Annual Report 2011-2012 - Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany

EBIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUT
Annual Report 2011-2012
Library
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OF PALAEOBOTANY
Library is committed to provide world class
information support to its users and fulfill its mission to
facilitate creation and dissemination of knowledge.
Besides holding an excellent collection mainly including
palaeobotany and its allied subjects (63794) of books,
journals, reprints, thesis, reports, etc, it also provides online
access of many journals, databases through its own
subscription and by National Knowledge Resource
Consortium (NKRC) of CSIR-DST. Through the support
of information Communication Technology, library has
provided widespread and inclusive access of
Palaeobotanical knowledge to its users. To achieve this
objective it is continuously modernizing its collection,
services and facilities.
All back issues of the journal Palaeobotanist are
digitized and soon will be hosted on the institute’s website.
Barcoding of literature is completed. Weekly service of
New Arrivals having content pages of journals/ books
displayed and News Clipping having scientific contents
from Newspapers are being regularly communicated to
users by e-mail. Libsys software supports all in- house
operations like Cataloguing, circulation, serial control and
binding management. The holdings are accessible by
OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue). OPAC is
searchable by Author, title, accession number, subject and
several other fields. New literature procured is
continuously added to the database.
The current holdings of library are as under:
Particulars
Additions Total
during 2011-12
Books 49 5,984
Journals (bound volumes) 246 16,241
Reprints - 40,097
Reference Books 2 341
Books in Hindi 56 495
Ph.D. Thesis 10 102
Reports - 46
Maps & Atlases - 61
Microfilm/ Fisches - 294
Compact Disk - 74
Currently the library is receiving 167 journals (96
through subscription and 71 through exchange). There
are 159 registered card holders using the library facilities.
Exchange Facility
www.bsip.res.in
Library has sent out the following literature to
individuals and institutions from the collection kept for
exchange purpose. Library has also received journals and
reprints through exchange.
Institutions on exchange panel 40
with the journal Palaeobotanist
Journals received on exchange basis 71
Reprints of research papers purchased 1
for exchange
e-Journals
Web based access of the journals is available over
the Institute’ s LAN from the following publishers–
Elsevier (Science Direct: http://www.sciencedirect.com/
), Cambridge University Press (http://
www.cambridge.org), IOP Science [http://
iopscience.iop.org (through CSIR-DST Consortium)],
Macmillan Publishers Limited (Nature: http://
www.nature.com/nature/index.html), Oxford University
Press (http://www.oxfordjournals.org/), AAAS (Science:
(http://www.sciencemag.org/), Taylor and Francis (http:/
/www.tandf.co.uk/journals/), Indian journals.com (http://
indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx), Web of Science (http://
apps.isiknowledge.com), and Online access of GeoRef
database (http://search.proquest.com/science/
accountid=145004).
Other Facilities
Lamination— To preserve the old and rare literatures,
lamination and photocopying of such publications is being
regularly undertaken.
Photocopying— Photocopy facility of relevant scientific
literature is being extended to institute scientists, as well
as to outside scientific institutions/ universities on their
demand.
Inter-Library Loan Service— Institute is part of a Local
Library Network facilitating the availability of books on
loan for BSIP Library users on request.
The following Institutions/Organizations availed the
library facilities:
School of Oceanographic Studies, Jadavpur University,
Kolkata, West Bengal
School of Studies in Earth Sciences, Vikram University,
Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
Department of Library & Information Science, Lucknow
University, Lucknow
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