Hindi Book Exhibition

 

Hindi Book Exhibition jointly organized by the Central Library and the Official Language Implementation Committee of the Institute was held during 14-15 September 2022.

A large number of Hindi books were displayed in the exhibition, which was held in the Chemical Science Building of the institute.  Prof.J N Moorthy, Director IISER Thiruvananthapuram, Prof S. Murthy Srinivasula (Dy. Director, IISER Thiruvananthapuram), Deans, HoDs, faculty members, staff, and students of the institute visited the exhibition.

The exhibition was held as part of the Hindi Week Fortnight celebrations organized by the Institute.

Glimpses from the Hindi Book Exhibition

Library orientation sessions for the batch 22 students

 Group-based library orientation sessions for the MSc., IPhD, and PhD (Batch 22) students were conducted from 2nd August 2022 to  12th August 2022 in the Central Library.  The students were divided into different groups, and they were given detailed orientation on how to use the print and online resources of the Library. Each session lasted over 2 hrs. Students were also taken a tour of the library and illustrated its functioning. Demonstration of the RF-ID self-check-in check-out kiosk facility, use of library OPAC, book reservation facility, etc. also conducted . Mobile Library Services, Online journals, archival volumes, video resources, bibliographic and full-text resources, plagiarism detection tools, Grammar checking tools, reference management tools, etc. were also demonstrated to the users, during the training programme coordinated by Dr. Sainul Abideen officer-in-charge (Library).

Demonstration of the self-check-in check-out kiosk

Demonstration of the self-check-in check-out kiosk

Demonstration of the M-Library Services

Demonstration of the book arrangement

Dr. Sainul Abideen illustrating the Library services

Students visiting the Digital Library Corridor

Revised Library Timing w.e.f 19.4.2022

Library Timing has been revised w.e.f 19.4.2022

Week Days:        9 AM to 10 PM  (dinner break 8 PM-8.30 PM)

Weekends and Holidays: 9 AM to 5.30 PM  (lunch break 1 PM-1.30 PM)

All are requested to make use of this facility.

Best Librarian Award for Dr. Sainul Abideen P

 Dr. Sainul Abideen P, Asst. Librarian and Officer in-charge (Library) has been nominated for the Best Librarian Award-2021 instituted by the Indian Academic Researchers Association (IARA).

The award will be presented during the IARA awards distribution ceremony to be held as part of the 9^th International Conference on Publications Ethics on 01.05.2022 at Kolkata.

IISER Thiruvananthapuram Library wins American Chemical Society's Highest Usage Award-2021

Central Library, IISER  Thiruvananthapuram has been awarded the '2021 Highest Usage Award' for the American Chemical Society Journals in the IISERs category.

It was announced in the ACS South India Virtual Summit held on 24.Nov 2021

Trial access to the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal

Free trial access to the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal published by the EDP Sciences has been made available till 31.03.2022. Visit https://www.aanda.org/ to access this journal.

All are requested to kindly make use of this facility.

Academic Profiling of Students using ORCID iD

In the scientific world, it is important to uniquely identify and distinguish one from every other researcher, using various academic profiles like ORCID. 

ORCID iD will be required by the publishers when one submits articles for publication in journals, and to be used by peers and prospective employers/educational institutions, since it will be showcasing the academic profile including publications, experience, etc.

You may find more information about ORCID, how to create, its use and benefit from these sample videos: Video 1; Video 2

Students are requested to create their own ORCID iD from https://orcid.org/ and inform the library latest by 26th February 2022.