17th Training and Mutual Learning Programme

Our Library conducted 17th Training and Mutual Learning Programme on 20th November, 2014. Ms. Mumtaz Shaikh, Assistant Professor, Nirmala College, Mumbai undertook the training on managing the citations while  undertaking literature review online. She also understood the importance of citation style, their use and presentation methods. She is pursuing PhD from University of Mumbai. 

Our Librarian Trains Librarians & Researchers @ Pune Unviersity

Our Librarian Santosh C. Hulagabali trained around forty Librarians and research scholars at Pune University's Dept. of Library and Information Science, PG Centre, Gaware College. He shared some online tools and techniques to retrieve the scholarly information. This training also helped create awareness about the open access movement. Dr. Vandana Shelar, Librarian and Head of the department initiated and conducted this workshop successfully. Dr.Shelar's planning of sessions on crucial topics helped the participants in myriad ways.

ISO Surveillance Auditors Applaud Library Services

Mr. Moulik interacting with Mrs. Vaishali

The ISO Surveillance Audit of our Library, held on 14th November, 2014, was successful. Mr. Shashwat Moulik, the Associate Auditor of TUV-NORD, Germany, inspected the Library facilities, services and best practices. In the exit meet, while mentioning four positive points of the entire College, Mr. Bhupesh Rane, Lead Auditor, TUV-NORD, Germany applauded the Library staff's efforts and described the Library as one of the well-set departments of the College.

16th (full-day) Training and Mutual Learning Programme

Our Library conducted 16th (full-day) Training and Mutual Learning Programme on 7th November, 2014. Dr. Priya Pillai, Librarian of Bombay Teachers Training College, Mumbai undertook the training on DSpace. She understood the installation process and creation of communities and sub-communities for building an institutional repository. She later installed DSpace successfully in her College on 11th November, 2014. She will launch her College's institutional repository soon. 

Our Library and BMC Join for Cleanliness Drive

Library staff with Principal, students and BMC officials

The Library staff joined the BMC (Brihan Mumbai Muncipal Corporation) officials and staff in 'Bharat Swatchata Abhiyaan' on 2nd November, 2014. Our readers also took part in the cleanliness drive held at Bhadran Nagar, an adjacent locality. The campaign helped create awareness among all the participants who actively participated in the same.

15th Training and Mutual Learning Programme

Our Library conducted 15th (half-day) Training and Mutual Learning Programme on 30th October, 2014. Mr. Amit Rane, Research Scholar of Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth understood the various online tools and techniques to undertake review of literature for his research work. 

Google Scholar Indexes ICon-AD Records

We are indeed happy to inform you that Google Scholar (GS) is indexing bibliographic details of the records archived in ICon-AD. 

This means, GS retrieves all 1300+ authors (and bibliographic details) from ICon-AD, when searched (GS) by author name. You can search by author name, and GS displays the entry on its page which is archived in ICon-AD, but it is subject to the quality of searches made and hits thrown by GS. Likewise, searches can be made by title (with double inverted commas) and keywords too. All results are being mirrored from ICon-AD. (Note: results to keyword-searches would be vague as lot of hits are usually thrown by GS) 

We thank all the conference organizers, project volunteers and authors for making ICon-AD as one and the only Indian conference-abstracting database.

Let Us Support Open Access Movement

We support open access movement. Many of our Library initiatives directly or indirectly support open access movement and its principles. Be it our Certificate Course for the researchers, conferences that we organised, mutual learning programmes, ICon-AD database etc. To mark our support for open access movement on the eve of Open Access Week (celebrated worldwide during every October), we archived our Library staff's publications on our College's website. These full-text publications are accessible openly for all. Please click here to access them. Hope you also join us in spreading the utilities of open access (movement).

Swatchata Abhiyaan @ Our Library

To mark the 'Bharat Swatchata Abhiyaan' started nationwide on 2nd Oct. 2014, our Library (too) initiated the campaign recently. The cleanliness drive, in the Library, was undertaken in different phases. Some selected sections of the Library were cleaned on 18th and 28th Oct. 2014 (as first and second phases). The third phase of cleaning will take place on 30th and 31st Oct. 2014. We appreciate the Library staff's enthusiasm and concern for the clean Library.

14th Training and Mutual Learning Programme

Our Library conducted 14th (half-day) Training and Mutual Learning Programme on 9th October, 2014. Librarian Ms. Shruti Agharkar and IT-In Charge Mr. Anish Desai of Clara's College of Education, Mumbai participated in the same. The training was on: setting up of their library with innovative facilities and services in view of academic audit body like NAAC.

Library Celebrates Dasshera and Saraswati Pooja

The Library celebrated Dasshera and Saraswati Pooja on the eve of Dasshera. The teachers, non-teaching staff and students were present in the Aarati held on 1st October, 2014. 

13th Training cum Mutual Learning Programme

Our Library conducted half-day Training cum Mutual Learning Programme on 30th September, 2014. Ms. Hardeep Banga (Assistant Professor, Khalsa College) and Dhanaji Lavate (Librarian, Public Night College) participated in the same. The methods and use of references and bibliographies in research works were discussed. Ms. Hardeep's one of the papers was taken up for understanding the same. With Mr. Dhanaji, the importance of documentation in view of building the authenticity to the services catered and activities carried out in the Library.     

ICon-AD Sets Yet Another Record: Archiving Crosses 1000 Abstracts

We deem it our privilege to share with you a good news that ICon-AD crossed the mark of 1000 abstracts today. Till date, 1005 conference abstracts of 1400 authors have been archived successfully. Many abstracts are in the process of archival. 

We sincerely thank all our partnering institutes, Project Volunteers, authors, LIS professionals, our technical experts and colleagues for making ICon-AD one of the useful and popular bibliographic databases of abstracts. 

For more details about the database, please visit www.iconad.in or visit the database directly on http://dspace.iconad.in:8080/jspui/

To be honest, ICon-AD is still under experiments. The database yet to prove as the complete database in terms of its design, data entry, method, reach, contents etc. So we welcome your feedback, critical comments and suggestions to make ICon-AD a qualitative database. 

Khandwala Publishing House Releases Two Books

Khandwala Publishing House (KPH), a publication unit of our College, released the following books (with ISBN) recently. So far, KPH has published four books.

1. Society, Politics and Climate Change
2. Leadership and Change Management

Our Library and Information Centre administers all publication activities of the College under the banner of KPH.

SRFLIS Shares Conference Abstracts to ICon-AD

Satija Research Foundation for Library and Information Science (SRFLIS) shared 88 abstracts of their two-day International Conference to Indian Conference-Abstracting Database (ICon-AD). 

In his e-mail, the Secretary of SRFLIS writes, "Many many congratulations (to you) for developing an exclusive database of conference abstracts. I think this work is the first attempt to develop online platform for accessing voluminous literature on conferences". The abstracts of the Conference shall be uploaded on to ICon-AD soon. 

12th Training and Mutual Learning Programme

Our Library conducted half-day Training and Mutual Learning Programme to Mr. Vinayak Gawde of KES College, Kandivali (W), Mumbai on 4th June, 2014. Mrs. Vaishali V. Vaidya, Assistant Librarian, trained Mr. Vinayak on utilities of using MS-Access effectively in maintaining informal user transactions.   

Internship Programme for MLISc Student

Our Library and Information Centre trained Mr. Vijay Namdas, an MLISc  student of Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mumbai recently. He was deputed by the Department to undertake three weeks' Internship Programme at our Library. Mr. Namdas successfully completed Internship Programme, as partial fulfillment of his MLISc, on 16th May, 2014. The Department is deputing one MLISc, student to our Library, every year. So far, we have trained three MLISc students of the Department.  

Completion of 3rd COIST Certificate Programme

We are indeed happy to inform you that ten researchers successfully completed 3rd COIST Certificate Programme, on 31st May, 2014, conducted by our Library and Information Centre. Following link takes you to some selected photographs of the event.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/42689270@N03/

The 4th COIST Certificate Programme will commence in August or September, 2014. The dates will be announced on www.coist.weebly.com

Our Proud Colleague Joins Wipro Tecnologies

We congratulate Ms. Savita Singh of TYBSc IT on her appointment as Computer Applications Trainee for Wipro Technologies, Mumbai. Ms. Savita is one of the bright students of our College who is part of the 'Earn While Scheme' initiated by the Library and Information Centre. She has been working with us as part-time Library Assistant from July, 2013. We wish her all the success in her career.

Call for Admission | 3rd COIST Certificate Programme for Researchers

Our Library and Information Centre calls for admission in 3rd COIST Certificate Programme for research scholars commencing from 22nd May, 2014. Interested candidates my apply on/before 15th April, 2014. For more details about the Course, please visit www.coist.weebly.com.

11th Training and Mutual Learning Programme

Our Library conducted half-day Training and Mutual Learning Programme for Gokhale College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai on 15th March, 2014. The Librarian and member of Library Advisory Committee of the said College made the mutual learning programme more interactive and memorable.

Khandwala Publishing House Brings Out Second Book

Khandwala Publishing House (KPH), a publication unit of our College, brought out its second book titled Gandhi in the New Millennium: Issues and Challenges. The book is comprised of 40 articles on Gandhism and allied aspects. Following is the bibliographic detail of the book.


Gandhi in the New Millennium: Issues and Challenges/ Jose, Ancy et al. (Eds). Mumbai: Khandwala Publishing House, 2014. p.291. (ISBN: 978-81-924836-1-0). Rs. 450/-

Our Library and Information Centre administers all publication activities of the College under the banner of KPH. The KPH is going to bring out the following books in April, 2014.

1. Society, Politics and Climate Change
2. Leadership and Change Management

One of Our Readers Bags Best Student Award

We congratulate our student Mr. Jaykumar Vyas for bagging the Best Student Award (2013-14) in the recently held Achievers' Day. Mr. Jay is studying in TYBA and is an active NSS volunteer. He visits Library regularly and has helped us in undertaking Library surveys and other innovative Library activities. We thank him profusely for appreciating our Library services and staff in his speech in the packed hall full of achievers. 

Launch of Indian Conference-Abstracting Database (ICon-AD) [Beta]

Dear all,

Wishing you all a Happy New Year.

We deem it our privilege to launch ICon-AD (Indian Conference-Abstracting Database) [beta], one of the non-profit national projects of our Library and Information Centre.

The ICon-AD archives abstracts (of the papers) submitted to various Indian conferences. The database is built on DSpace with the ICon-AD's official website. 

Indeed, we got an overwhelming response to our project even before the launch of the same!!. Seventeen colleges/universities have already shared their conference abstracts with ICon-AD. The list of Participating Institutes comprises the institutes like TISS, University of Mumbai, Tripura University, National Law University, MET, etc. So far, we have archived 615 abstracts (of 17 Indian conferences) penned by 872 authors. More than 30 Project-Volunteers have directly and indirectly helped us in archiving the abstracts. 

Any academic/non-academic institute can participate in this project by sharing the abstracts received at the time of organising the conference/s. So join us as Participating Institute or Project Volunteer. 

For more details, please visit www.iconad.in and to access the database directly click on 'Access ICon-AD' (http://176.31.141.23:8081/jspui/).

You may please share your constructive feedback and help us make ICon-AD as single portal for conference abstracts.

Best regards,

Santosh C. Hulagabali

Project Head, ICon-AD