CPD23: Thing 2 - Investigate other blogs

CPD23: Week 1
Thing 2 - Investigate some other blogs

I am incessantly exploring other blogs to catch up with the various blogging platforms, the design and layout of information, the frequency of updates and so on to be more innovative. All of the blogs on my blogroll are mainly academic library blogs, ranging from Library @ Kendriya Vidyalaya Pattom to Peter Scott’s library blog. An extensive list of other blogs (the best ones) can be located at Salem Press Library Blog Awards and Edublog Awards sites respectively. Truly mentioning, I have explored the first (Serial No. 1) blogs at both the above mentioned websites.  Other blogs which I intend to follow are:

Drexel University Library – Engineering Library

Snell Snippets – NorthEastern Libraries

I hope this online course helps me to gain insight into the world of digital vibes. I have been blogging (i.e giving updates based on newspaper clippings and the like) for the past 2 years now, but creating a blog and making it known and popular to everybody is imperative, I feel.  And this is the main reason, why “Reflective Writing” is important. I get to know my “to-do” list.

- Chinmayee Bhange

SixthSense Project by Pranav Mistry

What next after Cell Phone and Google Glass?...Sixth Sense - a mind boggling project by Pranav Mistry. Click on the link below for more details...

http://myxcelsius.com/2009/10/09/ted-pattie-maes-and-pranav-mistry-demo-sixthsense/

CPD 23: Thing 1 - Blogs and Blogging

CPD23: Week 1

Thing 1 – Blogs and Blogging

The more I read about Librarians and the joy of “Librarianship” per se, the more I tend to glorify the need for reflective practice. So here goes me...

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I started my career in 2004 with St. Francis Institute of Technology, Mumbai after having done a Master’s in Library and Information Science from the coveted SHPT School of Library Science (SNDT Womens’University, Mumbai, Maharashtra – INDIA. My research interests include: Digital Preservation, Disaster Management in Libraries, Information Literacy and e-learning.

Thing 1 – I learnt about CPD23 from the Wiki Educator page of Dr. Indira Koneru – a very informed and tech-savvy librarian, I must admit!

I registered for the CPD23 online course in its second stint as I wish to learn how efficiently social media can be put to practice in academic libraries. I am happy since this is a self-paced course and as such does not pressurize me to meet the deadlines!

I already have a blog – SFIT Library Blog on which I blog fair enough and a Facebook presence too!  Off-late, I am working on implementing the e- submission of projects of B.E. students.

- Chinmayee Bhange

15 Vintage Photos of Librarians

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Superman meets Hobbes at this library

What: Leaping Windows Library and Cafe

Where: 3, Corner View, Off Yari Road, Oppposite Bianca Tower, Versova

Time: 10 am to 10 pm

Call: 97699 98972



Sourced from: Hindustan Times dated 21/04/2012

World Book and Copyright Day Contests in SFIT

APRIL 23 - WORLD BOOK AND COPYRIGHT DAY

DESIGN A BOOK-MARK

•   Theme: TAKE TIME TO READ!
•   Hand-made book-marks are expected, no computer-generated book-marks please!

BOOK REVIEW WRITING COMPETITION

• Tell us about the influence of a book on your life in approximately 1500 words, 12-point font, double spaced. The book could be from your childhood, or one you just finished reading. It may have been a novel, you read for pleasure or for a class assignment.
•   Include a cover page with the book review, indicating your name, PID no./ Employee ID, branch and contact number. Submit your entry in a sealed envelope to the Librarian or electronically at sfitlibrary@gmail.com.

Submit your entries to the LIRC till 30^th April, 2012.

World Book and Copyright Day 2012

By celebrating this Day throughout the world, UNESCO seeks to promote reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property through copyright.
23 April is a symbolic date for world literature, since 23 April 1616 was the date of death of Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. 23 April is also the date of birth or death of other prominent authors such as Maurice Druon, K.Laxness, Vladimir Nabokov, Josep Pla and Manuel Mejía Vallejo.

Translation is the first step towards the rapprochement of peoples, and is also a decentralizing experience, teaching diversity and dialogue. Translation is one of the driving principles of our creative diversity, which enriches each language through contact with all the others. 

Irina Bokova, Director General
Message for World Book and Copyright Day 2012

This is why UNESCO chose this date to pay a worldwide tribute to books and their authors on this date, encouraging everyone, and in particular young people, to discover the pleasure of reading and to gain a renewed respect for the extraordinary contributions of those who have furthered the social and cultural progress of humanity.
The idea for this celebration originated in Catalonia (Spain) where it has become a tradition to give a rose as a gift for each book purchased.
The success of the World Book and Copyright Day will depend primarily on the support received from all parties concerned: authors, publishers, teachers, librarians, public and private institutions, humanitarian NGOs and the mass media.

Source: http://www.unesco.org