Department: Directorate of Town and Country Planning (Post Code.1852)
Service : Tamil Nadu General Subordinate Service (Code No.036)
Post : Librarian Grade-I
Qualification
A Degree of Bachelor of Library Science of any University or Institution recognized by the UGC for the purpose of its grants. Note: i. The prescribed qualification should have been obtained in the order of S.S.L.C., H.Sc., U.G. Degree and B.L.I.S degree ii. Candidates claiming equivalence of qualification should upload evidence when called for.
Scale of Pay : Rs.9300 - 34800 Age Limit : 35 Yrs and above.
Centre for Examination : Examination will be held at CHENNAI Centre (Code No. 001) only.
Procedure of Selection : Selection will be made in two successive stages i.e., (i) Written Examination and (ii) Oral Test.
Examination Fee: Examination fee Rs.150/- (Examination Fee Rs.100/- + Cost of Application Rs.50/-)
(Rupees One Hundred and Fifty only) Candidates claiming exemption from examination fee should pay Rs.50/- towards Application Cost. Mode of Fee Payment: Please select the mode of payment (Online Payment/Offline Payment)
Pls visit : http://www.tnpsc.gov.in/latest-notification.html for full details
Major global publishers to add new content to WorldCat
OCLC has signed new agreements with leading publishers around the world to add more books, e-books, journals, audiovisual materials and databases toWorldCat, the most comprehensive online database of resources available through libraries worldwide.
Read further in detail at : http://www.oclc.org/en-US/news/releases/2013/201335dublin.html
Read further in detail at : http://www.oclc.org/en-US/news/releases/2013/201335dublin.html
DOAJ announces new selection criteria
The Directory of Open Access Journals is delighted to announce new selection criteria and hereby announces that these new criteria are open for public comment until July 15th.
In order to be listed in the DOAJ, a journal must meet the following criteria:
- Journal will be asked to provide basic information (title, ISSN, etc.), contact information, and information about journal policies
- Journal is registered with SHERPA/RoMEO
- Journal has an editorial board with clearly identifiable members (including affiliation information)
- Journal publishes a minimum of five articles per year (does not apply for new journals)
- Allows use and reuse at leastat the following levels (as specified in the Open Access Spectrum, http://www.plos.org/about/open-access/howopenisit/ ):
- Full text, metadata, and citations of articles can be crawled and accessed with permission (Machine Readability Level 4)
- Provides free readership rights to all articles immediately upon publication (Reader Rights Level 1)
- Reuse is subject to certain restrictions; no remixing (Reuse Rights Level 3)
- Allow authors to retain copyright in their article with no restrictions (Copyrights Level 1)
- Author can post the final, peer-reviewed manuscript version (postprint) to any repository or website (Author Posting Rights Level 2)You may review the complete list of criteria here. Source: STM Publishing News.
Two Potential Google Reader alternatives to watch
Google Reader , As of July 1, 2013, the popular online reading platform is closing its virtual doors. There are a lot of other options out there and the race to fill the void is moving along at a blistering pace. There’s Reeder, Pocket, Feedly, and News360 (less known but gaining popularity among teachers & students) to name just a few.
Source : Edudemic :Read further at : http://www.edudemic.com/2013/06/2-potential-google-reader-alternatives-to-watch/
Source : Edudemic :Read further at : http://www.edudemic.com/2013/06/2-potential-google-reader-alternatives-to-watch/
ZANRAN Search the web for data & statistics
Zanran results are interesting and it gives data in graphic mode, which may be either in pdf or spreadsheet across the web..This is the numerical data that people have presented as graphs and tables and charts. For example, the data could be a graph in a PDF report, or a table in an Excel spreadsheet, or a barchart shown as an image in an HTML page. This huge amount of information can be difficult to find using conventional search engines, which are focused primarily on finding text rather than graphs, tables and bar charts.
Give a try to zanran at : http://www.zanran.com/q/
EBSCO Information Services Releases Engineering Source
EBSCO Information Services introduces Engineering Source™, the premier collection of engineering-related content. The comprehensive full-text database is designed to support the information needs of engineers at all levels, including research, planning, product development, management and supply chain.
The collection provides unmatched full-text coverage of information relevant to many engineering disciplines, including: Aerospace, Biomedical, Civil, Electrical, Environmental, Mechanical, Software, Structural
Tips to secure your Facebook account on mobiles
Mobile has made access to Facebook much easier, but the social networking site has also become susceptible to attempted hijackings and attempted thefts on cell phones. Only accept friend requests of known people on Facebook account......Read further
Source : .Hindustantimes.com
Source : .Hindustantimes.com
Elsevier’s Digital Services Upgraded to Provide Enhanced Searching and Mobile Capabilities
Elsevier, today announced a major investment in services provided to its society partners and individual readers: a new online platform and management system for its 500+ health, medical, and life science journal-branded websites.
The new online platform will provide these journal-branded websites improved search results accuracy, a more robust editorial tool to create topical article collections, and a high quality reading experience for visitors using mobile devices.
Source : STM Publishing House
Read full news @ http://www.stm-publishing.com/elseviers-digital-services-upgraded-to-provide-enhanced-searching-and-mobile-capabilities/
The new online platform will provide these journal-branded websites improved search results accuracy, a more robust editorial tool to create topical article collections, and a high quality reading experience for visitors using mobile devices.
Source : STM Publishing House
Read full news @ http://www.stm-publishing.com/elseviers-digital-services-upgraded-to-provide-enhanced-searching-and-mobile-capabilities/
Tips for safe and savvy Internet use
From Diana Smetters, Software Engineer, official google Blog.
Knowing how to stay safe and secure online is important, which is why we created our Good to Know site with advice and tips for safe and savvy Internet use. Starting today, we'll also be posting regularly with privacy and security tips. We hope this information helps you understand the choices and control that you have over your online information. -Ed.
It could be your Gmail, your photos or your documents—whatever you have in your Google Account, we work hard to make sure it’s protected from would-be identity thieves, other bad guys, or any illegitimate attempts to access your information.
But you can also help keep your information safe. Think of how upset you would be if someone else got access to your Google Account without your permission, and then take five minutes to follow the steps below and help make it more secure. Let’s start with the key to unlocking your account—your password:
1. Use a different password for each important service
Make sure you have a different password for every important online account you have. Bad guys will steal your username and password from one site, and then use them to try to log into lots of other sites where you might have an account. Even large, reputable sites sometimes have their password databases stolen. If you use the same password across many different sites, there’s a greater chance it might end up on a list of stolen passwords. And the more accounts you have that use that password, the more data you might lose if that password is stolen.
Giving an account its own, strong password helps protect you and your information in that account. Start today by making sure your Google Account has a unique password.
2. Make your password hard to guess
“password.” “123456.” “My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!” These examples are terrible passwords because everyone knows them—including potential attackers. Making your passwords longer or more complicated makes them harder to guess for both bad guys and people who know you. We know it’s hard: the average password is shorter than 8 characters, and many just contain letters. In a database of 32 million real passwords that were made public in 2009, analysis showed (PDF) only 54 percent included numbers, and only 3.7 percent had special characters like & or $.
One way to build a strong password is to think of a phrase or sentence that other people wouldn’t know and then use that to build your password. For example, for your email you could think of a personal message like “I want to get better at responding to emails quickly and concisely” and then build your password from numbers, symbols, and the first letters of each word—“iw2gb@r2eq&c”. Don’t use popular phrases or lyrics to build your password—research suggests that people gravitate to the same phrases, and you want your password to be something only you know.
Google doesn’t restrict password length, so go wild!
3. Keep your password somewhere safe
Research shows (PDF) that worrying about remembering too many passwords is the chief reason people reuse certain passwords across multiple services. But don’t worry—if you’ve created so many passwords that it’s hard to remember them, it’s OK to make a list and write them down. Just make sure you keep your list in a safe place, where you won’t lose it and others won’t be able to find it. If you’d prefer to manage your passwords digitally, a trusted password manager might be a good option. Chrome and many web browsers have free password managers built into them, and there are many independent options as well—take a few minutes to read through reviews and see what would be best for your needs.
4. Set a recovery option
Have you ever forgotten your password? Has one of your friends ever been locked out of their account? Setting a recovery option, like an alternate email address or a telephone number, helps give the service provider another way to contact you if you are ever locked out of your account. Having an up-to-date recovery phone or email address is the best thing you can do to make sure you can get back into your account fast if there is ever a problem.
If you haven’t set a recovery option for your Google Account, add one now. If you have, just take a second to make sure it’s up to date.
We have more tips on how to pick a good password on our Help Center, and in the video below:
Your online safety and privacy is important to you, and it’s important to us, too. We’ve made a huge amount of progress to help protect your Google Account from people who want to break into it, but for the time being, creating a unique, strong password is still an important way to protect your online accounts. Please take five minutes today to reset your important passwords using the tips above, and stay tuned for more security tips throughout the summer.
Knowing how to stay safe and secure online is important, which is why we created our Good to Know site with advice and tips for safe and savvy Internet use. Starting today, we'll also be posting regularly with privacy and security tips. We hope this information helps you understand the choices and control that you have over your online information. -Ed.It could be your Gmail, your photos or your documents—whatever you have in your Google Account, we work hard to make sure it’s protected from would-be identity thieves, other bad guys, or any illegitimate attempts to access your information.
But you can also help keep your information safe. Think of how upset you would be if someone else got access to your Google Account without your permission, and then take five minutes to follow the steps below and help make it more secure. Let’s start with the key to unlocking your account—your password:
1. Use a different password for each important service
Make sure you have a different password for every important online account you have. Bad guys will steal your username and password from one site, and then use them to try to log into lots of other sites where you might have an account. Even large, reputable sites sometimes have their password databases stolen. If you use the same password across many different sites, there’s a greater chance it might end up on a list of stolen passwords. And the more accounts you have that use that password, the more data you might lose if that password is stolen.
Giving an account its own, strong password helps protect you and your information in that account. Start today by making sure your Google Account has a unique password.
2. Make your password hard to guess
“password.” “123456.” “My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!” These examples are terrible passwords because everyone knows them—including potential attackers. Making your passwords longer or more complicated makes them harder to guess for both bad guys and people who know you. We know it’s hard: the average password is shorter than 8 characters, and many just contain letters. In a database of 32 million real passwords that were made public in 2009, analysis showed (PDF) only 54 percent included numbers, and only 3.7 percent had special characters like & or $.
One way to build a strong password is to think of a phrase or sentence that other people wouldn’t know and then use that to build your password. For example, for your email you could think of a personal message like “I want to get better at responding to emails quickly and concisely” and then build your password from numbers, symbols, and the first letters of each word—“iw2gb@r2eq&c”. Don’t use popular phrases or lyrics to build your password—research suggests that people gravitate to the same phrases, and you want your password to be something only you know.
Google doesn’t restrict password length, so go wild!
3. Keep your password somewhere safe
Research shows (PDF) that worrying about remembering too many passwords is the chief reason people reuse certain passwords across multiple services. But don’t worry—if you’ve created so many passwords that it’s hard to remember them, it’s OK to make a list and write them down. Just make sure you keep your list in a safe place, where you won’t lose it and others won’t be able to find it. If you’d prefer to manage your passwords digitally, a trusted password manager might be a good option. Chrome and many web browsers have free password managers built into them, and there are many independent options as well—take a few minutes to read through reviews and see what would be best for your needs.
4. Set a recovery option
Have you ever forgotten your password? Has one of your friends ever been locked out of their account? Setting a recovery option, like an alternate email address or a telephone number, helps give the service provider another way to contact you if you are ever locked out of your account. Having an up-to-date recovery phone or email address is the best thing you can do to make sure you can get back into your account fast if there is ever a problem.
If you haven’t set a recovery option for your Google Account, add one now. If you have, just take a second to make sure it’s up to date.
We have more tips on how to pick a good password on our Help Center, and in the video below:
Your online safety and privacy is important to you, and it’s important to us, too. We’ve made a huge amount of progress to help protect your Google Account from people who want to break into it, but for the time being, creating a unique, strong password is still an important way to protect your online accounts. Please take five minutes today to reset your important passwords using the tips above, and stay tuned for more security tips throughout the summer.
IEEE Now Provides Open-Access Option for All Peer-Reviewed Journals
IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization, today announced that all IEEE-owned peer-reviewed journals now offer open-access (OA) publishing options, the latest sign of OA’s growth as it continues to transform the scholarly research publishing industry.
Source : STM Publishing.
Read further @
http://www.stm-publishing.com/ieee-now-provides-open-access-option-for-all-peer-reviewed-journals/
Source : STM Publishing.
Read further @
http://www.stm-publishing.com/ieee-now-provides-open-access-option-for-all-peer-reviewed-journals/
Internet 2020
Some predictions for what the internet will look like in 2020, covering trends in mobile, laptop, social media like Facebook and Twitter, low-cost computer hardware, high speed networks and corporate evolution. Prepared for the LA2M marketing lunch meeting, 14 May 2013.
HootSuite -Social media management
HootSuite is a social media management system for brand management created by Ryan Holmes in 2008. The system’s user interface takes the form of a dashboard, and supports social network integrations for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Foursquare, MySpace, WordPress
Instead of visiting every social network every day and posting separate status updates, set up a social media hub where you can access your customized dashboard and monitor and post to them all at single dashboard.
Start by signing up for a HootSuite account here: https://hootsuite.com
Instead of visiting every social network every day and posting separate status updates, set up a social media hub where you can access your customized dashboard and monitor and post to them all at single dashboard.
Start by signing up for a HootSuite account here: https://hootsuite.com
1400+ International Library Related Conferences
Whether you’re a speaker looking to find relevant events to pitch your talks or an ambitious librarian seeking new conferences for professional development, these directories will point you in the right direction. Each of these resources is up-to-date with all of the most current library meetings and events.
Source : http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/1400-international-library-related-conferences/
Source : http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/1400-international-library-related-conferences/
Koha 3.12.0 released
Koha 3.12.0, the latest stable version is released on 19 th may 2013.
http://koha-community.org/
http://koha-community.org/
The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens
E-readers and tablets are becoming more popular as such technologies
improve, but research suggests that reading on paper still boasts unique
advantages
Read full @ Source : http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=reading-paper-screens
Read full @ Source : http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=reading-paper-screens
Why students need the right to copy
Late last year, leading publishing houses including Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press brought a copyright action against Delhi University and a tiny photocopy shop licensed by it, seeking to restrain them from supplying educational course packs to students. This lawsuit sent shock waves across the academic community, leading more than 300 authors and academics including famed Nobel laureate Professor Amartya Sen to protest this copyright aggression in an open letter to publishers. Tellingly, 33 of the authors of various books mentioned specifically in the lawsuit (as having been copied in the course packs) signed this protest letter making it clear that they were dissociating themselves from this unfortunate lawsuit.
For those not familiar with the term, course packs are compilations of limited excerpts from copyrighted books, put together painstakingly by faculty members in accordance with a carefully designed syllabus and teaching plan.
National Library of Scotland recruits 'Wikipedian'
The National Library of Scotland has announced plans to recruit a full-time "Wikipedian". The £30,000-a-year pro rata role - a first for Scotland - will involve using the library's collections to update the online user-led encyclopaedia. The library said its "Wikipedian-in-residence" would also teach staff and the public how to add to the site.The "Wikipedian" would also play a crucial role in educating librarians about how to contribute to the site, as many had been "a bit bemused until now".
Read Full news at : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-22264118
Read Full news at : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-22264118
Pinterest Best Practice Tips for Brands
When it comes to social media, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ dominate the conversation. After all, they have large numbers of users and are still growing, thanks in part to innovations on each platform. Pinterest is growing fast. It is being adopted by brands, as well as users following these brands. Libraries too can involve themselves to promote their products and services using this social media...and already some of are in.
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Please read further on how its growing rapidly and best practices to be followed
Source:
Please read further on how its growing rapidly and best practices to be followed
Skills for Library Leadership
As higher education transforms and evolves in new ways in the years ahead, what are the appropriate skills for library leaders? Out of five skill areas identified as those leaders will need for 2020, librarians are well-suited for a few, but will need to gain expertise in others.
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Libraries will find more space on social networking in 2013
Libraries will show more interest in the use of social networking sites to reach their customers in 2013. Some of the predictions are:
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