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Google SMS Channels is a new service from Google, that enables channels/groups on SMS. It's a free service that enables you to get Google popular products (Google News, Blogger and Google Groups) and websites with RSS/Atom support for free. SMS Channels allows you to create your own channel(s) to publish content that other users can subscribe to. You can also create groups over SMS to communicate with your friends, family, and co-workers.

This helps us to keep upto date via SMS and also its available freely, so we can SMS our friends via this Channel.

http://www.projectmadurai.org.vt.edu/

Project Madurai is an open and voluntary initiative to collect and publish free electronic editions of ancient tamil literary classics. This means either typing-in or scanning old books and archiving the text in one of the most readily accessible formats ("ETEXTS") for use on all popular computer platforms. All etexts are distributed in both web/html and PDF formats. Anyone located anywhere may download a copy for personal use or read what we publish on the internet, free of charge.

NISCAIR Publishes 17 primary and two secondary scientific journals. Now NISCAIR has built NISCAIR ONLINE PERIODICALS REPOSITORY (NOPR) using Dspace for electronic access to all those journals. The repository has a good collection of journal articles published in 2007 and 2008. Hopefully NISCAIR will digitise all the back volumes of the journals and make then available accessible via NOPR.

http://nopr.niscair.res.in

List of Journals published by NISCAIR

Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Indian Journal of Biotechnology
Indian Journal of Chemistry Sec A

Digital Libraries by Willian Y Arms is the most sought after book in Digital Libaries. This books gives the complete overview of Digital Libraries.

The online edition of Digital Libraries is an updated version of the book published by the M.I.T. Press in January 2000. It is available completely freely. You can read the complet book @ http://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/DigLib/

This book will be especially useful for those who would like to pursue a career in Digital Libraries.

The Table of Contents of the book is

Preface
1 Background
2 The Internet and the World Wide Web

Several important books by S.R. Ranganathan, is available @ dLIST (Digital Library of Information Science and Technology). This is a great treasure for LIS pros, since many books are out of print. Have a look at the following links to get the PDF version of the books,

Ranganathan, S. R. (1931) The Five Laws of Library Science. Madras Library Association (Madras, India) and Edward Goldston (London, UK). http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1220/

Knowledge sharing is part of our Profession. There are millions of information available on the net, how we are going to filter them and identify most useful sites for our community. I would like to share some of the best resources available online, with the series of posts called Friday Links. Every Friday, you can find an exciting link or a website in my blog. This is the first post of the series.  happy weekend....!!!

The Code4Lib Journal (http://journal.code4lib.org)

How proactive the Librarians in US are? here is an example ...!! ALA Washington Office has created www.ala.org/knowyourstimulus  a website with resources on how to make sure libraries benefit from the package and the most up-to-date information on the stimulus.As information becomes available, the ALA Washington Office will post
updates on this page with details, such as how funding will be
distributed and how to apply.

I am proud to write this first blog post on the brand new AALIS Website. Hope this website will become the center of knowledge sharing among LIS Professionals. We would like to make this site more interactive and resourceful, as a first step towards that, we are extending the blogging feature to all the interested Alumni members of the Department of Library and Information Science, Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirapalli. Please mail me (hipandian[at]gmail[dot]com)to get a username to blog in this site.