Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Legend Maker 1.0 - Generates eBooks from RTF files

ZappTek has launched a new application, Legend Maker 1.0 for Mac OS X, which converts book manuscripts from word processor files to eBooks. The new software generates eBooks files that will work with the iPad, Kindle, Reader and Nook and also software readers ibis reader and bookworm. It can generate eBooks with complex layout and design, using images, indexes, tables of contents and footnotes and endnotes.

Legend Maker works with word processor files that have been converted to RTF, taking text-based tags in the manuscript -- indicating page breaks, bookmarks and images -- and converting the layout references into a fully functional eBook. The converter supports typographical elements like italics, boldface, indentation, hyperlinks, and tables. Newly generated eBooks support user-supplied metadata like titles, authors, genres, publishers, copyrights, ISBN IDs and creation dates.

Legend Maker 1.0 requires an Intel chip and Mac OS X 10.6. It is $100 with lifetime free updates.
Source: http://www.macnn.com/
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Latest Projects from sourceforge.net

IXThemes
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ixthemes
IXThemes is an implementation of innovative methods in the development of qualitative universality themes and templates for content management systems based on the XOOPS Web application platform such as pure XOOPS, ImpressCMS, EXM System, and others.

OrangeHRM - Human Resource Management
https://sourceforge.net/projects/orangehrm
OrangeHRM is an Open Source Human Resource Management System that covers Personnel Information Management, Employee Self Service, Leave, Time and Attendance, Benefits, and Recruitment. Tags: HRM, HRMS, HCM, HRIS, EHRMS, Human Capital Management.

GIMP on OS X
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimponosx
This project provides pre-build GIMP application bundles for Intel and PPC Macs and tools for building GIMP on Mac OS X easily.

Webmin
https://sourceforge.net/projects/webadmin
A web-based system administration tool for Unix servers and services

TinyMCE
https://sourceforge.net/projects/tinymce
TinyMCE is a platform independent webbased java-script HTML WYSIWYG editor control, developed in java-script/ECMAScript, higly customizable. Works in Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Netscape, IE, Safari and Chrome.

Task Coach
https://sourceforge.net/projects/taskcoach
Task Coach - Your friendly task manager. Task Coach is a simple open source todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists. Often, tasks and other things todo consist of several activities. Task Coach is designed to deal with composite tasks.

Sweet Home 3D
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d
Sweet Home 3D is an interior design Java application for quickly choosing and placing furniture on a house 2D plan drawn by the end-user, with a 3D
preview.

CMU Sphinx
https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx
Sphinx is a speaker-independent large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer released under a BSD style license. It is also a collection of
open source tools and resources that allows researchers and developers to
build speech recognition systems
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

State Public Libraries Acts in India

1. Tamil Nadu, 1948 http://www.tn.gov.in/kovailibrary/
2. Andhra Pradesh, 1960
3. Karnataka, 1965 http://www.kar.nic.in/publib/
4. Maharashtra, 1967
5. West Bengal, 1979 http://banglargranthagar.gov.in/
6. Manipur, 1988
7. Kerala, 1989  http://www.statelibrary.kerala.gov.in/
8.  Haryana, 1989
9. Mizoram, 1993
10. Goa, 1993
11. Gujarat, 2000  http://sycd.gov.in/library/
12. Orissa, 2000  http://hkmsl.gov.in/
13. Rajasthan, 2005
14. Uttar Pradesh, 2005
15. Uttarakhand, 2005
16. Pondicherry, 2007/2008
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

OPACs from India

Today libraries in India are providing access to their Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) from their websites to benefit researchers from all over the world. Here few such websites have been listed. Please go through the links provided on each of them for further details.

American Center Information Resource Centers in India
British Council Libraries in India
Cochin University of Science and Technology Library
Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics Library, Pune
Health Education Library for People
ICSSR-NASSDOC, New Delhi
Indian Institute of Science Library, Bangalore
Indian Institute of Technology Library, Mumbai
Indian Statistical Institute Library, Kolkata
Indian Statistical Institute Library, Delhi
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Library, Mumbai
NAL Information Centre for Aerospace Science and Technology, Bangalore
National Institute of Bank Management Library, Pune
National Law School Library, Bangalore
National Science Library, New Delhi
Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Library, Mumbai
Tata Institute of Social Sciences Library, Mumbai
University of Pune Library, Pune
St. Stephens College, Delhi
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Library Scholar

ugn articles library

Articles, essays, reviews, and editorials about using computers gathered from user group leaders and members all around the world. You are encouraged to submit articles and reviews from your organization.
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Important websites for searching the Book Dealers/Sources

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LIS Journals published in Indian Languages

1. Granthalaya Vigyan (Hindi), From 1970
Published by Prof. Kaula Library & Information Science Endowment
Founder Editor :- Prof. P. N. Kaula (Prithvi Nath Kaula) {RetiredProf. & Head, Deptt. of Lib. & Info. Sc., Banaras Hindu University,Varanasi)
Editor :- Dr. S.P.Sood (Satyendra Pal Sood) {Retired Associate Prof.,Deptt. of Lib. & Info. Sc., University of Rajasthan, Jaipur}
Sub-Editor :- Rupendra {Retired Librarian, Lal Bahadur ShashtriPostgraduate College, Jaipur}Periodicity :- Half-yearly (but generally two issues cumulated into one)
Annual Subscription :- Rs. 200/-
Contact Address :- Dr. S.P. Sood, 3 KHA 4 A, Jawahar Nagar, Jaipur-302 004Cell # :- 0-93144-45564Ph. # :- 0141-265-1853

2. Annals of Library Literature (Bengali & English), From 1987
Published by by Deptt. ofLib. & Info. Sc., Vidyasagar Univ., Medinipur (West Bengal)

3. Granthalokam (Malyalam), From 1948
Official organ of Kerala State Library Council, Thiruvananthpuram

4. Granthagar (Bengali)i> , From 1958
Published by Bengal Library Association, Kolkata

5.Granthalaya Sarvaswamu (Telugu), From 1916
Published by Andhra Pradesh LibraryAssociation, Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh)

6.Karnataka Granthalaya (Kannada)i> , From 1969
Published from Banglore

7. MFCLA Bulletin (Marathi & English), From 1988
Published by MaharashtraFederation of College Library Association, c/o Deptt. of Lib. Sc., Smt. LRT Commerce College, Akola (Maharashtra)
Periodicity :- Quarterly

8. Pustakalaya (Gujarati), From 1924
Published by Gujarat Pustakalaya Sahayak SahkariMandal Ltd., Vadodara (Gujarat)
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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 )
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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/)
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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
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