30th and last day of my Internship

The end of my Library Internship Program. Experience of working in a library and training given by a librarian in middle of completing our M.L.I.S.C degree was additional knowledge with our syllabus studies. Enjoyed and learnt a lot. Internship program wouldn’t have been successful without my mentor and SFIT library staff’s support😊

Will end my post with a quote.           Sayonara😊

From 17th Day to 29th Day of my Internship

Hii Girls!!!! 😊I am back😊

We all are about to complete our internship very soon. Then back to class, we all will be meeting after  1 ½ month. In this learning, practically working in a library, experiencing new things everyday didn’t realize how 1 ½ month went by😯. But was a great learning isn’t it girls?😊

Back to pavilion. So what did I learn in these two weeks? 

We celebrated International Women’s Day on 8^th March. I selected books and magazines on women from stack and displayed in library. We gave chocolate to each girl who came at circulation counter to issue books. Every time any student would come to browse the displayed books , i use to slowly peep through the counter to check which book is the user browsing, will he issue or he will not issue😊 When students issue a book from the display I use to feel very happy, because I selected it😊 I use to display books in a bookstore before, let me tell you I was very bad in displaying books, and I am still bad. You know you need to have that knack of which book to display and how creatively you should display so that the library user or customer will get attracted to and I was not at all good in that. If I display 10 books from my section only one use to get sold. So has the saying goes “Try Try till you Succeed”. In SFIT library they always experiment with new ideas for students comfort.

Also was working on my projects which were assigned to me. Learnt many new things while working on projects because I was working on new software Dspace. My learning through Dspace activity was more like archives we studied in class, what we learnt in class I was actually doing it practically. Collating photographs from every source of events we can get for eg: Newsletter, SFIT Magazine, Facebook, Website, hard copy of photograph etc. Arranging them year wise in folders (database management) etc. Was a great experience😊

There was another project preparing Library Orientation for First Year Students and that presentation to be prepared online through Prezi software, again working on a new software. Very much enjoyed😊

We celebrated Entrepreneur’s Day on 15^th March😊 Library has section full of entrepreneur books so we displayed books and magazine in library. We keep the display for 1 week😊

16th Day of my Internship

In my last post shared with you that i will be working on presentation of Library Orientation for F.E students. And you know girls I have to prepare that presentation in Prezi😊. Prezi is a software where you can prepare your presentation on your topic online and Prezi's amazing feature is that the presentation can be zoomed. I was going through Prezi presentations online, it was like i am watching 3D presentation. Once you get time do go through Prezi presentations you will love it😊

After a long gap, did shelving yesterday on my own, little improvement😊

When students apply for library card we have to enter their details and upload students photographs  in the system (Library software LibSuite). Ma'am was taking me through the process of how they scan and upload photographs of students and faculties, ma'am was sharing that while saving photographs in the system they don't save the photographs by students or faculties name, they save by their PID ( Permanent Identification) number, so there is no issue of spelling error😊


There is a nice article which i came through very long back, wanted to share with you girls. This article is written by Dr. Abhay Bang and he is sharing his experience studying at Nayee Taleem School set up by Mahatma Gandhi like how he studied mathematics not sitting in class but by constructing a water tank in school's cowshed, how they learnt cooking nutritious food by themselves by cooking in school kitchen in a very limited budget etc. You will love this article, do read it when you get time. Dr. Abhay Bhang is a social activist and researcher in the field of community health. I am sharing with you the PDF of the article and also the digital copy the booklet😊

https://archive.org/details/MyMagicalSchool-English-Dr.AbhayBang
http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/magic-school-eng-drbang.pdf


 




 

15th Day of my Internship

Faculties and passed out students of SFIT donate their books to library. Once we receive the donated books we first check the condition and then decide if the books to be included in library collection or not. The books which are selected to be included in library collection are to be stamped as donated and have to mention the donors name inside the book, then have to give accession number, to be classified and then to be entered in the system. So yesterday i did classification and cataloguing of donated books. SFIT Library use 20th edition of DDC. Ma'am has given me an activity of preparing Library Orientation  presentation for F.E students so was collating information through various sources we can get information like library website, library tour etc.

14th Day of my Internship

While i was at the circulation counter in library there was one particular book that catched my eye which was displayed under Management and ERP (Enterprise and Resource Planning) section, which was looking very familiar to me, i took a closer look and i smiled :) it took me back down the memory lane. It was the book written by  founder of the firm My Financial Advisor where i was working before joining Library and Information Science course Mr. Amar Pandit. The book was 'The Only Financial Planning Book you will ever need'.  I remember i was under Client Acquisition Team arranging meetings of prospects and clients for financial coaches and i use to give this book for their meeting. When i saw that book yesterday i felt as if i bumped into an old friend. Small world isn't it? :) :)

Back to library work. Yesterday i was working on Dspace activity which  i was talking about in my last post, continuing with the same work, arranging the photographs and videos of the event happened in SFIT and library year wise. Trying to include all knowledge we gained doing our project work in class into this assignment :) :) 

12th and 13th Day of my Internship

Hiiii Girls!!!

It’s been three weeks girls working as an intern in St’Francis Institute of Technology Library. Learning new work every day, working on mistakes, feeling happy when you are doing well, sometimes I mean😊 Both ma’am and library staffs are very cooperative. I hope you are also enjoying your internship😊

I am working on Dspace activity. For online institutional repository, they are using Dspace software where they have uploaded question papers, abstracts of research papers of faculty. My work is to upload photographs of the events happened in SFIT and in library. The activity is very interesting and challenging as well, getting to know about new software and also practically working on it. There are many points which i learnt while working on this activity eg: there are many photographs of one event, but we can’t add all the photographs, otherwise the server will crash. We need to select some photographs which are important. While working on any software which we know that students will be accessing it, it’s important to come up with different ideas on how it can be easily accessible to students like, while adding keywords it’s important to know what key terms students will use while searching a particular events photographs or documents.  Keywords is only one example, there are many like what should we give name to main title, adding metadata etc… What we learnt in class girls I am getting to do it practically😊 These are some points I learnt while working on this activity, there is more to learn till I complete this assignment😊

Last week library kept all last year’s B.E project reports for display for students to go through, it will be on displayed till end of this month😊 They normally keep projects in cupboard, but library came up with an idea to display in library last year's all B.E project reports for students to go through😊

I want to share with you girls a information which ma’am shared with me. You know girls when we use to work on assignments in college and when we needed some images for our assignment we use to go through the Google Images and copy them. Actually there are some Google images  where unless and until we have an owner’s permission we can’t use the image for our website or blog etc, if we use it without permission it is called ‘Copyright Infringement ‘. But how will we know which Google image is under copyright? Google offers an Advanced Search option which helps us to filter Google Images which are free license, royalty free or open to the public for use in anyway. While doing image search on Google, click on Settings, under Settings you will find Advance Search, click on it, you will find Usage Rights at the end and select the option which is appropriate to you. Even i didn't knew this option, learnt while working on Dspace activity😊 

Looking forward to new learning tomorrow😊

Good Night Girls😊

11th Day of my Internship

I have been given a project by ma’am where I have to collate photographs of the events happened in institute and in the library. After collating I have to upload the photographs in institute’s repository i.e Dspace. Through this activity will get to know how Dspace software works. New Learning!! 😊While I was segregating photographs according to events and year, I came across photographs of librarian with their alumni. I was just wondering, how happy they might be feeling when they both meet after a long time and discuss whats happening in their life, proud moment when they get to know they are working in a reputed companies etc.. How good they might be feeling?😊

Sharing with you an article written by Bill Gates in his blog.

Link: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Education/A-Teacher-Who-Changed-My-Life

A Teacher Who Changed My Life

By Bill Gates 

August 16, 2016

Three very strong women—my mother, my maternal grandmother, and Melinda—deserve big credit (or blame, I suppose) for helping me become the man I am today. But Blanche Caffiere, a very kindly librarian and teacher I’ve never written about publicly before, also had a huge influence on me.  

Mrs. Caffiere (pronounced “kaff-ee-AIR”) died in 2006, shortly after reaching her 100^th birthday. Before she passed, I had an opportunity to thank her for the important role she played in my life, stoking my passion for learning at a time when I easily could have gotten turned off by school.

When I first met Mrs. Caffiere, she was the elegant and engaging school librarian at Seattle’s View Ridge Elementary, and I was a timid fourth grader. I was desperately trying to go unnoticed, because I had some big deficits, like atrocious handwriting (experts now call it dysgraphia) and a comically messy desk. And I was trying to hide the fact that I liked to read—something that was cool for girls but not for boys. 

Mrs. Caffiere took me under her wing and helped make it okay for me to be a messy, nerdy boy who was reading lots of books.

She pulled me out of my shell by sharing her love of books. She started by asking questions like, “What do you like to read?” and “What are you interested in?” Then she found me a lot of books—ones that were more complex and challenging than the Tom Swift Jr. science fiction books I was reading at the time. For example, she gave me great biographies she had read. Once I’d read them, she would make the time to discuss them with me. “Did you like it?” she would ask. “Why? What did you learn?” She genuinely listened to what I had to say. Through those book conversations in the library and in the classroom we became good friends.

Teachers generally don’t want to burden their students with extra reading beyond the homework they’ve assigned. But I learned from Mrs. Caffiere that my teachers had so much more knowledge to share. I just needed to ask. Up through high school and- beyond, I would often ask my teachers about the books they liked, read those books when I had some free time, and offer my thoughts.

Looking back on it now, there’s no question that my time with Mrs. Caffiere helped spark my interest in libraries (Melinda’s and my first large-scale effort in philanthropy) and my focus on helping every child in America get the benefit of great teachers. I often trace the beginning of our foundation to an article about children in poor countries dying from diseases eliminated long ago in the U.S. But I should give some credit as well to the dedicated librarian and teacher who helped me find my strengths when I was nine years old. It’s remarkable how much power one good person can have in shaping the life of a child.