Friday, February 26, 2010

"The Library of Congress Catalogers Learning Workshop on iTunes U."

Have a glance at the news item on LC page http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2009/09-136.html . The “Library of Congress iTunesU” includes 14 courses from the Cataloger’s Learning Workshop which would be of cataloger’s interest. To access the stuff a special application software is required, called “iTunes” ( free software available at www.apple.com/itunes )

Guide to Standards for Library Systems

RFID in U.S. Libraries ( This document which has been made public by NISO as a set of guidelines to be followed for implementing RFID technology in library industry. The same guidelines are going to take shape of few ISO standards in future.
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/RP-6-2008.pdf
MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data (Concise Version)
http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdhome.html
MARC 21 Concise Format for Authority Data
http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ecadhome.html
MARC 21 Concise Format for Community Information
http://www.loc.gov/marc/community/eccihome.html
MARC 21 Concise Format for Holdings Data
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdhome.html
Frieda Rosenberg, Introduction to the Marc Format for Holdings Data, The Future of Serials Control, LITA Pre conference Institute, June 15, 2001.
http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/litapres-fr/ppframe.htm

Holdings Statements for Bibliographic Items ANSI/NISO Z39.71, Holdings Statements for Bibliographic Items
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-71.pdf

FFuture of Serials Control, LITA Preconference Institute, June 15, 2001.
http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/litapres-rg/sld001.htm

MARC 21 Specifications for Record Structure, Character Sets, and Exchange Media
http://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/spechome.html
MARC 21 Record Structure
http://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/specrecstruc.html
MARC 21 Character Sets
http://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/speccharintro.html
Diffuse Guide to Character Sets
http://www.diffuse.org/charguide.html
Unicode: From Chinese to Cherokee; from Kana to Klingon
http://www.pla.org/publications/technotes/technotes_unicode.html
The Unicode Standard: A Technical Introduction.
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/principles.html
Serial Item and Contribution Identifier (SICI) ANSI/NISO Z39.56, Serial Item and Contribution Identifier (SICI)
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-56.pdf
Data Elements for Binding Library Materials ANSI/NISO Z39.76, http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-76.pdf
NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP) ANSI/NISO Z39.83, NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP)
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/z3983pt1.pdf
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/z3983pt2.pdf
NISO NCIP website:
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/NCIP_Resource_Page.html
Mark Needleman, The NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol: An Overview and Status
Report, Serials Review, v. 26, no. 4, 2000, pp. 42-45. Pat Stevens, NCIP—The Invisible Stitches, ALA Midwinter, January 21, 2002
http://www.niso.org/committees/at_jan_02/index.htm

Code 39 Specification [about]
http://www.barcodeman.com/info/c39_1.php3
Codabar Barcode Specification [about]
http://www.barcodeman.com/info/codabar.php
Barcode Technology
http://www.aimglobal.org/technologies/barcode/
Interlibrary Loan Application Standards Maintenance Agency (ILL ASMA) website:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/ill/
ILL Protocol Implementors Group (IPIG) website:
http://www.arl.org/access/naildd/ipig/ipig.shtml
IPIG Profile and Guideline Documentation
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/ill/ipigprfl.htm
Barbara Shuh, et al Tutorial on the ISO Interlibrary Loan Protocol
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/ill/readtut1.htm

The Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 website:http://www.x12.org/
Z39.50 ANSI/NISO Information Retrieval—Application Service Definition and Protocol Specification http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-50.pdf
Information Retrieval U.S. National Profile NISO Z39.89, The U.S. National Z39.50 Profile for Library Applications
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-89.pdf
GILS (Global Information Locator Service) FIPS 192-1a, Application Profile for the Government Information Locator Service (GILS)
http://www.gils.net/prof_v2.html
Source: http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/RFP_Writers_Guide.pdf.
The RFP Writer’s Guide to Standards for Library Systems. This booklet is available for free download from the NISO website (http://www.niso.org/)

Newspaper Clippings Service

http://www.news.google.com/
http://www.business.com/
http://www.reuters.com/
http://www.samachar.com/biz/reindex.html
http://www.economictimes.com/
http://www.business-standard.com/bsheadline/sectionhome.php
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_headline.html
http://www.telegraphindia.com/section/business/index.asp
http://www.hindustantimes.com/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pubnews.php

Full Text of the books of Ranganathan

Full text of the following books of Dr. S.R.Ranganathan are presently available OA on dLIST.
Classification and Communication - http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1150/.
Documentation Genesis and Development - http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1748/
Philosophy of Library Classification - http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1747/
Prolegomena to Library Classification - http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1151/
The Five Laws of Library Science - http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1220/
New Education and School Library: Experience of Half a Century
http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1152/

National Libraries of the World

A comprihensive alphatical list of 161 National libraries across the world is available on Ifla site at followiing link:
http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p2/national-libraries.htm
The last reviosn has been done on Jan8, 2008.
This list include those libraries also who are not exactly a NAtional LIbrary but wrking in same capacity.

India Education Search Engine - Edusense

India education search engine - Edusense - that combines online and offline sources pertaining to Indian education and offers the resulting data as a meta resource for the Indian Learning Community. education search engine at the following URL
http://edusense.googlepages.com/

Taslima Nasrin's Books : Free to Download (Click on the Titles)

(A) Autobiographies
1. My Girlhood ( autobiography 1st part) -English 1999 (293 Pages)
2. My Stormy Youth (autobiography 2nd part)-English 2002Wild Wind ( India, Srishti Publishers, 2005)
3. Amar Meyebela (prthom porbo) 1999 (My Girlhood) (236 Pages)
4. Utol Hawa (dwitio porbo) 2002(Gusty Wind) (379 Pages)
5. Dwikhondito (tritio porbo)2003(Split Into Two) (394 Pages)
6. Sei Sob Ondhokar (choturtho porbo)2004 ( Those Dark Days) (370 Pages)
7. Ami Bhalo nei, Tumi Bhalo Theko Prio Desh (ponchom porbo) 2006, (445 Pages) (I am not fine, but you stay well my beloved country)
(B) Essays
8. Narir Kono Desh Nei 2007, (192 Pages) (NO COUNTRY FOR WOMEN)
(C) Noveles
9. Homecoming
(D) Poetry
10. Bondini 2008 (104 Pages) (PRISONERS POEMS)
11. Bhalobaso? Cchai Baso 2007 (95 Pages)
12. Kichukkhon Thako 2004 (84 Pages)
13. Khali Khali Lage 2002(75 Pages)
14. Jolpodyo 2000 (76 Pages)
(E) Short Story for Children
15. Bhuter Golpo (17 Pages)

Friday, February 5, 2010

Latest Top 25 Projects from sourceforge.net

PostBooks ERP, accounting, CRM by Tuple https://sourceforge.net/projects/postbooks
Free open source ERP, accounting, CRM package for small to midsizedbusinesses. ERP client runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows (built with opensource Qt framework). Business logic resides in PostgreSQL database.International ERP, accounting, and CRM tools.
Notepad++
https://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus
Notepad++, a source code editor and MS Windows Notepad replacement, has themission to offer a greener environment. By optimizing its routines, itresults in reducing CPU power consumption then reducing the world carbondioxide emissions.
phpMyAdmin
https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administrationof MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases,create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQLstatement, manage keys on fields.
Mumble
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mumble
Low-latency, high-quality voice communication for gamers. Includes gamelinking, so voice from other players comes from the direction of theircharacters, and has echo cancellation so the sound from your loudspeakerswon't be audible to other players.
Openbravo ERP
https://sourceforge.net/projects/openbravo
Openbravo ERP is the professional web-based open source ERP solutionproviding unique high-impact benefits: 1) Comprehensive 2) Innovative 3)Cost effective. IMPORTANT NOTICE. Openbravo ERP project community is now active at http://forge.openbravo.com/
ADempiere ERP Business Suite
http://sourceforge.net/projects/adempiere
ADempiere Business Suite ERP/CRM/MFG/SCM/POS done the Bazaar way in an openand unabated fashion. Focus is on the Community that includes Subject Matter Specialists, Implementors and End-Users. We are a community fork of Compiere.
FreeCol
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freecol
FreeCol is an open version of Colonization. It is a Civilization-like gamein which the player has to conquer the new world.
7-Zip http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip
7-Zip is a file archiver with the high compression ratio. The programsupports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, ISO,MSI, WIM, NSIS, RPM and DEB formats.
Zenoss Core - Enterprise IT Monitoring
http://sourceforge.net/projects/zenoss
Zenoss Core is an enterprise network and systems management applicationwritten in Python/Zope. Zenoss provides an integrated product formonitoring availability, performance, events and configuration acrosslayers and across platforms.
Azureus / Vuze
http://sourceforge.net/projects/azureus
Vuze (formerly Azureus) is a P2P file sharing client using the bittorrent protocol. Search and download torrent files. Play, convert and transcode videos and music for playing on many devices such as PSP, TiVo, XBox, PS3, iTunes (iPhone, iPod, Apple TV).
webERP web-based ERP Accounting
http://sourceforge.net/projects/weberp
Integrated accounting ERP system. Multi-language/currency/inventory locations. Full double entry. SO/AR/PO/AP/GL/Bank/Sales Analysis. BOMs/assemblies/kit-sets. Flexible pricing. E mailable pdf reports. Fast PHP created html for any browser.
ZK - Simply Ajax and Mobile
http://sourceforge.net/projects/zk1
ZK is Ajax Java framework. With direct RIA, 200+ Ajax components and a markup language, developing Ajax/RIA as simple as desktop apps and HTML/XUL pages. Support JSF/JSP/Java EE/Spring.., Ajax Push, and Ajax script in Java/Ruby/Groovy/Python/JavScript..
OpenXava
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openxava
Framework to develop AJAX JavaEE/J2EE applications rapidly and easily. Allows to define applications just with POJOs, JPA and Java 5 annotations. Feature rich and flexible. Generates JSR-168 portlet applications (Liferay,WebSphere Portal, Jetspeed, etc).
KeePass Password Safe
http://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass
KeePass Password Safe is a free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager for Windows. You can store your passwords in a highly-encrypted database, which is locked with one master password or key file.
MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw
MinGW: A native Windows port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), with freely distributable import libraries and header files for building native Windows applications; includes extensions to the MSVC runtime to support C99 functionality.
DVDStyler
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdstyler
DVDStyler is a cross-platform free DVD authoring application for the creation of professional-looking DVDs. It allows not only burning of video files on DVD that can be played on standalone DVD player, but also creation of individually designed DVD menus.
DavMail POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav to Exchange
http://sourceforge.net/projects/davmail
Ever wanted to get rid of Outlook ? DavMail is a POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/LDAP gateway allowing users to use any mail/calendar client with Exchange, even from the internet through Outlook Web Access on any platform, tested on Mac OSX, Linux and Windows
PhpGedView
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpgedview
PhpGedView is a revolutionary genealogy program which allows you to view and edit your genealogy on your website. It has full privacy functions, can import from GEDCOM files, and supports multimedia. It also simplifies family collaboration.
MediaInfo
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mediainfo
Get technical information and tags of a lot of multimedia files. Supported formats : - Video : AVI/OGM/MKV/MPG/VOB/MP4/3GP/..., Audio :MP3/OGG/MKA/MP4/AAC/...
Arianne RPG
http://sourceforge.net/projects/arianne
Arianne is a multiplayer online engine to develop turn based and real time games providing a simple way of creating the game server rules and clients like Stendhal. Marauroa, our server, uses Java and MySQL for hosting dozens of players on a solo host.
JMRI Model Railroad Interface
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jmri
Java interfaces and sample implementations for controlling a model rail road layout from a personal computer. JMRI is intended as a jumping-off point for hobbyists to build their own layout controls. Includes the DecoderPro and PanelPro applications.
TCPDF - PHP class for PDF
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcpdf
TCPDF is a PHP class for generating PDF documents without requiring external extensions. TCPDF Supports UTF-8, Unicode, RTL languages and HTML.
jEdit
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jedit
jEdit is a programmer's text editor written in Java. It uses the Swing tool kit for the GUI and can be configured as a rather powerful IDE through the use of its plugin architecture.
Clonezilla
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla
Clonezilla is a partition or disk clone tool similar to Norton Ghost. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (Server Edition).
Scintilla
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scintilla
Scintilla is a free source code editing component which includes useful features such as syntax styling, error indicators, folding, code completion and call tips. The project includes SciTE (SCIntilla based Text Editor).