Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Workshop on Indian Culture & Spirituality on Feb 01, 2013

       On celebration of 150th Swami Vivekananda's Birthday, Our College planned to organize one day Workshop on Indian Culture & Spirituality at various schools of Tirunelveli District. At first We have conducted this programme for our first year College Students on Feb 01, 2013.
        In this programme, A talk on Swami Vivekananda, Yoga, Pranayama, Spiritual Science, Mind Concentration Games have been conducted. I have handled the Spiritual Science session. The Students have participated enthusiastically.

Friday, February 8, 2013

NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INNOVATIVE LIBRARIANSHIP March 22, 2013


SRI SARADA COLLEGE FOR WOMEN, TIRUNELVELI – 11
NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
INNOVATIVE LIBRARIANSHIP
March 22, 2013

About the College:
“The only service to be given is to give…. that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded and by which one can stand on one’s own leg”. So goes the emphatic message of Swami Vivekananda. Inspired by this ideal, Swami Chidbhavananda, the great saint, seer and savant, widely known for the power and depth of his spirituality, founded SriRamakrishna Tapovanam, Thirupparaithurai, Trichy.
            Among the seven colleges run by Sri Ramakrishna Tapovanam, Sri Sarada College for Women, Tirunelveli was started in 1986 to cater to the educational needs of the women of the southern districts of the Tamilnadu. The college was started with 60 Students in 3 U.G Courses. Now the college has grown to students’ strength of 1337 with 10 UG Courses and 3 PG Courses.
            Our College is accredited “B Grade” - CGPA 2.76 out of 4 by NAAC. Our college is publishing “Pragnavani”, the Multi Disciplinary Research Journal with ISSN No 2249 – 6017.
           
About the library:
Library plays a very important role in any educational institution.  Library fulfills the educational purposes of the students.  Library is the part of their education. We classify books according to Deway Decimal classification.  We are using Delplus software, for Automation of Library. We have Sarada Library, separate departmental libraries for M.C.A. M.Com (C.A.) M.Sc. Maths and also Book bank books, Specimen copy books for each department. We have special collection of 4 Vedas, Sanskrit books, subject dictionaries, Gazetteers, Lexicons, encyclopedias and competitive exam books. There are 25,780 books in our Library, 36 Journals, 54 Magazines. We have been member of Delnet & NList.

About the Seminar:
The advent of internet and the rapid development of the World Wide Web in the past decade have brought about a great change in the profession of librarianship. The role of a librarian has changed to that of a facilitator, information manager, and counselor and so on. The seminar aims to provide a platform for the students, research scholars and library professionals to retrospect, analyze and share their experience and expertise from different perspectives to enrich their knowledge.

Call for Papers: 
Papers are invited on the following themes
Ø  User Studies
Ø  Services
Ø  Collection  Development
Ø  Infrastructure Facility
Ø  Librarianship in the Digital Era
Ø  Librarians as Facilitators of Life Long Learning
Ø  Curriculum development for library science
Ø  Skills development for librarians
Ø  Information Literacy
Ø  Ethics of Librarianship
Ø  Best Practices in Libraries

            However papers are not restricted to the above themes. Other papers relevant to the main theme are also welcome. Contributors are requested to send a soft copy of their papers through e-mail as per the following guidelines.

The document should be typed in,
Ø  A4 sheet, single column.
Ø  1.5 line space, times new Roman font 12 size
Ø  Titles should be in bold, font size 14.
Ø  Sub Titles should be in bold, font size 13.
Ø  Author affiliation below the title should be in font size 10.
Ø  Abstract should have maximum 100 words
Ø  Maximum of 5 keywords.
Ø  Maximum 8 pages
Ø  References as per MLA.

Publication of post conference proceedings:
          Selected papers shall be published in the post conference volume bearing an ISBN no.

General Instructions:
Ø  The maximum no. of authors per paper must be only three.
Ø  The maximum no. of papers either by collaboration or individually, is only two.
Ø  Only papers submitted along with the registration fee shall be considered for presentation and publication in the post conference proceedings.

Registration Fees:
                                      Professionals: Rs 500/-
                                            Students: Rs300/-
An amount of Rs. 300/- may be paid along with the registration fee to procure a copy of the post conference proceedings.
Important Date:
              Last Date for Submission of Papers: March 1, 2013.
Contact: 
Soft copies of the abstracts, key words & full text with acknowledgement & any communication regarding the conference may be sent to
Address :     Sri Sarada College for Women,
                     Tirunelveli - 627011
Email     :     srisaradalibrary@yahoo.com
Phone    :     0462 – 2520129, 9442481288
Chief Patron:

Srimath Swami Sankaranandhaji, Administrator, SSC

Patron:

Yathiswari Saravana Bhava Priya Ambaji, Secretary, SSC

Organizing Secretary:

Smt M.Malarvizhi, Principal, SSC

Chief Guest:

Dr.K.Subramaniam
Pro Vice Chancellor Vivekananda Yoga University,
Bangalore

Special Invitees:

Dr A.Thirumagal,
Librarian,
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University,
Tirunelveli

Dr C.Martin ArockiaSamy
Librarian,
St Xavier’s College,
Tirunelveli

Keynote Address
Dr.S.Humayoon Kabir
Associate Professor
Dept. of Library and Information Science
University of Kerala
Trivandrum

External Advisor:

Smt C.Hema,
Librarian,
The Madura College,
Madurai

Convener:
Selvi B.Vijayalakshmi, Librarian, SSC



SRI SARADA COLLEGE FOR WOMEN, TIRUNELVELI – 11
NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
INNOVATIVE LIBRARIANSHIP

March 22, 2013

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