Dear candidate who held M. A. Mass Comm. Admission Test for AMU on June 21, 2011. They can check out their results on Amu controller office website. Check the results by clicking on the Link: http://www.amucontrollerexams.com/restest/mjmc.php

Aligarh: The Administration of Aligarh Muslim University has suspended Mohd. Adil Hossain, a student of Mass Communication, for “incessantly indulging in rumour mongering, canard spreading, defaming the Aligarh Muslim University and depicting the entire institutional infrastructure and administrative apparatus in the poor light.”

The June 3, 2010 suspension order says the student has lowered down and tarnished the image of the University by resorting to and misusing the Internet (AMU Network). “He is continuously making misstatements, averments and utterances without any plausible proof or credible evidence on Internet on hosted website http://www.amucontrollerexams.com/restest/mjmc.php

The university has cited some incidents or issues on which the student allegedly tried to defame the university. They include the murder of an AMU student last year, installation of the CCTV cameras and some alleged corruption allegations. Hossain, who hails from West Bengal, however, terms the AMU action on his expression of views on Internet as an example of medieval mindset.

“At a time when China is being criticized by the entire world for internet censoring and putting the activists behind the bars for blogging and commenting on websites, at a time when people even in democracies like Iran has chosen the internet as the tool to discuss their issues and grievances, the Aligarh Muslim University administration showing the medieval mindset and acting like the islamic autocratic state that it recently showed in the Dr.Siras case where they suspended him for being homosexual has placed me under suspension and ordered a campus ban for allegedly ‘lowered down and tarnished the image of the university by resorting to and misusing the Internet'.”

He further says: “This is a dangerous development in a democratic country like India where every citizen have the fundamental right of Freedom of Speech and Expression under 19(1)(c) of the Indian Constitution. Today If I can be suspended for writing on two Yahoo Groups viz. TheAligarh Forum & World of Alig s( Social Networking sites of AMU Old Boys with strength of more than 5000) hosted on the website groups.yahoo.com, there can be easily possible that in future student from Aligarh Muslim University can be suspended for criticizing the AMU administration on social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook or Orkut.”

Organized by Maulana Azad Library (1960-2010) (as a part of its Golden Jubilee celebrations) in collaboration with Department of Library and Information Science Aligarh Muslim University, ആലിഗര്ഹ.

About the Seminar

Maulana Azad Library, the central Library of Aligarh Muslim University, the second largest University Library of Asia and the Department of Library and Information Science, one of the premier schools of Library Science in India, have been organizing national and international conferences, seminars, workshops etc. on different aspects of library and information profession. ‘Next Generation Library and Information Services’ (NeGLIS) is a national seminar to provide a platform for library and information science professionals, scientists, IT professionals, and consultants etc. to discuss the futuristic aspects of information services. It focuses on the prospective building blocks of the library services, extensive application of technology and policy change for better dissemination of information. Objectives The goal of the seminar is to bring together librarians, information engineers, IT professionals, researchers, consultants, educators as well as experts and professionals in other related fields to exchange ideas and share research findings about next generation information services. The specific objectives of the seminar are:

• To provide a forum for scholars from different fields and backgrounds to share their views and perspectives on information services in coming future.

• Identify best practices in all the spheres of new-fangled library services.

• To provide strategic directions for the development of technology based new library and information service.

Theme: Next Generation Library and Information Services. Sub Themes (but not limited to):

Knowledge Organization

Knowledge Architecture and Mapping

Standards and Protocols

Web Content Management (WCM)

Management of User-generated contents in Libraries

Knowledge Preservation Technologies

Emerging Trends

Web 2.0/Library 2.0

Building Communities using Web 2.0

M-Technology

RSS Feeds and its Application in Library Services

Social Networks, Twitter, Blogs, Wikis, Mashups

Metadata and Social Tagging

Federated Search and Discovery

Tools Semantic

Web Ontology and Thesaurus

Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems

E-Publishing

Open access v/s commercial publishing

E-Resources: New Models for Content Delivery and Deployment

Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Open Source Journal Publishing – tools, standards etc

E- Learning :

Conceptual framework Policies,

Framework and partnership

Technology solutions, innovations

Educational content and resources E

-Learning solutions

User studies

Digital Library

Building Institutional Repositories: Strategies for future

Open Source vs. Commercial software

Freedom of Access to Information

Copyright & Open Licensing

IPR & Digital resources

Interoperability and metadata

Library Policies Government’s information policies

Collection development policies

Library Legislation

Call for Papers:

The seminar invites unpublished conceptual and empirical research papers and case studies on the above theme and sub themes. The paper will be published in the form of proceedings/edited Book. Guidelines for Paper Submission The research paper is expected to contain original work, preferably case studies which have not been published elsewhere in any form. Full paper (not more than 3000 words) related to the main theme or sub themes specified in brochure should carry the Abstract, Key words,Title, Name(s), Affiliations, and Email address. The paper should be composed in MS-Word in A4 size, single spacing with font size- 12 points and Times New Roman font. Submitted papers may follow APA format for bibliographic description. Authors are requested to send the electronic version of the papers to neglis2011@gmail.com. Important Dates Last Date for Submission of full papers 10 March 2011 Notification of acceptance of paper with comments 12 March 2011 Submission of the final paper 15 March 2011 Registration Starts 15 March 2011

Registration Fee

Delegates from Industries/sponsored Rs 2500

Delegates from academics Rs 1000

Accompanying person Rs 600

Research Scholars/Students* Rs 600

*Research Scholars/students may apply through their principal/HOD

Mode of Payment

Registration fee can be paid by Cash/Bank Draft drawn in favor of ‘Organizing Secretary, Golden Jubilee celebrations, M. A. Library payable at Aligarh.

Registration fee includes seminar kit, refreshment, working lunch and dinner. Spot registration facility is available for delegates on a different fee structure.

Target Participants

Library and Information Science Professionals, Researchers, LIS Students, I.T Professionals, Content and Knowledge Managers, Educational Policy Makers, Information / Content Providers and Vendors, E-learning Communities, Electronic / Print Publishing Community, IT Service Providers, etc.

Accommodation

Accommodation may be arranged on concessional tariffs for the participants in the University Guest House on first come first served basis. Delegates may indicate their requirements for accommodation in the registration form.

Maulana Azad Library

Maulana Azad Library is regarded as the second largest University Library of Asia with more than 13.5 lakh books, E- Books and other documents. The foundation of the Library was laid in 1875 when Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, a great social reformer of his time, established a School that later became Mohammaden Anglo Oriental College in 1877 and finally Aligarh Muslim University in 1920 by an Act of Parliament. The foundation stone of the Library was initially laid by Lord Lytton, the then Viceroy of India. That is why the Library was originally named as Lytton Library. The foundation stone of the present grand seven storied building of Maulana Azad Library was laid on November 12, 1955 by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, ex Prime Minister of India, who most graciously came again to inaugurate the Library on December 6, 1960. The library has thus completed 50 years. It was named after Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the great Educationist, Statesman and the first Education Minister of independent India. During the last couple of years, library services in the University have been substantially updated and modernized. Developments in the library services with the advent of latest ICT applications include- campus wide access to Online Catalogue, Digital Resource Centre with 2 lakh e-books / Encyclopedias and many language learning software’s, online journals; Automatic Security Gate for books; CCTV etc. As a sequel to that the library has recently received IP based online access to almost all important Internationally reputed Full Text Data Bases namely ‘Web of Science’, ‘Science Direct’, ‘SciFinder Scholar’, ‘ERMED Consortia’, ‘J-Gate’, ‘BIOSIS’ and ‘DELNET’. The Library serves the University community from 8 AM to 2 A.M. (next day). About 5000 students, teachers and other members of the University visit the Library daily.

Department of Library and Information Science

Department of Library and Information Science of Aligarh Muslim University is a premier institution in the field of Library and Information Science in India with a history that reaches back about sixty years. The foundation of the Department was laid way back in 1950-51 with the introduction of a ‘Certificate Course in Library Science’, by the then University Librarian, Padma Shri Prof. S. Bashiruddin. Encouraged by the success of the certificate course, late Prof. S. Bashiruddin introduced ‘Bachelor of Library Science’ in 1958-59 with full time lecturers for the first time in the country. The Certificate course was discontinued in 1968-69. Subsequently, ‘Master of Library Science’ was introduced in 1970-71. Another pioneering step taken by the department in the year 1986-87 was the introduction of Library Science as a subsidiary subject at B.A level in the Faculties of Arts and Social Science. Realizing the need and importance of research in the subject, the Department started M.Phil/Ph.D programmes since 1990-91. The teaching faculty of the department includes one Professor, three Associate Professors, two Assistant Professors, and two Guest Faculties. Using the modern ICT facilities in the dept, the faculty members are engaged in active research on various aspects of LIS. At present, the department has two ongoing projects sponsored by ICSSR and Department of Science and Technology Govt. of India. In the past also few UGC sponsored projects have been successfully completed. The guild of academic activities such as conferences, seminars, workshops and extramural lectures of eminent scholars have always been regular features of the department.

Organizing Committee

Patron : Prof. P.K Abdul Azis (Vice-Chancellor, AMU, Aligarh)

Organizing Secretary: Prof. Shabahat Husain (Librarian-In-Charge, M A Library, AMU, Aligarh)

Convener : Dr. Naushad Ali P.M (Chairman, DLIS, AMU, Aligarh)

Committee Members

Mr. Shakeel Ahmad Khan (Dy. Librarian, M A Library, AMU, Aligarh)

Dr. Mohammad Yusuf (Asst. Librarian, M A Library, AMU, Aligarh)

Dr. (Mrs) Shayesta Bedar (Asst. Librarian, M A Library, AMU, Aligarh)

Dr. T.S Asghar (Asst. Librarian, M A Library, AMU, Aligarh)

Dr. Radhey Shyam (Asst. Librarian, M A Library, AMU, Aligarh)

Mrs. S Rana Askari (Asst. Librarian, M A Library, AMU, Aligarh)

Mr. Ch. Ahrarul Hasan (Asst. Librarian, M A Library, AMU, Aligarh)

Mr. S. Mustafa Zaidi (Asso. Prof. DLIS, AMU, Aligarh)

Dr. Sudharma Haridasan (Asso. Prof. DLIS, AMU, Aligarh)

Dr. Nishat Fatima (Asst. Prof. DLIS, AMU, Aligarh)

Dr. Mehtab Alam Ansari (Asst. Prof. DLIS, AMU, Aligarh)

Mr. Shibu K.M (Guest Faculty, DLIS, AMU, Aligarh)

Ms. Sana Rahim (Guest Faculty, DLIS, AMU, Aligarh)

Address for Communication

Convener, NeGLIS, Dept of Library and Information Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202002, Tel: 0571 2700039, 3266444 E-mail: neglis2011@gmail.com, chairman.lis@amu.ac.in Website: www.amu.ac.in/seminar/neglis

New Delhi, Jun 19 (PTI) Railways today ordered an inquiry into the accident in which four people were killed at Aligarh junction.

A brake lever snapped from a freight train at Aligarh today and the wheel ploughed into passengers waiting at the platform, killing four people and injuring at least seven, police said.

The incident occurred this evening when brake wheel of a passing goods train snapped from one of the wagons and hit the passengers waiting at Platform Number 2 of the railway station, they said.

The Commisioner of Railway Safety (North-East Circle), P K Bajpai, will conduct an inquiry into the accident, a Railway spokesperson here said, adding it will begin tomorrow.

He said the General Manager (North-Central Railway) and Divisional Railway Manager, Allahabad, had reached the accident spot to take stock of the situation.

All the injured have been admitted to Aligarh Medical College Hospital, he added.

Meanwhile, the Railway Ministry in Delhi announced an enhanced ex-gratia compensation to victims, their kith and kin at Aligarh station this evening.

The relatives of the four people who died in the train accident will get Rs 2 lakh, while persons who have received grievous injuries will get Rs 50,000. Those with minor injuries will be paid Rs 15,000.