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 Till date, 1005 conference abstracts of 1400 authors have been archived successfully.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