2016 Vol. 3, No. 11

Chief Patron:

Prof. Animesh Biswas,

Director, NIT Rourkela

Prof In-Charge Library:

Prof. A. K. Panda

EE, NIT Rourkela

HOD, BP Central Library:

Dr. Bhojaraju Gunjal

BPCL, NIT Rourkela

Editorial Team:

BPCL Team

Designed by:

Mr. D. P. Tripathi

Mr. Kshirod Das

Inside this issue #

NITR welcomes the Director 1

BRICS ranks NIT Rourkela . . 1

TEQIP-II sponsored work-

shop on Prevention . . .

1

TEQIP-II sponsored work-

shop on Research Support . .

2

Internal Complaints Commit-

tee website launch

2

Annual Book Fair 2016 2

Awards/Honors/Accolades 3

Know Your Library Services 3

Trial Access to NITR 3

Knowledge Sharing & CAS 4

Upcoming Events 4

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TEQIP-II sponsored workshop on “Prevention of Sexual Harassment and Gender Sensitization at Workplace”

Internal Complaint Committee (ICC) organized TEQIP Sponsored

Workshop on “Prevention of Sexual Harassment and Gender Sensitization at

Workplace” (PSHGSW-2016) on October 26, 2016 at BBA Auditorium with the

objective to raise the awareness and ensuring the safe and gender sensitive en-

vironment in NITR community.

NITR welcomes the Director Prof. Animesh Biswas

Union HRD Ministry has appointed Prof. Animesh Biswas as the new Director of

the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (NITR). Prof. Biswas was

working at the IIT, Kanpur as Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineer-

ing. He after his BE from the Calcutta University in 1980 made his M.Tech. in

1982 from the IIT, Kharagpur and PhD in 1989 from the IIT, Delhi. Then, he went

to the Oregon State University, USA for postdoctoral studies. His specialization

area is RF, Microwave & Photonics and research interest area is Electromagnetics,

Micro & Millimeter wave circuits and techniques, Optical Guide structure, MMICs.

Source: The Pioneer.

News @ NITR

BRICS ranks NIT Rourkela among top 250 varsity

The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) has included the Na-

tional Institute of Technology, Rourkela (NITR) among the list of 111-120 best

universities. The list was prepared out of 250 universities taken for consideration

from these five countries. The list was prepared after thorough studies (on infra-

structure, global level facility and faculty position) and markings, according to

reports. Source: News Odisha.

Events @ NITR

Library e-Newsletter / ग्रंथालय समाचार पत्र Page 2

BPCL organized a TEQIP-II Sponsored Workshop on “Research

Support e-Resources, Tools & Techniques and Scholarly Publish-

ing” (RSTSP-2016) on October 27, 2016 at New Senate Hall with the

objective (i) to describe various aspects of Research Support

e-Resources, Tools & Techniques and Scholarly Publishing aspects and (ii) also to create awareness and edu-

cate the participants and NITR fraternity. For more details click here.

TEQIP-II sponsored workshop on Research Support e-Resources, Tools & Techniques

Annual Book Fair 2016

News @ BPCL

Biju Patnaik Central Library has successfully organized "Annual

Book Fair 2016" dur ing October 04-06, 2016. More than 40 ven-

dors and distributors from different parts of the country took part

and displayed their books. Academic Community recommended

books for enhancement of collection of the Biju Patnaik Central Library.

On this occasion, Honorable Director, Professor In-charge and

HOD-BPCL unveiled the two books entitled "Emerging Trends &

Techniques for Electronic Resource Management in Libraries:

Issues & Challenges" and “Basics of Library automation, Koha

library management software and data migration: challenges with

case studies" edited and authored by library team.

Internal Complaints Committee website launch

Internal Complaint Committee (ICC) website has been launched by Hon-

orable Director Prof. Animesh Biswas during Workshop on “Prevention of

Sexual Harassment and Gender Sensitization at Workplace” (PSHGSW-

2016) on October 26, 2016 at BBA Auditorium with the objective to raise the

awareness and ensuring the safe and gender sensitive environment in NITR

community. The ICC website can be accessed at http://icc.nitrkl.ac.in.

Library e-Newsletter / ग्रंथालय समाचार पत्र Page 3

BPCL is pleased to inform you that the trial access for the following products are now been provided for our

institute. BPCL is evaluating the below products. Please use these product extensively and send us your

feedback / suggestions to the library. For more details: Click here

Trial Access to NITR

Product name: CRC eBooks

URL to access: http://www.crcnetbase.com/

Subject areas: Engineer ing (biotechnology and biomedical, mechanical, civil,

Chemical, Computer science, Electrical and Electronics ,Earth sciences, Food

Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing, Mathematics , material and physics).

About Product: CRCnetBASE, the award-winning Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine eBook

platform from CRC Press, offers a comprehensive eBook collection that delivers more than 15,000 references

in over 400 subject areas and more than 40 collections.

Trial Period: November 17, 2016.

Awards / Honors / Accolades

Turnitin Global Innovation Awards 2016: Honorable Mention to Dr. Bhojaraju Gunjal Dr. Bhojaraju Gunjal has been awarded Turnitin Global Innovation Awards 2016:

Honorable Mention. Turnitin is proud to recognize individuals worldwide who

exhibit a commitment to academic integrity and excellence in learning through

the innovative and effective use of Turnitin and other educational approaches. For more details: click here.

Research / Project Support Services

Know Your Library Services

In order to provide value added services to NITR community during both week-

days and weekends, BPCL is accommodated its library staff at 2nd floor to attend

the Reference queries and also to support research/project related activities. The

designated library staff will help you in attending your queries on Turnitin, Sco-

pus, Grammarly, Searching e-resources, Mendeley, ORCID, User education

and other related tools.

Research / Project Support Services (RPS) objectives are:

to provide value added services to NITR community and to attend the Reference queries

to support research/project related activities.

to extend help its users in using Turnitin, Scopus, Grammarly, Searching e-resources, Citation styles, User

education and other related tools.

For more details: click here.

Library e-Newsletter / ग्रंथालय समाचार पत्र Page 4

National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

Odisha - 769008. India.

Phone: 0661-246 2101

Email: library@nitrkl.ac.in

Web: http://library.nitrkl.ac.in

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Every week on Monday, New Arrival list is generated based on the

processed books last week and journals received on different dates in

the last 2 weeks. Below are the books added to the collections of

BPCL during the month of October, 2016.

Current Awareness Service

# Date Weeks

1 October 03-09, 2016 Week - I 2 October 10-16, 2016 Week - II 3 October 17-24, 2016 Week - III

4 October 25-31, 2016 Week – IV

Knowledge Sharing Session for Internal Staff of BPCL

To enrich the knowledge of all library staff & trainees Knowledge Sharing Sessions (KSS) are being organized

at BPCL on every Tuesday at 6.00 pm.

SN Topics of KSS Presented by Date

1 Innovative Library Services using Social Networking Sites Sushanta Sethi October 19, 2016

2 Scopus: A Bibliographic database Sarit Pragyan Ojha October 25, 2016

BPCL of NITR is organizing the “National Workshop on Library Automation (Koha), Application of

RFID and Reference Management Tool (Zotero)” to be held in NIT Rourkela, Odisha from December 05-

09, 2016. Click for Brochure | Registration Form

For more details click here.

Upcoming Events