Paper Presented in National Seminar on Networking of Library and Information Centres of North East India in Digital Environment (NLICDE-2011) (21-23 March 2011)ORGANISED UNDER THE AEGIS OF National Library, Kolkata Ministry of Culture, Govt. of IndiaByOrganized by Central Library, National Institute of Technology Silchar

1. ICT APPLICATIONS IN SMIT LIBRARY: A STUDY Presented by KhundrakpamPremoda Devi Asst.Librarian SMIT

3. Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology

4. College of Physiotherapy

5. College of Nurshing

6. School of Basic & Applied Sciences

8. Computer Science & Engineering

9. Information Technology

10. Electrical & Electronic engineering

11. Mechanical Engineering

12. Civil Engineering

13. Applied Electronic & Instrumentation Engineering

14. Physics

15. Chemistry

16. Mathematics

18. The library is open access system and following DDC(22nd ed).

19. The library is having 9 staffs.

20. SMIT Library is having 32000 books ,180 journals,4235 project report, 1179 CD-ROMs,4000periodical back volumes and 54 VDO.

21. Library is also having separate reference section consisting of encyclopedia,directories,handbooks,atlas,monographs and questions bank.

23. Setup & security

24. Acquisition

25. Catalogue&Accessioning

26. Members

27. Periodicals/Serial Control

28. Circulation

29. Digital Library

30. Reports

31. OPAC

33. Built in security and logon mechanisms for the software.

34. Ability to build and manage our own Digital Library.

35. Bar Coding barcode compatibility of the entire library stock.

37. This network will allow multiple accesses to e-resources, networking or interconnectivity among the computer terminals at different location in the college premises.

39. Documentation service

40. Current awareness service

41. Bibliographic service

42. Reprographic service

43. CD ROM service

44. DELNET Online service

45. E-resources

46. Reference service

47. Database service

49. ASME Online

50. Digital Engineering Library

51. Springer Link Online

52. Science Direct

54. Post graduate level

55. Research Scholars

56. Asst. Professors

57. Associate Professors

59. The college libraries should get the separate building and it must follow the library-building Plan of modern library.

60. Proper and regular allotment of budget should be made to the library by authority of the college.

61. A collection development policy should be formed for the library for print and electronic formats.

62. The libraries policy should also be acquire learned periodicals of nationals and international reput on subject including for the entertainment.

64. E-awareness programme for the students should be organized at a regular interval.

65. Library awareness programme should be conducted to have maximum utilization of the library.

66. For the cost of the ICT infrastructure special grant may be allotted by the funding authority.

67. The opinion and experience of librarian / asst. librarian should be given due attention for taking any sorts of decision related to the library development.

69. SMIT library aims to provide the best possible services to its user in terms of resources and other facilities in order to keep abreast with the latest development in their respective field.

70. SMIT Central library has an ambitious plan to network all the libraries of the associated institute of Manipal group by making a provision for centralized access to all the resources.