School Librarian art Sahyadri School, Near Pune

Job Description

To take full responsibility for the school library. The current school library is housed in a new building at a beautiful site overlooking the Bhima river. Apart from managing the library, the librarian would be expected to assist students in identifying books and reference materials for their projects, as well as for general reading.

Salary: Salary plus free boarding and lodging for immediate family members (spouse and dependent children); free education for two children; medical and book allowance; free internet access; subsidized transport; home leave travel concession.

Industry: Education, Teaching, Training

Functional Area: Teaching, Education, Training, Counselling

Role: Librarian

Keyskills: Library; librarian;

Desired Candidate Profile

Education: (UG - Any Graduate - Any Specialization) AND (PG - Any PG Course - Any Specialization)

A good communicator; interested in teaching, willing to be a learner herself/himself, cheerful and caring; be able to guide children without recourse to comparison or competition. Subject proficiency Postgraduate / graduate in the required discipline. Experience at least two years as full timelibrarian.

Experience of 2 to 25 Yrs.

Company Profile

Sahyadri School 

http://www.sahyadrischool.org

Sahyadri School is a fully residential, co-educational school run by the Krishnamurti Foundation India, preparing students for the ICSE examination. We have classes from 4th to 10th and our class strength does not exceed 25. The school is intended to be not only a centre of academic excellence, but also a place where children and educators explore fundamental questions of life together. 

Location: About 70 kms from Pune, in Rajgurunagar Taluk. The school is located on a picturesque hill of the Sahyadri ranges, overlooking the river Bhima and the Chaas-Kaman dam.

Contact Details

Recruiter Name:

Amresh Kumar

Contact Company:

Sahyadri School

Address:

Tiwai Hill Rajgurunagar Taluka Dist. Pune PUNE,Maharashtra,India 410513

Email Address:

sahyadrikfi@gmail.com

Telephone:

02135288442

Library Manager at Accenture in Mumbai

Job Description
Library / Content Administration Services through:

i. Support use of the client library (eg: upload/download of content in the library)

ii. Ensure compliance with Metadata quality and standards.

iii. Implement client defined taxonomy standards to ensure currency and accuracy of Metadata and vocabulary.

iv. Validate and help control quality of assets by validating asset structure adheres to client standards

v. Establish applicable IP rights for assets and execute client IP rights strategy.

vi. Capitalize on market opportunities and be able to successfully push relevant data/ content to markets in need of specific assets.

vii. Serve as a point of contact to markets in need of library services help on content( i.e. customer service model. 1-800 help-library services)

Maintain the most updated list of manual content & content providers, along with content SLAs to ensure accurate follow-up

Provide consultation (i.e. suggestion of modification, technical constraints etc) on technical development based on Library manager operation knowledge

In case of clarifications. Kindly reach out to Navatha: 080 4106 1411

Role:Librarian 

Keyskills:      

Library manager, Content Management, Web management, Web site Mangement, Link Building,

Library Services manager

Desired Candidate Profile

Education: Graduate and Post Graduate

Please refer to the Job description above

Company Profile
Accenture 

http://www.accenture.com

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 244,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

Contact Details

Recruiter Name:

HR Team

Contact Company:

Accenture

Email Address:

Navatha.BM@accenture.com

Source: This Job is Posted on Naukri Job Portal on 27th July 2012

http://jobsearch.naukri.com/job-listings-Library-Manager-Accenture-Mumbai-4-to-9-270712003679?xz=1_0_5&xo=&xp=7&xid=134398500057387300&qp=library&id=&f=-270712003679

Assistant Information and Library Officer and Library Assistant at The Bureau of Police Research and Development, New Delhi

The Bureau of Police Research & Development (BPR&D), under the Ministry of Home Affairs, is mandated to carry out research and development to modernize Police forces in the country. BPR&D invites applications from retired government servants along with their Bio-data and Pension Pay Order (PPO) which may be sent to Assistant Director (Rectt), BPR&D, CGO Complex, Block-XI, Lodi road, New Delhi-110003 so as to reach by 21.8.2012 through e-mail: adadm.bprd.nic.in or through post or byFax on 011-24369825. Following posts are to be filled up on purely contract basis for a period of one year or till attaining the age 65 years or till regular incumbent joins whichever is earlier. The terms of payment will be regulated as per the policy of the Government of India on subject i.e. last pay drawn minus pension plus admissible rate of DA on the date of engagement. The remuneration fixed will not be changed despite change in the DA rates.

           Name of Post                           No. of Posts       Pay Band+ Grade Pay

1. Assistant Information                2                     PB 2 + GP 4600                              and Library Officer
2. Library Assistant                          1                       PB-1 + GP 1900

(i) All posts are located at BPR&D HQrs , New Delhi.
(ii) Those who have retired from higher grade pay and are willing to serve in a post carrying the lower grade can also apply.
(iii) The extension of period of contractual appointment in each case will be considered by the competent authority on its merits.

The details of posts to be filled up on contractual basis, their terms and conditions along with eligibility criteria for each post and format for submission of bio-data are available on BPR&D website: www.bprd.nic.in

डीईओ, बिहारशरीफ ने किया हेलाल पुस्तकालय का निरीक्षण

डीईओ ने किया हेलाल पुस्तकालय का निरीक्षण

बिहारशरीफ, निज संवाददाता : पुस्तक संस्कृति को बढ़ावा देने हेतु जिलाधिकारी के निर्देश पर गुरुवार को जिला शिक्षा पदाधिकारी देवशील एवं एसडीएम अमरेश कुमार अमर ने शहर के इमादपुर स्थित हेलाल लाइब्रेरी का निरीक्षण किया। पुस्तकालय की स्थिति, फर्नीचर, आलमीरा एवं पुस्तकों के रख-रखाव की सराहना की। पुस्तकालय स्कूल के भवन में चलाया जा रहा है। इसकी स्थापना 1936 ई. में की गयी थी। एसडीएम श्री अमर ने पुस्तकालय के सचिव मो.फवाद अली को आश्वस्त किया कि इसे समृद्ध करने के लिए हर संभव सहायता दी जायेगी। उन्होंने कहा कि प्रतियोगिता परीक्षाओं से संबंधित पत्र पत्रिकाएं उपलब्ध कराई जायेगी। यह भी कहा कि मार्ग दर्शन के लिए यदि संचालन समिति चाहे तो मैं प्रत्येक शनिवार को अपना समय दूंगा। पुस्तकालय का अपना भवन की मांग पर इस दिशा में प्रयास करने का आश्वासन दिया। बता दें कि निजी पुस्तकालयों में शहर का यह सबसे सुसज्जित पुस्तकालय है। कम्प्यूटर आदि भी खरीदी गयी है। निरीक्षण के क्रम में अध्यक्ष शाजिद अनवर, एजाजुल हक, मो.जाहिद, मो.शमी आलम आदि उपस्थित थे। इसके बाद पदाधिकारियों ने विद्यालय परिसर में पौधरोपन किया।

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पुस्तकालय के लिए विवि देगा दो लाख : कुलपति

पुस्तकालय के लिए विवि देगा दो लाख : कुलपति

चाईबासा, जागरण संवाददाता :

किसी भी कॉलेज की पहचान उसके समृद्ध पुस्तकालय से ही होती है। पुस्तकालय में उच्च कोटि एवं अच्छे लेखकों की पुस्तकें होना अच्छे कॉलेज की पहचान है। यह बातें कोल्हान विश्वविद्यालय के कुलपति डा. सलिल कुमार राय ने महिला कालेज में मिश्रीलाल जैन ग्रुप द्वारा नवनिर्मित मिश्रीलाल जैन स्मृति पुस्तकालय भवन के उद्घाटन समारोह में बतौर मुख्य अतिथि कहीं। इसके पहले पुस्तकालय भवन का कुलपति डा. सलिल कुमार राय, उद्योगपति सह समाजसेवी नंदलाल रूंगटा, अशोक कुमार जैन महिला कॉलेज की प्राचार्या डा. सुरालीन टोपनो ने संयुक्त रूप से फीता काटकर विधिवत उद्घाटन किया। कुलपति ने कहा कि आज का दिन ऐतिहासिक इसलिए भी है कि इस उद्घाटन समारोह में चाईबासा नगर के चारों उद्योगपति सह समाजसेवी आज एक मंच पर उपस्थित थे। उन्होंने पुस्तकालय में पुस्तकों का क्रय हेतु दो लाख रुपये तथा दो लाख रुपये कम्प्यूटर क्रय करने हेतु विवि से राशि निर्गत करने की घोषणा की। इस अवसर पर नंदलाल रूंगटा ने कहा कि महिला कॉलेज से हमारे परिवार का पुराना रिश्ता है। हमारे पिताजी इसके संस्थापक सचिव रहे हैं। अशोक जैन ने कहा कि महिला कॉलेज के एक कार्यक्रम मेरे द्वारा पुस्तकालय भवन निर्माण की घोषणा की गयी थी जो आज मूर्त रूप में आपके सामने है। इससे पहले 280 शैय्या का बच्चियों के लिए छात्रावास भी मेरे परिवार द्वारा पूर्व में निर्माण करवाया गया। इससे मुझे आंतरिक खुशी हो रही है। मंच का संचालन डा. शशिलता एवं धन्यवाद ज्ञापन प्राचार्या डा. सुरालीन टोपनो ने किया। इस मौके पर उद्योगपति सह समाजसेवी मुकुंद रूंगटा, पद्म कुमार जैन, संदीप कुमार साव, शिक्षाविद् प्राचार्य दुर्गा प्रसाद जाट, डा. मनोजीत विश्वास, सुरेंद्र कुमार राय, प्रकाश पसारी, सुशील मुंधड़ा, सोहन लाल मुंधड़ा, अधिवक्ता अंकुर कुमार चौधरी, महेश कुमार खत्री, अशोक कुमार पाल सहित कॉलेज के शिक्षक व छात्राएं उपस्थित थीं।

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Karnataka Assembly secretariat now has e-library

The Karnataka Legislative Assembly secretariat has set up an e-library, with a collection of more than 3 lakh titles, for the benefit of legislators and research students. The library has collection of assembly proceedings, records pertaining to governments several decades back, and thousands of other books.

Inaugurating the library on Wednesday, speaker KG Bopaiah advised legislators to make better use of the library and come prepared to participate in assembly debates. Research students too can avail of the facilities of the library, he added.

The library division of the the Karnataka Legislative Assembly secretariat has made available all the proceedings of the house to the visitors. The library has more than 49,000 honorary copies, 8,841 reports, 19,600 proceedings of both the houses of state 

legislature and 1.30 lakh books and periodicals. The library has also collection of 10,000 volumes of vernacular literature. The state had recently celebrated the 60th year of the legislative assembly. The first session of the assembly was held in 1952.

Chief minister Jagadish Shettar on Wednesday inaugurated the renovated library, located in the ground floor of Vidhana Soudha. 

The library department of the secretariat will establish a separate division on Gandhian literature.

More News at : DNA India

Information Management Trainees at National Institute of Fashion Technology

The National Institute of Fashion Technology, Govt.of India, looking for fresh MLISc Candidates as Information Management Trainees to give them an opportunity to expose to LIS activities in a fully automated environment. Candidates should be fluent in English language having computer Knowledge is minimum expectations. Such selected candidates will be paid a stipend of Rs 10000=00 per month for a period of one year. 

On successful completion of their Traineeship, the Candidates will be awarded with NIFT Certificate which will be a stepping stone for those who aspire to be a successful Professionals in their Career. 

Fresh Post Graduates who attended the regular programme from the Universities may submit their respective CV to the undersigned latest by 17th August 2012. 

Dr.A.N.Bandi,

Head, Resource Centre,

National Institute of Fashion Technology,

Madhapur, Opp.Hi-Tech City,
Cyberabad,
Hyderabad-500 081
040-23110827
Mobile : 09892192799?
e-mail: anb321in@yahoo.co.in? 
website:www.nift.ac.in

University Librarian and Assistant Librarian at Mody Institute of Technology and Science, Sikar (Rajasthan)

Source: Times of India, 1st August 2012

Deputy Librarian and Assistant Librarian at Dr. K N Modi University, Rajasthan

Source: Times of India, 1st August 2012

Associate Professor-1 (UR), Assistant Librarian-3 (UR) at Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak

Source: Times of India, 1st August 2012

Karnataka Vidhan Soudha Lbrary upgraded

A renovated library for legislators was inaugurated by Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar in the Vidhana Soudha on Wednesday. 

The existing library, in room 28 of the Vidhana Soudha, has been provided high-speed internet facility and has also been centrally airconditioned. It has a collection of 1.3 lakh books, reports of various commissions, compilation of government orders and gazetteers.

It also subscribes to 47 periodicals. The process of digitising various reports in the library is in progress. D H Shankaramurthy, Chairpeson of the Legislative Council, said academicians and research scholars can make use of the library on request.


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Library of Best Books at Pune

Eunice de Souza - has introduced many to the delights of the English languagE. She writes on books, reading and writing

Readable notes on the extracts of literary works from the volumes that were once forgotten

The Forced Marriage has been described as one of the best of all one-act plays while Adventures Among Birds speaks about loneliness of animals Last week, some of my cousins who live in the family house in Pune rang me to say they had been cleaning out the loft and had come across books belonging to my father. I had lost track of them years ago. Among the ones I remember best are several volumes of The World’s Library of Best Books, given to my father by his (in Christian terms), godfather.  They were a treasure house during my school years, and looking through them again, I still find them a delight. There are extracts from fiction, plays, poems, non-fiction, in English, French, German, Greek, Spanish and others.  There are lively notes on the extracts, photographs of performances, and of relevant paintings from various galleries. Here, for instance is the introduction to Moliere’s The Forced Marriage, described as “one of the best of all one-act plays.”  It was written in 1664 as court entertainment, and the king himself, Louis XIV, who was then 26 took part in it. “The caricatures of the two philosophers were very daring; for the University of Paris was trying to promote an Act by which all attacks on the philosophy of Aristotle should be crimes deserving death.”  Cervantes, author of Don Quixote was born in 1547 and died in 1616, ten days before Shakespeare... “He was a gentle, genial humourist, somewhat on the lines of Dickens, but with more subtlety and refinement…” Of Boswell, author of a biography of Samuel Johnson, “The only reasonable explanation of his extraordinary triumph as a biographer is that he was enjoyable because he enjoyed, and interesting because he was interested.  His self-indulgence, his vanity, his often foolish candour, and his lust for notoriety do not count much against his alertness of observation, his boundless good humour, and his enviable self-satisfaction.” The extracts don’t seem to follow any discernible order: Virgil appears in the same volume as John Galsworthy, Henry Fielding, an anonymous ballad, Longfellow’s poems, Shakespeare, Horace. Here is a quotation from Horace’s ode, The Golden Mean.   “Licinius, trust a seaman’s lore: /Steer not too boldly to the deep,/Nor, fearing storms, by treacherous shores/Too closely keep./Who makes the golden mean his guide,/ Shuns miser’s cabin, foul and dark, /Shuns gilded roofs, where pomp and pride/ Are envy’s mark.”  Another old favourite, to be recited with conviction, W E Henley’s Invictus. “Out of the night that covers me/Black as the pit from pole to pole,/I thank whatever gods may be/For my unconquerable soul./…It matters not how strait the gate,/How charged with punishments the scroll,/I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”  And, irresistibly, the great natural history writer, W H Hudson, one of whose books on the Argentinian pampas, Far Away and Long Ago was a school text in our final year. About the extract from his book Adventures Among Birds, the editor writes, “So intolerable is loneliness to some animals, Mr Hudson says, that they will attach themselves to any creature they can scrape acquaintance with, and he instances the case of a pony confined by itself in a field, and a solitary partridge, the only one of its species in that place; they were always to be seen together in close companionship.”   Then, from the book itself, the story of a lonely swan, driven away by his parents, who eventually made friends with a trout. “The fish had its place by the side of the bird, just below the surface, and together they would rest and together move like one being…Those who first saw it could hardly credit the evidence of their own senses.”  The volumes were edited by Wilfred Whitten (1864-1942), a British writer and editor whose pseudonym was John O’London, and published by The Standard Literature Co., Ltd Calcutta by arrangement with George Newnes, Limited, London. I couldn’t find a date of publication, however, or the price. But the volumes still appear to be available from online book dealers. More News at:  http://www.punemirror.in/article/101/20120802201208020841325456c403244/Library-of-best-books.html

Executive, Library and Cultural Centres at British Council, India

South India - Job Opening

Executive, Library and Cultural Centres Starting salary: Rs. 3,16,000 per annum + other benefits	J	1 Years Fixed Term	Role Profile Guidance Notes (see      How to Apply section above)  Application form
Customer Services Executive Starting salary: Rs. 3,16,000 per annum + other benefits	J	1 Years Fixed Term	Role Profile Guidance Notes (see How to Apply section above)  Application form
Those interested should complete the attached application form and send it to Head Resources, South India, 737 Annasalai, Chennai 600 002 or chennai.careers@in.britishcouncil.org by Friday, 3 August 2012. Only short listed candidates will be intimated

For More Information, Please visit: http://www.britishcouncil.org.in/careers/index.htm#eindia

Technical Assistant (Library) at Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vlshwavidyalaya - Wardha, Maharashtra

Last Date-08 August 2012

  More Information at: http://www.hindivishwa.org/pdf/Adv/nt_june2012.pdf

Librarian at J.C.BOSE INSTITUTE OF EDUCATIION & RESEARCH, Bardhaman

J.C.BOSE INSTITUTE OF EDUCATIION & RESEARCH,

TILDANGA MORE, BUDBUD 

(ADJACENT TO DURGAPUR EXPRESSWAY/ G.T. ROAD)

DIST : BARDHAMAN (WEST BENGAL), PIN-713403

APPLY TO THE DIRECTOR WITH ALL RELEVANT TESTIMONIALS DULY ATTESTED ALONG WITH A SELF ATTESTED PASSPORT SIZED COLOURED SELF PHOTOGRAPH WITHIN SEVEN DAYS FOR THE POSITION 06. LIBRARIAN (one post) FOR A B.ED. COLLEGE IN THE NAME & ADDRESS AS GIVEN ABOVE.

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND EXPECTED SALARY ARE AS PER THE NORMS OF NCTE/UGC/GOVT. OF W.B. YOU MAY ALSO SEND YOUR APPLICATION AT E-MAIL ID : dlf.durgapur@gmail.com or contact at : 9851000320/9475855886 for any further detail.

Courtesy: Sanju Baidya, Facebook

MANLIBNET Best Librarian Award 2012

MANLIBNET Best Librarian Award 2012 (Award Consists of Citation and a Cash Award of Rs. 10,000/-)

Management Libraries Network (MANLIBNET)* invites nominations/applications for MANLIBNET Best Librarian Award for the year 2012 from MANLIBNET members in the country. Applicants are requested to send their detailed bio-data with details of achievements along with supporting documents. The contribution for the development of profession should specifically find a place in bio-data. MANLIBNET’s current office bearers, members of the Executive Council or MANLIBNET Advisory Board are not eligible for applying to this Award.

Management Libraries Network (MANLIBNET) instituted the MANLIBNET Best Librarian Award  in the year 1999. The Award which is supported by EBSCO consists of a Cash Award of Rs. 10,000/- and a Citation.

On the basis of the applications received, MANLIBNET Executive Council selects the candidate for this Award. However, the executive council of MANLIBNET reserves the right to select a person for this Award either from the applications received by it or nominate someone else other than those who might have applied for the Award. The Award would be presented during the inaugural function of the *International Conference on Creating Wisdom and Knowledge through Shared Learning: Roles of Librarians and Information Managers being held at Indian Institute of Management Indore during October 11-13, 2012.

The application may be sent at manlibnet.secretariat@gmail.com on or before August 14, 2012

Professor(1), Associate Professor(1) and Assistant Professor (2) at Vikram University, Ujjain

Details at :http://www.vikramuniv.net/adhisuchna/july12/Vacancey_Jul_12.pdf
Download Application Form: http://www.vikramuniv.net/advt_application_july2012/APP_TEACHING.pdf

Librarian Vacancy at Delhi Public School, Guwahati, Assam

Source: Times Ascent

Vacancy of Officer (Librarian) at Punjab National Bank, New Delhi

PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK INVITES ONLINE APPLICATION FROM INDIAN CITIZENS FOR one position of OFFICER (Librarian).

Scale of pay: (JMG Scale I ) 14500-600/7-18700-700/2-20100-800/7-25700.

Age: Min. 21 Yrs Max.28 Yrs

Education Qualification: Bachelors Degree in any discipline with M.Lib.I.Sc. and working knowledge of MS

Office. OR Bachelors Degree in Library Science with minimum of 60% marks in aggregate (Wherever CGPA is awarded, minimum of 6 CGPA and where Alpha Grade is awarded minimum Grade B+) Note: Where both Alpha & Numeric grade has been awarded, Numeric Grade will be considered.

Last Date for Registration of Online Applications : 17.8.2012

To view the advertisement: Click here

To download Cash Voucher: Click here

To apply online(Post codes 01-07): Click here

COURSERA An online portal: Log on to long-distance Lectures

Log on to long-distance lectures COURSERA An online portal helps students access online classroom lectures posted by renowned professors 

MUMBAI: Every morning, Vishal Khatri, 20, a fourth year civil engineering student at the Indian Institute of TechnologyBombay (IIT-B) attends lectures there. Every evening, Khatri attends lectures at the University of Stanford, several time zones and thousands of kilometres away. 

Khatri is among thousands of students and working professionals from around the world accessing classroom lectures posted by renowned professors through an online portal Coursera. This week, 12 more universities announced they would join Coursera and make their lectures available. Details from the site show that Indians rank second in terms of enrolments after the US. 

Khatri completed a course in cryptography in April and i s now rifling through the other options. “Without this, I wouldn’t have had t he chance to learn from so many experienced people. It is totally worth it.” 

Courses available through Coursera are around 10 weeks long and are free. Students can also earn a credit for assignments either from Coursera or a respective university. 

With major universities signing up to make learning material available online for f ree, an official Mumbai Courserians group listed on the website already has 29 members. 

“I wanted to learn statistics and data analysis with a view to changing my profession; this seemed good,” said Brijesh Bolar, 32, who has signed up for five different courses available from five different US universities, four of which begin in September. 

Institutes in Mumbai have al so been offering online learning modules to students through pre-recorded open access lectures and live sessions. The e-learning centre at Mumbai University’s department of life-long learning, that hosts online video lectures in three subjects since 2007, is now working on making special lectures and seminars held at the Kalina campus available by recording these in a studio. 

“This helps working people get access, and also allows people to learn at their own convenience,” said Mohan Kumar, assistant professor in charge of the e-learning centre. 

At IIT- B, the Ask A Question programme allows students from across the country to log in and ask an IIT-B professor a question during a one-hour slot every Thursday. IIT-B has video recordings of lecture training programmes for engineering teachers available for download. 

“Coursera can benefit a large number of people,” said Deepak Phatak, professor of computer science at IIT B. 

More News at :  Hindustan Times, 30th July 2012 

Library@BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus

Inaugurated on the 16th of December the 55,000 square feet library had his Excellency E.S.L. Narasimhan the Governor of Andhra Pradesh to cut the ribbon. Ceremoniously done at an auspicious hour of 4:40 the building was graced by the presence of the director of Bits Hyderabad Prof. V. S. Rao and other professors. The library, consisting of two floors, has natural ventilation and is Wi-Fi enabled. It has about 30,000 books and subscribes to a number of academic, scientific and research journals, number of e-books and e-journals as well. It also has a digital library with a good collection of e-books and e-journals as well. It also has photo copying facilities, apart from a large area for reference books.

This library is a green library that doesn't consume much energy as there is ample light. There is no need to switch on lights during day time. The library has thousands of books in electronic format and more are being added constantly. Access to this material is restricted to the students and faculty at the campus. Reserve a book in advance is one of the many additional facilities that can be availed here. New arrival display helps reserve books in circulation. The library is fully computerized and the catalogue of resources and books can now be accessed online from the hostel as well.

The library is the haven for every student during the exam time. The library if filled with students who absorbed in the astounding silence and the studious ambience created by the presence of books and the perfect amount of light maintaining the sanctity. Students enjoy this aura that the library provides them with. Also the air conditioning cooling up the summer's heat and making the temperature very study friendly. Even the not so studious students choose to come over to the library when the exams approach.

The strategic placement of the library, pretty close to the canteen also enables students to refresh themselves and get recharged. The comprehensive exam time is when the library remains open longer than the usual 11 P.M till about 1 A.M making it convenient for the students who can fruitfully utilize the extra hours in going through the previous papers or reference books. The fiction collection though a little thin fascinates me and happens to be one of my personal favourites'. The Grandh initiative by a few students supposed to collect more number of books in several categories can be used to increase the collection of the library. The magnanimous structure in all not only enlightens bright minds of the rocky nation called Bits Hyderabad but also is an architectural marvel and serves as a grand attraction to our campus.

More News at : http://www.coolage.in/2012/07/31/library-bphc/

Now rent books from online library Hookedonbook.com; Can books work where DVD rentals failed?

by-Anand Rai

Even as online rentals for products is yet to be validated as a sustainable business model at least in India (remember what happened to DVD rentals?), there are new startups trying their hand at it, albeit with a different proposition. One such firm is a Delhi-based startup, which has just launched an online library Hookedonbook.com with a paid subscription model, while also hedging the business with an online store for second hand books.

The site claims to have more than 10,000 books as of now and offers free delivery and pick-up for all its books. The site went live just last week, and as of now the service is only available in the Delhi-NCR region.

Hookedonbook Pvt Ltd was founded by Vikram Khosla in April 2012. Prior to Hookedonbook, Khosla was running an import-export business in the US, before shifting base back to India. He holds a B.E degree in Computer Sciences from Karnataka University and has designed the site himself. The company handles its own logistics and has a team size of 12 people, including delivery boys.

For renting the books, users have to first sign up for a monthly membership. As of now, there are three types of memberships available that include ‘individual plan’, ‘buddies plan’ and ‘family plan’ for Rs 500, Rs 750 and Rs 1,000, respectively. The members also have to pay a security deposit equivalent to twice the amount of the membership they have opted for (basically two months membership). So if you opt for the Rs 500 plan, the security deposit will be Rs 1,000, and so on. The individual plan allows its members to rent up to four books in a month, while for buddies plan it is eight per month and for family plan the number goes up to 60 books per month (two books a day).

As of now, the only available payment method is cash on delivery (COD), but the company will gradually enable online payments as well.

“The idea for Hookedonbook actually came from my daughter, who could not find good libraries (both online and offline) to rent books here, after returning from the US,” said Khosla.

Once a member, readers can select a list of books they want to read and the company delivers them one by one at their doorsteps. If by chance, the number one book in the readers list is not available, the company delivers the number two book in the list, while promising to make the number one book available to the reader in a fortnight.

The maximum delivery time for a book is 48 hours and readers can keep them for as long as their membership lasts. Some of the new titles we found on the site included Calico Joe (John Grisham), Fifty Shades of Grey (E. L. James), What Young India Wants (Chetan Bhagat) and In Different Form (Yuvraj Singh).

More News at : http://techcircle.vccircle.com/500/now-rent-books-from-online-library-hookedonbook-com-can-books-work-where-dvd-rentals-failed/

Librarian, top official dupe BJMC(Pune) of Rs 4 cr

Vigilance branch of the Dept of Medical Education and Research unearths misappropriation in the purchase of books and medical journals since 1999

By -Tanaji Khot

A major scam in the purchase of books and medical journals at the prestigious B J Medical College’s (BJMC’s) central library has been exposed following a recent inspection by the vigilance branch of the Department of Medical Education and Research which has uncovered misappropriation of over Rs 4 crore.  The vigilance branch investigation has revealed that the library administration flouted every norm set by the Good Office Committee (GOC), New Delhi while making these purchases.  The purchase of books and journals was not done as per the norms set by the GOC The inspection report came to the conclusion that the purchase of the medical journals was not done in accordance with the rules but on the basis of a “mutual understanding” arrived between librarian R K Jadhav and CEO T M Lakade, the publisher and the supplier. The audit report has also indicted the supplier, Doctors Library (India), for cheating the government and the educational loss caused to the student of the medical college and recommended legal action against them. According to GOC norms, a supplier has to furnish the order given to any international publisher and also proof of money transfer to the latter like bank remittance, customer ID and subscription number. In BJMC’s case, Doctors Library has not furnished this proofs since 1999. The audit report recommends blacklisting of Doctors Library (India) and recovery of Rs 34, 71,562, which was supposed to be paid to Globe Publication immediately. If they fail to reimburse the same, according to the auditors. the entire amount of over Rs 4 crore should be recovered from Doctors Library. The report also holds librarian R K Jadhav responsible for failing to recover all documents from the supplier on time. His act suggests deliberate negligence, the report claims, as he did not verify whether all journals were delivered on the stipulated time or not and the cost of the journals was accurate. Even though the supplier's was not up to the standard, Jadhav mentioned It as satisfactory and repeatedly recommended the renewal of his annual contract.  This established that Jadhav protected the supplier's interest resulting in a huge loss to the government. T M Lakade, BJMC's chief administrative officer, was also held guilty for the releasing the payments of these purchases and violating several financial guidelines. He too is reported to have secured the supplier's interest and duped the state. The report has expressed fears that an attempt to destroy the records or them going missing cannot be ruled out as Lakde was at the helm in 1999 when this misappropriation and corruption took place.

Library assistant Vacancy at Vimla Rani Bhargava Degree College, Tewan-Kaushambi, Uttar Pradesh (source-Dainik Jagran, Allahabad ed. page no.8)

Last Date 06 August 2012