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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 ...

Cabinet to take up copyright Bill today - Indian Express Anubhuti Vishnoi Posted online: Thu Apr 26 2012, 00:44 hrs   New Delhi : The Cabinet is likely to take up long-pending Universities of Innovation Bill and Copyright (Amendment) Bill on Thursday. Both the legislations will come with changes factoring in recommendations by stakeholders and parliamentarians. While the amendments to the Copyright Bill will drop the controversial statutory licensing clause for radio broadcast, the Innovation Universities Bill will drop the clause to set up 14 such varsities. The new Cabinet note will allow existing varsities to upgrade to innovation university status if they adhere to required standards. The numerical target of setting up 14 such varsities has been dropped on grounds of non-feasibility and the argument that even a few of them will help serve the purpose of fostering a research eco-system, as aimed. While the Bill, when it first went to Cabinet earlier this year...

Google has launched a free tutorial website,  Search Education , which will help students learn how to better use  Google Search  for learning and academic research. The site is aimed at both at teachers and at individual users. The company knows that while its many tools can be useful, not everyone understands how to use them. Student Education seeks to solve this by providing live training  that anyone can access as well as lesson plans  that teachers can use to teach their students about Google’s many services. There are even “A Google A Day” challenges that can be used to reinforce search skills in students. Teachers will be pleased to find that the lessons plans are comprehensive. They include beginner, intermediate and advanced versions covering five different topics. There are also ten challenges, each of which covers a specific academic topic (such as history, biology and even math). Individual learners are mainly encouraged to check out the l...

CAREERS 360   –  MAY 2012  issue covers  India’s Best Engineering Colleges 2012. Our Institute has been awarded  "A" grading  in the survey conducted by the magazine. For more details, click the link below: http://www.careers360.com/ news/8473-best-engineering- colleges-Maharashtra-Goa or have a look at the following list sourced from the magazine website. MAHARASHTRA & GOA Institute LOCATION State National IITs/NITs/IIITs IIT-Bombay Mumbai AAA+ Top VNIT Nagpur AAA+ AAA International Ins titute of Information Technology Pune AAA AA National Institute of Technology, Goa Goa AA+ AA Other Deemed Universities/Central Universities Mumbai Institute of Chemical Technology (UDCT) Mumbai AAA AAA NMIMS College of Engineering (MPST&M) Mumbai AA AA Symbiosis International University Pune AA AA Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth Pune A+ N.R. S...