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Hi, The Central Library will be closed for transactions between July 1 to July 16, 2011 for its Annual Stock Verification. All the members are requested to check their library accounts and return the borrowed books before 30th. June, 2011. You may check your library accounts here . Enter Employee ID (for staff) and PID (for students) as your login ID.

About the Survey: The last two decades have experienced (and are still experiencing) the banes and boons of the library automation era. There has been a constant increase in the number of library softwares - both in-house and commercial ones. Off-late, there has been an increasing trend in the adoption of Open Source Software as an ILS. This survey (Part A of the series) is an attempt to have an upshot of the Use and impact of library softwares and the merger of electronic resources with the traditional library set-up. Since it is a public survey, you are requested to direct as many people to the site given below for participation and informative inputs! Click here for the survey. Your active participation would be highly appreciated. Chinmayee Bhange Librarian SFIT

Over 400 articles on the E. coli bacteria available online free of charge on SpringerLink Springer Science+Business Media is offering all journal articles and book chapters which deal with the E. coli bacteria free of charge on its online information platform www.springerlink.com. The articles can be found by using the search terms “Enterohaemorrhagic and Escherichia and coli” or by using the link www.springer.com/ehec. A total of over 400 scientific articles are available to print out or download from now until 1 September 2011 Source: http://www.springer.com/biomed/ehec?SGWID=0-1728613-0-0-0 To download, click here

This year, Fantasy Book Review, in association with Swift Publishers, is delighted to be able to run a short story competition . The writer of the winning fantasy short story will receive an Apple iPad (we are working on also having the winning entry published), the two runner-ups will receive Amazon Kindle. The best news of all is that each applicable entry will receive a free copy of Frank P Ryan’s fantasy ebook THE SNOWMELT RIVER (read our review here ). Everybody wins! For details, visit Fantasy Book Review

We at Central Library, SFIT have undertaken to study the usage patterns of electronic resources. You are requested to fill up the questionnaire by clicking on the below mentioned link: Survey

In this era which is distinguished from yesteryears by its SPEED, we cannot (even if we desire to!) involve our parents and our spouse in financial decision making. Although financial decisions prove to be a boon or bane at every turn of life, we risk the life of our loved ones by making them ignorant about our investments. A sudden death in a family makes us realize the benefits of financial record keeping. Here is an article which is written by Vishal Shah (Chartered Accountant) and published in DNA dated June 8, 2011. Start your record keeping from today!!

Published: Tuesday, Jun 7, 2011, 23:11 IST By Puja Pednekar | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA While the credits-based choice system will bring cheer to many students as new avenues and flexibilities open up for them, the teaching community is not happy with the new system, which will be implemented from this academic session. They fear that the system, which involves 40 marks for students for project work, will mean additional burden on their shoulders. With a student teacher ratio as high as 120 students per teacher, the teachers will be overburdened with the extra work of assessing number of projects and other activities, say principals across degree colleges in the city. “Such a system works in foreign universities because they have four to five teaching assistants helping the professors. These assistants check projects, papers, tutor students so there is very little burden on the professors. However, the university has no such system in place. How man...

June 6 2011 by admin in Apple Computer | No Comments SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Apple chief executive Steve Jobs on Monday interrupted his medical leave to unveil a free service called iCloud that stores music, photos and other content on the Web and shares it across multiple devices. “We’re going to move the digital hub to the cloud,” the 56-year-old Jobs told software developers at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Jobs and other Apple executives also gave developers a preview of the next generation of Lion, the software that powers Macintosh computers, and iOS 5, the latest mobile operating system for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. But the highlight of the event was Apple’s long-awaited iCloud service, which eliminates the need to hook up a cable to transfer music, photos, documents or electronic books between Apple devices. “Keeping these devices in sync is driving us crazy,” Jobs said to cheers from the audience...

Libraries, regardless of whether or not they attach themselves to a university, belong to a public system, or simply sit inside someone's home , exist as an essential vertebrae in society's backbone. These intellectual institutions make knowledge and education accessible to individuals, businesses and cities alike, preventing mental — and, subsequently, collective — stagnation. By no means are they anything new, either! For millennia, libraries of all shapes and sizes have kept humanity puttering ever forward, allowing for some of the greatest innovations ever conceived. Although all but one gradually fell to fire and time, these ancient wonders deserve awe and accolades for everything they've accomplished when it comes to promoting every academic and literary subject imaginable. Villa of the Papyri : Located in Herculaneum, Italy, Villa of the Papyri holds the honor of being one of the few (if not only) classical libraries to mostly survive into modern times...

From free books to career courses, libraries are a source of information and inspiration for young minds and can be a lifesaver for those facing tough economic times. Whether you choose to honor your college library or one in your community, here are a few ways that you can use this week to promote, appreciate and praise your local cornerstones. Click here to find out more... Courtesy: www.onlinecollege.org (Accessed on 07/06/2011)