User awareness programme on N-LIST organised at Allahabad University

ALLAHABAD: The authorities of the Central Library of Allahabad University in collaboration with INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad (an IUC of University Grants Commission) organised a day's user awareness programme on N-LIST, on Friday. Organised at the seminar hall of AU's guest house, the awareness programme was attended by representatives of over 75 different educational institutions of higher studies, not only from city but from various other districts too.

Detailing on the successful programme, deputy librarian, Dr B K Singh said that the project entitled 'National library and information services infrastructure for scholarly content (N-LIST), is being jointly executed by the UGC-INFONET digital library consortium, INFLIBNET centre and the INDEST-AICTE consortium. The N-LIST project provides access to e-resources to students, researchers and faculty from colleges and other beneficiary institutions through server(s) installed at the INFLIBNET centre.

The authorized users from colleges can now access e-resources and download articles required by them directly from the publisher's website once they are duly authenticated as authorized user through servers deployed at the INFLIBNET centre.

Faculty members, staff, students and researchers from eligible colleges covered under Section 12B/2F of UGC Act and Non-Aided colleges (except Agriculture, Engineering, Management, Medical, Pharmacy, Dentistry and Nursing) are eligible to access e-resources through the N-LIST project. Members can access more than 4000 e-journals and 80000 e-books through this project. tnn

There were more than75 participants in this programme which includes the principals, librarians and faculty members of the constituent colleges of AU as well as other colleges situated in eastern Uttar Pradesh. Dean Research and Development Prof NR Farooqi, inaugurated the programme. He stressed on maximum usage of AU's library and motivated those attending the programme that as authorities put so much of efforts in providing various amenities in the library, the real beneficiaries should come forward and make use of the library.

Prof-In-Charge of the Central Library of AU, Prof HD Sharma, welcomed the guests and participants while senior scientists of INFLIBNET, Ashok Kumar Rai gave the detailed exposition of N-LIST. The deputy librarian, who was also the coordinator of this programme delivered the vote of thanks.

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National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST) to help Allahabad University students access library e-resource

ALLAHABAD: If you are among students pursuing higher education from any of the government-aided or recognised colleges, or any of the constituent colleges of Allahabad University and deprived of e-resource in the library, there comes a good news for you. The project titled National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST) would equip any library which can support e-resource.

Once an educational institution gets registered for the said project, all colleges covered under section 12B/2F of UGC Act and Non-Aided Colleges (except Agriculture, Engineering, Management, Medical, Pharmacy, dentistry and Nursing) can access electronic resources subscribed by the UGC-INFONET Digital Library consortium as well as selected e-resources found appropriate for colleges including e-journals and e-books. The resources include more than 3,100-plus e-journals and 75,000-plus e-books.

Any college that wants to access the given facility of e-resource has to deposit an annual fee of Rs 5,000 to INFLIBNET-NLIST, Ahmedabad which would open an account and provide password after which the e-content can be accessed in the library by members of the institution.

"Earlier, the facility was limited to computers at the Central Library of AU or nodes attached to the main server of the university but it was not available to the colleges. The option given by the UGC-INFONET Digital Library consortium, these institutions can also get accessed to the e-content", said deputy librarian of AU's central library B K Singh. He informed that institutions interested in getting the said facility can attend a one-day training programme which would be organised at AU on November 9.

The content that would be provided under the project includes full text of e-journals including American Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, Annual Reviews, Cambridge University Press, Economic and Political Weekly, Indian Journals, Institute of Physics, Oxford University Press, Royal Society of Chemistry and HW Wilson. Among the e-Books are Cambridge Books Online, e-brary, EBSCoHost-Net Library, Hindustan Book Agency, Institute of South East Asian Studies, Oxford Scholarship, Springer eBooks Taylor Francis eBooks and Myilibrary-Mcgraw Hill, informed Singh.

"The one-day training programme, scheduled for November 9, would go a long way to provide the best of these e-resources to students of various institutions, who are otherwise deprived of access to large number of e-content they require in many ways", said B K Singh.

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Libsys very soon in Allahabad University's Central Library

ALLAHABAD: Are you tired of searching your favourite book from more than six lakh books located at the Central Library of Allahabad, theAllahabad University comes up with a solution. Just click the mouse button and locate the book you want. The authorities of the Central library of AU would soon be procuring the hi-tech version of the software called Libsys which will not only help locate the book for the user but also keep the detailed information pertaining to the record of the book concerned. 

With the latest version of this software working at the library, any user has to just come to the reference section of the library and the computer would tell the user where to locate the particular book, be it the stack of the central library, libraries located at different departments, reading section etc. Not only this, the software will also serve as the bibliography of the book concerned keeping all the records associated with the given book. 

"We are already working on the software but in the coming days, we would be getting the latest version of the software after which we can not only locate the book but can also tell if the book is issued to someone or for that matter how many times the book has been issued etc as we can install the system called RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) technology which helps in keeping records of lending, borrowing and shelving status of items such as books, along with the locating the book would be much easier", said librarian, Dr A P Gakhar. Moreover, the library authorities are feeding the data regarding the books purchased after 2002 and the same is being fed in the computer which would later on be telling the exact location of the desired book, he added. The best help that RFID would be providing us is that any book can be easily located along with the issuing history of the book as we can keep the exact record of the book, he added. 

The authorities of Central Library has also initiated the process for procuring a 'Blade Sever' after which the latest and more hi-tech version of Libsys will get functional in the library. Sources say that the main problem being faced by the library authority is of cataloguing the books that were purchased before 2002 as the books that were purchased after 2002 have been properly catalogued and can be easily located. Thus, the authorities would soon start cataloguing the books procured before 2002 by outsourcing the same. 

"We have asked the departments also to prepare the data of the books kept in the departmental library which would in turn be fed along with that being prepared at the central library", said thedeputy librarian B K Singh. 

Once the data would be accumulated, any user can find the location of the book with just a click of the mouse, despite the fact that the specific book is kept at the central library or at departments. "We have mentioned a particular call number to every book which is identification of the specific piece and as such easy to locate it", said Singh. 

Remarkably, the data fed in the main server would also be attached to the internet, after which any user, sitting in any of the distant library of the country, can find the book on internet. "But this does not mean that the distant users can get the access to the books", said Singh. 

"This is just the beginning of our plan to make the central library fully digitise after which the age old functioning of the library will witness a phenomenal change all set to give a new meaning for the users", said Dr AP Gakhar, librarian of varsity central library. 

With the latest version of this software working at the library, any user has to just come to the reference section of the library and the computer would tell the user where to locate the particular book, be it the stack of the central library, libraries located at different departments, reading section etc.

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