INFLIBNET is organizing three days training programme on Bibliometrics and Research Output Analysis during 23-25 April 2014

INFLIBNET is organizing three days training programme on Bibliometrics and Research Output Analysis during 23-25 April 2014. The programme will give the participants sound overview of bibliometric methods, performance indicators and tools & techniques  related to bibliometric analysis and mapping. It will provide awareness about the most commonly used data base, how to build -up relevant indicators and how to interpret the data. Special emphasis will be given to indicators used in research evaluation.

 Resource Persons

The lecturers are prominent researchers, scientists/professors in the field of bibliometrics. They also have an extensive experience with the application of bibliometric analysis in a research evaluation.

Venue

The Training programme will be conducted at Information and Library Network Centre, An IUC of University Grants Commission, Infocity, Gandhinagar-382007, Gujarat, India

Fee

The registration fee is Rs. 3000.00 (Rupees three thousand five hundred only) per person without accommodation and Rs. 5,000.00 with accommodation (four days three nights).

Please visit following link for more information:

Brochure: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/forthcoming/bib_work.pdf

Registration form:http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/forthcoming/bib_form.pdf

 

For participation and more information please do contactkruti@inflibnet.ac.in

 

With Regards,

Kruti J Trivedi
Scientist B (LS)
INFLIBNET Centre
(An IUC of UGC)
Infocity, Gandhinagar - 382007
Email: kruti@inflibnet.ac.in
Phone: 079-23268241

Living libraries- Editorial in The Telegraph, Kolkata Ed. (source: The Telegraph, 11 March 2014)

LIVING LIBRARIES

There is something indescribably sad about a country with more than 54,000 nearly-dead public libraries. Yet, although libraries die, books and the urge to read do not, if tended properly, in spite of the distractions of contemporary life. So, it is reassuring to hear that the Union ministry of culture is planning a well-funded project to survey, upgrade and revive around 5,000 of the nation’s public libraries, spearheaded by a foundation based in Calcutta. This is an excellent idea, provided it is conceptualized and implemented innovatively and sincerely. It is often the tendency among people who live in cities, and whose living spaces are shrinking rapidly, to use small libraries as dumping grounds for books they want to get rid of. The government and its agencies will have to work against the grain of this habit of treating these institutions condescendingly as catering to those who cannot afford books or their trendy substitutes. Building or reviving libraries is not a charitable activity. It is cultural activism and community-building of a serious, but essentially delightful, kind. It demands creativity, rigour and political will.

First, engaging local consultants in vernacular reading materials is crucial, even when acquiring English books and periodicals is an important part of the libraries’ agenda. Second, suburbs, small towns and villages are as important as the cities. In fact, habits of reading, and of reading- related critical and creative thinking, may actually be much more alive in the most unexpected places. Third, the libraries have to become part of local communities, courting the involvement of ordinary citizens and institutions like schools, colleges, music and art schools, and even tutorial homes, to name a few. Students, elderly people, and people with disabilities should be encouraged to participate, and even be employed in a whole range of capacities. Braille collections, home- visiting readers for the elderly, audio-books, and materials in other media should also be part of the services on offer. Digitizing the catalogue is important, but a lot of people accessing these libraries may not have internet connectivity, or they might have more traditional habits of seeking reading materials. Some libraries can also be exhibition spaces, or host cultural or adult-educational events. Artists can be commissioned to work with the collections and make site-specific installations. The potentials are endless, fun to realize, and within the realm of the possible.

Source: PDF Link-http://epaper.telegraphindia.com/details/67416-174934109.html
Web Link (HTML format):-http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140311/jsp/opinion/story_18064784.jsp#.UyKRYj96UhY


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Miranda House library shows the way...by Vijetha S.N. (Source: The Hindu, 13 March 2014)

Miranda House library shows the way

Author: Vijetha S.N.

NEW DELHI: Dingy corners, zero natural lighting, dusty books -- replete with yellowing pages -- that seemed to have never left the shelves: all this pictured in a crumbling library set up all those years ago is sadly what you come to expect when you walk into almost any college library in Delhi University’s North Campus. But Miranda House is truly an exception – be it for its square footage, colour-coded books, Braille library or the multiple seating arrangements sans dust.
“The total carpeted area is around 21,275 square feet, we have about one lakh books dating from the founding days in the 1940s which are being constantly rebound, we also have e-books available as well as a digital resource centre,” said college Principal Pratiba Jolly, while conducting a tour of the library building which is a stand-alone structure of mammoth proportions in a corner of the college. “The original building was in the style of the 1970s when it was built, but we recently had the red-bricks added to the outer structure to blend in with the rest of the college,” she added.
Renovations are still going on at the three-floored library, with a lift in the works. Ms. Jolly explained that any construction work had to be timed in order to not inconvenience the students. Miranda House is also one of the few colleges which keeps its library open until 7-30 p.m. Almost every other college library shuts shop at 3-30 p.m. This is in addition to the department libraries which are located in different buildings. 
The new four-year undergraduate course which has sought to do away with text-books has also prescribed a long reading list, and even here Miranda House seemed to be one of the few colleges which seemed to be consciously making sure enough copies were available.
Another factor that tipped in favour of this college’s library was the importance given to reading for pleasure. An entire section was decided to fiction and poetry, contemporary and old. There was English and Urdu, Punjabi and even Tamil. “We organise book sales where we procure books from faculty and alumni and sell them for a smaller price to students and faculty.”
There are separate seating arrangements to read and reference with enough natural and artificial lighting, and most importantly a separate section for the faculty is also being renovated. 
The college funding is not more than the funding given by the UGC to its neighbouring colleges whose libraries are not spaces that anyone would wish to spend any time in. But as Miranda House has displayed, the other colleges too -- now flushed with funds after the OBC expansion – can easily take a leaf out of this book. 
 

Assistant Librarian Vacancy at Army Public School, Bengdubi, West Bengal

Application Form available on the Website: http://www.apsbengdubi.net.in/

Source: The Telegraph, 12 March 2014, Kolkata Ed. Page no-7

http://epaper.telegraphindia.com/paper/7-0-12@03@2014-1001.html

 http://epaper.telegraphindia.com/epaperpdf//12032014//1232014-ce-bg-7.pdf

VACANCY OF LIBRARIAN AT SETH M R JAIPURIA SCHOOL, LUCKNOW

Post	Librarian
School	Seth MR Jaipuria School, Lucknow, UP
Last Date	22 March 2014

VACANCY OF LIBRARIAN AND ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN AT CITY COLLEGE OF MANAGMENT, LUCKNOW

Post:	Librarian & Asst. Librarian
College	City College of Management
Address	City Collge of Management, Opp. BBD University, Tiwari Ganj, Chinhat, Lucknow, UP
Contact  Mail Resume at.	9936530032, 0522-6555579 acedemy.city@yahoo.in

VACANCY OF PGT-LIBRARY SCIENCE AT ST. STEPHEN'S SCHOOL, VARANASI

Post	Librarian
School	St. Stephen's School,  M.G. Road, Sahityanaka, Ramnagar, Varanasi, UP
Salary	As Per govt norms
Walk in /Test on Send resume at.	22 March 2014 sanjaya_misra@yahoo.com  &  schoolststephens@gmail.com

Invitation and Call for Research Papers for NMIMS

Dear Professionals

Greeting From NMIMS

We feel immense pleasure in inviting you to the "National Conference on Emerging Trends, Advancements and Challenges of Academic and Public Libraries" to be held on June 13-14, 2014at SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies(NMIMS) Deemed to be University , Mumbai at Shirpur Campus, Dist- Dhule ( Maharashtra).

The above conference is being Jointly organized by SVKM's NMIMS and Khandesh Library Association (KLA), Jalgaon (Maharashtra).

Kindly request you, all please contribute your research papers on the given theme and sub-theme in the brochure.

Important Date : 

Conference Date                         : June 13-14, 2014

Last Date of Paper Submission      : April 30th , 2014

For details please see thebrochure or click on http://nmimsconference.weebly.com/

Also Attached the Registration  and Copyright form for your kind reference.

We request you to kindly circulate this information to your professional colleagues and friends.

Organizing Secretary:

Ravindra M. Mendhe

Deputy Librarian & Organizing Secretary

SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies

NMIMS ( Deemed to be University Mumbai) 

Mukesh Patel Technology Park

Shirpur Campus, Bank of Tapi River,

Mumbai - Agra Road, Shirpur, Dist- Dhule- 425 405, 

MS, India

Tel: 02563 -286545 

Mob. No:  09403503789 , 

Email: ravindra.mendhe@nmims.edu ,nmimsconference2014@gmail.com

Website: www.nmims.edu ,  http://www.nmimsconference.weebly.com/

 

for NMIMS National LIS Conference 2014

http://nmimsconference.weebly.com/

Library Automation Tender Notice for NIT, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh (Source: Times of India, 05 March 2014, delhi ed. Page no 17)