Thursday, December 30, 2010

E-Books (Computer Science)

    Wednesday, December 29, 2010

    Libraries on the Web India

    * Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Deemed University Kollam, India
    * Centre For Science and Environment New Delhi, India
    * Centre for Development Studies Trivandrum, India
    * Cochin University of Science and Technology Cochin, India
    * Delhi College of Engineering Delhi, India
    * Delhi Public Library New Delhi, India
    * Developing Library Network New Delhi, India
    * Future institute of Engineering And Management Kolkata, India
    * HKBK College of Engineering Bangalore, India
    * Hamdard University New Delhi, India
    * Health Education Library for People Bombay, India
    * INFLIBNET Ahmedabad, India
    * Icfai Business School Ahmedabad, India
    * Indian Institute of Health Management Research Jaipur, India
    * Indian Institute of Science - Bangalore Bangalore, India
    * Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay Bombay, India
    * Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi New Delhi, India
    * Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur Kharagpur, India
    * Indian Institute of Technology - Madras Madras, India
    * Indian National Digital Library in Engineering Sciences and Technology Consortium New Delhi, India
    * Indian Parliament Library New Delhi, India
    * Indian Statistial Institute, Kolkata Kolkata, India
    * Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre Bangalore, India
    * Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Mumbai, India
    * Information Centre for Aerospace Science and Technology Bangalore, India
    * Institute for Plasma Research Gandhinagar, India
    * Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics Pune, Maharashtra, India
    * Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India
    * Kendriya Vidyalaya Dimapur, India
    * Kendriya Vidyalaya Pattom Pattom, India
    * Krishna Institute of Engineering and Technology Ghaziabad, India
    * Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration Mussoorie, India
    * Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam, India
    * Mangalore University Mangalore, India
    * Nalsar Law University Hyderabad, India
    * National Centre for Biological Sciences Bangalore, India
    * National Council of Applied Economic Research New Delhi, India
    * National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management Hyderabad, India
    * National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology Adugodi, India
    * National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences Bangalore, India
    * National Institute of Technology - Calicut Calicut City, India
    * National Institute of Technology - Silchar Silchar, India
    * Nirma University of Science and Technology Ahmedabad, India
    * Panjab University Chandigarh, India
    * Physical Research Laboratory Navrangpura, India
    * Pune Library Network Pune, India
    * QIS College of Engineering and Technology Ongole, India
    * RAJ KUMAR GOEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Ghaziabad, India
    * Raman Research Institute Bangalore, India
    * S. V. National Institute of Technology Surat, India
    * SAARC Documentation Center New Delhi, India
    * SJB Institute of Technology Bangalore, India
    * Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics Calcutta, India
    * Shivaji University Kolhapur, India
    * Society for Information Science India New Delhi, India
    * Summer Fields School New Delhi, India
    * University of Hyderabad Hyderabad, India
    * Xavier Labour Relation Institute Jamshedpur, India

    Monday, December 27, 2010

    British Library Books

    Following books are procured from British Library; Chandigarh for library users, under Inter Library Loan Services for the period of 24th Dec, 2010 to 14th Jan 2011. Users can consult these books inside the library in Reference Section.
    Sr.No Title Author
    1. Workless Achieve More O’Conneell, Fergus
    2. Biotechnology and the Future of Society ECSTR
    3. Successful Interviewing and Recruitment Yeung, Rob
    4. How to Save Your Life Carey and Bowen
    5. How to Understand Business Finance Cinnamon and Others
    6. How to be Successful Entrepreneur Drummond, Helga
    7. CCNA Lammle, Todd
    8. Lessons Learned in Software Testing Kaner and Others
    9. How to Value & Sell Your Business Heslop, Andrew
    10. The Advanced Numeracy Test Workbook Bryon, Mike
    11. The Science of Doctor Who Parsons, Paul
    12 Raja RamMohan Ray Robertson, Bruee Calisle

    Free Access to International Magazines and Newsletters

    The website contain all International Free Access to some of the best Magazines and newsletter on various subjects.

    Check the below link to explore your self and get register to free print subscription of your interest.


    http://techxtra.tradepub.com/category/

    Wednesday, December 22, 2010

    [Econsortium-INFLIBNET] N-LIST Received Manthan Award South Asia 2010

    We are happy to inform the professionals that the N-LIST Project of the
    INFLIBNET Centre has received “Manthan Award South Asia 2010” under the
    category “e-LEARNING”. The project N-LIST stands for “National Library and
    Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST)”. It is
    a joint project of IIT, Delhi and INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad.

    Thursday, December 16, 2010

    Google eBookstore

    Google just opened an electronic-book store that offers titles in formats compatible with Web browsers, Apple and Android mobile devices, and most other e-book readers.
    You'll be able to browse, buy and read titles through a standard Web browser
    at books.google.com/ebooks or through new software for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch and for devices that run Google's Android operating system.

    Google eBooks are currently only available for sale to users located in the United States.They're working to expand the countries in which Google eBooks are available and offer this new product to readers around the world .

    In the meantime, you can still browse millions of free and public domain Google eBooks and read them effortlessly across your devices.

    Top 10 Awesome, Free Online Library Resources

    A library is understood as collection of sources, resources, and services, and the structure in which it is contained for the purpose of reading. It is maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. In simple language it is referred to as collection of Books. However, virtual libraries happen to be different from physical libraries and some of them are mentioned here.

    1. Free Books: There are many books in the public domain available here to be accessed freely as well as some other books specified under certain conditions. Apart from the info about copy right laws of various countries has been provided over here.
    2. Questia: It is the World’s largest online library of Books that provides twenty four hour access to the world’s largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences including magazines and newspaper articles. Apart form library, Questia also offers a range of search, note-taking and writing tools.
    3. Online Books Page: This is a website that provides access to books which are provided for easy reading over internet. The primary objective of this website is to encourage development of those types of online books for the benefit and edification of all people. The prominent part of this site includes index of thousand of online books freely readable of the internet, etc.
    4. Read Easily: This is an online library that provides opportunity to everyone to read and learn something over the course of life. This digital library is designed and prepare in such a manner that it provides an adaptive reading experience. For the use of blind and visually impaired every book has been formatted into HTML code avoiding proprietary formats that are not friendly with Text to Speech Software.
    5. The Free Library: It is a collection of freely offered, full text versions of classic literary work as collected from hundreds of celebrated authors, biographies, images and famous quotations and that has been linked on to the site for the purpose of reading and learning.
    6. Bibliomania: It provides free online literature including 2000 classic texts. Its collection of books includes Literature Book Notes, Author Biographies, Book Summaries and Reference Books. Whereas in literature at Bibliomania one can have books on classic fiction, drama, poetry, short stories and contemporary articles and interviews.
    7. The Electronic Text Center: It is also known by the name of “Etext” as it serves university communities teaching and research needs in the areas of humanities and text coding for over fifteen years.
    8. Digital Book Index: It provides links to more than 148,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 120,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, and others are priced on a very modest cost.
    9. eBooksread:. It offers nearly 250,000 free e-books! You can either download the books in either in PDF format or in plain text. They work on any e-book reader. You can also read them on your computer. The books are available in the public domain. Here you would have a good number of older titles too.
    10. Classic Reader: At this free online library you can have thousands of free classic books and short stories for the purpose of online reading by authors ranging from Andy Adams to Emile Zola. Here book are divided into categories of fiction, non fiction, young readers, poetry, short stories, drama and classical.

    Monday, December 13, 2010

    NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH SCIENCE LIBRARIES

    21- 22 January 2011

    The Conference aims at providing a platform for discussions and debates on Management of Health Science Information Resources and Services. It also aims at sharing knowledge and experiences among LIS Professionals, Scholars and Faculty on various issues pertaining to organization, acquisition, accessing and management of medical information. And also the challenges faced by the health service libraries and information professionals in the digital/electronic information era. This conference also wants to alert and communicate the current and changing trends in information and knowledge management as well as learn the methods in providing required services to meet the ever changing needs of information seekers in the medical profession.

    For further details email: raviisai@gmail.com

    World Digital Library: a unique resource for world culture

    The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

    The WDL makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures from around the world on one site, in a variety of ways. These cultural treasures include, but are not limited to, manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings.

    Items on the WDL may easily be browsed by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution, or can be located by an open-ended search, in several languages. Special features include interactive geographic clusters, a timeline, advanced image-viewing and interpretive capabilities. Item-level descriptions and interviews with curators about featured items provide additional information.

    Navigation tools and content descriptions are provided in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Many more languages are represented in the actual books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and other primary materials, which are provided in their original languages.

    The WDL was developed by a team at the U.S. Library of Congress, with contributions by partner institutions in many countries; the support of the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); and the financial support of a number of companies and private foundations.

    For more Information visit: www.wdl.org

    Tuesday, December 7, 2010

    NATIONAL CONFERENCES

    MALLA REDDY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY is CONDUCTING/ORGANIZING VARIOUS NATIONAL CONFERENCES on "


    * Aeronautical Engineering (AE).

    Aerospace Engineering

    * Computer Science & Engineering (CSE).

    Distributing Computing

    * Electronics & Communications Engg (ECE).

    Signal Processing & Communication

    * Information Technology (I.T)

    Information Technology

    * Master of Business Administration (M.B.A).

    Strategies for Business Excellence


    For more information on the said workshops please visit http://mrcet.ac.in/view/Nationalconference.htm or contact at vskreddy2003@gmail.com

    British Library Books (Under Inter Library Loan Services)

    Following books are procured from British Library; Chandigarh for library users, under Inter Library Loan Services for the period of 04th Dec to 27th Dec 2010. Users can consult these books inside the library in Reference Section.

    Sr.No Title Author

    1. Sustainability Strategies Orsato, Renato J
    2. What’s Your Bright Idea Campbell and Humphries
    3. You Have Control Hatton, Claire Louise
    4. How the Internet Works Gralla, Preston
    5. Avoid Boring People Watson, James D.
    6. Principles of Structures Hanaor, Ariel
    7. Instant MBA Bate, Nicholas
    8. Google Speaks Lowe, Janet
    9. Successful Networking Kay, Frances
    10. Computer Organization and System Software Jain and Others
    11. Neuro Linguistic Programming Knight, Sue