Books published by Faculty

Hi,

Our faculty members - Shri. Satish Salunkhe and Smt. Vaishali Jadhav alongwith our Principal - Dr. A.K. Sen have published two books on DBMS. Please see the snapshots of the book covers below.
Courtesy of below images - Pearson

Book Fair at Churchgate

Book Fair at:

Sunderbhai Hall,

Behind Income Tax Office,

Churchgate

Mumbai 400020

Date: 4th. to 22nd. August, 2011

Time: 9.30 am to 8.00 pm

Library Committee 2011-2012

We welcome the following members in the Library Committee:

Ms. Chinmayee Bhange - Convener

Ms. Sucheta Prabhudesai

Ms. Harshala Yadav

Ms. Savita Kandale

Ms. Dipali Parab

Mr. Abhay Bendekar

Ms. Kritika Chaudhary

Ms. Priyanka Mali

SFIT Library Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2

We are ready with one more issue of our library's newsletter...

SFIT Library Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2

These are some of the encouraging feedback comments we received for our current newsletter:

Bro. Melchior (Director - SFIT):

congrats to all of you at sfit library; as usual you are a trend-setter! the news letter is very, very infornative and intersting, to say the least; especially the opinion of the student is taken note of.

Prof. B.D. Gokhale (Faculty - ExTC Department)

Congratulations to all of you for bringing out such a nice Newsletter. Keep it up.

Dr. T.S. Rathore (HOD - ExTC Department)

Congratulations for doing a good job. Matter is very informative and figures/photographs are well placed. department wise List of new books is very helpful. Keep it up.

Ms. Sumitha C.H. (Faculty - CMPN Department)

This is the first time I am reading the library newsletter and proved quite useful also.

That is an interesting news letter, something we dont get to see everywhere. Institutions and departments make news letter, but not many libraries take the venture to publish a newsletter of their own. It has to be really appreciated, the effort , the motivation and the attitude of the people who made it.

The links to useful websites and online journals are really helpful to those who are new to the institution. It has to be really appreciated that a blog is also there for the library where people get to know about everything happening in the library. Quizzes would make it intersting for the students to explore the blog. The interview with a librarian was also interesting..

One suggestion I would like to make is that it would have been really helpful if some information about some of the main competitive exams are also included in the blog. ( like the date of the exams, main coaching centres, useful books etc.) ; especially if the most useful books are suggested, that would be warmly welcome by the students as they are often confused with which one they have to choose.

Also some information about higher education, like some colleges which are the best in some specialized areas etc.

Overall it is a really nice one.. a really helpful one. Thanks a lot for the support.

We (the library staff) thank all of you for your kind words and expect a continuous participation always!

Central Library welcomes new-comers!

Following faculties have availed the library cards from July 01 to July 31, 2011.

Department: Computer

Caroline Mary Mohankumar

Dimple Bohra

Neha Thombre

Priyanka Mali

Sumitha C.H.

Department: Electronics and Telecommuncations

Keyur Khatri

Kritika Gaur-Chaudhary

Quanitah Shaikh

Santosh Chapaneri

Sonia Thalavoor

Department: Information Technology

Kalpesh Kubal

Maahi Talreja

Priyanca Fargose

Savita Kandale

Vaishali Desai

Department: Basic Science and Humanities (First Year)

Charmi Chaniyara

Jayashri Mittal

Ramjee Yadav

Ravindra Garmode

Library memberships for First Year Students

First Year students can now avail the library cards by submitting a photocopy of their fee-receipt at the Circulation Counter (Room no. 209-210, second floor).

Kindly note that these library cards are temporary and once the admissions are done, you will be entitled to two new library cards which will be valid for the 4-year course. A notice with regard to this would be displayed on the Student and the Library Notice Boards.

New Arrivals (INFT) in the Central Library

Please find below the list of new arrivals of books for the branch of Information Technology:

5] B17616 OP-AMPS AND LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS-4th ed. By GAYAKWAD, RAMAKANT A. NEW DELHI/PRENTICE HALL OF INDIA/2000 621.6815 GAY

[6] B17632 DESIGN WITH PIC MICROCONTROLLERS By PEATMAN, JOHN B. NEW DELHI/PEARSON/1998 004.16 PEA

[7] B17640 DEVELOPING WEB APPLICATIONS By MOSELEY, RALPH/SAVALIYA, M.T. NEW DELHI/WILEY INDIA/2011 006.76 MOS/SAV

[8] B17650 COMPUTER NETWORKS-4th ed. By TANENBAUM, ANDREW S. NEW DELHI/PRENTICE HALL OF INDIA/2003 004.65 TAN

[9] B17656 DISTRIBUTED OPERATING SYSTEMS: CONCEPTS AND DESIGN By SINHA, PRADEEP. K. NEW DELHI/PRENTICE HALL OF INDIA/2007 005.4476 SIN

[10] B17666 ACCOUNTING FOR NON-SPECIALISTS By JONES, MICHAEL NEW DELHI/WILEY INDIA/2002 657 JON

[11] B17670 ACCOUNTING FOR NON-SPECIALISTS By JONES, MICHAEL NEW DELHI/WILEY INDIA/2002 657 JON

[12] B17677 BASIC FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGEMENT By SHAH, PARESH NEW DELHI/OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS/2007 657 SHA

[13] B17686 MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY: THE KEY TO COMPETITIVENESS AND WEALTH CREATION By KHALIL,TAREK M. NEW DELHI/TATA McGRAW -HILL/2000 658 KHA

[14] B17694 REAL-TIME SYSTEMS By LIU, JANE W.S. NEW DELHI/PEARSON/2000 004.33 LIU

[15] B17698 TEXTBOOK OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES By BHARUCHA, ERACH HYDERABAD/UNIVERSITIES PRESS/2008 375.0083 BHA

[16] B17703 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES By DANIELS, RANJIT R.J./KRISHNASWAMY,JAGDISH NEW DELHI/WILEY INDIA/2009 375.0083 DAN/KRI

[17] B17708 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES By BASAK, ANINDITA DELHI/PEARSON/2009 375.0083 BAS

[18] B17713 TEXTBOOK OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES By DAVE, DEEKSHA DELHI/CENGAGE LEARNING/2009 375.0083 DAV/KAT

[20] B17720 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES By MANJUNATH, D.L. NEW DELHI/PETERSON/2009 375.0083 MAN

[21] B17723 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES FROM CRISIS TO CURE-2nd. ed. By RAJAGOPALAN, R NEW DELHI/OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS/2008 375.0083 RAJ

[22] B17741 J2ME: THE COMPLETE REFERENCE By KEOGH, JAMES NEW DELHI/TATA McGRAW-HILL/2003 005.133 KEO

[23] B17767 PROGRAMMING WIRELESS DEVICES WITH THE JAVA 2 PLATFORM, MICRO EDITION-2nd ed. By RIGGS, ROGER/TAIVALSAARI, ANTERO/PEURSEM, JIM VAN/HUOPANIEMI, JYRI/PATEL, MARK/UOTILA, ALEKSI/HOLLIDAY, JIM NEW DELHI/PEARSON/2003 005.133 RIG/TAI

[24] B17769 DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING-3rd. ed. By GONZALEZ, RAFAEL C./WOODS, RICAHRD E. NEW DELHI/PEARSON/2008 006.37 GON/WOO

[26] B17797 SOFTWARE TESTING AND QUALITY ASSURANCE: THEORY AND PRACTICE By NAIK, KSHIRSAGAR/TRIPATHY, PRIYADARSHI NEW DELHI/WILEY INDIA/2008 005.14 NAI/TRI

SFIT Library re-opens from July 18, 2011

Hi,

The Central library @ SFIT will be resume functioning as usual from Monday, July 18, 2011.

Timings:

Monday through Friday: 8.00 am to 6.00 pm

Working Saturdays: 9.00 am to 5.00 pm

Central Library is closed between 1 July to 16 July 2011

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.

Survey on Automation Trends in Libraries

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

Springer offers free access to research articles on E. coli bacteria

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

Fantasy Short Story Competition

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

Questionnaire on Use of electronic resources

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

How adequate is your financial record keeping?

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!!

Dons fear new credit system will burden their shoulders

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 many students’ assignments can one teacher correct?” said Madhu Paranjape, officiating general secretary, Buctu and university Senate member. Paranjape added that before implementing the system the university should appoint adequate number of teachers. “Due to the revised norms that require certain staff members to be PhD holders, we are facing shortage of teachers. There are vacancies that need to be filled.” However, Dr Rajpal Hande, director, board of college and university development said that the system will not add any extra burden to the teachers if followed properly. “It is a tried and tested system in several universities and it will help students in learning. The role of the teachers will be that of a mentor and guide.” Even though the colleges will start their academic year June onwards, the sensitisation workshops launched by the university at different levels are yet to gain ground. “The workshops have not yet begun for many departments,” she added. Courtesy: www.dnaindia.com (Accessed on 07/06/2011)

Apple takes a giant leap into the cloud (AFP)

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 of more than 5,000 software developers. “We’ve got a great solution for this problem, and we think the solution is our next big insight.

“iCloud stores your content in the cloud and automatically pushes it to all your devices,” he said.

Apple said iCloud wirelessly synchronizes mail, contacts, calendars, photos, applications, e-books, music and other files across devices.

Apple’s “iTunes in the Cloud” lets users download previously purchased music and new music purchases to Apple devices while a Photo Stream service wirelessly pushes photos to all connected devices and computers.

For music not purchased through iTunes, Apple is offering a service called “iTunes Match” for $24.99 a year that matches music in a subscriber’s personal digital music collection and makes it available online.

Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at technology research company Gartner, said iCloud represents a “pretty big shift for Jobs.”

“Where 10 years ago he talked about the Mac as the hub for your digital life today he said the cloud is now the hub for your digital life,” Gartenberg said.

“Apple’s talking about an entire ecosystem,” he said. “What they presented today was from a software platform perspective an entire vision of the future of the digital consumer all tied together by cloud service offerings.”

Jobs, dressed in his trademark black pullover and blue jeans, took the stage to a standing ovation shortly after the music sound system blared out the James Brown hit “I Feel Good.”

“Thank you, that always helps,” said Jobs, who appeared thin but relatively healthy in his first public appearance since March, when he unveiled the iPad 2.

Jobs, who underwent a liver transplant two years ago and has previously battled pancreatic cancer, was making just his second public appearance since going on medical leave in January with an unspecified illness.

Jobs and other Apple executives took a number of potshots at the personal computer during Monday’s event, stressing that iCloud eliminates the need for a user’s life to revolve around a PC.

“We’re going to demote the PC to just being a device,” Jobs said.

With the new version of iOS 5, for example, a personal computer would no longer be needed to set up and activate an iPad and software updates will be delivered wirelessly.

“With the new iPad we’re ushering in the post-PC world,” said Scott Forstall, senior vice president of iPhone software. “Now if you want to cut the cord, you can.”

Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller demonstrated features in the next generation of Lion including “air drop,” which allows Macintosh users to transfer files with other nearby Mac users through a peer-to-peer wireless connection.

A new iMessage service lets users send text messages, photos and videos between Apple devices while Newsstand is a bookshelf for newspaper and magazine subscriptions that updates automatically with the latest issue.

A camera icon on the iPad now lets users open the camera directly from the lock screen and the volume button can be used to take a picture.

Lion will be available as a download in July for $29.99, considerably cheaper than the $129 charged for previous upgrades.

Apple said iCloud will be available this fall with the release of iOS 5 and will provide five gigabytes of free cloud storage for mail, document storage and backup.

Music, applications, books and photos do not count against the storage limit.

Apple shares lost 1.57 percent on Monday to close at $338.04.

Courtesy: http://apple-news.findtechnologynews.com/apple-takes-a-giant-leap-into-the-cloud-afp/