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Know Your Library: Introduction to Resources, Services

Library is the heart of the University Charles W. Eliot A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library Shelby Foote What a University thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education. Harold Howe

About the Library Serves as Centre place for library & information services Serves as an innovative partner in teaching, learning and research activities Responsible for acquisition, processing, organizing & providing access to high quality scholarly information resources both in print & digital form Contributes (directly & indirectly) to the achievement of Institute s mission

Vision, Mission & Objectives Vision To be a premier Learning Resource Centre in S &T, H& SS and allied areas Mission To provide access to high quality information resources in all forms to IITGn community & achieve excellence in service Objectives To identify, 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

Library - Block 3 ( Ground Floor) Reading Ares Bound Volumes Reference Sources Main Entrance Stack Area Journal and Magazines Photocopy Facility Circulation Desk Staff Area Digital Resources Access

MINI LIBRARY

Operational Divisions in the Library Information Resource Acquisition & Technical Processing (Panna Chaudhary) Information Resource Access & Users Services (Tapas Kumar Das) Information Technology Management & Scholarly Communication (Viral Asjola)

Membership Internal Membership External Membership Institute ID card holders (Faculty, Students, Staff & Project Staff) Family of IITGN Community (Spouse, Children & Parents) Alumni Association (Registered Students) Academic Membership (Educational Institute & Govt. organization) Corporate Membership Individual Membership (Faculty, Research Scholar)

Reading Materials Borrowing Privileges PG Students - 8 Books for 15 days+ 2 children books for 15 days - One loose issue (old) of journal for 5 days Research Scholars (PhD) - 12 books for 30 days + 2 children books for 15 days - One loose issue (old) of journal for 5 days Late fee - Rs. 2.00 per day (First-7 days) - Rs. 5.00 per day (8 th day and onwards) Short Loan Books (SL) - Rs. 5.00 per day(first-7 days) - Rs.10.00 per day(8th day and onwards) - If late fee exceeds Rs.250/-, service will be suspended

Library opening hours During Academic Session Monday Friday 9:00 am 2:00 am Saturday, Sunday & Holidays 9:00 am 9:00pm During Vacation Monday Sunday & Holidays 9:00 am 12:00 pm Transaction (Issue / Return) Hours During Semester & Vacation Monday Saturday 9:00 am 8:00 pm 24 hrs for 2 weeks each during Mid & End Sem. Exams. No issue/returns on Sundays and Institute Holidays Library remains closed on only five Institute holidays - 26th January : Republic Day - 15th August : Independence Day - 2nd October : Gandhi Jayanti - Dussehra: (Vijaydashmi) - Diwali: (Deepavali)

Library Resources- Print Books : 26413+, Reference Books (R) Course Readings Course Reserve Collection (CR) Short Loan Collection (SL) Journals, Magazines and Newspapers :135+ Theses & Dissertations : 264+ Technical Reports : 456+ Children Books : 1060+ Hindi Books : 444+ Bound volumes of journals: 485

Library Resources- Electronic Digital Resources CD, DVDs :1548+ Online Resource Collection : 60+ E-journals: 12000 + Databases:10+ E- Books (Six collections) Open Access E-Resources (Free, scholarly)

E-Resources

Bibliographic Databases ACM Computing Review

Full Text E- Resources : Multidisciplinary OUP

Full Text E- Resources : Science

Full Text E- Resources : Engg & Tech

Full Text E- Resources : Hum & Social Science

Others : Single Individual Titles

E-Books McGraw Hill Access Engineering EBSCOHOST ebook Engineering Core Collection UNESCO- EOLSS: Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems World E-Book Library South Asian Archives Literary Reference Centre Plus (EBSCO)

Open Access E-Resources (Free) Video Courses: NPTEL & many others Open Educational Resources Journals: Directory of Open Access Journals Books: DOAB, Google Books, Hathi Trust, HighWire, Project Gutenberg, Digital Library of India Theses: Shodhganga, NDLTD, OATD & many other Search Engines: Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search Live, JURN, ChemSpider, BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine, CORE, CrossRef Library Catalogue: IndCat, WorldCat, Trove, COPAC etc. E-Prints: arxiv.org, CogPrints, ChemXSeer, RePEc, SocArXiv, BioArxiv, OSF E-Preprints Many other scholarly sources

Access Policy for E-Resources Who can access e-resources? Faculty, students, staff & others directly associated with IITGN How to access? IP based access on Campus & Some require login ID & Password Remote access (off campus access available) Copyright / License Agreement Copyright regulations apply same way as printed books & journals Electronic journals & databases access is based on license agreements with publishers / vendors. http://www.iitgn.ac.in/sites/default/files/iitgn%20e- Resource%20Use%20Policy.pdf What's not permitted? Systematic downloading, sharing with outside users, using any software to download entire database, creating your collection of entire, using it for commercial purpose

Information Technology Infrastructure Automation in-house operations Koha- Open Source Software Good number of computers for accessing library resources Library Website Digital Repository - DSpace Subject Resource Guides- SubjectPlus Wi-Fi facility Library MobileApp QR Codes

Information Technology Infrastructure High-speed connectivity to Internet- NKN & BSNL Photocopier machines, Scanners & Printers- academic use Remote Access (RemoteXS) Turnitin- Plagiarism checking software Grammarly- for writing correctly Reference Management Software- Zotero, Mendeley RFID being implemented

Services offered Circulation Services ( borrowing) Course Reserve Collection (CR) no issue Short Loan Collection (SL) issued for 3 days Advance Alerts, Reminders Late fee Renewal, Recall, Reservation Loss of / Damage to reading materials Vacation Issue & Renewal Personal Books Library Books issued to members Library General Use Policies

Services offered Reference & Information Services Current Awareness/Alert Services Inter Library Loan Document Delivery Service Information Literacy/Instruction Sessions Orientation Special sessions- presentation-cum- demo Scopus, Mendeley, Zotero, SciFinder, ChemSpider, IEEEXplore, Turnitin, Grammarly, How to cite? and others Focused group sessions

Services offered Literature survey & literature search services Compilation of bibliographies on specific topics Facilitating other library reference Creating Subject Resource Guides Managing scholarly publications- Digital Repository Scholarly communication support for publishing Research funding sources, Fellowships Building virtual collection- cataloguing internet resources Developing academic archives

Organization/Arrangement of Resources Books: Dewey Decimal Classification System Print Journals: Alphabetical order CD/DVD/VCD/ACD : By Accession number - A, C, V series Online Resources: Linked on Library website Course Reserve: At Circulation Desk by Classification Number Short Loan : With other books on the shelf

Spine Label Class No. Accessi on no. 621.366 PAS 007993 Author Mark Barcode

C R Cours e Reser ve S L Short Loan R Refere nce Location Reference Area CR, SL and R On Bookshel f Circulation Desk Issued for 3 Days No Issue/Only use within the library premises Circulation Privileges

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How to Access Library Resources Library follows Open Access System Personal visits & browsing Online Catalogue for all holdings in Library Follow links on Library Website All Online resources accessible on Intranet Off campus access using RemoteXS introduced For only IITGN Community These are licensed & have certain restrictions Indian Standards requires ID & PW Course Reading Materials: CR/SL List on Website Excel file, OPAC

Pathfinder (Bibliographies)

Bibliographies

Institutional Membership Professional Societies American Concrete Institute, American Mathematical Society, Euro Graphics, FIB, Indian Academy of Sciences, IABSE, IATUL, NICEE, SIAM Library Networks & Consortia E-Shodh Sindhu ( INFLIBNET/MHRD) DELNET- Developing Library Network ADINET- Ahmedabad Library Network Libraries American Library, Mumbai British Library, Ahmedabad

Finding right journal to publish- some criteria Subject area(s) covered by the journal (particularly when the research is cross-discipline) Types of articles published (original research, review, case study) Reputation of the journal (editorial, impact factor, size of readership/open access, peer review, quality of accepted articles and authors, indexing level) Audience of journal Time to publication Others: Language, cost & appearance, Copyright restrictions, Fee for publications, Subscription by your library

Sources to check - Web of Science Sources http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/ - JCR - Journal Citation Reports from Thomson's InCites - Scopus Sources http://www.scopus.com/source/browse.url?zone=topnavbar&origin=searchb asic - Elsevier's SCImago Journal & country rank http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?country=in - Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) http://doaj.org/ - SHERPA/RoMEO - Journals' and Publishers' Open Access Policies - SHERPA/JULIET - Research funders' open access policies http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/ - Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers (avoid these publisher titles) http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/

Be aware of Predatory publishing?... Word Predatory was coined by by Jeffry Beall in 2010 predatory publishers publish counterfeit journals to exploit the open-access model in which the author pays. These predatory publishers are dishonest and lack transparency. They aim to dupe researchers, especially those inexperienced in scholarly communication. Beall, J. (2012) Predatory publishers are corrupting open access, Nature, vol. 489 iss. 7415.

Use Reference Management Software Zotero https://www.zotero.org/ Mendeley https://www.mendeley.com/ EndNote http://endnote.com/ RefWorks http://www.proquest.com/products-services/refworks.html Papers http://papersapp.com/ Many others- JabRef, WebNotes

Building partnership & Interaction Developing collection in your area of academic & research Designing new services Holding training sessions & workshops Helping in getting feedback & improving services Increasing use of library resources & services Creating subject resource guides in your disciplines Integrating library resources in to course Teaching Assistantship Seek your expertise & assistance & any other way that you can help us

Plans for immediate future Implementing RFID system- self check-out & return Web Scale Discovery Services- one point access Redesigning library website Introducing e-books collections & e-readers More sessions on finding, managing & using information Initiating virtual reference service Service on social network platforms Research data management services & many more

Library Communications Through Institute email Library Website Bulletin Boards in the Library Suggestion Box Ask A Librarian! Email us : General: librarian@iitgn.ac.in Library Acquisition : libraryacquisition@iitgn.ac.in Library Circulation: librarycirculation@iitgn.ac.in Library Services: libraryservices@iitgn.ac.in Tel: 079 2395 2431, Ext: 2395 1127, 1128,1129,1130

Library Staff Librarian Senior Library & Information Assistants (3) Library Trainees (5) Library Attendants (5) Student Assistants- TA, EWYL, Social Work Summer Research Internship Program

We request you to, Bring ID card when you visit Library Respect and follow Library Rules and Policies Co-operate with Library staff Feel free to seek assistance Maintain silence in the Library Premises Participate actively in Library activities Help keep the Library neat and clean Alert on misuse of resources Take care of Library materials Be prompt in responding to our communications Provide feedback & suggestions Suggest new resources

Some Don ts Do not take out library materials without getting issued Do not use mobiles in Library premises Do not bring Music & other gadgets No group discussions & group study currently Do not bring any eatables & drinks Do not use Library computers/ Network for non-academic purposes Do not mark, write, scribble, underline in Library reading materials Avoid using mobiles, playing games & watching movies distracting other user attention Avoid doing any thing that disturbs other users

To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps/gps are necessary now that there are so many roads. -- Jon Bing

Newspapers Received

Gujarati & Hindi Newspapers

Old News Papers & Journals Reading Area

Science & Technology Magazines

General Magazines

Computer & Communication Magazine

Design Magazines

Book Review Magazines

Books of the Week

Questions & Clarifications?

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