Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Projects to watch from SourceForge.net

UniKey: UniKey is a very small and easy-to-use Vietnamese keyboard for Windows.

Camstudio: CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs).

Buildcraft: This is a mod to minecraft aimed at providing advanced building capabilities to the game, such as gears, pipes and quarries.

VideoURLs InstanTempo Plugin: Bypass the Megavideo Time Limit, Regenerate your Megavideo broken links and search for video links.

rEFIt: rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs.

Zekr: Zekr is an open source Quran study software for Windows, Linux and Mac. It's designed to ease access to the most authentic and valuable text of Muslims. Zekr provides Quran translations, recitation, search and other features to study Holy Quran.

Frhed: Frhed is an binary file editor for Windows. It is small but has many advanced features like ability to load big files partially.

ImperiumAO: ImperiumAO client version of ORE 1.0 RPG engine, originally created by Aaron Perkin's from BaronSoft, edition by Maraxus contributed and adapted by Barrin. ImperiumAO was originally based on Argentum-Online, based also on ORE engine.

FTPbox: FTPbox is an open-source application that allows you to synchronize all your files to your remote host, via FTP. This way, you can access your files anywhere, without having to pay for disk space on some 3rd-party website!

Monday, August 22, 2011

119th Birthday Celebration of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan

RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE
(An organ of Ranganathan Research Trust, Regd.:25953, 1995)
J8/123, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi
_______________________________________________________________________

RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE

Cordially invites you to the 119th Birthday Celebration of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan
at the Auditorium of  Hall No. VIII (Hall of Special Display) Pragati Maidan, New Delhi

On August 28th , 2011 Sunday at 2.00 P.M.

There will be a Panel Discussion on
“LIBRARY EDUCATION IN INDIA

Prof. S. Ansari , Former Head & Prof. Dept. LIS, Jamia-Milia Islamia, New  Delhi
Chairperson

PANELISTS

          Prof. Jagtar Singh, Professor and Head, DLIS, Punjab University, Patiala.
(LIS Prospective)
Prof. K. Kannan, University School of Biotechnology GGSIP University, New Delhi and Former Vice   Chancellor of Nagaland University, Nagaland.
(Users Prospective)
and
   There will be a Presentation of Library Security System
Dr. P.R. Goswami, Director, Central Secretariat Library, New Delhi
 Chairperson
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P R O G R A M M E

   1.30               PM                                                        Registration
2.00               PM                                                        Floral tribute to Dr. S R Ranganathan
2.10               PM                                                        Welcome by Mr. Subhash Deshmukh
2.15-2.20       PM                                                        About Ranganathan Research Circle
                                                                                    Dr. Ramesh Gaur
2.20 - 4.00     PM                                                        Panel Discussion
4.05 - 5.05     PM                                                        Presentation of Library Security
                                                                                    System by 3M
5.05 -  5.35    PM                                                        Discussion and Summing up
Vote of Thanks                                                                                     Dr. N K Khatri
5.40               PM                                                        Tea
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RSVP

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Shri. K.K. Bhatia                 25496916
Shri. Subhash Deshmukh     0124-2578715,  9873680484(M)
Dr. Ramesh Gaur                9810487158
Dr. N.K. Khatri                  26513120

Friday, August 12, 2011

HAPPY LIBRARIANS' DAY

Dear Friends,

August 12th is being celebrated as National Librarians’ Day in India, in remembrance of national professor of library science, Padmashree Dr S R Ranganathan (1892-1972), who had spearheaded library development in India.


We have more opportunities to affirm that libraries are change agents in educating the citizens in public life. In India, lot is to be accomplished, appreciation and motivation of library services will go a long way to make awareness about the importance of information and library services to reach the unreached.


There is a huge task ahead for librarians and information services industry to cultivate the reading habit. Illiteracy, poverty and lack of access to education in still more prevalent among the semi-urban and rural areas in India. While the successive governments and department of culture have neglected the library development, librarians and struggling their way to create the awareness of reading habit among the general public with limited resources. It is strongly believed that the coming days will change the face of libraries as ICT and social media are a big boost to learning and education.

We all the librarians and information professionals has to keep up good morale of service, realize our mission and strive hard to reach out more masses in our country in the process of shaping our tomorrow’s leaders through learning and in national development.