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

MissionTo provide high quality information resources in all forms to

DA-IICT community and achieve excellence in service

ObjectiveTo 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 BDigital Resources & Services, Institutional Repository, Preview Room

First FloorReference 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. 2.00 per day (1-7 days) (Rs.5/- for SLs) Rs. 5.00 per day 8th 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 : http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in:8081/webslim/default.asp

RC website url :

http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in

Search the RC recommended web-resources

RC Communications

Through Institute email 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?