National Information Policy

One of the current policy debates in India concerns the need for a 'national information infrastructure (NII)' and how it should be built. This paper sketches some key principles which a strong NII should satisfy, in order to yield the maximal impact upon productivity growth of India's economy at the lowest possible cost. Designing /Ajay Shah & Shuvam Mishra

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The Classified Catalogue Code Nehru Memorial Museum Library Delhi University Library JNU :Library

Weeding Out of Books

By Diane J. Young -- Library Journal, 11/15/2009 Raise you hand if you can't face weeding. You are not alone. All over the country, books are stacked three high on window sills, Fodor's Yugoslavia 1987 languishes on the shelf, and HVAC systems send out BTUs to heat and cool the broken spines of Harry Potter. This can change. In my 20 years as a reference librarian and public library administrator, I've been deep in collection development work, organizing systematic weeding projects and getting my hands dirty in the stacks, even inventing the Weed-U-Matic to make the work of deselection easier. I've discovered that, whether our expertise is paleontology or board books, most of what holds us back from weeding is psychological. I'm reminded of that first step in most recovery programs: “We admitted we were powerless over [blank]—that our lives had become unmanageable.” So, here's a program for people whose collections have become unmanageable—and it's only eight steps. Admit that you are emotionally attached to your collection.It's hard to discard the picture book you adored as a child, or the atlas donated in memory of Mrs. Jones. But our libraries exist to fill today's needs, not those of ten or 20 years ago. Train yourself to follow seriously objective criteria, such as the last checkout date. Mike Nelson offers this helpful mantra in his book Stop Clutter from Wrecking Your Family: “My belongings are a resource for the present and future, not a clinging to the past.” Recognize that space is finite and overabundance can be a detractor.Some of us have a need to fill every space. We're pack rats. We're afraid we won't have enough. Blame your parents, and move on. Having crowded shelves means that shelving takes longer, and that items are more likely to be out of order. Seek the help of experts to overcome your reluctance to judge.When it comes to some subjects, we feel unqualified to make judgments about whether to keep or jettison. If you've never done panty-hose craft, how do you know whether that book is good or bad? Find people in your community who are experts—hobbyists, faculty, business owners. Make use of tested weeding guidelines like the CREW (Continuous Review, Evaluation, and Weeding) method and SUNLINK's Weed of the Month (www.sunlink.ucf.edu/weed). Acknowledge to yourself and your colleagues that you've made selection mistakes. If you've been a selector for more than a few years, weeding brings you face to face with your own blunders. The upside: recognizing a mistake sharpens your skill at selection. In fact, reviewing your recent purchases regularly is a good habit. Take an honest look at what has circulated twice, once, or not at all. And remember this quote from my sister's therapist: “We did the best we could with the resources we had at the time.” Find ways to ease the anxiety of decision-making. Weeding requires making decision after decision in short order. If you value flexibility and open-endedness, that's painful. So limit your weeding to 15 minutes at a time. Or work with a partner who'll provide a second opinion. Afraid that if you get rid of a book, someone will ask for it tomorrow? The truth is that rarely happens. It is much more likely that you will be asked for a title that you decided not to buy in the first place. Take the drudgery out of weeding.Weeding invariably loses out to the glamorous jobs like meeting an author for lunch, tweeting from a conference, or emptying the book drop. But in a profession where so much of our work is done in front of a computer screen, weeding offers a hands-on, sensory experience. (Unfortunately, that sensory experience might be “sticky” or “smelly.”) Inject even more fun into the job by listening to some dance music. Protect yourself from criticism through policies and PR.“It's the hardest thing in the world to explain to taxpayers why we are throwing away perfectly good books,” wrote Will Manley. In academic settings, faculty can be suspicious of what the staff is doing with “their” books. Educate all staff and trustees about deselection, and involve stakeholders in the process. Save blatant examples of must-weeds, like Hawaii: Our Off-Shore Territory. Channel your love of books into finding good homes for your discards. How can you possibly let go of that matched set of “Harvard Classics,” even though it's gathering dust? S.R. Ranganathan made this wise statement: “Every book its reader.” Work with collectors, the libraries of local prisons and the armed forces, nonprofits that recycle the proceeds into literacy programs, or have your own book sale to connect the book with its reader. Now, get out there! Diane J. Young (djy10@columbia.edu) is a library consultant in Massachusetts. We welcome opinion pieces for BackTalk. Please send them to LJ/BACKTALK, 360 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010; fialkoff@reedbusiness.com

Online Newspapers in India (Regional and National)

India Newspapers 5abi A India News [In English] A1 India News [In English] Aajkaal (Kolkata, West Bengal) [In Bengali] Aaj Tak ABC Live Adinor Sambad (Assamese, Guwahati) Anandabazar (West bengal) [In Bengali] Aaraamthinai Abasar (Bengali) Accommodation Times Afternoon Agra of Taj (Agra) Agranews [In Hindi & English] Aji (Assam) Ajir Asom (Assam) [In Assamese] Akhbaar Akhbarulhind [In Arabic] Akila Daily Al Hindelyom (New Delhi) [In Arabic] Amar Ujala Amader Malda(West Bengal, Malda) [In Bengali] Anandabazar Patrika Andhra Bhoomi Andhra Jyothy Andhra Prabha Asia News [In English] Asian Age [In English] Asomiya Pratidin Assam Times The Assam Tribune (Assam, Guwahati) [In English] Aurangabadtimes Urdu daily (Maharashtra) [In Urdu] Bartaman Patrika (Calcutta) BBC Bengali BBC Hindi BBC Tamil Bengal Net Bharat Khabar (New Delhi) [In Hindi] Bharat Observer (Bharat) [In English] Bhaskar (Haryana) [In Hindi] Bihar Times Bombay Samachar Business Standard Calonline (Kolkata / West Bengal) Chandigarh Exchange.Com (Punjab, Chandigarh, Panchkula, Mohali) [In English] Chitralekha Chhattisgarth News Update (Chhattisgarth) [In Hindi] The Christian Messenger [In English] Cochin2day (Kerala) Communications Point (Tamil, Nadu & Hennai) [In Tamil & English] Daily Ajit (Jalandhar) Daily Dasar Katha (Tripura) [In Bengali] The Daily Etalaat (Jammu, kashmir, srinagar) [In English & Urdu] Daily Excelsior (Kashmir) [In English] Daily Hamarasmaj (Delhi,Uttar, Pardes, Haryana, Punjab, Utrakhand, Rajasthan) [In Urdu] The Daily Indian [In English] Daily Kesari The Daily Milap Daily News Activist (Uttar, Pradesh) [In Hindi] Daily News & Analysis [In English] Daily Roshni (Kashmir, Srinagar) [In Urdu] Daily Thanthi (Tamilnadu) Dainik Agradoot (Assam) [In Assamese] Dainik Aikya (Satara) Dainik Bhaskar (Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Chandigarh, Haryana) Dainik Jagran Dainik Janakontha (Assam, Silchar) [In Bengali] Dainik Jugasankha (Silchar, Assam) [In Bangali] Dainik Sach Kahoon (Haryana) Dainik Sambad (Agartala, Tripura) [In Bengali] Dainik Suprovat (Calcutta) Dakshin Bharat (Karnataka) [In Hindi] Darjeeling Times (Sikkim, Darjeeling) Dateline India (Subscription Only) [In Hindi] The Day After (New Delhi) [In English] Deccan Chronicle (Andhrapradesh) Deccan Herald (Bangalore) Decent Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [In Hindi] Deepika [In Malayalam & English available] Deepika Global (South India) The Defender (Kerala) [In Malayalam] Deshabhimani Daily (Keralam) Deshbandhu (Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Madhyapradesh) [In Hindi] Deshdoot (Nasik,Jalgaon,Dhule,Nandurbar) Deshonnati Dhamaka News Dharitri (Orissa) [In Oriya] Dinamalar (Chennai) [In Tamil] Dinakaran (Tamil Nadu) [English available] Dinamani Divya Bhaskar (Gujrat) DLA (Uttar Pradesh) [In Hindi] DNA (Mumbai) E-pao eGlobal Trade News (New Delhi)[In English] The Economic Times [In English] The Echo of India [In English] Eenadu [In Telugu] (Andhra Pradesh) (Registration required) Energy Bangla (Kolkata)[In English] Epilogue (Jammu, Kashmir)[In English] The Etemaad Daily (Hyderabad)[In Urdu] The Financial Express [In English] Ganashakti (West Bengal / Kolkata) [In English] Gangtok Times (Sikkim, Darjeeling & Kalimpong) [In English] General Daily (Kerala, Thrissur) [In Malayalam] Gold News (Kolkata) [In Bengali] Gomantak Times (Goa) Greater Kashmir [In English] Gujarat Samachar Gujaratam (Gujarat) [In Gujarati] Haalkhabar (Sikkim) Headlines India [In English] Himgiri (Sikkim) [In Nepali & English] Him Giri News Nepali [In Nepali] Him Times (Himachal) Hindi Milap The Hindu (National) The Hindu (South States) The Hindustan Times India Abroad India Report [In English & Hindi] India Times (Mumbai) [In English] India Travel News (Delhi) [In English] Indian Express The Indian Muslim Times (Bombay) Indian Times Indopia [In Hindi & English] Infoindia (Calcutta) Inquilab (Maharashtra, Mumbai) [In Urdu] Irinjalakudalive (Kerala, Thrissur, Irinjalakuda) [In Malayalam] Islamic Voice (Bangalore) Jai Bihar (Bihar, Delhi, Mumbai) [In English] Jaihind Daily (Gujarati) Jagran Janadesh.in (Delhi) [In Hindi] Janatha Madhyama (Hassan, Karnataka) [In Kannada] Janatha Vani (Karnataka, Davangere) [In Kannada] Jandknews.com (Jammu & Kashmir) [In English] Kaliyuganarada (Andhra) [Teligu & English] Kalki Weekly Kalinga Times (Orissa) [In English] Kangla Online Kanian Tamilnews (Madras) Kannada Prabha Kashmir 24x7 [In English] (Jummu & Kashmir) Kashmir Observer [In English] Kashmir Times [In English] Kaumudi Online Kerala Kaumudi Kerala Online(Keralam) [In Malayalam] KhabarExpress.com (Rajasthan) [In Hindi & English] Khas Khabar (Rajasthan) Khidmat (Jammu, Kashmir) [In English & Urdu] Kochin Today (Malayalam) [In Malayalam] Koshur Akhbar (Kashmir) Kranti Kannada Daily (Karnataka) Kumudam Lokmat Lokprabha Newsline (Gujarat) Loksatta Loktej (Gujarat) [In Hindi] Lokraj Online Media [In English] Madhyamam Daily (Kerala) [In Malayalam] Maharashtra Times (Bombay) Malayala Manorama Daily (Kerala) [In Malayalam] Mangalam Mangalorean Times (In Kannada & English) Manorama News [In English & Malayalam] Manorama Online (Kerala) [In Malayalam] Marathi News Daily (Pune) Matamgi Yakairol (Manipur, Imphal) [In English] Mathrubhumi (Kozhikode, Kerala State) [In Malayalam] Mawphor (Shillong, Meghalaya) Media Newsline [In English] Mera Chandigarh (Chandigarh) [In English] Mid-Day The Milli Gazette The Morung Express (Nagaland) [In English] Mumbai Mirror (Bombay) [In English] Munsif Daily (Hyderabad) Myjhunjhunu.com (Rajasthan, Jhunjhunu) Nagaland Post (Nagaland) [In English] Naidunia (Indore) Nav Bharat Times [In Hindi] Nava Panga [In Punjabi & English] Navhind Times (Goa) Nawaitay (Bhatkal, Karnataka) Neindia.com (Tripura) [In English] Newindpress.com The New Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka) [In English] News Around Gujarat [In English] Newsb4u.com (Tamil Nadu) [In English] News Directly From Mandya (Karanatka) News Guru India (Haryana, Punjab, Chandigarh) [In Hindi] NewKerala (Kerala) [In English] News Today News Wing (Jharkhand) [In Hindi & English] Newstrack India (Delhi) [In English] The Newspaper Today Nhatky Nida-I-Mashriq (Jammu and Kashmir) [In Urdu] Nobat (Jamnagar) [In Gujarati] The Noblesville Times (Noblesville) [In English] The Northeast Today (Meghalaya, Shillong) [In English] Northern News Lines [In Hindi & English] Northlines (Jammu & Kashmir) [in English] Odisha.Com (Orissa) OHerald (Goa) Online Bharathi (Bangalore) Online Indian News [In English] Online Newspaper [In Hindi & English] Online Tirupati (Tirupati) [In English] Orissa India Orissa Infoline [In English & Oriya] Orissa.net Orissa Sambad(Orissa) [Oriya] Outlook India Panchjanya Parabaas Parvasi (Punjab, Chandigarh) [In Punjabi] Pathirika Online.com (Tamilnadu, Chennai) [In English] Patna Daily Pehli Khabar [In Hindi] Phayul (Tibetian International) [In English] Pioneer Pondy Central (Pondicherry) Prabha Sakshi Prabhat Khabar [In Hindi] Praja Pragathi (Tumkur, Karnataka) Pragativadi Prahaar (Mumbai) [In Marathi] Pratahkal (Rajasthan Mumbai Delhi) [In Hindi] Prajavani Kannada Daily (Bangalore) Prajodaya (Hassan) [In Kannada] Pramukhandhra Public News (Delhi) [In Hindi] Pudhari ePaper (Kolhapur, Maharashtra) [In Marathi] Punecity.com Punjab Express (Punjab) [In English] Punjab Newsline (Punjab) [In English] Punjab Kesari (Punjab) [In Hindi] Quami Ekta Ranchi Express (Jharkhand) [In English] Rajasthan Patrika Rajdhani Times (New Delhi) Rajmangal Times [In Hindi & English] Rashtriya Sahara [In Hindi] Ri Khasi Channel (Meghalaya / Shillong) Rohini Times [In English] Sach Kahoon (Haryana,Punjab & Delhi) [In Hindi] Saderatulhind [In Arabic] Sahara Samay (Uttar Pradesh) Sahil Online (Karnataka) [In Urdu] Sahil Online (Karnataka) [In English] Sakal (Pune) Sakshi Telugu News Paper (Andhra, Pradesh) [In Telugu] Samayik Prasanga (Silchar, Assam) [In Bengali] Sambhaav (Ahmedabad) The Samaj (Orissa) [In Oriya] Sandesh (Gujarat) Sangbad Pratidin (Calcutta) The Sangai Express (Manipur) [In English] Sanjevani Sanjh Savera Sanmarg (West Bengal, Orissa) [In Hindi] Savera India Times The Sentinel (Assam, Guwahati) [In English] The Shillong Times (Shillong, Meghalaya) Siaj Daily (Kerala) [In Malayalam] The Siasat Daily (Hyderabad) Sify Hindi Sify News Sikh Virsa Sikkim Darjeeling and Kalimpong news (West Bengal, Sikkim) [In English] Sikkim Express (Sikkim) [In English] Sinlung News (Assam, Manipur, Mizoram) [In English] State Times (Jammu, Kashmir) [In English] The Statesman (Delhi) [In English] Suddi Bidugade (Puttur , Sullia , Belthangady) [In Kannada] Suprovat Swatantra Vaartha (Andhra Pradesh) Swatantraawaz.com (Lucknow) [In Hindi] TajaNews The Tamil News The Tamil Sudar (Tamil, Nadu) [In Tamil] Taranga Tarun Bharat tehelka.com The Telegraph (Calcutta) [In English] Thatstamil.com (Tamil Nadu) [In Tamil] Thejas (Kerala) [In Malayalam] Thinaboomi The Times of India (Bangalore) [In English] Tripura News (Tripura) [In Kokborok] Tirupati Times (Andhrapradesh) [In English] Today India [In English] The Tribune (Chandigarh) [In English] TwoCircles.net [In English] Udayavani (Bangalore) United News Network (New Delhi) Upkhabar Urdu Net (New Delhi) [In Urdu] UTs' Voice [In English] Uttarbanga Sambad (Wesl Bengal, Entire North Bengal) Vaartalu Vaartha (Andhra Pradesh) The Viewspaper [In English] Vikatan Vishva Kannada VijayDwar (In Hindi) Voice of Assam The Voice of Millions [In English] Wadikiawaz (Jammy, Kashmir) [In English & Urdu] Web Dunia Web India [In English] Web Patrika (Hindi) White Drums [In English] World News Everyday [In English] Yugantar Punjab Zee News

A Tribute to Indian Library Classification system

• Colon Classification 6th Edition International Society for Knowledge Organization - Italy
• Colon Classification : A Brief History / Susan Kelsch
• Colon Classification : Historical and Contemporary perspective
• Colon Classification : Ranganathan ahead of his century / Virginia Chan
• Colon Classification : ISIBC Collection
• Colon Classification : A Text
• Colon Classification : A Study in the development of CC / T. Tyaganatarajan
• Colon Classification : A select Bibliography/ Sewa Singh and Sukhbir Singh
• Colon Classification : C.K Sharma and R.K Singh
• Colon Classification : New concepts of Practical Colon Classification / R Sagar
• Colon Classification : Encyclopedia of Colon Classification New Practical Manual /Ram Shobit Singh
• Colon Classification : Handbook of Colon Classification /R L Sehgal
• Colon Classification : Colon Classification Made easy / Pandey S K Sharma
• Colon Classification : Colon Classification Practive / Sewa Singh
• Colon Classification : Basic subjects in Colon Classification from edition one to seven /Jyothirmayi. S and Kabir H
• Colon Classification : Bibliography of Colon Classification /Amrik singh M.P Satija
• Colon Classification : S.R Ranganathans Colon Classification System/Royce Kitts
• Colon Classification : Systems for the Intellectual Organization of Information. New Brunswick, NJ: Graduate School of Library Science, Rutgers University, 1965.
• Colon Classification : New Concepts of Practical Colon Classification /Ramveer sagar
• Colon Classification : Notes on Classification and Indexing theory/
• Colon Classification : Publications by SR Ranganathanand the papers citing SR Ranganathan
• Colon Classification :Ranganathan's Colon Classifiaction : A Selected and Annotated Bibliography

Library related Acts in India

• Development of Public Libraries
• National Book Trust - 1957
• National agency for ISBN
• Indian public Library Legislation
• National Policy on Public Libraries in India
• Delivery of Books and Newspaper Act
• Rampur Raza Library Act - Uttar Pradesh - 1975
• Khudabaksh Oriental Public Library Act- 1969
• Right to Information Act - 2005
• Application for Information under RTI Act
• Tamil Nadu (Madras) Library Act - 1948 - Library Cess 10%on Property Tax
• Andhra Pradesh Library Act - 1960 - Library Cess 8% on Lands and Buildings
• Karnataka Library Act - 1965 - Library Cess 6% on Lands & Buildings, Vehicles and Profession
• Maharashtra Library Act - 1967 - Library Cess - nil
• West Bengal Library Act - 1979 - Library Cess - nil
• Manipur Library Act - 1988 - Library Cess - nil
• Kerala Library Act - 1989 - Library Cess - 5% on Property tax, not less than 1% of state expenditure on education.
• Haryana Library Act - 1989 - Library Cess - Local Bodies responsible
• Mizoram Library Act - 1993 - Library Cess - nil
• Goa Library Act - 1993 - Library Cess - Surcharge on IFML@ 0.50 ps per litre
• Gujrat Library Act - 2000 - Library Cess - nil
• Orissa Library Act - 2000 - Library Cess - nil
• Rajasthan Library Act - 2005
• Uttarakhand Library Act - 2005
• Pondicherry - 2007/2008
• Chattisgarh -2008
• Information Technology Act - 2000
• Digital Libraries - Base Study Policy & Problems Higher Education Acess to Information in Digital Environment Socio Economic Problems
• Newspapers Price Control Act - 1972
• Patent Act - 1970
• Copyright Act - 1957 - Faircopy
• Good Offices Committee
• Employment Exchanges Compulsory Notification of Vacancies Act - 1959
• University Grants Commission Act - 1956
• Weekly Holidays Act - 1942
• Destruction of Records act - 1917
• Indian Museum Act - 1910
• Pay Order Regulation - UGC
• UGC Guidelines on PHDs -

BOOKS

• Indian Library Legislation:Union library bills and acts / Velaga Venkatappaiah..
• Library and information science: parameters and perspectives : essays in ... By Ram Gopal Prasher, P. B. Mangla
• Guidelines on Quality indicators in Library and Information Services: Affiliated/Constituent Colleges
• Development of Public Libraries in India :Zahid Ashraf Wani _Library Philosophy and Practice
• Growth and Development of Public Library system in India with special reference to Karnataka: Dr. B.D Kumar - International workshop on "Democratization of Informtion: Focus on Libraries"
• Public Library Services in India:Systems and Deficiencies by Dr. R Bhaatacharjee , IFLANET
• Handbook of Public Library System /B.D Panda