Monday 24 September 2012

Visitor's of Library

Prof. Yashpal (Ex-UGC Chairman) visited BHU Library on
 5th September 2012.

 

Author Workshop on Scholarly Publishing at BHU

Author Workshop On Scholarly Publishing held at Senate Hall, Swatntrata Bhawan , BHU on 24th September 2012 under the Information Literacy Program of Central Library, Banaras Hindu University in collaboration with John Wiley.

The program was inaugurated by Prof. S. C. Lakhotia, Emeritus Professor, Banaras Hindu University with Prof. O N Srivastava, Emeritus Professor, BHU. On this occasion Prof. Gary C Schoenwolf, Prof. Kurt H. Albertine, Dr. A K Srivastava, and Mr. Ashish Sood were also present.

Welcome address was given by Dr. A K Srivastav, University Librarian, BHU. He spoke about library developments and future plan of action regarding information literacy, coupled with continuous training and learning programs.

Prof. Gary C Schoenwolf, discussed : Why Publish? How to choose your journal wisely? He emphasized in his lecture that research article should be published in the journals having high impact factor. Because theirin journal are more reliable and read by maximum readers.

Prof. Albertine in his lecture emphasized the need of clear and logical writing which will provide reputation to an author in his respective field of specialization.
Prof. S.C. Lakhotia emphasized that research is only useful if it is communicated.

Prof. O N Srivastava, Presided over the function and in his presidential remarks he raised various ethical, academic and editorial issues related to international publications. He also said that Dr. C.V. Raman got the novel prize through the research publication.

In the last Mr. Ashish Sood, Regional Manager, India Institutional Sales, Wiley – India extended vote of thanks. The program was conducted by Dr. Vivekanand Jain, Deputy Librarian, BHU.
On this occasion : Dr. M Anandamurugan, Dr. Sanjiv Saraf,  Dr. D K Singh, Dr. G C Kendadamath, Dr. A P Singh (Head,DLIS) Mr. L M P Singh (Ex-University Librarian) Mr. Ram Kumar Dangi, Mr. Anil Agrawal, Dr. Rajesh Singh, Dr. Jawahar Lal, Dr. Suchita Singh were also present.
Above 200 participants from amongst the teachers and researchers from the faculty of Medical Sciences, Science, Agriculture Science and Indian Institute of Technology participated in the workshop. Lively discussion took place on ethical issues in scholarly publication.
(Dr. Vivekanand Jain)
Deputy Librarian , BHU

Friday 6 January 2012

N-LIST Programme at BHU

Dr. A K Srivastava (University Librarian, BHU) Prof. D.S.Rathore (Hon'ble Exec.Council Member, BHU) Prof. V.K. Kumra (Registrar, BHU) and Dr. Jagdish Arora (Director, INFLIBNET) on Dias for Inaugural Session (From L to R)


N-LIST Training programme held at BHU Library on 6th January 2012. Dr. Jagdish Arora (Director, INFLIBNET ) present on this occassion as a chief guest. Dr. M Anandamurugan(Dy. Librarian, BHU) was a organsising secretary for this training programme.