveena M A	Canon of Reticence
Pradeep S	Canon of Relativity and Canon of Uniformity
Raghavedra J	Canon of Hierarchy and Canon of Non-Hierarchy
Rajendra Prasad H N	Canon of Mixed notation and Canon of Pure Notation
Rajeswari H P	Canon of Faceted Notation and Canon of Non-Faceted Notation
Ramamani	Canon of co-extensiveness and canon of under-extensiveness
Ravichandra C	Law of Interpretation
Ravikumar K	Law of Impartiality
Shiva Prakash Y	Law of Symmetry
Siddalinga Swamy	Law of Parsimony
Smitha Prahalad	Law of Local Variation
Syed Mudassir	Law of Osmosis

Blogs

I have been visiting many many blogs for the past 4/5 days. This is just to have more understading about them, their composition and their uses. I have come across many good and a few bad blogs.

Reading

I had been reading many artilces on Internet for the past two/three days. I am trying to write a good conference paper. Having the access to the full text articles from the Department is really exciting. I propose to complete it by Saturday

Swamy

I have directed Swmay to look an article to find out the possibility whether he can take up similar work for his MLISc project. The article is available at http://informationr.net/ir/7-1/paper120.html

Colloquium - Pre-registration

Today's pre-registration colloquium was really good. The students and even the guides were grilled by the faculty members. One thing that was shown to the students was that the topics lack sufficient focus. Unless, the researcher knows what needs to be done and how the things are to be done, it would be difficult to carry out the research in a focused manner. Well defined research design and backing up the presentation with sufficient basic data are the expectation of the committee. Having too many objectives and hypotheses would also make the research out of focus.

As far as my students are concerned, they had collected some data and unfortunately was not reflected in their proposal. We were given the understanding that the proposal should contain emphasis on the objectives, hypotheses (if any), methodology and work done. Work done was indicated breifly but sufficient material to support the claim was absent in the proposal. I think it is a good suggestion that those things should be there in a proposal.

I think that we may think of coming out with a broad guidelines for preparing the proposal. It should be broad enough to allow the researcher to be innovative, if they want to. Some comments could have been avoided in the interest of encouraging the students and the novice guides. After all the overall objective of the colloquium is not to demotivate the students!

I have asked Sunil and Sudha to take the comments seriously and incorporate the suggestions. I told Sudha not to be too submissive during the presentation. Sunil should learn to take the constructive criticism in a positive way ... some time he tends to enter in to arguments even on a good suggestion.

Blog Demo

I gave a demo about blog to the students of MLISc and MIM. I enjoyed working with them

Image

I tried to add image to my blogspot (my blogspot homepage). I could not get how to do it. Here in the postings I know how to post an image. Example shown below:

Letter

I have some how delaying writing of a letter .... very important one. I have to do it tomorrow at any cost.

Express Yourself Online

I was thinking of what compitition I need to organise for MULISSA. My idea was that the compitition should be attended by all students and it should be technology based. After a weeks pondering over the issue, I got an idea. I thought of encouraging the students to involve themselves in blogging activity. A competition would trigger them, I feel. So I sent a proposal to Prof. Shalini, the Chairman of the Department, regarding this. She accepted the idea but slightly changed the tone of the competition to a higher level. I still believe that the compitition should be at a lower level to start with. I have aired my views to her over the email. I am still waiting for her reply.

Kannada

ಕರಗತ ಕತರಕ ತಕರಪತಕ ತಕರಪಗದಾತರಗತ ತಕರಗದತಗಜೈಜಗಾಡಜೇಗ ್ಡಾಗ್ಗೈಜದ್ಗೈಲ
This is just a trial to see whether I can create kannada blogs

Quiz

I had an nice experience of organising the written quiz for MLISc and MIM students at the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore. Dr. Mallinath Kumbar helped me a lot in designing the questionnaire. Mr. Nagasundra of the Mysore University library did provide a few interesting questions. What I liked most was the way the students responded. Voluntarily they came to me to appreciate the quiz program. I have put the report about the quiz in the LIS-FORUM

Blogging

I was not aware about blogging till recently. After I heard one lecture at Department of Library and Information Science as a part of MULISSA activity, I thought of participating in blogging. I was not sure how difficult or easy it would be. Google home page prompted me to creat an account. It is quite easy.