Internship experience

1. A TECHNICAL REPORT ON
1 WEEK INTERNSHIP IN
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
(IICB)
By
Kaustuv Chakrabarti
6th Semester
5 -Year Integrated MLIS Course
University of Calcutta
Year:2015

2. INTRODUCTION
In 6th semester, 5 -Year Integrated MLIS Course
has internship programme as a part of our course
for hands on training in reputed
libraries/information centers. Therefore, we were
divided into 3 groups and were sent to three
important institutions of India. One of them is
Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB).
10 students were sent to IICB and I was in this
group.

3. INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
(IICB)
Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB) is a biomedical
research centre in Kolkata, established in 1935. The
Library and documentation centre of this institution is
perhaps, the biggest one on biomedical sciences in the
eastern zone of India.

4. 1ST DAY (6TH APRIL)
Our training started on 6th April. We arrived at
sharp 10a.m and reported to the librarian
N.C.Ghosh.
 He taught us about the library rules and
professional ethics, library management and
time management.
 He introduced us to the library personnel.
 He told us to observe the library acutely.

5. ACTIVITIES
The library
 Has an archival section for
printed documents.
 Has a well furnished
reading hall with a net
section having 30
computers.
 Is open from 9-30 a.m. to
6.00 p.m. (from Monday
to Friday).

6. PROBLEMS
Dust and insects in some areas.
Improper shelving.

7.  We formed two groups to do library works. First
group consists of six members and second group
consists of four members. Our group members
were Akhil, Aishee,Sudeshna and me.
 Sutapa madam guided us to repair the damaged
spine labels on the cover of books and she
provided us some useful materials to arrange
the books in a proper way.
 We completed more than 250 books and
arranged them properly.

8. 2ND DAY (7TH APRIL)
We had an interactive session on that
morning with Sutapa madam.
She divided us in 3 groups A, B and C.
I was in team C and my group members
were Sujata Biswas and Arpita Mondal.

9. 3RD AND 4TH DAY (9,10/O4/15)
Our task was:
Classification of books from IICB according
Universal Decimal Classification, Standard
edition;
Cataloguing of the books and theses in MARC21
format, Libsys4 software;
Data entry of 18 books in Libsys4;
Circulation process (issue and return of books by
barcode);
Barcode generation;
Membership card generation;

10. 5TH DAY (10TH APRIL)
59th foundation day of IICB.
The institute organized a programme and
we were allowed to attend it. We became
aware of the glorious history of the
institution till date. I was proud that as a
trainee, I listened to the lectures of the
works of the renowned personalities who
were present on the day.

11. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This entire work was learnt under the
supervision of library personnel Sutapa
Madam and Shantanu da.