Koha Serials Control

 NECOLIB Demo on Koha Serials Control Module

Date: 18-08-2020 [12.00 noon]

Technology Partner: L2C2 Technologies, India

Online Training on Koha Serials Control

NECOLIB Offers Online Training on Koha Serials Control Module

Target participants: Librarians, LIS Professionals, Students

Participant Limit: 50 only

Training Period:  2 days (1 hour each) [01.00 pm to 02.00 pm]
Dates:10- 10-11 August 2020
Course fee: Rs.200.00 

Evaluation Mode: Training & MCQ type test

Test date: 16-08-2020 (7.30 pm)

Certificate Mode: E-Certificate will be issued after the Online Test.

Training Platform: Will be notified later

Trainer: Amit Uraon [Assistant Librarian, Assam University, Silchar]

Technology Partner: L2C2 Technologies, India
For any query, drop a mail at necolib.india@gmail.com

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Online Training on Moodle E-learning Software

NECOLIB Offers Online Training on Moodle E Learning Software.

Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners. A simple interface, drag-and-drop features, and well-documented resources along with ongoing usability improvements make Moodle easy to learn and use. 

Moodle’s multilingual capabilities ensure there are no linguistic limitations to learning online. Moodle is web-based and so can be accessed from anywhere in the world. With a default mobile-compatible interface and cross-browser compatibility, content on the Moodle platform is easily accessible and consistent across different web browsers and devices.

During this Covid19 Lock Down period, Moodle has enabled academician to impart knowledge using its unique feature like Design exclusive courses, Enroll students, Online class, Submission of assignment, conduct examination etc. As UGC has advised for Online Classes using E Platform, Moodle may be one of the best option for all organisations,

Target participants: Librarians, Faculty Members (all subject), LIS Professionals, Students
Participant Limit: 50 only

Training Period:  3 days (2 hours each) [11.00 am to 01.00 pm]
Dates: 27-29 July, 2020
Course fee: Rs.600.00 [cloud practice platform will be offered]

Evaluation Mode: Assignment & MCQ type test

Test date: will be notified later

Certificate Mode: E-Certificate will be issued after Online Test.

Training Platform: will be notified later

Course Content:

1. E Learning Why, What and How

2. E-Courseware : An overview

3. E-Content Creation using Open Platform

4. Creating Online Course synchronous with syllabus

5. Registration of students & enrollment to specific course

6. Uploading Study material in course (pdf, text, audio, video)

7. Assignment Management

Technology Partner: L2C2 Technologies, India
For any query, drop a mail at necolib.india@gmail.com

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Linux for Librarians

NECOLIB E-Lecture Series 2020-II

Theme: LINUX basics for Librarians

On the screen: Swarnadeep Biswas

Assistant Professor (Physics)

Assam University, Silchar 

Time: 13-06-2020 at 07.00 pm 

Venue: Cisco Webex & Youtube Live

REGISTRATION is FREE

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Program manager: Apurba J Majumder

Technical Partner: L2C2 Technologies, Kolkata

Channel Partner: Sujan Saha

Publicity Partner: Sandip Das

Resource Mobilisation: The sustainability opportunity for modern day library

Apurba J Majumder Assistant Librarian Assam University, Silchar apurbajyoi@gmail.com

 

ABSTRACT

Purpose:  The growing information needs of users because of inter-disciplinary nature of research, availability of documents in various formats, ever-increasing prices and inadequate budget have made financial management of the library a challenging task. The basic motive of this study is to evaluate various aspects of resource mobilisation and avenues of revenue generation by a university library.  It aims to consider the various factors of fund generation to sustain in the curb of recession in libraries. The study also tries to suggest some important areas for proper access and optimum use of library resources, which will help the library to minimise the library budget and subsequently helping in revenue earning.

Design/Methodology/Approach: The study was initiated with consulting existing research documents on various areas of revenue generation, fund and resource mobilisation by a library. The researcher also tried to collect first hand data by sharing experience of senior library professionals. The various pros and cons also taken into consideration while making the inference.

Research Objective: Today financial resources are decreasing but specialization in various disciplines and emergence of new and inter disciplinary area of research has increased the complexity and tremendous pressure of users for better and quality services and resources are creating a tremendous pressure on librarians. This study is an effort to raise the issue and stimulate the library professions, how they can re-use strategically the available assets to earn some additional revenue for the library. Of course, the emerging new technologies and methods of management need to be considered more for the purpose of the study.

Findings: The study was an attempt to make an idea to propose the income avenues for university libraries.  As the university library is non-profit organization that do not have any income of their own except the library fees and fines received from the student, it should always be kept in consideration that the present day's scenario of prices, service remunerations and programmes under operation should have relation with assistance allocation. This study can serve as a basic standard to the Library & Information Professionals to help themselves and the parent authority to sustain the challenge of fund crisis in the university library.

Originality/value – it is expected that the study will provide a useful podium for further research as well as usability among all type of libraries to be improved.

Keywords: Revenue generation, library resource mobilisation, library fund generation, Library recession, Re-engineering

Type: Proposal, Feasibility Study.

 1.                   Introduction

The economic recession has hit all sectors of our life as well as in the education sector.  The education and research budget is shrinking day by day and consequently the library budget is also diminishing. Librarians are finding it tough to cope up with the requirement of the growing users with limited budget along with the overflow of information. Even, the funding agencies are also suggesting to generate own resources by academic bodies. As per the current trends Library is one of the softest areas which is on top priority in terms of curtailment by the authority whenever there is a fund crunch.

The university library is one of the major academic part and a good amount is spent for smooth running of the library by purchasing books and subscribing to the different journals for the users. The fund flow of the library must be seamless to maintain the good academic environment and also cater the need of the users with current and up-to-date resources as the main aim of the library is to satisfy their users needs. The modern day users want their documents to be in multiple formats, mostly electronic with remote access of the documents. The age old concept of printed book is accompanying with electronic documents and modern ICT enabled library services has to serve with the users to sustain in the modern IT trends with the recession. However, since last several years, the fund flow towards library has slowed down and the library administration has to face several difficulties in accommodating the services within that fund. As the Govt. funding is drying up gradually and UGC as well as University has no proper guidelines for yearly growth of collection development policy, minimum library services, the libraries must trace out ways to self-financing techniques to keep the services smooth running. Its need to be kept in mind that it is not advisable to stop users’ services for the want of funds. Therefore, the only option left is to mobilise existing library resources and up to date services with some revenue generation concept.

The university library derives funds through the university whose sources of financial support is government grants, student fees, private contributions and gifts, endowments, etc. The main and major part of source of funds is government grants and student fees, which account for about 90% of the total revenue of each university. The Govt of India as per its new IT and Academic policy emphasis more on e-resources subscription via consortia mode and too open access. The Cost vs Access analysis of the university libraries is not convincing due to various reasons need to study in other ways. But  as the major fault planning is not comprehensive and in consortia mode the diversified resources are not properly used.

2.                  Literature search:

Resource  mobilization  is  one  of  the  important  activities that  will  enable  libraries  to  effectively  utilize the  available  resources  for  effective provision of library and information service. ( Jilovsky, 2001)

The need to serve more and diverse functions has often brought pressure upon libraries and librarians to become more efficient and to find additional resources. The growing importance of fund-raising in libraries is evidenced by the increasing number of professional positions on library staff as well as development staff in academic institutions that are devoted to library fund-raising. (Burlingame, 1994)

Universities organize their fund-raising efforts in three basic ways—centralized, decentralized, and a combination of the two. The centralized development structure plans and executes the university’s fund-raising efforts from one office. Professional fund-raisers report directly to and are paid for by that office although they may work for one or more colleges, including the library. Decentralized development consists of constituent fundraisers who work in and report directly to a college or unit. They are hired and funded by the college or unit. At most public universities combinations of centralized and decentralized are the norm, with more decentralization emerging as the expectations and intensity of fundraising increases. (Dewey, 2006)

Basically, resource mobilization means-exhausting potential sources of assistance to finance a project or an activity. It is a process of developing, generating, and managing funds, information, goods, services, people and institutions to provide support to certain development. Proper and efficient resource generation strategies are essential and prerequisites to the development of library resource mobilization strategies. Resource mobilization is an entirely different set of functions that requires a different set of skills and capacities which college library must put effort on capacity building activities for its concerned officials and its library personnel. (Joute, 2014)

3.                  Conventional Sources of Fund:

3.1.            Parent body: Funds received from the university budget form an important source of revenue for the libraries. In general, the library will not be concerned with the sources of university income, since it will receive the greater part of its own income from the university itself The University libraries get financial support from the universities out of their own funds and this fluids may be made directly to the library. UGC since its inception recognized the importance of University libraries and gave top priority for their development in the Five Year Plans. Besides providing financial assistance for books, building etc it provide leadership and forum for planning, discussion and action. (Patil, 2011)

3.2.            Library fee: Libraries usually render their services on a non-profit basis. It is debatable that libraries can charge for their services, as charge on traditional services may deter use of library. Any fund generation from fee-based services is only restricted to only new services and the fund so generated should be considered as a supplementary fund. Normally, such (limited) funds are added to the general fund of the parent organisation for allocation through normal budgeting procedure.

3.3.            Overdue fines: This is always a regular source of funds. Though imposing fine on users sometimes objectionable, but this is also mandatory to maintain the regular book in-out and book circulation and access to maximum users. However, nominal overdue charges (library fine), recovery charges for not returned books and charges for duplicate cards, etc. are well accepted in most circumstances.

4.                  Non-Conventional mode of earning:

It is not a very easy task to supplement the regular income source with an additional mobilised fund. The planning and execution must be very accurate and with proper vision. Initially, any new system will face objection from the system and the librarian has to take the challenge. Once the authority get convinced with the system of inflow of funds, the image of the Library & Librarian will grow eventually. The following are few prospects where a modern day university library may earn additional sum of money along with regular endowment fund from parent organisation.

4.1.            Advanced Academic Service: The University library may offer some information service, referencing service, notes for the examination on payment basis for its students, faculty members or off campus academicians. The research scholars and faculty members are regular in need of such services and the library may out of the course of regular service may plan to start such services for the user and even extended to affiliated colleges and nearby academic institutes. The Printing and Photocopying services may be made available in the library, which in turn helps the library to generate some funds. The most important thing is that, this source is regular and also raise the status of the library in terms of service delivery. Increased use of a particular service and changed need among users provide clue for new services. Hence the primary motive of fee-based new services should not be generating profit or fund but gaining these intangible benefits.

4.2.            Academic Program in distance learning mode: Library may offer some of the very popular professional courses like PGDLAN, PGDLIM under Distance Education, with practical exposure to Library Automation Practice. In India, only a few universities offer such courses viz University of Hyderabad, Punjab University, IGNOU, TISS, Mumbai etc. The courses are one year duration (two semesters). In most of the universities, the courses are run by Central Library where Dept of LIS does not exist (UOH). Library may also offer Certificate, Diploma in Library Science. The advantage of these courses is that the students can learn . Even, the library can offer training for NET/Set examination on payment basis.

4.3.            Short term Training Courses: Library may organise short term training courses on Library Management, Open Source Library Software  (Digital Library Softwares, Library management software, CMS, OJS etc ). These types of programs are a good source for fund where expenditure is limited for organising the program. The central library may plan a year-long schedule. For this purpose, the hostel facility may be offered during vacations. These courses are very popular and are a good source of revenue. The Library may show the implementation steps to the participants and also practical knowledge will be imparted. The training of library staff who do not have basic library science background may also be organised by offering them to learn the library operations as hands on practice at university libraries. Inflibnet, Niscair etc are regularly offering library related courses.

4.4.            Library Consultancy: The central Library may start paid consultancy for other libraries regarding library building planning, starting a new service, library automation, designing and establishing digital library, in-house training for library staff etc. This can became the major source of income for a librarian as well as the parent organisation. Even NAAC, NIRF, UGC also offers credit to the library & library staff offering consultancy service. The private service providers are earning huge money offering technical support services. Similarly, University libraries can also offer such payment based services to affiliated college library and other community libraries of the locality. In India NISCAIR, DELNET etc are offering such services and earning a handsome amount through this process. The library officers / senior professionals may also be deputed for conducting training at various academic institutes, affiliated colleges etc to train their library staff.

4.5.            Digital archive for affiliated colleges: Most of the universities have digital library hosted in their servers. In this way, the digital library of affiliated colleges, private academic institutes can be hosted at University Library IDR Server (Dspace) with annual payment basis. Most of the colleges do not have sufficient funds and staff to establish and maintain their own repository. The space can be offered on lease [cloud services] which can be a major source of funds. The annual maintenance fee will also be an additional funding source. Even the Web-OPAC of colleges can also be hosted by Central Library.

4.6.            Special Library Membership: University Library in intended to cater the regular users of that university including Staff, Student & Scholars. Generally, a university library offers complimentary access to other outside academicians for 1-2 days as a casual visitor. But, for prolonged and dedicated use of the library, associate membership for off campus academicians against payment of membership fee. A good number of visitors including faculty members and research scholars from other universities visit the university library regular basis to access the resources. Individual and Institutional membership may be offered.The paid access of subscribed E-resources can also be offered on hourly / per download basis along with printing facility.

4.7.            Selling bibliographic Data: The library book database [available in online format] for local language books can be sold, as database for Indian Languages etc books are not readily available. The library data entry for retrospective conversion or regular database update is a huge task and in a college libraries it's to be done by the librarian himself The central library can even think of establishing an Z39.5 server for union catalogue of Libraries.

4.8.            Selling old items: These is a good number of books available in our library, which are no longer being used by students due to out of syllabus or old edition. They may have been categorised as Passive Collection and later may be weeded out following the Govt norms. The library may plan to sell them at reduced cost to the general public and other libraries. IIT s are practising such procedure. Old newspaper, waste paper selling also gets little amount of fund.

5.                  Conclusions:

Our prime duty is to provide services to the users. No doubt, regular budget flow is a major force for libraries to be run, but librarians also has to find ways to help the organisation also to manage the lowered rate of fund flow. The above points are just a guideline. The points to be analysed properly and feasibility study to be done before implementation. Long term planning is required and proper promotion/Advertisement is required for successful and quality output.

Fee-based new services are not only required to be carefully and strategically planned, avoiding duplicating local services or competing with other local information systems but also promoted with appropriate marketing methods. Pricing of these services is a tricky issue as professional research time, local interlibrary loan and document copying, verification of citation information, translation and other documentation services, copyright charges, taxes and tariffs, staff time, etc., are involved. In addition to extensive marketing and pricing structure, care should be taken not to violate lease agreements, licenses and copyright restrictions, service tax, etc.

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Date of Publish: 05-06-2020

PLAN A DIGITAL LIBRARY

NECOLIB E-Lecture Series 2020-I

PLANNING TO ESTABLISH A DIGITAL LIBRARY: HOMEWORK WILL LAND YOU TO RIGHT PLATFORM

The Lecture PDF file is here

Sub-theme

1. Digital Library Overview
1. Why Digital Library
2. Role of DL in Post Covid19 Season
3. Role of Librarian in designing a DL
2. Metadata Standards
1. Role of Metadata in DL
2. Dublin Core
3. Relation between Metadata Standards
3. Submission Workflow
1. Submitter
2. Reviewer
3. Metadata Editor
4. Administrator
4. Legal Issue
1. Creative Commons
2. Copyright vs Copyleft
3. Sherpa Romeo
5. Metadata Harvesting
1. OAI-PMH
2. Item Harvesting with Metadata

On the Screen: Dr Dipen Deka [Assistant Professor, Dept of LIS, Gauhati University]

Date: 8th June, 2020 (Monday)
Time: 11.30 am

Registration is FREE

Registration ends on : 7th June 2020 (12.00 noon)

The Program will be hosted in Cisco Webex and Youtube LIVE [click to subscribe]

Technical Partner: L2C2 Teachnologies, Kolkata

Program Coordinator: Apurba J Majumder

Channel Partner: Sujan Saha

Registration Link

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Digital Library of Assam

Computerisation is the first step of modern library system. Library automation is the next step for modernisation of libraries in the present changing environment. After automation the further step is for up gradation and promotion of digital library. Since the present era is meant for digital it is required to be introduced digital library system. DLS has taken step of computerisation, automation and Digital Library from time to time. Directorate of Library Services, Guwahati has a Digital Library Unit where in research oriented activities are done successfully. The digital library is opened for readers as well as research scholar under reference section of DLS at the District Library Guwahati campus under the Directorate of Library Services, Assam. Till now 4000 titles (total pages of 1128129) (rare & copyright free books) has already digitized and it is available in digitized mode. These books available in various languages such as Assamese, Bengali, English, French, Hindi, Italian, Manipuri, Mongolian, Sanskrit and others. It is available in the LAN of District Library Guwahati. Every readers may search the books by subject, title, author, publisher, year of publication, keyword. If anybody desires to print the selective pages which is available he or she may take the pages after the paying the printing cost. The digitization work is done by CDAC, Kolkata under the "Digital Library for North Eastern States" which the project is funded by Department of Electronic & Information Technology (DeitY) Govt. of India.

On the other hand Gauwhati District Library under Directorate of Library Services, Assam also start the public internet centre under the National Mission of Libraries(model Library) which the financed by the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India. Under this scheme this library also implement the RFID(radio frequency identification) system in the lending system.

Original Published Date: 07-09-2019

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Setting up your hosted Koha ILS practise instance

This brief tutorial was put together for the participants who had opted for hosted Koha 19.11.05 practice instance for the NECOLIB on-line training on Koha ILS.

This video is published as a part of NECOLIB Live Training 2020.
Video Created by: Indranil Das Gupta; L2C2 technologies, Kolkata

Webinar on Promoting Reading among Communities through Public Libraries

Library Professionals Association is organizing a webinar on *Promoting Reading among Communities through Public Libraries* on *May 31, 2020, 12.00 pm (Sunday)*.

Renowned Public librarian and Speaker Dr. Neeza Singh, Librarian at T.S. Central State Library, Chandigarh & INELI South Asia Mentor will be addressed to LPA webinar

This webinar is free for all but registration is mandatory, only 500 seats available on first come basis.

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National Webinar on Academic and Research Integrity by Naharkatiya College

Academic and research integrity is the pursuit of scholarly activity in an open, honest and responsible manner. This webinar will give an overview of what research integrity is, why it’s important and new challenges faced by publishers to maintain research integrity in a fast-changing industry. The webinar will focus on the importance of collaborative solutions to these challenges and will be of interest to researchers, Teachers, institutions, editors, publishers, librarians and anyone else involved on the conduct, oversight and dissemination of scholarly research. 

All Research Scholars, and Teaching Professionals from Social Science, Humanities can join this Webinar.
🕒 This webinar times 🕒
Wed, May 27, 2020 2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Thu, May 28, 2020 2:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Theme: Academic and Research Integrity 
Sub theme: 
👉 Academic Writing
👉 Bibliometrics Indicator and Academic Identity 
👉 Plagiarism in Academics and Research
👉 Reference Management Tools 

Speakers: 
1. Prof. (Dr.) Ramesh C Gaur, Dean & Head Kala Nidhi at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India.
2. Dr. Utpal Das, Deputy Librarian, Dibrugrah University, Dibrugrah : Assam.
3. Dr. S. Ravikumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Library & Information Science, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong: Meghalaya. 
4. Dr. Tilak Hazarika, Assistant Professor, Department of Library & Information Science, Guahati University, Guwahati, Assam.

Webinar Convenor: 
Suraj Gogoi, 
Librarian, Naharkatiya College, 
Naharkatiya, Dibrugrah: Assam. 
E-mail: sgogoilib@gmail.com Phone: +91-9954896524 

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Resume Library Service after Lock Down

The world is facing one of the major setback today due to Covid19 infection. IN our country also, nation-wide lock down has been imposed since 23-03-2020. Though some relaxations have been offered, but pure campus based academic activities is still under Freeze mode. The library service is also not out of this. All academic or public libraries are closed for users with the fear of spreading community infection. Nevertheless, the situation will not remain same forever. Though, the library extended services are being offered in some cases, but eventually we have to start our physical library services as well. The challenge comes here. Once we open the physical gate of our libraries, we expect a throng of users in the libraries and we have to control that.

The Indian Academic Libraries are not really very scientifically designed. Many Schools & Colleges use a single room or two as a Library with single entry/exit gate for security reasons. Even, the reading room and book shelves do not follow adequate space between them. Therefore, the concept of following social distancing remains a challenge for the Librarians. The libraries must follow the Govt. Guidelines to ensure users safety in terms of health issue and offer minimum opportunity to spreading of infections. IFLA, though given some guidelines for the global scenario, but we the Indian Library professionals must redefine its own guideline.

NECOLIB, in this context would like to offer a set of instructions, which may be considers as a skeleton for the libraries to redefine its own policy. These have be prepared in consultation with the senior professionals of the country.

For School / College Library:

1. Make the Library Closed Access System. The Library Automation system and OPAC will really help you to offer the optimum library services maintaining the safety protocols. The users may communicate to the library staff over electronic mode regarding their document requirement and that would be provided to them using a single counter by the library staff.
2. The reading room facility should be stopped or reduced to minimize crowd of student & other user in the library. As far as possible, promote lending of books to home & hostel for personal study. The E-Books may also be promoted among users as GoI initiatives like NDLI & NLIST etc offer huge number of e books for the students. The Online Text books portal like CBSE/NCERT E-books are also good source for online study. Now a day many state boards also upload their textbooks in official platform.
3. The authority must ensure that each student whoever comes to the library must wear Masks and hand wash/Sanitizers should be made available at the entrance.
4. The return of the books may cause a threat to the library staff, as we do not now the travel history of the book during its issue period. Therefore, upon return the books need to be quarantine for the considerable period [as per govt guideline] before putting the books back to the shelves. A separate room or dedicated space may be allocated for it. The books will be dropped by the students there after circulation procedure.
5. The issue period may be enhanced to allow users to keep books for longer period, which in-turn will invite less users to library. Moreover, cycle circulation facility may also be initiated.
6. As far as possible, offer the User Orientation on Online Mode. The librarian may record a video describing all library facility & resources and share in Youtube. Even a PowerPoint presentation may also be uploaded in OPAC or Organization Website.
7. The new user registration should also be done over online mode. Lots of the organizations follow online admission mode now. After admission is over, the users data may be collected from  administration and same data may be used for library membership as well. If you have WebOPAC, you may also offer Self Registration Facility.

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Webinar on Koha by IGNCA

Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts 

 इंदिरा गांधी राष्ट्रीय कला केंद्र Kala Nidhi division and Best Book Buddies Cordially invites you to Webinar on Koha for Library Management & Enhancement

of Reading, Writing, Environment through Library

Library Software Live Training

Due to less number of participants, the training has been rescheduled as given below

NECOLIB offers series Live Training on Library Software.

The training will be for only 1 session (Morning) on selected dates using Cisco Webex / Bigbluebutton Platform. .