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NIT SILCHAR

The National Institute of Technology, Silchar (An Institute of National Importance) is one of the premier national level institutions for technical education in North East India. Government of India as a joint venture with Government of Assam established Regional Engineering College, Silchar in 1967 with the objective of imparting quality engineering education, providing cosmopolitan outlook among students and fostering a spirit of National Integration. This institution has been transformed and upgraded to National Institute of Technology, Silchar with a Deemed University Status with effect from 28.06.2002. The institute has been subsequently made into a fully funded Government of India institution. The institute is situated in an extending campus about 540 acres of undulating land and lakes surround by tea estates and hillocks providing an ideal environment for studies.

LIBRARY@NIT SILCHAR

The Central Library which is the heart of the Institute was established in 1977.  It provides one of the important academic services to the Institute. It is a well equipped Library, centrally located with easy access and does provide right impetus for the intellectual growth of the students, teachers, research scholars & others around.  Presently the Library is a part of the LTT building with 997 Sq. Mt. floor area & having around 90,000 collections of documents.

The National Institute of Technology Silchar Library with its modern collection of knowledge resources and innovative information services fills an essential role for students, faculty, and the surrounding community in their intellectual pursuits. It is a hybrid library with the state-of-the-art technological applications. The Library holds knowledge resources predominantly related to Science and Technology, Social Sc & other allied subjects. The Library is now fully computerized with an integrated system connected to the Campus Network providing e-resource facility to the institute community. The entire Library collection including the CD-ROM databases and the online databases are made available through Institute’s network. Users can access the online databases through Institute’s network.   On-line Public Access Catalogue facility is available at the ground Floor of the Library. OPAC can also be accessed through any terminal on the Campus Network. Library collection can also be searched through Web OPAC.

The Library offers a range of information services to support the learning process set to the highest professional standards. The Library is holding membership of ACL, Kolkata & DELNET, New Delhi for inter library loan. National Institute of Technology Silchar Library is an active member of INDEST Consortium through which online full text journals can be accessed.

SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE (SIS)

The Society for Information Science (SIS) (http://www.sis.org.in) founded in 1975, works in the broad domain of Information Sciences. The Society for Information Science (SIS) was formed with the following aims;

i)  To promote interchange of information in the discipline of information science and its subdivision amongst the specialists and between specialists and the public.

ii)  To encourage and assist the professionals to maintain the integrity and competence of the profession.

iii)  To foster a sense of partnership amongst the professionals engaged in these fields.

The Society is of the firm opinion that there should be systematic approach in adapting new information technology with cot-benefit analysis. There should also be a plan to strengthen infrastructure viz., to create manpower and maintenance support to the new technology. The Society is firmly committed to provide a congenial environment for interaction among information innovation, industry, technology management and services which are socially relevant in the interest of the Nation. The SIS functions through an Executive Committee consisting of experts from different institutions and assisted by various sub-committees for carrying out its programme.

Society for Information Science (SIS) is an all India professional body devoted to encouraging interaction among information professionals, scientists, managers and users. The Society is truly professional in nature. It enrolls only the qualified persons as members after the applications have been screened and approved by the Membership Screening Committee which is duly nominated by the Executive Committee.

          The Society has come a long way in 36 years of its existence; it has been able to peruse the programme quite successfully maintaining its vibrant character. It is a body of experts and leading professionals from different esteemed Indian institutions such as CSIR, IITs, IIMs, ICMR, and different universities, colleges, and others in the field of information Science. The most important programme of SIS i.e. Annual Conventions are being organized regularly every year in different parts of the country. SIS has organized the event in most of the states of India but it will be for the first time one NE state will be holding the SIS Convention.  The last SIS convention SIS 2011 was held in CSIR- URDIP, Pune on the theme 'Patinformatics for Research and Business Planning'. SIS Conventions cover the topics, which in a way reflect SIS’s forward thinking about selecting topics from the frontier areas of information science and technology.

The SIS awards Fellowships to members in recognition of their outstanding contributions to information Science and to Society. The Young Information Scientist Award has been instituted in 1989 in the memory of Late Shri A.S. Raizada, Founder Secretary of SIS. The publications of SIS include SISCOM and SISTRANS.