Dear All, It gives me immense pleasure to inform you that a two-day User Awareness Programme on Access to E-resources under UGC INFONET Digital Library Consortium was organized by Visva-Bharati Library Network at Central Library during 24 -25 August 2015, in collaboration with INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad to promote the usage of e-resources as well as to provide a platform for discussion on issues related to e-resources. The user awareness programme was attended by 91 participants (33 Faculty, 14 Library Professionals and 44 Research Scholars). Nine aggregators/publishers presented their products. It was conducted in 13 technical sessions. The programme was inaugurated by Hon’ble Vice - Chancellor, Prof. Sushanta Dattagupta by lighting the lamp along with Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director, INFLIBNET, and Dr. V. K. Thomas, University Librarian. Prof. Sushanta Dattagupta, Vice-Chancellor, in his inaugural speech talked about the complex and widespread nature of VB libraries in Santinikeatn, Sriniketan and Kolkata (Granthana Vibhaga) and networking for better delivery of resources. Dr. Jagdish Arora drew a brief sketch of INFLIBNET. He highlighted existing and new ventures like ShodhGanga, ShodhGangotri, e-PG Pathshala, e-Acharya, OJAS, Institutional Repository, Vidwan, Soul cloud version etc. The valedictory function presided over by Prof. Swapan Kumar Datta, Pro Vice-Chancellor. He spoke about the benefits of e-resources and urged for their maximum utilization. -- Thanks and regards. अजय कुमार शर्मा Ajay Kumar Sharma Assistant Librarian & In-charge, Cheena Bhavana Library & Additional charge, Hindi Bhavana Library Visva Bharati, Santiniketan - 731235, Bolpur, Birbhum, West Bengal Email: ajaysharma.lib@visva-bharati.ac.in Mobile No.: +91 9735111064 Web: http://www.absla.org/ajay.html Web Blog: http://www.blogger.com/home?pli=1 *********************************************************** 1. Join today Digital Library Discussion Forum http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg 2. Join today LIS-Forum mailing list http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum *********************************************************** You can’t change the past but you can change the future, always remember to recycle... -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.