Know Your Library. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Librarian

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1 Centr al Libr ary Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Need Help? Talk to library staff. Library staff can help you find and access what you are looking for Know Your Library Centr al Libr ary 9 Librarian Central Library Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Powai, Mumbai Tel Fax librarian@iitb.ac.in Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

2 Know Your Library Indian Institute of Technology Bombay CONTENTS 04 Mission 06 Membership 08 Circulation 10 Major Services 14 Digital Library 20 Library Rules 22 Our Team 24 Floor Maps

MISSION Central Library occupies a place of pride in IIT Bombay and is an essential component of the institutes outstanding research and education mission.

3 MISSION Central Library occupies a place of pride in IIT Bombay and is an essential component of the institutes outstanding research and education mission. It is a most lively place on the campus providing a safe, comfortable and friendly environment that enables learning and advancement of knowledge, and promotes discovery and scholarship. Mission of the Central Library is to facilitate creation of new knowledge through acquisition, organization and dissemination of knowledge resources and providing for value added services. Collection Resources Numbers Books, theses, CDs & Videos 2,11,458 Book Bank (TLL & BC Collections) 10,791 Bound Volumes of Journals 1,05,917 Reports /Pamphlets / Standards 66,461 Photocopies/Films 4410 Total Collection (December 2006) 3,99,037 Subscription to Print Journals 1391 Location index Name of the resource, service, section Bindery Section Book Acquisition Section Book Bank (TLL & BC Collection) Book Display (recent additions) Book Stacks (All disciplines) CD ROM Workstations Circulation Counter / Section Claimed Books and Books processed urgently Display of New Books Faculty Publications Display Fine Collection Counter Indexing and Abstracting Journals (Back Volumes) Issue Counter (for Journals) Journals (Bound volumes) Journals Section / Current Journals Display Librarian s Office Newspapers and Light Reading Material OPAC (On line catalogue) Pamphlet, Standards, Patents, Reports, Photocopies, Theses and Dissertations Photocopying Operator (private) Photocopying facility for faculty Rare Books (RR) Reference Section and Reading Hall Study Room Book Collection (behind circulation counter) Technical Processing Section Video Collection and Viewing Facilities (Reference Section) Location Basement Basement Basement Mezzanine floor First floor First floor Mezzanine floor First floor Mezzanine floor First floor Second floor Mezzanine floor First floor Basement

4 Membership Library membership is free to all students, faculty and staff of the IIT Bombay. The membership is also offered to IIT Bombay Alumni, Corporate Houses, engineering educational institutions, retired faculty and officers on payment of fees as per details below: Membership Eligibility Annual Fee Registration Fee Services offered Category in Rupees in Rupees (One Time) Alumni IITB Alumni Annual Reference, consultation Membership ( Life (Refundable and borrowing membership Security Deposit) fee) Corporate Industries and 10, Reference,consultation Membership Corporate to three persons (Only Reference Houses Facility) Corporate Industries and 20, Reference, consultation Membership Corporate (Refundable and borrowing to three (With Borrowing Houses Security Deposit) designated persons Facility) Educational Non-aided, 15, Reference and Institutional AICTE consultation Membership recognized only (July to June) degree engineering colleges Retired faculty / Faculty and Annual Reference, consultation officers Group A ( Life and borrowing Officers retired membership fee) from IIT Bombay

Circulation Description No. of Period of Books Loan Students B. Tech 07 30 days (up to 3 rd year) Students B. Tech (Final) / 09 30 days M. Sc /M. Tech / M. Des / M. Mgt.

5 Circulation Description No. of Period of Books Loan Students B. Tech days (up to 3 rd year) Students B. Tech (Final) / days M. Sc /M. Tech / M. Des / M. Mgt. /Ph D Faculty, Research Engineers, 20 One Scientists, Professor/ Semester Scientist Emeritus, Life-time Achievement Awardees, Librarian, Registrar and equivalent officers Dy. Librarian, 10 One Executive Engineer, SMO, Semester Senior Programmer, System Programmer and equivalent staff PRO, Dy. Registrar, 07 One Asst. Librarian, Security Officer, Semester Asst. Engineer, Tech Officer, Med Officer, Superintendent, SRF, STA, SPA, TA, Hindi Officer, Student Counselor and equivalent staff Managers, Senior Stenographer, 07 SRA, JRA, JRF, JE, PGT, TGT and equivalent staff 30 days Foreman, ASO, Physical days Training Instructor, Senior Draftsman, Data Processor and equivalent staff Staff not covered above days Alumni Members days Corporate Members days (with borrowing facility) Retired faculty / officers days of IIT Bombay Library Hours & Holidays Monday through Friday hrs Monday through Friday hrs (during examination) Saturdays / Sundays / hrs Holidays Saturdays / Sundays / hrs Holidays (during examination) The library remains open on all days of the year except on 26 th January, 15 th August and 2 nd October (National Holidays). Circulation Hours Monday through Friday hrs Saturdays hrs Study room books issued for overnight, one hour before closing of the library on all days A drop box has been placed near security check point. Library members desiring to return the borrowed books can drop them in the box

6 MAJOR SERVICES MAJOR SERVICES Reference ServiceA service that helps you to make full use of the resources in the library. It includes : Guidance in the use of information resources and services Instructions for accessing on line library resource including OPAC, e-journals, e-books, databases, multimedia products etc. Library orientation and information literacy programmes. For details, please contact : Asst. Librarian In-charge, Reference Section Photocopying Service The library provides free photocopying service to the faculty of the Institute. An external outfit operating within the premises of the library offers the service on payment to students, staff and other walk-in users. The library also supplies photocopies of articles to individuals and organizations on payment. A number of organizations maintain a deposit account with the library for availing the service quickly. Resource Sharing The library maintains excellent (Inter-library loan) relations with a number of institutions and libraries including IITs, BARC, NITIE, NCST, IISc, IIG, TIFR, IGIDR, TISS and NICT for exchange of books, journals, photocopies and videocassettes for the mutual benefit of the users. Members interested in borrowing books or obtaining photocopies of articles from other libraries may contact Circulation Counter for details. Information Alert Services New arrivals A weekly list of recent addition of books, pamphlets, reports, standards, annual reports and faculty publications added to the collection Lest-you-miss Innovativeservice to highlight important information appearing in journals, newspapers, newslet - ters and other sources. News items display Display of newspaper clippings related to IITs and other S&T developments. The library also displays facult y publications, announcements of forthcoming conferences and

MAJOR SERVICES MAJOR SERVICES other international events, and list of articles of general interest scanned from the current issues of journals received. by 1400 hrs the next day. A late fee of Rs. 25.

7 MAJOR SERVICES MAJOR SERVICES other international events, and list of articles of general interest scanned from the current issues of journals received. by 1400 hrs the next day. A late fee of Rs per day is charged for overdue books (Rs. 50/-during examination period). Book Bank Special Collection for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Students Text books from this collection are issued for a period of one semester to the students belonging to SC/ST. Eligible students may apply as per the schedule announced by the library. Technology Lending Library (TLL) The textbooks from the TLL section are loaned out for one semester to the students whose parents income falls below the taxable limit. Eligible students may apply as per the schedule announced by the library. Issue of Books for The library issues books for the Vacations entire duration of the vacation at the end of the each semester. Users Awareness Programmes The library takes an active part in the orientation programme organized by the institute for the benefit of new students in the beginning of academic year. They are taken around the library to familiarize them with various resources and services available for them. Training sessions are also organized whenever a new product or service is introduced. Users can contact In charge, Reference Service for any help. Study Room BooksTextbooks recommended by the faculty for different courses are kept in the study room at the circulation counter for a specified period. These books can be used in thelibrary against Identity Card. A student can also borrow one book for a night, returnable

DIGITAL LIBRARY DIGITAL LIBRARY Central Library is a part of the institute-wide network built around a fiber optic Giga-bit ethernet backbone comprising of five routing switches.

8 DIGITAL LIBRARY DIGITAL LIBRARY Central Library is a part of the institute-wide network built around a fiber optic Giga-bit ethernet backbone comprising of five routing switches. The library is connected to the backbone through one of the routing switches. Institutes backbone in turn is connected to 32 mbps of Internet band width on leased links from VSNL and Reliance. The library has 12 servers, 70 PCs and other accessories adequate to cater to the needs of users. 25 PC are meant for users to access OPAC, databases, e-books, e-journals and other e-resources. The library has been Wi-Fi enabled to provide wireless access to the Internet. Users are welcome to use their laptops in the library. Library Homepage ( suggestion form, library guide (Know Your Library) Locate library material (Collection organization). e-resources The Central Library provides web-based access to over 450 books, 10,000 full text journals and 10 databases 24 x 7 on institute-wide network as per the following details Books Referex ( A collection of about 450 books in Material Science and Mechanical Engineering, Electronics and Electrical Engineering, and Chemical, Petrochemical and Process Full text Journals (web based) It is the single window to the resources and services of the Central Library. You can : Search/Browse the material in the library (Search Library Catalogue, OPAC) Check the materials that you have borrowed and their due date Know the recent arrivals Access E-Resources (books, journals, theses, databases and multimedia products) Submit your dissertation / thesis (IIT Bombay students only) Download library membership form, Book ABI Inform/ - Proquest Science pqweb?rqt=302&cf=1 ACM Digital - Library portal.cfm ACS Journals - dres/acs.html AIAA Journals - AIP Journals - dres/aip.html AMS Journals - click_access/inquiry.pl ASCE Journals - journals/jrns.html ASCE Library - ascecp ASME Journals - (+AMR) publications/journals ASTM Journals - ASTM Standards

9 DIGITAL LIBRARY DIGITAL LIBRARY Blackwell Journals - Cambridge - University Press Journals Capitaline - user/homepage.asp CRIS-INFAC - CRISIL Ind. index.jsp Information EBSCO Databases - Emerald Full Text - Euromonitor GMID- gmid IEEE/IEE Electronic- Library Online INSIGHT - JSTOR Journals - Archive IOP Electronic - Journals Material Science - and Engineering dres/ejn.html Collection (Trans Tech) Nature Online - Project MUSE - RSC Journals Archives j1.htm Science-Direct - Science Online - SIAM Journals - Online SIAM s Online - Journal Archive (LOCUS) Springer verlag - Link Taylor & Francis - Journals dres/t%20&%20f.html Wiley Journals - dres/wiley.html Databases (Web-based) Compendex - Inorganic - Crystal Structure index.php Database INSPEC - J-Gate - JCCC - MathSciNet - mathscinet PsycInfo - index.html Scifinder Scholar - index.html SCOPUS - Web of Science

10 DIGITAL LIBRARY DIGITAL LIBRARY on Intranet. The library has also developed a database (providing bibliographic details and abstract) using open source software, GSDL of all the Masters Dissertations and Ph. D. Theses submitted since 1999 and 1965 respectively. This database containing over 2000 records is accessible through the library homepage. Multimedia (intranet, CD-net) Chemical Abstracts 12 th & 13 th Collective Index Chemical Abstracts on CD ( ) COMPENDEX ( ) Current Contents on Disc ( ) Dissertation Abstracts Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings ( ) Indian Patents Indian Standards INSPEC ( ) Powder Diffraction Files Videocassettes 337 CDs received along with books are mirrored on CDH CD-MIRROR server and is accessible on Windows machines at Users can contact In charge, Reference Section for above digital and multimedia resources. Electronic Theses & Dissertations ( ) Central Library supports electronic submission of theses and dissertations by the postgraduate and doctoral students and maintains a full-text database of over 4000 items submitted since on a server ) Institutional Archive ( Central Library has recently set up an archive of publications brought out by the faculty and the institute. The archive, accessible initially on the Intranet facilitates on line submission of the publications by their authors which are permissible within the copyright regulations. The archive, it is hoped will evolve in to a major database of all publications produced by the IIT Bombay community and will be available on the Internet through the library homepage

LIBRARY RULES LIBRARY RULES Visitors Only The Theses, The The The The Entry to the library is restricted to the bona fidemembers on production of valid Identity Card / Library Card / Visitor s Pass

Faculty, students and researchers from Government organizations are allowed to refer the library against introduction letters from their employers.

11 LIBRARY RULES LIBRARY RULES Visitors Only The Theses, The The The The Entry to the library is restricted to the bona fidemembers on production of valid Identity Card / Library Card / Visitor s Pass at the security check point. with valid passes are allowed only on weekdays from hrs. Faculty, students and researchers from Government organizations are allowed to refer the library against introduction letters from their employers. books from general collection are issued to the library members. documents like reference books, bound volumes of journals, loose issue of current journals, reports and standards are issued only to the Faculty, Scientists and PG / Research Students for different loan periods. Interested users can obtain details from the Circulation Counter. dissertations, CDs, video cassettes are not lent out of the library. books which are already issued, can be claimed / reserved at the issue counter. One user can put upto 3 claims that will remain valid for 7 days from the date of return. users are not allowed to bring the books issued to them inside the library unless they intend to return them. borrowing facility can be withdrawn or restricted in case of misconduct by any user. readers should check the book thoroughly for missing pages, chapters, pictures etc., while borrowing the book. No Loss The Smoking Please book in damaged condition will be accepted from the reader. of book must be reported immediately. rules for replacement & fine calculation of lost book are available at the Circulation Counter. as well as sleeping is strictly prohibited in the library premises. maintain silence in the Library. We welcome your suggestions

OUR TEAM OUR TEAM *EPBX No. Mr. Daulat Jotwani 8920 2572 0227 Librarian (Direct) (jotwanid@iitb.ac.in, librarian@iitb.ac.in) Librarian s Office 8921 Dr.H.S.

O.B.Bhendigeri 8929 Assistant Librarian (omprakash@iitb.ac.in) Current Periodicals Section Computer Room 8928 Dr.Ranjit K Das 8924 (drrkdas@iitb.ac.in) Book Acquisition Section *Prefix 2576 to the EPBAX numbers for Direct Inward Dialing to call from outside IIT Bombay.

12 OUR TEAM OUR TEAM *EPBX No. Mr. Daulat Jotwani Librarian (Direct) Librarian s Office 8921 Dr.H.S.Waydane Deputy Librarian (waydande@iitb.ac.in) Bound volumes and Pamphlets & Reference Section 8936/8922 Ms. S.D.Kukarni 8933/8935 Deputy Librarian (skukarni@iitb.ac.in) Circulation and Technical Processing Section Mr. O.B.Bhendigeri 8929 Assistant Librarian (omprakash@iitb.ac.in) Current Periodicals Section Computer Room 8928 Dr.Ranjit K Das 8924 (drrkdas@iitb.ac.in) Book Acquisition Section *Prefix 2576 to the EPBAX numbers for Direct Inward Dialing to call from outside IIT Bombay

13 FLOOR MAPS FLOOR MAPS Basement Mezzanine Floor Grond Floor First Floor

FLOOR MAPS Second Floor Notes Know Your Library Indian Institute of Technology Bombay http://www.library.iitb.

14 FLOOR MAPS Second Floor Notes Know Your Library Indian Institute of Technology Bombay centrallibraryiitbombay Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Know Your Library centrallibraryiitbombay

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