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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Move afoot to revive library culture

Mysore: Even as the world is going gaga over digitization of library resources, the department of Library and Information Sciences, Manasagangotri, has taken lead in bringing the research tradition back. 

With an aim of capturing users' interests towards the use of library resources, three books that are in the form of research thesis, were released here on Wednesday. 

The books were penned by researchers Dinesh K S, R Guruprasad and Khaiser Nikam, chairperson, DOS in Library and Information Sciences. 

These books act as an excellent incentive for the future researchers that deal with the availability of library material in the universities along with an exhaustive literature review,Khaiser Nikam said. 

Dinesh K S, author of the Strategic Management of Engineering College Libraries in Karnataka, said it is an extensive study on the means and ways of attracting the students to the library that are deserted in the internet age. P Ventaramaiah, former vice-chancellor of Kuvempu University and N Chowdappa, president of AKELPA, were present.




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