N-LIST: E-resources User Awareness Programme

Chandrabhan Sharma College, IQAC Cell & Library and Information Centre organized One Day Webinar on N-List: E-resources User Awareness Programme to all the students through GoogleMeet Platform on 15th October, 2022 (Saturday) from 11.00am to 12.30pm. This programme was conducted by Mr. Sunil Ubale, Librarian, Chandrabhan Sharma College and Mr. Snehal Sambhar Asst. Librarian, Chandrabhan Sharma College, Powai, Mumbai.

The session started by giving homage to our former President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam on his Birth Anniversary who loved reading and writing on the occasion of Vachan Prerna Diwas. And the webinar started with introduction of what is N-List, its functions and features, showed N-List web-page how its look like, and the top 10 college users flashing on N-list web-page. Students were taught how to register and how to login, discussed with them how to access this database and e-resources i.e, e-books and e-journals available in this database.

Saraswati Devi Puja

Saraswati devi puja was organized in our college library, on the occasion of Navratri (Ashtami). This year Ashtami was on the 3rd October, so puja was organized on that day, puja started in the afternoon at 12 noon. All the teaching and non teaching staff and students were invited for this puja. Lord Saraswati is the goddess of intelligence, knowledge, education, harmony, art, and speech. During Navratri it is a tradition to worship Goddess Saraswati worshiping of goddess Saraswati is done on the day during ashtami which comes within the ten days of Navratri. Thus we worship Saraswati Devi earlier initiating any good work. 

Principal of our college Dr. Pratima Singh inaugurated the event and worshiped goddess Saraswati. While principal madam was doing Saraswati puja, everyone present at the event stood up and started singing Saraswati vandana. After the puja all the staff were given sweets as a prasad.

Library Orientation Program

Library Orientation was organized for First Year Students in the library itself to make them aware about the information resources and facilities available and to make them understand how to access needed information effectively and efficiently. This orientation program was conducted from  02nd August to 06th August, 2022 for different classes according to their roll no, date and timing. All these details were shared with students in the form of notice circulated in their classrooms during lectures and around 250 students attended this orientation programme.(in different batches)

Guest Lecture on Importance of Reading Habits

Library and Information Centre of Chandrabhan Sharma College organized Guest lecture on Importance of Reading Habits on 6th July, 2022 on the occasion of National Reading Day.  The speaker for the lecture Ms.Tejaswini Pathwardan (Founder and Director of OPEN MINDS Productions), she started her session with why reading is important because it develops your mind and gives you excessive knowledge and lessons of life. It helps you understand the world around you better. It keeps your mind active and enhances your creative ability. Reading improves your vocabulary and develops your communication skills. Ma’am has also explained about what are the reading skills, like why do we read, what to read, how to develop reading habits and also shared various examples from day to day life and connected it to reading habits.

The session was very interactive. It helped students to build a positive attitude towards reading and motivated them to.

Online Quiz on World Health Day

Library Information Centre & NDLI Club of Chandrabhan Sharma College Arts, Science & Commerce Organizes Online Quiz Competition on the occasion of World Health Day. This quiz conducted through College NDLI Club wherein google form link was shared in it wherein students are part of this club and also competition link was shared through WhatsApp messenger to all the students through faculty members. 20 questions were asked to solve each question carry 2 marks & received around 105 responses from the participants.

The participants enthusiastically participated and showcased their brilliance by answering the questions They found this competition very informative and knowledge enriching. Response received from the participants that they like this quiz very much & due to this quiz they learned and gained lots of information on health. 

Best Library User Award

To promote maximum and proper utilization of library facilities and services, the Library gives away “Best Library User Award” to the students every year who make the maximum use of the library resources and facilities. Two students are selected for the Best Library user award on the basis of the following evaluative criteria; selected students were awarded with certificate and cash prize on college annual day on 12th March 2022.

Following criterion will be considered for the “Best Library User Award”

• Regular use of books, like issue/return of books.
• Reading aptitude of the student.
• Utilization of library resources.
• Observation of library norms and discipline.

Tiwari Raunak (TYBCOM)

Ansari Nagma (XII COM)