Resource Centre

Know Your Resource Centre Orientation Programme July 2012 DA-IICT

Outline  About RC  Vision, Mission and Objectives  Membership  Resources  Use Policy  Services

About RC  Serves as between user and information resources  Serves as an innovative partner in teaching, learning and research activities  Responsible for acquisition, processing, organization and providing access to high quality information resources both in print and digital form  Contributes to the achievement of Institute’s mission

Vision, Mission and Objectives Vision To become a premier Learning Resource Centre in ICT Mission To provide high quality information resources in all forms to DA-IICT community and achieve excellence in service Objective To select, collect, create, organize, preserve, manage and provide access to information sources in print, non-print and digital forms, regardless of their physical location, to support scholarly pursuit, learning, teaching and research in the Institute

Membership  Membership Open to DA-IICT Community  Students  Faculty  Staff Alumni Members Educational Institutes Industries/Corporates Visitors

Opening Hours… RC Opening Hours  Monday - Friday  9:00 am - 9:00 pm  Saturdays, Sundays, Institute holidays & semester-breaks  9:00 am - 6:00 pm Reading Hall Opening Hours  Monday - Friday  9:00 am - 12:00 midnight*  Saturdays, Sundays, Institute holidays & semester-breaks  9:00 am - 6:00 pm * extended up to 2.00 am during semester-exams-week

Floor Arrangements Spread across two floors & two wings Ground Floor Wing A Circulation, stack area, research cubicles, photocopying and Collection Development & Technical Services Wing B Digital Resources & Services, Institutional Repository, Preview Room First Floor Reference collection, print-periodicals, bound volumes, newspapers and Reading Hall in Wing B

RC Departments  Collection Development & Technical Services Acquisition  Classification and Cataloguing  Information Access Services  Circulation  Reference Services  Digital Resources & Services  Institute Repository, Digital Resources Room  Preview Room  AV collection etc.

Resources Books Reference Books (R) Course Reserve Collection (CR) Short Loan Collection (SL) Journals, Magazines and Newspapers Theses and Dissertations  Ph.D. Theses  M.Tech and M.Des. Dissertations  BTP Reports Digital Resources  CD-ROMs, DVDs,VCDs,NPTEL Videos etc.  Recorded Courses from IITB  IEEE COMSOC Tutorials Online Resources

Digital Online Resources  ACM Digital Library  ACM Computing Reviews  ACM Guide to Computing Literature  AIP/APS Journal collection  ASA Digital Library  IEL Online Library  IndiaStat  ITU Recommendations Online  JSTOR Archive  Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)  Publications from USENIX  ScienceDirect ( Computer Science)  Springer Online Journals  Virtual Reference Shelf (Free Resources on Internet)

Services…  Circulation Borrowing Privileges  UG Students  6 Books for 14 days  PG Students  8 Books for 14 days  PhD  12 Books for one semester  1 Bound volume for 5 days Overdue-charges (Late fee)  Rs per day (1-7 days) (Rs.5/- for SLs)  Rs per day 8 th day and onwards (Rs.10/- for SLs)

Services…  Circulation… Course Reserve Collection (CR) Short Loan Collection (SL) Vacation Issue & Renewal Personal Books RC Books issued to members Recall of the book Reservation Loss of / Damage to reading materials Many other…

Services  RC offers many services and variety of resources Reference & Information Services Document Delivery Services Inter Library Loan Current Awareness Service  New Arrival of books  Recent Issues of Journals  ICT Web Alert  Lest You Miss !  Call for Papers Alert  Conference Alert  Bibliographies, Ask A Librarian Photocopy Service

How to Access RC Resources  Visiting RC personally & browsing resources  RC Online Catalogue on intra/internet :  RC website url :  Search the RC recommended web-resources

RC Communications  Through Institute  Suggestion Box  RC Website  Bulletin Boards in the RC  What is new ?  Ask A Librarian !

RC Team  Satish Deshpande  Prasanna Muduli  Saurabh Prajapati  Rajakumar A  Manoj Nair  Jigar Soni  Mahesh Nandaniya  Library Attendants

We request you to,  Respect and follow RC Rules and procedures  Co-operate with RC staff  Feel free to seek assistance  Maintain silence  Participate actively in RC activities  Keep the RC neat and clean  Alert on misuse of resources  Take care of RC materials  Be prompt in responding to our communications  Provide feedback & suggestions  Get material issued before you leave RC [else Security Alarm will sound]

Some Don’ts  Do not use mobiles on RC premises  Do not bring Music and other gadgets  No group discussions and group study  Do not bring any eatables and drinks  Do not use RC computers/ Network for other purposes

Campus Book Shop  Exclusive Bookshop  Open on weekdays (evenings)  Offers good discounts

Questions and Clarifications?