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

Researchers Successfully Complete COIST Certificate Programme

Ten research scholars of four universities successfully completed COIST Certificate Course on 14th December, 2013. The Course is one of teaching and learning programmes devised by our LInC.

The researchers were trained on effective use of various online discovery tools by eminent experts in Library and Information Science professionals. 


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10th One Day Training and Mutual Learning Programme

Our Library organised one-day Training and Mutual Learning Programme for Engineering College Librarians.

Ms. Janice Fernandes of St. Xavier College of Engineering and Ms. Chinmayee Bhange St. Francis Institute of Technology availed the training on best practices in library, use of innovative technical devices, undertaking teaching and training programmes by the library etc. 

The Librarians also helped us learn about their ideas and experiences with their engineering libraries. The training programme opened up lot of avenues for mutual resource sharing of expertise and inforramtion resources as well.   

IMC Team Inspects and Applauds Our Library Services

The inspecting team from Indian Merchant's Chamber in response to our application for Ramakrishna Bajaj National Quality Award visited our Library on 29th December, 2013 and interacted with the library staff. 

The team's objective inspection made us feel elated as we came up to the standards set by the inspecting body. Their visit to our department was indeed fruitful and a memorable experience.