Tuesday, January 24, 2012

National Conference on High Performance Computing & Machine Intelligence

The conference will provide an excellent opportunity for research scholars to present and discuss the latest scientific works and methods. It intends to promote research and developmental activities in Machine Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and related areas. The conference provides a platform to exchange innovative ideas and dissemination of knowledge related to emerging technologies amongst the researchers.

The Conference invites the submission from researchers, academicians, professionals and students.

About MITCOE, Pune

MIT College of Engineering (ISO-Certified), is situated in a serene part of the spectacular yet quiet MIT Campus at Kothrud, PUNE, India. Our teaching - learning methodology is highly participative and interactive. We encourage students to be team players, rather than mute receivers in the knowledge building process. We ensure constant intellectual challenges by taking up in-house and industry based Research Projects in many leading cutting edge technologies of relevance.

Further grooming of students takes place with a number of co-curricular programs including soft-skill developments, additional technical skills with the participation of renowned professionals from industry and business. Finally to make them complete individuals, extra-curricular activities such as sports and culture are encouraged. Our students are among the best placed professionals in the industry, the best contributors to the society, practicing the best of human values.

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About MAEER

Maharashtra Academy of Engineering & Education Research (MAEER), Pune established in 1983 is a well-known educational trust with 71 Institutions delivering KG to PG education. MAEER is truly multi-campus and multi-disciplinary organization conducting university approved academic programs in Engineering, Management, Pharmacy, Medicine and Polytechnic. The management of MAEER is committed to promote the "Culture of Peace" through value based "Universal Education System", with a firm belief that "Union of Science and Religion/Spirituality alone will bring peace to mankind".

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Library Classification Trends in the 21st Century

Dr. Rajendra Kumbhar

Associate Professor

University of Pune

Pune

http://www.woodheadpublishing.com/en/book.aspx?bookID=2506&ChandosTitle=1

- covers all aspects of library classification
- it is the only book that reviews literature published over a decade’s time span (1999-2009)
- well thought chapterization which is in tune with the LIS and classification curriculum
- useful reference tool for researchers in classification
- a valuable contribution to the bibliographic control of classification literature
This book traces development in and around library classification as reported in literature published in the first decade of the 21st century. It reviews literature published on various aspects of library classification including modern applications of classification such as internet resource discovery, automatic book classification, text categorization, modern manifestations of classification such as taxonomies, folksonomies and ontologies and interoperable systems enabling crosswalk. The book also features classification education and an exploration of relevant topics.
Readership: The book will be useful to classification researchers, LIS faculties and postgraduate students in library and information science. This book is also an ideal example for writers of literature reviews in theses and dissertations.
ISBN 1 84334 660 5
ISBN-13: 978 1 84334 660 9
November 2011
186 pages 234 x 156mm paperback
£47.50 / US$80.00 / €55.00

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About the author

Dr. Rajendra Kumbhar is Associate Professor at the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Pune, India. Dr. Kumbhar has been teaching classification, knowledge organization, vocabulary control and other related topics for more than 20 years. As a part of his doctoral research he compiled a comprehensive classification schedule and thesaurus of LIS and has published books and articles on this topic.
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Abstracts and Abstracting
Cataloguing Outside the Box
Guide to MARC 21 for Cataloging Books and Serials
The Theory and Practice of the Dewey Decimal Classification System