VACANCY OF 3 ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN, ONE ARCHIVIST AND ONE LIBRARY ASSISTANT AT JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA, NEW DELHI

JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA, NEW DELHI-110025 

Advt. No. 02/2013-14 dated 18.11.2013

Applications on the prescribed forms are invited for teaching and non-teaching positions in Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi-110025. The application form, advertisement and qualifications are available on Jamia’s website http://jmi.ac.in. The application form complete in all respect should reach on or before 19.12.2013 in the Office of the Assistant Registrar (RPS), Room No. 202, 2nd Floor, Registrar’s Office, Khayaban-e-Ajmal, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi-110025, during working days between 10:00 A.M. to 01:00 P.M. (Friday upto 12:00 Noon).

Academic post 

• Two Asstt. Librarians (Scale/PB: Rs. 15600-39100 AGP 6000), Dr. Zakir Husain Library. 
• One Asstt. Librarian (Scale/PB: Rs. 15600-39100 AGP 6000), F/o, Dentistry (Plan post) 
• One Asstt. Archivist (Scale/PB: Rs. 15600-39100 AGP 5400), Dr. Z.H. Library 

Syed Abid Husain Sr. Sec. School (Self-Financing): on contractual basis: 

• One Library Assistant: Consolidated Rs. 7806/- p.m. 

The application form, advertisement and qualifications are available on Jamia’s website 

http://jmi.ac.in. The application form may be downloaded and submitted along with the application fee of Rs. 100/- and free for Disabled Person on producing the photocopy of relevant certificate) through Bank Draft/IPO drawn in favour of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi-110025. The application form complete in all respect should reach on or before 19.12.2013 in the Office of the Assistant Registrar (RPS), Room No. 202, 2nd  Floor, Registrar’s Office, Khayaban-e-Ajmal, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi-110025, during working days between 10:00 A.M. to 01:00 P.M. (Friday upto 12:00 Noon).

For Library Assistant, the applications may be submitted to the Asstt. Registrar (School Branch), Ground Floor, Registrar’s Office, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi-110025 during working days between 10:00 A.M. to 01:00 P.M. (Friday upto 12:00 Noon).

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Proposal Received From NE States For Archives And Museums

The Minister for Culture and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja has said that State-wise details of proposals received from North East States under the Scheme of “Setting up, Promotion and Strengthening of Regional and Local Museums” and the Scheme of “Financial Assistance to States/UT Archival Repositories, Government Libraries and Museums, 2012-13” are given in the Annexure.

·         State-wise status in respect of proposals received from North-East Region under the scheme of 'Setting up, Promotion and Strengthening of Regional & Local Museums"

                         

·         State-wise status in respect of proposal received from North-East Region under the scheme of “Financial Assistance to States / UT Archival Repositories, Government Libraries and Museums, 2012-13 "

 

Source | www.pib.nic.in

Maharaja Sayajirao University univ opens archive library of history

Vadodara, An archival library was today inaugurated at the department of History of Maharaja Sayajirao University here. The Department has a large number of manuscripts written in 'Modi' script that throw light on the development of mercantile and social activities in medieval Gujarat. "The Department has embarked upon the herculean task of classifying, documenting and digitizing all the archival materials that it has collected over the past decades," Head of History Department Dr Adhya Saxena said. Founded in 1949, the Department of History emphasises on the teaching of medieval and modern Indian History and researches in medieval archeology, art, architecture, epigraphy and numismatics using foreign and domestic sources. The Department has also encompassed the socio-economic history of western India with special emphasis on the process of urbanization. Mayor Dr Jyoti Pandya said learning history is important as "the past teaches us grow and develop analytical perspective". Vice Chancellor Prof Yogesh Singh also stressed the need for understanding history. "We need to re-interpret many known facts that were presented to us by the British," he said. PTI CORR NSK

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Traditional archives rule over online ones

WRITTEN CHARM

As technology becomes increasingly available and digital information expands on a daily basis, academic library use is on the decline or so you would assume. 

Research libraries in colleges and university campuses are finding that gate counts and circulation of traditional materials are falling at many libraries across the country, as students find new study spaces in dorm rooms or apartments, coffee shops, or nearby bookstores. When all the information is available on mobile phones nowadays and news can be accessed with the click of a button, it looks like the humongous libraries are on way to becoming museums. 

But librarians who work in these places have a different take in this regard. According to them, libraries will never die out as they have their own charm. “The very concept of a library cannot end. It has a certain environment attached to it. Logo ko ek prakar ka anand milta hai yaha aake padhne me,” says Sudha Mukherjee, librarian at Delhi Public Library, H-Block, Sarojini Nagar. 

“Real readers look for satisfaction when they read a book and only a library can satisfy a reader. Online libr­a­ries can never be an alternative for physical libraries,” she further adds. 

The shift to electronic resources has many scholars and librarians worrying about the loss of a central community resource in physical libraries, whether they are at the university or public level. University boards are becoming increasingly skeptical about new additions and library buildings, since they cost so much. 

Many academics mourn the loss of a common culture of library use across campuses and communities while others hail the era of a new type of library with a new structure of knowledge and practical use. There has been a move to make the library seem more than a tool and storage house for books and information as different programmes are offered and coffee bars are added. This is a huge transition.

Another librarian Vandana Kamal Vanshi of National Archives, seconds Sudha and says, “Physical libraries are not losing their charm at all. Reading inside a library gives one a different feel all together. It cannot be compared with online libraries that are becoming increasingly available. They cannot give you the variety of reading as compared to the traditional ones. 

“One can have the access to each and every book available in a library but online, it is not possible for one to search all books at one time.”

With the rapid expansion of the internet to the general public, people are seeking answers in the quickest and most convenient way. While physical use may have been reasonably expected to decli­ne in recent years due to the large scale shift to digital libraries and the increase in sources such as e-journals, the trend has appeared to be on a much larger scale. 

An avid lover of books, Reshmi Sharma, a media professional cannot read anything online and only find satisfaction in reading an actual book. “I need to have the feel of a book. I cannot read online. I just do not get the feeling while reading something online.”

Going by the trend, the traditional library is here to stay though there is no denying that more and more libraries are increasingly digitising records and putting books for their readers. After all, the smell of a ‘real’ book can only be enjoyed by the bookworm.

Half a million pages of Middle Eastern history headed to digital form

Over 500,000 pages of archive material from the East India Company and India Office, and 25,000 pages of medieval Arabic manuscript, are to be digitized and exhibited online in a project run by the British Library and Qatar Foundation. The Qatar National Library, Doha, will be working in partnership with the British Library, illustrating the contribution of Islamic scholarship to scientific, medicinal, and mathematical knowledge.

The project aims to present as much material as possible in both English and Arabic, mirroring the Qatar National Library's objective of offering multilingual content once it opens in 2014.

Across the channel from the British Library in London, France's Louvre in Paris is to open a new gallery dedicated to Islamic art by September 

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