Dear All, Today i attended Video conference on National digital library project by IIT Kharagpur. I observed the main focus of the entire project was to collect the METADATA from various sources including commercial publishers/aggregators like IEEE. I remember during trial access for some discovery tool like ebsco, ProQuest etc. …
Dear All, I am very much confused about the National digital library project (NDL) at IIT Kharagpur and Sodhganga of Inflibnet. Main reason is i came to know NDL is going to collect the Metadata from DSpace/Eprint repositories of various IITs, NITs etc. and provide a common platform to search …
Dear All, Please find here articles about the Professional ethics and Plagiarism. I feel both need to be strictly followed in our academics life but both has been violated and ignored. Professional ethics Plagiarism by
Dear All, In continuation of my message on the basis of observation, i have written an open letter to the ministry of education which is attached here for your ready reference. I would like to appeal all librarians especially school librarians to kindly encourage your school for such community benefits …
Dear All, I have attended workshop on Koha and DSpace at IGKV (Indra Gandhi Krishi Vishwa vidyalaya) from 12-13 December, 2015 as resource person along with my friend Mr. D.P. Tripathi. It was a second time opportunity given to us by Dr. Madhav Pandey, Librarian, IGKV for which we are …
Dear All, Its my pleasure to inform you all that Dept. of Library & Information Science, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad. (M.S.) is going to organize National Workshop on Koha, DSpace& Joomla which will be Jointly Organized by National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisa from November 23rd to 27th …
Dear all This has with reference to my posting ( How to make API score? Minimum qualification for appointment of teachers and academic staff ) on social media and LIS forum. Please find below the link of a RTI application which i have filed in this regard on UGC dated …
Dear All, It was a nice experience to implement Koha at remote area of Jharkhand state called Madhupur. I appreciate the effort and initiative of Principal and Librarian, Madhusthali Institute of Teachers Training http://www.mitt.in/ for taking such a wonderful step for making their library automated with most modern software. Approx 4000 …
Dear All, Perhaps i am asking very silly question but this question came in my mind so i would like to know some explanations on below: 1. Why we name any Institute/University main Library as central Library? and what is the meaning of Central Library? 2. If the name of …
Dear All, It was nice experience to share my thoughts at JILA conference, Ranchi. The topic was “Re-engineering Public Library and Academic Library Systems in India” many papers were presented with suggestions and how to improve the existing systems. Many issues were raised to Re-engineering the existing libraries like finance, …