Thank you Prof.Harau

Thank you Prof.Harau for your valuable throughts shared to indialibrarian-intl readers. We are indeed elated to be associated with you as blog authors for indialibrarian-intl. So kind of you sir. We still look forward for your suggestions for improving the blog in terms of contents, lay out and design!

With regards,

RajLibrarian and Blogging Team

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Libraries offer more than books........................http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080626/COLUMNIST60/806260487/-1/newssitemap

LIBRARIES OFFER MORE THAN BOOKS!!!!!!!!

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Thanks

Thank you IndiaLibrarian-Intl for inviting me to participate in this blog.

I did vote on the poll on the Status of Librarians and I would like to expand on my vote, viz., that Librarianship is a full-fledged profession. However, in India we still are not able to get the deserved recognition for our work, skills and contributions. This is simple because we have not demonstrated to the managements and our users as to how libraries canand have contributed to their learning and knowledge endeavours. I believe librarians should be more outgoing - interact more with users, both interpersonally and in formal ways and let them know how the library can benefit them. Equally, I believe we need the interactions to better undestand their needs/problems and see how we could meet these. Lastly, we need to use technology innovatively to improve our images and also our capability to serve users more effectively.

I would also like your members to know of an important initiative in making an open source ILS available to Indian and other developing country libraries. Please visit http://www.newgenlib.com for details.

-Prof.Jai Harau : KIIKM : NewGenLib Software

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Free Access to Medical Journals to Be Given to Poor Countries (washingtonpost.com)

Free Access to Medical Journals to Be Given to Poor Countries (washingtonpost.com)

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Free Access to Medical Journals to Be Given to Poor Countries

By David Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 9, 2001; Page A12

Six giant publishing houses will announce today that they will provide free electronic access to about 1,000 medical journals to medical schools, research laboratories and government health departments in poor countries.

Piloted by the World Health Organization, the program will benefit about 600 institutions, principally in Africa. It will also include training in techniques for researching the vast amount of medical literature by computer.

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