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Hi, For the benefit and convenience of all, direct access to the following e-resources has been activated.  No login / password required henceforth. IEEE-ASPP Springer J-GATE Access Engineering ASTM Digital Library Direct Access to Elsevier Science Direct would be activated in a week's time. Please proceed to the Institutes' website ( www.sfitengg.org  > Library > E -Journals 2012) if the above links do not work.

Category: U.G. Students Pre-requisites: 1)       Three (3) stamp-size photos (Size: 1.7 cms x 1.7 cms) 2)       One (1) pass-port size photo 3)       Library Membership Form (available with the LIRC)   Category: P.G. Students Pre-requisites: 1)       Two (2) stamp-size photos (Size: 1.7 cms x 1.7 cms) 2)       One (1) pass-port size photo 3)       Library Membership Form (available with the LIRC)    

Hi, Trial Access to Knovel has been activated for the period August 20 to September 15, 2012. You are requested to make optimum use of the database during the above period. Please note that the trial access is IP based only. For accessing the database, go to www.knovel.com   The access would be provided from the Library webpage shortly. Until then you may go to the Knovel website and proceed. Wishing you all a novel search!! ****************************** ****************************** ********** A little about Knovel... Knovel is a web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools to drive innovation and deliver answers engineers can trust. Knovel users include thousands of engineers and applied scientists worldwide representing 74 of the Fortune 500 companies and more than 300 leading universities. Knovel provides subscribers with access to more than 4,000 leading reference works and databases from more than 90 internat...

The Annual Stock Verification is over and the LIRC is due to open on July 16, 2012 at 8.00 am. Till then, we would be re-shelving the books for better recall! All the same, the LIRC was open to students for Internet access for their BE project work. Happy to mention that not a single day passed by when there were no students asking access to IEEE and Springer!

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Week 7 Thing 9: Evernote I am in the process of downloading Evernote..it is taking a bit more time for download since my Internet connection is slow and besides the file size is also 48.5 MB. More on this next time after I explore it! Yes..I have finally downloaded Evernote..and started using it too..made entries for the to-do list. Also downloaded the Web Clipper..yet to use it. - Chinmayee Bhange

Week 6 Thing 8: Google Calendar I have been using Google Calender off and on for the last 3+ years. I actually use it when I have to go on a vacation and still not forget my professional meetings. I am in the process of integrating the Google Calendar in my library blog to keep a record of all the library activities and events. _ Chinmayee Bhange

Week 5 Thing 6: Online Networks and Thing 7: Real-Life Networks "Social Networking"...the term keeps popping in every now and then! And that's the essence of it..we cannot   do away with socializing - be it apparent or virtual. Networking enriches your growth, if practiced in a meaningful manner. In the olden times, we networked ( is equal to socialized) with our family and friends at festivals and get-togethers. However, it assumed a new meaning with the onset of online networks. The inherent meaning remains unchanged, although new dimensions creep in! Having said that, let me become a bit more professional: LinkedIn: Yes, I am on LinkedIn. Facebook: I and my library - both are on FB. LISPN, LAT and CILIP: I am not a member of any of these groups but let me tell you about a few on this side of the World: LIS-Forum :  A first of its kind in my knowledge in the series of online networks! Since 1995 NMLIS (New Millennium LIS Professionals):  Since 1999. G...

Week 4 - CPD23 Thing 5: Reflective Practice [Image Courtesy: Microsoft Office Image] Took a long time for this Thing 5 on Reflective Practice. Well, I actually was honest and reflected eagerly on what I have learnt in the past 3 weeks. Being in the field of Information Science needs that we acquaint ourselves with the right information at the nick of time. As such, I am thankful to CPD23  for making available this wonderful learning tool. To start with, I already had a blog from April 2010, but being in CPD23, meant I kept our library blog updated to hook the potential information aspirants. And, let me confess, that is a tedious task. I am still working on it. Secondly, although I had my personal Facebook page, I recently created one for the library to keep them updated about the new arrivals or the newspaper clippings. Twitter is yet to be explored! The CPD23 impressed me a lot as it threw open an enormous list of blogs of my fellow librarians, most of which ...

Week 3 - CPD23 Thing 4: Current Awareness - Twitter, RSS and Storify I know I am a bit behind schedule but I am sure to catch up in the next week. As for the CPD23: Thing 4 on current awareness, as I had mentioned in my earlier post, I have maintained two separate accounts on Facebook – one is my personal and the other is SFIT Library. I am keener on keeping active my professional account – SFIT Library as it seems to be the order of the day. Unfortunately, I have been able to gather only 5 people. Just hope I will learn the marketing tactics through the CPD23 course as I proceed! Twitter : To be unpleasantly honest, I am a bit apprehensive about setting up a Twitter account and giving the usual updates about “every happening thing” around me. All the same, I know this is just one side of the coin and so I would set up a Twitter account for SFIT Library in the following days. RSS : I have been using Google FeedBurner on my library blog. Storify : Yet to learn ...

When Gajanan Deshmukh read about a unique meet for 100-year-old public libraries, he was determined to travel for more than 10 hours from Jamkhed in Ahmednagar district to Mumbai. Rare books at Dadar Sarvajanik Vachanalay . More than 40 representatives from 83 libraries in the state were felicitated by the Maharashtra Seva Sangh. Last week, Deshmukh made that long journey to the city to represent Lokmanya Taluka Vachanalay that was started by his great grandfather in 1887. More than 40 representatives from 83 public libraries of Maharashtra were felicitated by Maharashtra Seva Sangh, a cultural organisation, as part of their 75th anniversary celebrations. “The library is very close to my heart and the next step is to computerise the library so that rare books are preserved,” said Deshmukh, who retired as a school principal in 2001 and is now involved in library work. The oldest library was in Ratnagiri, set up in 1828 and libraries such as the Dadar Sarvajanik Vachanalay – ...

Week 2 - CPD23 Thing 3: Consider your personal brand Maintaining a consistent image – both personally and professionally reveals the nature of a person. Moreover, it makes more sense when you are in a service-oriented profession – like ours! People almost (always) refer to us as a Librarian and most of them do not even know our names. Thus branding becomes important in more than one ways. It is up to us to decide whether we would be like to be referred to as “Library Madam” (as they call it!) or “Chinmayee Bhange”. I feel I would not mind either, although I would be elated if they know me personally! For the Thing 3: Consider your personal brand, I am a bit thoughtful, since my online presence is linked with my library’s online presence and vice-versa. Both of them almost go together, except for the Facebook account (which I admit was linked to my personal account earlier). I am beginning to take it easy with my online presence as I feel; an overdose would maul the positive...

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Academic publisher Versita announced today the launch of a new program of Open Access journals. 100 Emerging Science Journals are being launched in 2012. The program's focus is on young and rapidly developing fields of science, which have not yet been covered by a designated journal. The emerging topics have been identified in Life Sciences, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics and Mathematics. The Emerging Science Journals program has already won support in the research community. Many distinguished scientists have become members of the editorial boards of the journals – among them Sir Harold Kroto, Professor at Florida State University, 1996 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; most recent Medicine or Physiology Nobel Prize Winner – Prof. Jules A. Hoffmann or one of world's top chemits – prof. Didier Astruc.The journal editors hail from the world’s most prestigious universities and research institutes, such as Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, Stanford Universit...

Even though I work hard, the teacher expects more of me. I am disappointed when I don’t do as well as others. I am confident about achieving my plans for the future. Through a maze of more than hundred such questions aiming to identify the stress levels and ‘psychological self-constructs’ of students, a new book “Stressed... But Not Out”, based on a doctoral thesis, seeks to zero in on stress and tackle it among school students. Giselle D’Souza, an associate professor at St Teresa’s Institute of Education, surveyed 1,092 Class 10 students over a two-year period for her PhD thesis. These findings, now compiled in a book, contain tools for identifying stress based on a scoring scale alongside suggestions for parents, schools and students. The book was released last month and is likely to become available through schools from June. D’Souza has already conducted stress management workshops in a few schools. The study found that stress scores were higher wherever scores for ...