Year 2012-2013 News About Smt. Hansa Mehta Library
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Monday, March 25, 2013
Hansa Mehta Library Now Books are going to be available on mobile
Hansa Mehta Library Now Books are going to be available on mobile
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Inauguration At Smt. Hansa Mehta Library 19th March 2013
Inauguration At Smt. Hansa Mehta Library 19th March 2013
H M Library to get AC reading room
H M Library to get AC reading room
VADODARA: There is some good news for thousands of students who throng the reading room of Shrimati Hansa Mehta Library at M S University. The university is planning to air-condition (AC) the entire reading room.
"We are hoping to get the entire reading room converted into a centrally air-conditioned room within the next six months. This will help students who utilize the reading room for long hours every day," university librarian Dr Mayank Trivedi told TOI on Tuesday on the sidelines of a function to inaugurate institutional repository (IR), open knowledge gateway, book lift, generator and mobile racks facility at the library.
Students and teachers visiting the Shrimati Hansa Mehta Library of M S University will now be able to get access to all the e-resources free. Also, they will not have to worry about power failures and space crunch in the reading rooms. The university library has added new infrastructure.
The institutional repository (IR), a link of which has been provided on the library's website, will help researchers of the university in collecting, preserving and disseminating their intellectual output in digital form.
"Faculties themselves will be able to upload pre-referred papers, post-referred papers, conference papers, book chapters, reports through IR, which is now also an important component for NAAC accreditation," Trivedi said.
The open knowledge gateway facility on the other hand will provide free access to e-resources, including e-books, e-journals, encyclopedias, newspapers, e-thesis and video lectures, which can be also downloaded and printed.
Using funds granted by University Grants Commission, the library has added physical infrastructure like mobile racks, lift and generator.
"This new mobile racks will not only solve the dust problem but are also easily movable solving the space problem at the library," he said.
H M Library ranked 15th by UGC
H M Library ranked 15th by UGC
VADODARA: The Shrimati Hansa Mehta Library of M S University (MSU) has been ranked 15th from among 180 libraries of the country by the University Grants Commission's Infonet Digital Library Consortium.
H M Library is the only one from Gujarat to get its name listed among the top 20 libraries of the country followed by the library of Sardar Patel University which has been ranked 38 and found its name in top 50 libraries.
"Presently, UGC Infonet provides access to over 8,000 e-journals. Based on the usage done by respective libraries, the consortium has ranked the libraries. This will help the libraries in getting additional grants for their development. Our library has been ranked 15th - for the year 2010 which is higher compared to the year before when our library was ranked 26th," says university librarian Mayank Trivedi.
Started with the aim to provide e-resources covering almost all subject disciplines including arts, humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, chemical sciences, life sciences, computer sciences, mathematics and statistics, the consortium is wholly funded by the UGC and executed by the INFLIBNET (Information and Library Network) Centre.
According to the usage statistics released by the consortium, a total of 1,38,000 articles have been downloaded by researchers and users at the H M Library.
With over eight lakh books, the library that has 18,000 students registered and has a daily transaction of 300 books has also seen an increase in the corporate membership in recent times. During financial year, 2010-11 the library had bagged Rs two crore grant for its development.
Hansa Mehta Library goes beyond books
Hansa Mehta Library goes beyond books
VADODARA: With its collection of over seven lakh books, Hansa Mehta Library is the heart of academic life at MS University here.
And now, it is becoming increasingly technology-driven and getting a taste of professionalism after many years. Innovations have not been restricted to infrastructure alone.
"We have separate blocks for teachers, undergraduates, and PhD and research scholars. And now, we have connected them with free internet nodes for scholars and teachers," said Kautilya Shukla, the librarian who was appointed last year.
A CD server will allow access to all the 1,000 intranet nodes on the campus and one can opt for secondary references which are available on CDs. "After installing the software for university library (SOUL) cataloguing system, the registration process of members has become simpler. The software also allows university departments to place acquisition orders for latest books. Special labelling of books (call numbers) using cellophane and bar codes have made it easier to find a particular title," Shukla said.
"The MSU library is likely to top the list of university libraries in the country on the number of users. We have about 10,000 visitors every day. The reading hall can accommodate 1,100 students and its capacity will be increased. However, frequent book fairs by leading publishers will acquaint students to the latest titles and also develop a flair for reading.
Under a UGC project, we will subscribe 1,600 online journals which will be in addition to our 594 hard-copy journals," the librarian said. "Space management, mobilisation of funds and judicious use of resources made it possible to update the library which has 7,22,955 books at present. There were too many entry and exit points that allowed unscrupulous students to smuggle out books earlier. Now there is only one exit point," Shukla said.
About future plans for the library, Shukla said, "We get an annual allocation of Rs 1.8 crore that includes acquisition, revenue grant from various faculties and binding. Roping in donors will also help us upgrade our system. Our aim is to create a database for all the five lakh titles that we have."
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
IR, Open Knowledge Gateway, Book Lift, Generator and Mobile Racks @ Smt Hansa Mehta Library
IR,
Open Knowledge Gateway, Book Lift, Generator and Mobile Racks
@ Smt Hansa Mehta Library
Dr Mayank Trivedi
University Librarian
Smt. Hansa Mehta Library
MSU
Baroda
Dt : 19th March 2013
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