Transcript ORIENTATION PROGRAM FOR THE STUDENTS OF PGDM 45TH/ …

B.C. Roy Memorial Library
Indian Institute of
Management Calcutta
Orientation Program
for
46h PGDM, 16th PGDCM and
Fellow Program Students
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Welcome
We, the staff members of the
library of Indian Institute of
Management Calcutta, extend a
very warm welcome to the
students of 46th batch PGDM,
16th batch of PGDCM program and
Fellowship program.
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Our Location
We are surrounded by:
- Computer center on our right;
- Forthcoming 4-storied building in
the front;
- Lake on the backside;
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To know the Library in
Details
• Today, I will quickly walk you through
our library in virtual mode. It is,
however, important that you spend
some time in the library to know the
same in more details.
• We will conduct guided library tour,
twice on all working days, till July 24,
2009. Please sign up for one session
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and join the tour.
Working Hours
• Monday—Friday
9:30A.M.—1:00A.M
• Weekends/Holiday
10:00A.M.—1:00 AM.
• Fully closed
26th January/15th August &
2nd October
During mid-term/end-term exam, we remain
open till 3 AM
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Important Contact
• Contact: Users’ Assistance Desk
• Where: 1st floor, behind the
book issue/return counter
• Whom:
Mr. Chanchal Pal
• Phone:
419/418
• Email: [email protected]
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Your Representative
• PGDM/PGDCM students send their
representative every year to the Library
Committee. Current representative is Ms.
Neha Aggarwal
[email protected]
• FP students also send their representative
to the committee. Current representative is
Mr. Abhishek Chakraborty
[email protected]
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Library Tour
• Till July 24, 2009, we will
provide guided tour to our
library. It will take place twice
everyday. Please sign up for the
tour in the register maintained at
the Users’ Assistance Desk and
report to the Desk, at the
appropriate time.
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Our Collection
• Books
• E- journals and
databases
• Reference
collection
(Dictionary,
Encyclopedia,
Yearbook etc.)
• Theses
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• Journals
• Summer
project reports
• Working papers
• Audio-visual
materials
• Govt. Reports
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Glimpse into our collection
• We have:
– 1,25,000 books
– 500 print journals with approximately
60,000 old volumes
– More than 40,000 electronic resources
– A good number of company reports,
summer project reports, working papers
from other organizations.
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Location of Books &
Journals
• Books are arranged according to decimal notation.
It is easy to track a book in the shelf, if you can
locate the same in the catalog. We call that
notation class number.
Stack-1
- covering class numbers 000—349
Stack-2
- covering class numbers 350—999
Stack-3
- Bound journals
Ground floor
- Current journals
Please take a library tour to become familiar with this important facility
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Your facilities
Borrowing books
Photocopy facility
Computing facility
Reading facility
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Borrowing books
If you are PGDM/PGDCM student
you can borrow for 5 books from general collection and retain them
for 15 days;
you can borrow 1 book from overnight collection between 11PM and
12:30 AM everyday and retain the same till 11:59 AM (maximum
13 hours).
If you are FP student
you can borrow 20 books from general collection and retain the
same for 90
days;
you can also borrow one book from overnight section as mentioned
above.
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Photocopy
• You can avail our photocopy service
to get copy of required materials;
• Photocopy service is available from 12
PM – 8 PM on working days only;
• You will be charged 70 paisa per
exposure;
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Computing facility
• We have a number of computers
in different locations of the
library. Please ask Users’
Assistance Desk to know the
locations. The library is also wi-fi
enabled and you can connect your
laptop to the network.
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Reading facility
• There are several reading
areas inside the library. You
have to observe silence in
most of the areas. If you
want to study in group and
discuss with your colleagues,
please move to Group Study
Area.
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Library Portal
• Please consult the library
portal to know more about the
collection, services, and
facilities. You can connect to
the library portal from the
website of the institute.
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Institute Website
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Library Website Interface
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Library Portal
• You can also go to the library
portal directly using the
address
http://library.iimcal.ac.in
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Library Website Link to the
Catalog
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Library Catalog Interface
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Searching the catalog
• You will learn more about
searching the catalog, let me give
you a few examples:
• IIM, Calcutta : Online Catalogue
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Some Abbreviations Used in the
Catalogue
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Rqst
In appvl
Appvd
Order
Rcvd
Tech Proc
Bindry
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:On request
:Sent for Director’s approval
:Approved by the Director
:Order has been placed
:Book received
:Book sent to Processing Section
:Book sent for binding
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Our Electronic Collection
• We have a large collection of
electronic resources. Some of
them are databases and rest are
journals.
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Library Website Link to the
Electronic Collection
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Searching Electronic Collection
• To search any of these resources you
should use that link:
• Connecting to Electronic resources
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Vendors’ Presentations
Many times, vendors of various
electronic resources offer
presentations/training sessions.
We will let you know about such
presentations so that you can
participate in those sessions.
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If you want to receive….
If you want to receive information,
regularly from the library, in your
personal mail account, I suggest you
create a group of email ids(something
like yahoogroup) and let me know the
same so that I can push each
notification from the library to your
account.
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More….
• We are issuing temporary library tickets so that
you can borrow books now. We will hand over you
the regular library tickets shortly. Please take
care of that temporary ticket and do not allow
anyone else to use your ticket.
• Even though we are open for nearly 15 hours,
limited service and reading/computing facilities are
available after 5:30 PM and on holidays. If you
have any query, please contact Users’ Assistance
Desk between 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM or use
LibraryHelpDesk facility of our web portal.
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A few not so good information
• There will be penalty for
– late return of books and other materials;
– loss of library materials;
– If found damaging library materials
(severe penalty)
• To know about penalty, please contact
Users’ Assistance Desk.
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Our hopes
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Questions/Comments?
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Thank You
I am
Swati Bhattacharyya
Librarian
On behalf of IIMC
Library
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