THE HOST
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.
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