Librarian at DECCAN COLLEGE, Pune

DECCAN COLLEGE

Post-Graduate and Research Institute

Pune 411006

(A Deemed University declared under Section-3 of UGC Act-1956)

ADVERTISEMENT (ADM/2012/114)

Applications are invited in the prescribed form from eligible candidates for the following vacant posts at the University: 

a)  Teaching Category:  20 posts

b)  Non-Teaching Category :  44 posts

1.  Prescribed blank application form for vacant Teaching & Non-teaching posts along with details of the  qualifications and instructions for filling the application form, can be obtained: 

a)      from the University website: www.deccancollegepune.ac.in. (Please refer New Events).

b)      by hand from the undersigned on all working days between  11.00 am to 1.30 pm.

c)       by Post on additional payment of Rs.100/- as Postal charges.

2.       Cost of the application form:

a)  Teaching Category posts:  Rs.500/- ( Rs. 250/- for Reserved Category candidates)

b)  Non-teaching category posts:  Rs.100/- (Rs.50/- for Reserved Category candidates) in Cash OR

DD  (drawn in favour of the Registrar, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune) for the prescribed amount. 

3.  The last date for receiving application in the office of the  undersigned is as follows:

a)Teaching posts:  within one month (30 days) from the date of this advertisement.

b) Post of Registrar in the Non-teaching category: within one month (30 days) from the date of this advertisement.

c) All other Non-teaching posts: on or before 3rd August 2012.

GENERAL INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR APPLYING FOR THE VACANT NON-TEACHING POSTS IN THE UNIVERSITY:  JULY-2012.

1. The Pay and Allowances and other service benefits made applicable to the Deccan College by the Government of Maharashtra, from time to time, shall apply for the Posts advertised. 

2. Age limit as on the date of advertisement : Minimum 18 yrs completed; Open Category candidates- maximum 33yrs ; Reserved Category candidates -maximum 38 yrs. No Age limit for persons serving in this

University.

3.  True copies of all relevant documents, where ever applicable, shall essentially beenclosed, such as: 

a)  Reserved Category candidates shall submit following fresh certificates (applicable as per rules) issued by appropriate authorities from Maharashtra State: CasteCertificate; Caste Validity  Certificate; Domicile Certificate; Non-Creamy Layer Certificate. 

b)  In case Caste Validity Certificate is not available, it shall be submitted within six months of the date of appointment of the candidate, if selected.   Failure to submit the Certificate within Six months will result in cancelation of the appointment of the candidate.

c) Candidates having their birth place within Maharashtra and not possessing Domicile Certificate shall produce Birth Certificate in place of Domicile Certificate. 

d) Marksheets and degree certificates of the academic qualifications mentioned.

e) Document regarding date of birth.

f)  Experience Certificate.

4.  Forms having incomplete or incorrect details will be rejected and no correspondence will be entertained If, at any stage,  it is found that wrong information has been given by the candidate in the application, the Selection of the candidate for the post will be cancelled even if he has been selected and has joined the post

5. 55% or Higher Second Class or B Grade in the eligible educational qualification is compulsory. B grade in the  7 point scale with letter grade O,A,B,C,D,E, and F shall be regarded as equivalent  of 55%.  Wherever the grading system is followed. If a different grading system is followed, the candidate shall submit a certificate from the concerned authority clarifying  the grading system with regard to percentage of marks.

6. Relaxation of 5% marks will be provided in the overall percentage of marks for reserved category candidates.  

7.  For the vacancies classified for a particular reserved category, the candidates belonging to any other reserved category are not eligible to be considered and therefore they should  not apply.

8.Candidates belonging to reserved category having domicile status outside the State of Maharashtra shall be treated as Open candidates hence they need not apply for reserved category posts.

9. Application, complete in all respects, along with copies of all related documents, as per given instructions,  should reach the undersigned on or before 3rd August 2012.  Applications received after due date shall not be accepted and no correspondence shall be entertained.

10.Candidates already in employment must submit their application through proper channel so as to reach the undersigned on or before the due date.  Advance application will not be accepted.

11. The candidates are informed that written/practical tests will be conducted for the post of Clerk-cum -typist, Stenographer in the process of Selection of the candidate .

12. Written/practical examination will be conducted on the date of oral interview. 

13. Prescribed blank application form  along with details of the  qualifications prescribed, with special instructions for filling the application form, can be obtained from the undersigned on all working days between 11.00 am to 1.30 pm on non-refundable payment of Rs.100/- (Rs.50/- for reserved category candidates) in Cash OR DD  (drawn in favour of the Registrar, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune) for the prescribed amount. An additional amount of Rs.100/- shall be sent if the application form is required to be sent by post.

14. Application form along with all details can also be downloaded from our Website: www.deccancollegepu ne.ac.in.   If application is downloaded then the DD of the required amount shall be sent with the application.

15.  Incomplete applications, belated applications and applications not in the prescribed form will be rejected and no intimation in this regard will be sent to the candidates.

16. TA/DA will not be paid either for attending the interview or for joining the post, if selected.

17.  The right to fill or not to fill the post(s) advertised is reserved with the University and the decision   of the University will be final and binding on all concerned

18. Recruitments will be made by open selection. Canvassing directly or indirectly will disqualify candidature of the candidate concerned at any time of the selection process or even after the selection and the appointment of the candidate is made.

19. The candidates are requested to contact the Registrar, Deccan College  for any clarification in any  matter, before filling in the application form  

DISTRICT LIBRARY OFFICER in West Bengal

DISTRICT LIBRARY OFFICER UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF MASS EDUCATION EXTENSION AND LIBRARY SERVICES – ONE (RESERVED FOR SC CANDIDATES)

PAY: Rs.15, 600/- – Rs.42, 000/- plus Grade Pay Rs.5, 400/- (P.B. - 4A)

QUALIFICATIONS:

Essential: 

(i) Master’s Degree in Library Science of a recognized University or equivalent; Or

A second class Master’s Degree of a recognized University plus a degree/ diploma in Library Science of a recognized University or equivalent.

(ii) Three years’ experience in administration management, promotion and development of Library Services/ System in a responsible capacity; Or

Three years’ experience taken together in the following:-

a) Administration, management, promotion and development of Library Services/ System in a responsible capacity and 

b) Teaching in Library Science in a recognized Institution. Provided that at least two years experience must be in (a) above.

Desirable:

 i) Knowledge of audio-visual education;

ii) Capacity for touring in rural areas.

AGE: Not more than 35 years on 01.01.2012, relaxable for otherwise well-qualified and experienced candidates and for persons holding substantive appointment in the Education Department, Government of W.B. and Library attached to Government sponsored institutions under the Education Department, Government of W.B.

For More Info: http://www.pscwb.org.in/pdf/Advertisement%20No.6_2012_16072012.pdf

Librarian at Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad

Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS)

Nizamia Observatory Campus, Begumpet, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh– 500 016

Applications are invited for the following Posts:-

Name of the Posts : Librarian

No. of the Posts : One (1) Position

Pay Scale: (Basic pay of Rs. 23900 in the Pay Band of Rs.15, 600 – Rs. 39,100 with AGP of Rs. 8,000 initially at the time of recruitment. After completing three years the candidates will be eligible for the Pay Band of Rs. 37,400 – Rs. 67,000 and AGP of Rs. 9,000 as per UGC rules.

Qualifications:
i. A Master’s Degree in library science/information science/documentation with atleast 55% of the marks or its equivalent grade of B in the UGC seven point scale and a consistently good academic record.

ii. Five years experience as an Assistant University Librarian/College Librarian.

iii. Evidence of innovative library service and organization of published work and professional commitment, computerization of library.

iv. Desirable: M.Phil./Ph.D. Degree in library science/Information science / Documentation/Archives and manuscript-keeping/computerization of library.
Selection Procedure: Shortlisted Candidates will have to appear for interview.

Candidates already in service should send their applications through proper channel if required by present employer. They may send advance copy to meet the deadline. Candidates may also consider joining on deputation from other academic organizations.

How To Apply :

Applications with copies of testimonials should be sent in a cover super scribing “Application for the post of Librarian” and should reach the undersigned at Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Nizamia Observatory Campus, Begumpet, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh – 500 016, phone: 040-23402789, 23416780 on or before July 31, 2012. The Centre takes no responsibility for any delay in receipt or loss in postal transit.
More Info: http://www.cess.ac.in/cesshome/pdf/advt%20for%20librarian2012.pdf

चित्तौड़गढ़ पुस्तकालय परिसर में सट्टे - शराब का खेल

चित्तौड़गढ़। लगता हैशहर के जिला पुस्तकालय परिसर में सट्टा खेलने और शराब पीने की खुली छूट है। पुस्तकालय परिसर में मिली सामग्री को देखकर तो ऎसा ही प्रतीत हो रहा है। जिला पुस्तकालय परिसर को लम्बे समय से समाजकंटकों ने अपना ठिकाना बना रखा है।

पुलिस की गाडियां कई बार इस राह से गुजरती है, लेकिन जानकर भी पुलिस इन सब से अनजान बनी हुई है। चार दिन पहले ही जब पुस्तकाल परिसर में देसी बबूल का पेड़ काटा गया, तब वहां पहंुचे क्षेत्र के लोगों ने पुस्तकालय परिसर से सट्टे के अंक लिखने के काम आने वाली ढेरों डायरियां एक पुलिसकर्मी को यह कहते हुए सौंपी थी कि वह यह पर्चियां थाना प्रभारी को बताएं, ताकि उनमें ज्ञानार्जन स्थल परिसर में हो रहे सट्टे को रोकने की इच्छाशक्ति जाग सके।

इन डायरियों के पन्नों पर बाकायदा कोड भाषा में अंक लिखे हुए थे और खुद सिपाही ने यह सट्टे की डायरियां होने से इनकार नहीं किया था, लेकिन चार दिन बाद भी सार्वजनिक स्थल पर चल रहे सट्टे के कारोबार को रोकने के लिए पुलिस अघिकारियों ने इच्छाशक्ति नहीं दिखाई। चार दीवारों को अवैध केबिनों से घेरा हुआ है, इनमें से कुछ केबिनों में सट्टे का कारोबार होता देखा जा सकता है। हालत यह है कि राह चलते आदमी को पुस्तकालय नजर ही नहीं आता।

More News at: http://www.pressnote.in/chittorgarghnews_172791.html

Assistant Professors on ad-hoc basis and Guest Faculty at Delhi University

Department of Library & Information Science

(An Associated Project of UNESCO)

University of Delhi

2nd floor Tutorial Building

      Delhi-110007

NOTICE

Applications are invited for the appointment of the following posts in the Department of Library  and Information Science against vacant posts.

•  Two (2) (UR) Assistant Professors on ad-hoc basis
•  One (1) Guest Faculty

The eligibility criteria for the above mentioned posts are as per the UGC regulations.

The interested candidates should apply for the posts on the prescribed format available on the University of Delhi website. The application should be submitted in the Department till July 31, 2012 (3.00 pm)

Dr. (Mrs.) Paramjeet K. Walia
Head of Department
Phones: 011-27666656
              011-27667725/1302
E-mail:   office@libinfosci.du.ac.in
Website: http://dlis.du.ac.in
More Information, http://du.ac.in/fileadmin/DU/students/Pdf/du/career/2012/19072012_LibSci_Adhoc_Guest.pdf

Indian Law Institute Results for the post of Junior Library Assistant and Library Assistant

Results of Junior Library Assistant and Library Assistant

Result of Indian Law Institute for the post of Junior Library Assistantand Library Assistant declared for further Skill Test on 26-27 July, 2012

Source:- Library Assistant --http://www.ilidelhi.org/la.pdf
for Junior Library Assistant-http://www.ilidelhi.org/jla.pdf

Author's Workshop at Delhi University

Autor's Workshop in University of Delhi
For more details click on the below link...

http://crl.du.ac.in/author%27sworkshop/index.htm

Qatar Foundation and British Library in online collaboration- Gulf Times

The British Library and the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF) have unveiled a partnership to transform people’s understanding of the history of the Middle East, and the region’s relationship with Britain and the rest of the world.

The project, announced yesterday at the British Library’s flagship building in St Pancras, London, will digitise more than 500,000 pages from the archives of the East India Company and India Office, in addition to 25,000 pages of mediaeval Arabic manuscripts – all of which will be made freely available online for the first time.

Britain’s Minister for Communications and the Creative Industries Ed Vaizey MP, Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts MP, Qatar’s Ambassador to the UK Dr Khalid al-Mansouri, British Library’s chief executive Dame Lynne Brindley, and Qatar National Library director Dr Claudia Lux were present at the ceremony.

The digitisation will take place over the next three years at the British Library, in close co-operation with the new Qatar National Library, and the digitised pages will be available in both Arabic and English.

Once live, the site will also offer users the opportunity to add their own Gulf-related stories and memories, enabling them to contribute to the online resource, whether by sharing images of mementos and old photographs, or by recounting the stories their grandparents once told them.

The project also encompasses the digitisation of thousands of pages of mediaeval manuscripts that demonstrate the significant influence of Islamic scholars in the fields of science, medicine, mathematics and geometry.

Together, these resources will illuminate centuries of Arab history and culture and massively boost understanding of the rapidly-changing Gulf region and its place on the world stage.

“The India Office Records held by the British Library are an extraordinarily rich source of historical material relating to the Gulf,” said Dame Brindley.

Vaizey said that it is tantalising to know that so much fascinating information charting the UK’s relationship with the Middle East will soon be freely available.

The Qatar National Library, expected to open in 2014, will also offer an extensive collection of print and digital resources to residents across Qatar.

Making material from cultures around the world available on the Internet in multilingual format, the library is currently developing its capacity for the digital conversion of important documents.

Dr Lux stated that the India Office Records at the British Library hold one of the world’s foremost archives of material related to the Gulf region.

Ambassador Dr al-Mansouri described the British Library and Qatar Foundation partnership as priceless and will increase the awareness and the knowledge of the people of the Gulf about their history.

“This huge quantity of historical material released online can only enrich the many studies, research papers and textbooks that inquire into the history of the Gulf, and the wider region. It will transform the perception of many in the wider world.”

The India Office Records, dating from the mid-18th century to around 1947, will include a wealth of information on the politics, people, places, trade, culture and customs of the Gulf region.

Thousands of pages of research work about these records, already prepared at the heritage library of Qatar National Library – including transcription and translation into Arabic – will be incorporated to identify names and places, making it accessible to the Arab community.

Personal names, place names and keywords will be fully searchable, transforming research possibilities for these collections.

To date, this material could only be consulted by visiting the British Library’s Reading Rooms in London.

Once it is digitised and uploaded onto a dedicated online platform, it will be freely available to researchers across the UK, throughout the Gulf and around the world.

Nineteenth and 20th century gazetteers – originally secret documents intended only for the eyes of senior officials – will provide a treasure trove of first-hand information, testifying to the critical strategic and commercial importance of the Gulf to European powers including Britain, France and Germany, which were actively involved in the region at that time.

Source:http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=519821&version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16

Books get voices to reach more kids

It is 9 a.m. on a Saturday. A group of nearly 100 schoolchildren aged 5-16 waiting at the gates of the American Centre in the capital is impatient. Their "Saturday Story Time" - a monthly story-telling and informal learning session - is about to begin.

The exercise begins with story-telling and screening of animation films, after which the children are questioned about the movies and the stories they have heard from the moderators.

Books are reaching out to children in new ways to make reading more attractive.

Several new initiatives in the capital are using the road-tested methods of story-telling, group activities, audio-visual aids and workshops to promote reading as a hobby among children. The initiatives have a larger social scheme: they are trying to bridge the intellectual gap between students from elite schools and government schools by putting them together in group exercises and outreach activity.

"What is a UFO," the moderator at the American Centre asks. "Universal Flying Object", a kindergarten student shoots back. "Wrong. Unidentified Flying Object," his peers fight to correct him.

The children are then split into groups to "unscramble" complex words. The scramble game is accompanied by lessons in history and geography - mostly related to the US.

"The children were assembled in mixed groups of English-speaking and non-English speaking students," a spokesperson for the American Centre said.

"We try to engage with children to promote the English language, library sense and enhance their communication skills once a month with Saturday Story Time," Kala Dutta, the director of the American Centre Library, said. "Our objective is to reach out to those who are very young and underserved and bring them together with the affluent children. We want them to come to our library."

Dutta said several children who have attended the Saturday Story Time sessions had never visited a library before.

The American Centre has a Book Club for youngsters aged 16-35 years as well.

"It meets once a month to either discuss a book chosen by the American Centre or the participants bring their own books. The discussions cover a variety of subjects. India and the US also figure in their discussions. It is an effort to promote friendship and mutual understanding between India and the US," Dutta said.

The children's literature movement can be traced back to the 1950s, when leading cartoonist and illustrator Keshav Shankar Pillai set up the Children's Book Trust to publish illustrated children's stories.

The National Book Trust, the government's publishing unit conceived by the country's first prime minister, Jawahralal Nehru, a children's book lover, is expanding its children's book section by digitising hundreds of titles in the e-book formats so that the act of reading becomes interactive, its director, M.A. Sikander, said.

Sadly, the arrival of animation, easy-to-read comic books, action cinema, Internet and video games has severely constrained attention spans of children - relegating leisure reading to the margins in developing countries where the level of literacy is still poor, says a capital-based child counsellor and newspaper columnist.

Even so, story-telling as a medium of children's literature has gained popularity in India with non-profit projects like the Katha for Children led by Geeta Dharmarajan and children's writer Paro Anand's Literature in Action workshops.

Anand's workshops - a total of nine composite sessions, including "Drama of Storytelling", "Performance Story telling", "Bringing Library To Life" and "Creative Writing for Adults and Young Adults" - try to use story-telling as a pedagogical tool with interactive aids.

The workshops also impart tips to teachers and librarians to take away the fear of library from children. Katha, on the other hand, uses India-specific stories as a holistic approach to children's education and welfare.

In the last three years, Bookaroo, the largest children's bookfair in the country held in the capital, has moved away from conventional reading, display and sale of books for children to story-telling, performance and interactions.

It begins with a fortnight of outreach programmes in the middle of November as a run-up to the literature gala at the end of the month. Organised by M. Venkatesh and Swati Roy, the fair this year will begin its school week around Nov 15 with a line of international and national children's authors, story-tellers, performers, pop-up artists and illustrators of books, a member of the organising committee said.

The focus will be on both elite and government schools in the capital, where the Bookaroo will set up "Swap Bookshops" to allow children to exchange old books for new ones. The literature outreach programme will involve more than 10,000 students in the national capital.

source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/Books-get-voices-to-reach-more-kids/articleshow/15041703.cms

Library patrons learn Indian cooking techniques

Photo by Curt Yeomans Riverdale residents Glenda Jacinth and Christopher Joshua prepare a lemon rice dish at an Indian cuisine class Wednesday at the Clayton County Headquarters Library, in Jonesboro.

JONESBORO — There are at least 3,000 dialects spoken in India, but Riverdale resident Glenda Jacinth said there is one common saying that everyone in the Southeast Asian country understands.

#It’s a saying English-speakers in America understand, too.

#“The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach,” said Jacinth, a native of India.

#Jacinth and her husband, Christopher Joshua, led a class on Indian cuisine Wednesday at the Clayton County Headquarters Library in Jonesboro. Joshua leads several adult and children’s programs for the library branch, according to Managing Librarian Sherry Turner.

#The couple taught a class of 30 people how to make lemon rice, which they said is a common dish in southern India. The ingredients for the dish include onions, green chiles, mustard seeds, cashew nuts, curry leaves and lime juice. Joseph said the lime juice is especially important because of the benefits it provides people.

Photo by Curt Yeomans Riverdale resident Christopher Joshua (from left) and Jonesboro resident Mona Mehat serve Jonesboro resident Nadia Wahrmann with a bowl of lemon rice Wednesday during an Indian cuisine class at the Clayton County Headquarters Library, in Jonesboro.

#“Lime has the power to reduce the fat in your body and it beautifies the body,” he said.

#Jacinth said cooking is considered an important trait for Indian women to possess. A lot of women get up at 5:30 a.m. every day to begin cooking breakfast and they may end up cooking for several hours, she said. She added mothers are expected to teach their daughters how to cook to prepare them for marriage, where they will be expected to cook for their husbands.

#And, Jacinth said women are expected to produce perfect tasting meals, which means every step involved from ingredient selection to the actual cooking must be done right.

#“You can’t just go to the store and pick up anything,” Jacinth said. “Whether it’s breakfast, lunch or dinner, it has to be perfect.”

#While the lemon rice cooked, Jonesboro resident Daniel Mehat, a fellow India native and friend of Joshua and Jacinth, talked to the audience about different aspects of Indian culture, including the caste system and the importance of education in the country.

#Joshua and Jacinth then provided samples of the food to the audience and several people said they liked it a lot. Jonesboro resident Nadia Wahrmann said she thought the rice was “a little spicy” but that didn’t deter her from enjoying it because “it has lots of flavors.” She said she brought her children to the class to teach them about some of their cultural heritage.

#“My dad is Indian so I’ve tasted Indian food before, but I wanted to start cooking it more at home so my children could have a better understanding of where they come from,” said Wahrmann.

#Jacinth said people who want to learn more about Indian cuisine, or would like her and her husband to cater a party can call the couple at (404) 368-3665 or (678) 967-4438.

How corporate houses in Gurgaon are using Library@Home to sharpen professional skills of staff

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers," said Harry Truman. The quote explains the logic behind the increasing number of corporates in Gurgaon opting for library solutions for their employees and catering to them is Library@Home, an online library service.

Library@Home started full-fledged operations in Gurgaon in January, 2011 and launched its corporate library services Library@Office in July, 2011. Since then the company has already tied up with 13 corporates at 24 facilities in Gurgaon and Manesar including Genpact, HCL and American Express among others. The company extended its services to other parts of the national capital region in February, 2012.

"The main objective of our corporate library service is to help employees have easy access to books they want to read. Reading is a must to sharpen professional and personality development skills of employees. More importantly and extremely relevant to today's fast paced corporate world - reading reduces stress. Considering these benefits of reading, corporates have two choices - to create their own corporate library or to avail services of an existing set-up; the second option is hassle-free and less expensive," said Shyam Patnaik, CEO of Library@Home located in Sushant Lok 1.

"We have an in-house offline library in office for IT related books but there are times when employees would want light reading. We were getting many request for such kind of library solutions which made us tie up with Library@Home," said Amrit Kaur, Global HR for employee engagement, HCL Technologies, which started taking corporate library service for their employees in Gurgaon and Noida four months back.

Kaur said the initiative has got a very good response from the employees and as many as 200 HCL employees in NCR have already taken up the service so far. "The best part is that the book is delivered and picked up right from your workstation which makes the entire process hassle free besides getting cheaper membership plans when compared to their market rate," she added.

Library@Office basically offers two types of plans to corporates. First where the company subscribes on behalf of the employees for the library services to be availed by the employees and second where the company allows the employees to subscribe directly as a corporate tie up. In the first plan, the pricing is decided based on either the number of logins or the number of books borrowed. In the second plan, the Library@Office offers a discounted subscription plan to the employees as they save on the delivery cost. "The pricing varies depending on the number of employees/logins and books borrowed," said Patnaik.

The library has over 10,000 books listed on its website and the listing is live which means that books that are borrowed will be seen as out of stock. Members can browse through the books and place orders online - the convenience of 24 X 7 access from the comfort of office or home. The deliveries are at the members' doorstep.

"I was in the US for some years where I could find multiple branches of a library to read books and that was something we were missing here when we came back to Gurgaon there being no library around. The only choice we had was to go to the British Council Library and some others in Delhi but driving 40-50 km for the same did not make sense to me so when I came across the corporate offer from Library@Office I took it as they offered a good discount besides delivering books at your convenience," said Sumit Rajan Srivastava, delivery head with a Gurgaon-based IT company.

As a member of the corporate plan Rajan pays Rs 500 per quarter when compared to a market rate of around Rs 1600 per quarter.

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किताबों से दोस्ती करेंगे, तो पाएंगे उम्दा करियर

भारत में प्रकाशन उद्योग काफी फैला हुआ है। सदियों पुराने इस फील्ड में प्रकाशक अब आधुनिक तौर-तरीके अपना रहे हैं, फिर बात चाहे प्रिंटिंग की हो, मार्केटिंग की या डिलिवरी की। जाहिर है, प्रकाशन जगत करियर की भी अच्छी संभावनाएं सहेजे हुए है। आज की डिजिटल दुनिया में भी किताबों ने अपनी जगह बरकरार रखी है, बल्कि यह कहना चाहिए कि प्रकाशन उद्योग आज एक रोचक दौर से गुजर रहा है। इस फील्ड में बढ़ती प्रतियोगिता से न सिर्फ किताबों का बाजार फैला है, बल्कि प्रॉडक्ट की क्वॉलिटी भी सुधरी है। साथ ही पाठकों तक किताबों की काफी ज्यादा वैराइटी भी पहुंचने लगी है। रिटेल बाजार के विस्तार, बढ़ते पाठक और डिजिटल मीडिया के सहयोग ने इस इंडस्ट्री के लिए संभावनाओं के नए दरवाजे खोले हैं।
कार्यक्षेत्र : प्रकाशन जगत में कार्यक्षेत्र कंटेंट की एडिटिंग या कुछ डिजाइन पैटर्न देने से कहीं आगे जा चुका है। एक संपादक के रूप में कार्य करने के लिए कंटेंट की गहरी समझ और चीजों को विस्तार से समझने की ललक होनी चाहिए। संबंधित भाषा और विषय पर अच्छी पकड़ भी होनी चाहिए। विषय के बारे में सतही जानकारी रखने से संपादक का काम नहीं चलता। विस्तृत जानकारी जरूरी है। आज बुक्स का ले-आउट किसी बंधे-बधाए ढरेर् पर नहीं होता, इसलिए इस फील्ड में डिजाइनर्स की डिमांड भी काफी बढ़ गई है। इलस्ट्रेटर, कार्टोग्राफर, डीटीपी ऑपरेटर आदि के रूप में अच्छे अवसर मिलते हैं। प्रकाशन उद्योग फ्रीलांसर के रूप में भी काम करने के मौके उपलब्ध कराता है, जैसे- अनुवादक और प्रूफ रीडर के रूप में।
योग्यता : यह कहना गलत होगा कि इस फील्ड में काम करने के लिए मीडिया या पब्लिशिंग इंडस्ट्री का ही अनुभव होना चाहिए। शैक्षिक योग्यता की बात करें, तो कम से कम ग्रैजुएट होने पर रोजगार के ज्यादा अवसर उपलब्ध होंगे। आप प्रकाशन के क्षेत्र में जिस भाषा में करियर बनाना चाहते हैं, उस पर काफी अच्छी पकड़ होनी जरूरी है। अन्य लोगों से आगे कुछ अलग तरीके से सोचने की क्षमता आपको इस क्षेत्र में सफल बनाएगी। डिजाइन के क्षेत्र में करियर बनाने के लिए प्रफेशनल डिग्री हासिल करना लाभदायक रहेगा। शॉर्ट टर्म कोर्स करने पर आप डीटीपी प्रफेशनल के रूप में करियर बना सकते हैं। किताबों में नक्शे आदि के प्रयोग के लिए कार्टोग्राफर की जरूरत पड़ती है। इस रूप में काम करने के लिए जियोग्राफी या जियोग्राफिक इंफरमेशन सिस्टम बैकग्राउंड होना चाहिए। सबसे अहम है, किताबों से आपकी दोस्ती होनी चाहिए। प्रकाशन जगत में क्रिएटिविटी की भी बहुत जरूरत होती है। किताबें चाहे साहित्य से जुड़ी हों या कमर्शल, क्रिएटिविटी से उनकी गुणवत्ता बेहतर की जा सकती है।
सावधानियां : प्रकाशन के क्षेत्र में काम करते समय विभिन्न मुद्दों पर सावधान रहना चाहिए, जैसे- लाइसेंसिंग, कॉपी राइट, इंटेलेक्चुअल प्रॉपर्टी राइट्स आदि। इन मुद्दों को क्लास रूम में यदा-कदा ही पढ़ाया जाता है और इनसे जुड़े प्रफेशनल कोर्स भी शायद ही कहीं उपलब्ध हैं। ऐसे में अतिरिक्त सावधानी की जरूरत है।
आमदनी : इस क्षेत्र में अधिक प्रतियोगिता के चलते सैलरी स्ट्रक्चर काफी बेहतर है। फ्रीलांसर के रूप में भी अच्छी आमदनी पा सकते हैं।

Courtesy: Ranchi Express, July 2012

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India Office files to go online as British Library seals deal with Qatar

Half a million records to be digitised in three-year project that will shed light on 200 years of British activities in the Gulf

The opening pages of a 1659 copy of The Canon of Medicine by Ibn Sina, known to Europeans as Avicenna. Photograph: The British Library Board
Half a million pages of India Office records that shed detailed light on 200 years of British activities in the Gulf are to be digitised and made freely available online.


The British Library announced that the Gulf state of Qatar is providing the £8.7m needed for the project, which will also see some 25,000 pages of medieval Arabic manuscripts – covering science, geometry, astronomy and medicine – put online for the first time.


It is an enormous undertaking: one so big that it will take up most of the library's sixth floor and create 43 jobs on top of a 30-strong team from the organisation's existing staff.


The money from Qatar, while substantial, is a drop in the ocean compared to the £1.5bn it has invested in the Shard, now Europe's tallest building.


The British Library's chief executive, Dame Lynne Brindley, said discussions began two years ago. She added: "We are delighted to announce this very exciting partnership through which absolutely anyone with an online connection will be able to have access to this unique treasure trove of material, illuminating subjects as diverse as tribal and global politics, international commerce and family history."


The library picked out highlights of what will be a three-year project to show the breadth of material to be made available, in both English and Arabic.


Among the India Office records – dating from the mid-18th century to just after the second world war – will be reports by some of the more controversial figures, such as Lewis Pelly, the political resident in the Gulf, who was disliked and thought of as damaging by some; and praised by others for his enthusiasm, intelligence and spirit of adventure.


Also, there will be extraordinarily detailed maps and charts from JG Lorimer's Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, which was compiled in the early 20th century and represented a crucial reference tool for any Briton working in the region.


"In many ways, [Lorimer] had the same interest as us," said curator Penny Brook, "in that he was trying to pull together information about a complex history and geography and make it understandable and accessible. But there was a crucial difference between the two aims in that Lorimer's was for a select bunch of British officials. It was classified as secret."


In those days, it was all about maintaining British advantage at all costs. Today, the library wants the whole world to have access.


That also goes for the medieval manuscripts, which will include a 13th century Arabic translation of a Pythagorean theorem and Ibn Butlan's The Almanac of Health, written in 1213, which is hugely important because it was translated into Latin and became a textbook in Europe's medical schools.


The library believes the manuscripts will shed light on just how important the Arab world was in terms of global scientific development, and how innovative and ground-breaking some of the discoveries and ideas were.


All the manuscripts and documents have previously only been available by visiting the library's London reading rooms in person. Brook said: "There is still an awful lot to find out from this material, particularly about the Gulf region, which has not been written about as much as other parts of the Middle East.


"There is a real opportunity for people to get in there and do some fresh research. It gives a much more nuanced and interesting picture of that area and Britain's relationship with it."


Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/18/british-library-india-office-qatar

Retirement age of lecturers’ in state run colleges may increase 19 Jul 2012

The Centre is likely to clear the proposal of allowing states to decide the retirement age (Maximum 65 years) of lecturers in state run colleges and universities. Earlier, the UPA government was insistent that states should enhance the lecturers' retirement to 65 years to enable them to get 80% of the arrears burden of state governments.

The arrears — at least Rs 9,000 crore —went up since the Centre had asked the states in 2008 to follow the Sixth Pay Commission scales that centrally- funded institutes introduced in the same year, with retrospective effect from January 1, 2006.

The Central government has committed to bear 80% of the increased arrears for the first four-year period — between April 1, 2006, and March 31, 2010 — if states followed its order. Now, the government plans to foot this sum only in the form of reimbursements in "two-three" installments. This is likely to benefit around four lakh teachers across the country.

The ministry cleared this proposal after a committee of secretaries, headed by cabinet secretary, supported the state governments' demand.

Sources said that there could be political reasons for states to push the need for greater autonomy as far as fixing the retirement age is concerned. "Some states might want to fix 60 or 62 years for retirement so that fresh batch of qualified people can apply for jobs, and this will also increase the scope of promotion for many lecturers," said a senior government official.

The sixth pay package for teachers, based on which the scales of centrally-funded institutes were revised, has a provision that requires increasing the retirement age to 65 years. Presently, the retirement age of teachers varies across states - from 58 to 60 years.

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