Newsdigest for the IITD Alumni Association

1. INDEST-AICTE Workshop and Fourth Annual Meet

IIT Delhi, 19th to 20th Dec. 2006, Venue: Seminar Hall, IIT Delhi, Timing: 9.30 A.M - 5.30 P.M, Organized by IITD

Background

The "Indian National Digital Library in Engineering Sciences and Technology (INDEST) Consortium" was set-up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) in the year 2003 with 38 centrally-funded Government institutions including IITs, IISc, NITs, NERIST, ISM, IIIT, IIITM & NITIE as its core members with a provision to extend it to all engineering colleges and technological institutions under its open ended proposition. While the Ministry provides funds required for access to selected e-resources for the core members, other institutions may join the Consortium for any of its resource(s) by paying for them at highly discounted rates and a nominal membership fee. By the end of the first year, the Consortium had 119 members which included 38 core members, 64 AICTE-supported members and 17 members under self-supported category. The Consortium was re-named as INDEST-AICTE Consortium in December 2005 with the AICTE playing pivotal role in enrolling its affiliated engineering colleges and institutions as members of the Consortium for selected e-resources at much lower rates of subscription. The Consortium has enrolled 490 members as in Oct. 2006 including 388 member institutions under its self-supported category.

The INDEST-AICTE Consortium, on the basis of sheer strength of present and prospective numbers of institutions has attracted the best possible price and terms of agreement from the publishers. The Consortium subscribes to over 6,500 electronic journals, numerous conference proceedings, standards and e-books from a number of publishers and aggregators. The INDEST Web Site hosts a search and browse interfaces to locate journals, their URLs and member institutions. The Consortium supports open access initiatives and has taken-up new initiatives related to content creation under its extended activitie.

Some of the important activities taken-up are under this initiative are: i) Setting-up Interoperable institutional repositories; ii) Electronic Submission of Theses and Dissertations; and iii) Web-based Union Catalogue of Journals and other Serial Publications.

Objectives

The INDEST-AICTE Consortium Workshop and the Fourth Annual Meet is being organized with the following objectives:

· to promote the optimal use of e-resources made accessible to various institutions under the Consortium;

· to identify, plan and undertake training and capacity building for the users of the e-resources across all its member institutions;

· to promote interaction amongst member institutions and usage of access and monitoring interfaces (e-RAMS);

· to discuss additional activities that may be undertaken under its extended activities;

· to evaluate the current status of document delivery services through JCCC and to discuss and deliberate upon the possibility of extending it to all the members of the Consortium;

· to review present resources, identify new resources and deliberate upon possibility of adding new resources with member institutions paying their own subscriptions; and

· to identify ways and means to increase the number of members for various resources so as to avail lower rates of subscription.

Scope of the workshop

The Workshop will have presentations on the core objectives followed by a panel discussion on the subject. The speakers and panellists include known authorities in their respective subject fields. The Workshop will also have presentations from the e-publishers and aggregators whose resources are being subscribed by the Consortium. Scope and contents of the Workshop can further be expanded depending on the feedback received from the participants.

Who should Participate?

The participation is strictly by invitation for the members of INDEST-AICTE Consortium. All member institutions of the Consortium may nominate one participant from their institutions.

Registration Fee

The participation is by invitation only. No registration fee is being charged from the participants from the member institutions.

Travel & Accommodation

The arrangement for lodging of participants is being made at the Institute?s Guest House or in neighbouring guest houses on first-cum-first-serve basis (on twin sharing basis). All participants are required to meet their boarding, lodging and other expenses through their institutions.

Contact Addresses

Workshop Chairman

Prof. Surendra Prasad, Director, IIT Delhi
Chairman, National Steering Committee, INDEST-AICTE consortium

Workshop Coordinator

Dr. Jagdish Arora
National Coordinator, INDEST-AICTE Consortium & Librarian
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Hauz Khas, New Delhi ? 110 016
E-mail: jarora@library.iitd.ac.in
Tel.: 011-26596759, 26591451 Mobile: 9810080312
FAX: 011-26582659, 011-26596759

Yogeeta Sharma / Rajneesh Agarwal
E-mail: indest@library.iitd.ac.in; indest.aicte@gmail.com
Tel.: 011-26596627

Contact Person in the Ministry

Director, MHRD
Deptt. of Secondary & Higher Education
Wing ?C?, Shastri Bhawan
New Delhi - 110 001
Tel.:011-23386903

Contact Person in the AICTE

Prof. Rajnish Shrivastava
Adviser (PC)
All Indian Council for Technical Education
Indira Gandhi Sports Complex
I.P Estate, New Delhi-110002
Email: pc@aicte.ernet.in
Phone: 011- 23392616
Fax: 011- 23392557

2. Invitation - DMS (Parivartan - management festival)

Dear All,

We invite you to Parivartan'07,the managemenmt festival of Department of Management Studies,IIT Delhi.

Parivartan 2007:Ignite Innovate Transcend

It's a long cherished dream of every Management Student to make a difference to the corporate world; to venture out there into the big, bad, mean world of corporate competition and leave upon it a mark of his/her own. We all have ideas, we all have thoughts, but there is a fine line of daring to dream between a normal Management Student and the winner who eventually makes the world stand up and take notice of him/her. That is what winners are made of…

And we, at Department of Management Studies, IIT-Delhi, are in the business of grooming winners. We are in the business of instilling the attitude to win in each cell of the brain of each of us. We know what it takes to win and we want to nurture it in all of us and spread it across the world!

We need to ignite our thoughts into ideas. Everyone thinks, but not everyone takes them seriously. We often lack the confidence to take them seriously! That's what differs a prodigy from a plebeian. That's not all. Not every one who has an idea converts it into a process. Managers today are defined by the efficiency of their processes. What has Jack Welch done to GE which the other didn't? The answer is all in the processes, and efficient and successful processes emerge from Innovation. Every innovator doesn't turn a leader. Atom Bomb was an innovation, too! Every coin has two sides. One can turn his face off at your innovation or can stand up and take note of it. That's what is differentiates a Leader and a Follower. You need to foster the right innovations to transcend the hoi polloi and emerge a winner, a true leader, a complete person!

At DMS, we present you this process of emergence of a Complete Person of an aspiring Manager in two days through our annual Business Festival Parivartan on the 3rd and 4th of February, 2007. Parivartan 07 comes to you with the theme Ignite. Innovate. Transcend. We present you events that ignite your brains and plough up creative ideas, innovate them into efficient processes and thus, transcend the natural. Unleash the super power of Management in each one of you…

Ignite ideas in your brains with events like The Business Plan where we provide you a platform to present your plans for all types of Business, Best Consultant where you consult for real-time industry cases and see your ideas being given a shape, The Business Quiz. Innovate the existing process, add them your mark and value in events like The Apprentice where the rule is that there is no rule. How to make things work is all up to you. You are the master. ADD-vert is an event where the only rule is Innovation. Innovate or disappear is the only rule of the game. Make innovative ad campaigns and project your brand. Transcend your own self in the company of highly knowledgeable corporates and academia as they brood over the contemporary Managerial issues in Corporate Round Table. Realize how effective and important Media is and how to use it to Managerial success at the Media Conclave.

There's more to Parivartan! Many more events like Informals, Cultural Night, Dance Night are lined up to grab your attention and teach you how a Manager should chill out… Come to Parivartan, Unleash the fun….

Regards
Team Parivartan'07
http://parivartan07.blogspot.com


3.Third International Conference on SOLARIS 2007

I am very happy to inform you that the Third International Conference on SOLARIS 2007 is scheduled to be held during February 7-9, 2007 at Centre for Energy Studies, IIT Delhi, New Delhi . This conference series was founded in 2002 at IIT-Napier University, Scotland (UK) and has traveled to Greece, Athens in 2005.

The information regarding SOLARIS 2007 International conference is being intimated to you for participation and financial support of this prestigious conference. There are twenty one international steering committee members comprising of scientists belonging to USA, UK, Germany , Greece, Swedan, Taiwan and India etc. There are twenty one national committee members formed for this conference which comprise of renowned scientists and faculties from premier institutes of India. I believe that this prestigious international conference shall provide a wonderful opportunity for your esteemed organization. Therefore, I strongly urge you to fully participate and finance this international conference being organized at CES, IIT Delhi.

The conference proceedings is proposed to include the papers received in the area(s) of solar thermal applications, PV/hybrid technology, solar radiation, greenhouse technology for agriculture and fish growth, climate change and all miscellaneous papers of renewable energy technologies. We have decided to publish conference proceedings in the edited volumes. You are requested to please visit the details about the conference and the papers accepted for the conference in the website www..iitd.ac.in/solaris07/ .

The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has issued no objection for the conference and had sent approval letter for the international invited speakers to participate in this conference. Kindly acknowledge us for the receipt of this to Prof. G N. Tiwari ( gntiwari@ces.iitd.ernet.in ).

With regards,

Yours Sincerely,

[Prof. G. N. Tiwari]

Organizing Secretary, SOLARIS 2007,

Centre for Energy Studies,

IIT New Delhi – 110016.