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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Job Opportunities with TCS Information Resource Centers (IRCs) (at Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Pune)

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an IT services, business solutions and consulting organization that delivers real results to global businesses, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. A part of the Tata Group, India's largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has total employee strength of over 2,77,000 with the world's best trained IT consultants, in 44 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $ 11.6 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2013.

TCS takes pride in having a unique corporate Information Resource Centre model in place. Its large network of Information Resource Centre (IRC) in India spread across 13 cities. Winner of the Special Library Association (SLA) Centre of Excellence Award, 2009, for its high quality processes and benchmarks, and an exemplary application of management techniques and tools, TCS IRC consistently aligns its services to TCS's global business needs and helps associates maintain a competitive advantage.

To support its fast expanding information services network, TCS invites applications from talented, enthusiastic team players for the post of "IRC Officers", for its IRCs at Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Pune. These are regular positions and selected candidates should be prepared to work in those cities on a long-term basis. Remuneration and benefits will be on par with the best in the industry.

Eligibility and Requirements:

• Regular & full time M.L.I.S./MSLIS/Masters in (Library Science/Information Science/ Information Management)/A.D.I.S/any equivalent degree. (Those who are currently pursuing these programs and appearing for final semester/exams are also eligible to apply).

• 0–3 years of experience preferably in academic/special /corporate library. (Experience acquired after the professional qualification will only be considered).

• Age not exceeding 28 years.

• Candidates who applied in last six months need not apply.

• Willingness to work in any centre within the city with flexible timings.

• Ability to work both independently and in a team to deliver results in a constantly changing environment.

• A team player with good communication skills, customer service skills.

Selection Process:

Resumes completed in all aspects in the prescribed format only will be considered for further review. Only the shortlisted candidates will be called for a written test on Monday, 19^th August 2013 at the city applied for Click here to download prescribed application format.

Application Formalities:

Resumes in the prescribed format should be e-mailed on or before 5^th August 2013 to respective IDs based on the location applied. Note that the candidates can apply for a single location only.

Location Applied for	Resume to be e-mailed to
Bangalore	bangalore.irc@tcs.com
Chennai	chennai.irc@tcs.com
Delhi	pti.irc@tcs.com
Hyderabad	hyd.irc@tcs.com
Pune	pune.irc@tcs.com

· Applications with insufficient information, not submitted in the prescribed format and those received after 5^th August 2013 will be rejected.

· The subject line of the e-mail should include "City Name - IRC Recruitment 2013- full name of the applicant" (e.g. Bangalore – IRC Recruitment 2013- Asha Sharma).

· No other documents / certificates are required at this stage.

No travel / daily allowances will be given to candidates attending the written test / interview(s).

Regards & best wishes,

B P Prakash

Senior General Manager & Global Head- IRC

Tata Consultancy Services Limited

Thanks and Regards,
Swapna
EPW Research Foundation
Mumbai

Why librarians are needed more than ever in the 21st century

Over the last decade, which is less than a blink of an eye in the history of the human race, it’s all changed. And we’ve gone from a world in which there is too little information, in which information is scarce, to a world in which there is too much information, and most of it is untrue or irrelevant. You know, the world of the Internet is the world of information that is not actually so. It’s a world of information that just isn’t actually true, or if it is true, it’s not what you needed, or it doesn’t actually apply like that, or whatever. And you suddenly move into a world in which librarians fulfill this completely different function.

We’ve gone from looking at a desert, in which a librarian had to walk into the desert for you and come back with a lump of gold, to a forest, to this huge jungle in which what you want is one apple. And at that point, the librarian can walk into the jungle and come back with the apple. So I think from that point of view, the time of librarians, and the time of libraries—they definitely haven’t gone anywhere.

Sr. Librarian Vacancy at Khaitan Public School, Sector-40, Noida (Delhi-NCR Jobs)

Last Date: 29 July 2013

Send resume at: kpsnoida@hotmail.com

Semi Professional Assistant (Library) Vacancy at Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla

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Monday, July 22, 2013

APA 2014 International Conference on Digital Preservation and Development of Trusted Digital Repositories, New Delhi, India

The Centre of Excellence for Digital Preservation, C-DAC, India and Alliance for Permanent Access (APA), are pleased to announce the APA International Conference on Digital Preservation and Development of Trusted Digital Repositories to be held at New Delhi, India, during 5-6 February 2014.

Conference Website

http://www.ndpp.in/APA-DPDTR-2014/

The organizers of this conference invite research papers, case study papers and position papers based on the following thematic areas which have to be submitted before 01 October 2013.

Thematic Areas

Digital preservation in various domains such as e-government, scientific and research data, geospatial information, electronic health records, audio and video, media archives, government and cultural archives, corporate data archives, etc.
Domain specific adaptation of Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model
Digital disasters and recovery
Digital forensic for authenticity of information
Technological infrastructure development for trusted digital repositories
Trusted digital repositories in cloud
Digital preservation for legal compliance
The challenges and techniques for maintaining trust in electronic records over long period
Integrating e-record management with e-government
Approaches for long term sustainability of digital repositories
Data mining and repurposing of digital information stored in digital repositories
Long term storage solutions with techniques for optimization and efficacy
Preparing for audit and certification of digital repositories
Design of domain specific digital preservation policy framework
Curriculum design for digital preservation

We invite three types of papers

Case studies & work in progress (6 to 8 pages)
Full research papers (max 10 pages)
Position papers (4 to 6 pages)

Download paper template with format specifications

For submissions to the working conference, the authors must use the LNCS templates and style files available from:

http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/CSProceedings_AuthorTools_Word_2003.zip?SGWID=0-0-45-1124637-0

All papers should be in the specified conference publication format and sent as both pdf and MS Word files to dinesh@cdac.in and director@alliancepermanentaccess.org by 1st October 2013.

Important Dates

Last date of paper submission: 01 October 2013

Acceptance notification: 05 November 2013

Conference: 5-6 February 2014

General Conference Chairs
Dr. Dinesh Katre, Associate Director & HOD, C-DAC, Pune, India
Dr. David Giaretta, Director, Alliance for Permanent Access (APA)

Advisory Committee

Dr. Luciana Duranti, Director, InterPARES, University of British Columbia, Canada
Prof. John Wood, Secretary General, Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK
Dr. Juan Bicarregui, Head of Data Services Division, Scientific Computing Department, STFC – Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Monica Marinucci, Director for Research, Oracle (Europe, Middle East and Africa)
S. A. Kumar, Director, R & D in IT Division, Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India
Renu Budhiraja, Scientist G, National e-Governance Action Plan (NeGP), DeitY, New Delhi, India
Dr. Gautam Bose, Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre, New Delhi, India
Dr. Mukul Sinha, Managing Director, Expert Software Consultants Pvt. Ltd, Noida, India
Bill LeFurgy, Digital Initiatives Manager, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress, USA
Dr. Reagan W. Moore, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Prof. Matthias Hemmje, Fern Universität Hagen, Germany
Dr. Jussi Nuorteva, Director General, The National Archives of Finland

Programme Committee

Carlo Meghini, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche- Institute of Information Science and Technologies, Italy
Dr. Anne Thurston OBE, Director, International Records Management Trust, UK
Dr. Peter Doorn, Data Archiving and Networking Services (DANS), Netherlands
Abhishek Jee, Director, e-Governance and Green IT, NASSCOM, Bangalore
Vakul Sharma, Cyber Law Expert & Advocate, New Delhi, Supreme Court, India
Dr. Ramesh Gaur, Head-Librarian, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Prof. Makhlouf Shabou Basma, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Usha Mujoo Munshi, Librarian, Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, India
Richard Rinehart, Digital Media Director, Bucknell University, USA
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, Deputy Director, National Resource Centre, NIFT, New Delhi, India
Pratapanand Jha, Director, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi, India
R. Venkata Kesavan, DGM & Head Times Archives & Knowledge Centre, The Times Group, India
Dr Jeremy Leighton John, Curator of eMSS, The British Library, London, UK
Barbara Sierman, Digital Preservation Manager, National Library of Netherlands
Jason R. Baron, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, USA
Dr. Christopher Lee, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, USA
T. Hussain, Assistant Director, National Archives of India, New Delhi, India

Refresher Course in LIS at Bharathidasan University

Greetings from LIS, Bharathidasan University

We are happy to inform that Department of Library and Information Science
along with UGC-Academic Staff College, Bharathidasan University will be
organizing refresher course in Library and Information Science during 8th to
28th November 2013 for the benefits of Librarians and Faculty working in
college and university across the country. Desired Faculty members and
Librarians are invited to take part in the UGC- ASC Refresher course in
Library and Information Science by sending the application to *The
Director, UGC-ASC, Bharathidasan University, Trichy-24, Tamilnadu*.

The application form along with instruction can download from
BDU ASC Website or Library website.

http://www.ugcascbdu.org/

http://library.bdu.ac.in/

with regards

Professor & Head

Department of Library and Information Science

Bharathidasan University

Tiruchirappalli -24

Tamilnadu

Three day workshop on “Innovation & Change Management for Creative Industries” from August 05 -07 August 2013, At NID PG Campus, Gandhinagar

Dear Sir / Madam,

National Institute of Design (NID), an internationally acclaimed multi-disciplinary design institute of the country, is pleased to announce a three day workshop on “Innovation & Change Management for Creative Industries”. It will be conducted at NID PG campus, Gandhinagar, Gujarat from 05 -07 August 2013, (3-day non residential programme).

The Industry Programmes & Projects at NID integrates design knowledge and education with the varied segments of industry, commerce, and service sectors. The objective of this three day workshop is to expose the participants to know ‘innovation’ and manage ‘change’ to have these as their core strength.

These focused design workshops are conducted at the NID PG campus, Gandhinagar, by experienced faculty and other distinguished design professionals and experts.

We are enclosing the required details of the workshop. If you have any further queries, please contact the undersigned through email – ipp@nid.edu, industryprogrammes@nid.edu or you may visit our website www.nid.edu for more details. We also request you to put up this notice on your organisation’s notice board or circulate among those interested.

Looking forward to an overwhelming response from your end.

With warm regards,

Rupali Sinha (M) 09328136526

Mansukh Patel (M) 08153948372

Industry Programmes and Projects

National Institute of Design

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Encl: Brochure and registration form

http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/1392795/324310799/name/Innovation_ChangeManagement4CreativeIndustry_IPP_BK_AR.pdf

http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/1392795/1784077311/name/Registration%20Form%20IPP.pdf