COIST Certificat​e Programme Completes 1st Batch | Photograph​s

Dear all,

The 1st Batch of "Certificate Course in Online Information Sources, Tools and Techniques" (COIST) completed successfully on 6th April, 2013.

The batch of 12 researchers representing 8 universities were part of the Course. The Course was conducted from 16th March, 2013 to 6th April, 2013. The eminent Resource Persons of different Universities trained the research scholars.

The photographs of the 1st Batch can be accessed on: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42689270@N03/

COIST website: https://sites.google.com/site/coist2013/

Our Library Starts Certificate Course for Research Scholars

Dear Sir/Madam,

Season's greetings!

Our Library and Information Centre is glad to call for admission to Certificate Course in Online Information Sources, Tools and Techniques (COIST).

The Course is a short-term programme tailored for research scholars. The Course helps research scholars learn some crucial and essential online information sources, tools and techniques. The Course will enable them to use the Internet more effectively and efficiently for their research studies or any other academic pursuit.

The research scholars will be trained, by eminent experts, on various essential online information sources and tools viz. reference managers, electronic theses and dissertations, machine translation, online search strategies, deep web, open access journals/databases, abstracting and indexing databases, compiling automatic bibliography, plagiarism detection softwares, preparing online questionnaires etc.

The information related to the Course benefits, eligibility, duration, syllabus, fees and admission procedure can be obtained onto https://sites.google.com/site/coist2013/

Intake: 10 students

Important Dates:

1. The Course will commence from 16th March, 2013
2. Last date for submitting the duly filled in Application for Admission: 5th March, 2013
3. Confirmation to selected candidates: 8th March, 2013
4. Admission on or before: 12th March, 2013

For queries, please contact us on nklibrary83@gmail.com or santosh@nkc.ac.in Cell: 99874 28147.

Regards,

Santosh C. Hulagabali
Coordinator, COIST

Our Reader Stands 1st at National Level in CA Exam

I deem it my privilege to share a good news with you all.

Ms. Prema Jayakumar, one of our readers and proud student of our College has made us proud by securing FIRST RANK at NATIONAL level in CA Eaxm.

The historic achievement of Ms. Prema has been reported by all the leading news papers. Especially, The Tiimes of India has featured the news on the FRONT page itself. Following are the news report on Ms. Prema's achievement.

1. Autorickshaw driver's daughter tops CA examination
2. Prema and brother to join corporate world after April

Incidentally Mr. Dhanraj, her brother (also a student of our College) has also cleared CA exam!!


It was indeed a great moment yesterday, when Ms. Prema met me and our Library staff and expressed her gratitude.

May such readers bring laurels to their parents, College, society and country.

Library Catalogue is Now Available onto Our Website

The Library's online catalogue (OPAC) has been successfully launched onto our website . The readers can now search our Library collection remotely. Kindly click the below link to access the OPAC.

http://www.nkc.ac.in/opac/w27SimpleSearch.aspx

ISO Audit Team Applauds Library Services

The Annual ISO Audit team of Germany's TUV-NORD highly appreciated the Library and its services. The Lead Auditor, Mr. Bhupesh Rane, (in the Exit Meet (on 1st October, 2012) of the audit vist) said "The Library is one among the four positive points, of the College, we observed. The Library system is well set up and student friendly. We are highly impressed". The faculty of the College clapped and applauded the Library staff. This is for the third time the ISO Audit Team is listing Library as one of the positive points in its observation. Thanks to our readers and faculty for making our Library praiseworthy.

College Bags Excellence Award

Our College has bagged the prestigious Excellence Award from Indus Foundation recently. Many congratulations to all the studnets and our colleagues.

Khandwala College Gets Ten ISBNs

Dear all, Congratulations!! Happy to share a good news. We have got TEN ISBNs from Raja Rammohun Roy National Agency for ISBN (Government of India) to publish books under the banner of Khandwala Publishing House. So our new publishing unit will publish 10 books by the end of 2013. I strongly feel, it is our College's one of the best achievements. Best regards, Santosh