November | 2017 | site-central library

NPTEL Local Chapter – News

NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) is a joint initiative of the IITs and IISc. Through this initiative, it offer online courses and certification in various topics.

The start/end dates and exam dates are as follows:

4 weeks course: Start date: 5 Feb 2018 End date: 2 March 2018
8 weeks course: Start date: 5 Feb 2018 End date: 30 March 2018
12 weeks course: Start date: 22 Jan 2018 End date: 13 April 2018

Exam dates for all courses: 28/29 April (2 sessions per day: FN-9am to 12 noon AN-2pm to 5pm)

Enrollments to all these courses open and will be closed on start date of the course.
Details about each course can be found in the Course introduction page – please click on any course to know more.

Day – 1 : About National Digital Library(NDL)

NDL India provides support for all academic levels including researchers and life-long learners, all disciplines, all popular form of access devices and differently-abled learners. It is being developed to help students to prepare for entrance and competitive examination, to enable people to learn and prepare from best practices from all over the world and to facilitate researchers to perform inter-linked exploration from multiple sources. NDL India is an initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) through its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT) to develop the pilot of a National Digital Library. It is being developed and hosted at IIT Kharagpur. NDL India is also available as an Android App and you may download the App from Google Play Store.

NDL India Essentials:-

Books	Article	Thesis	Manuscripts	Audio Lectures	Video Lectures
More than 7 Lakh Books by 3 Lakh Authors in 70 Languages	More than 3 Lakh Articles by More than 2 Lakh Authors from Different Publishers	More than 95000 + Thesis by Researchers from Institutes	Manuscripts from Satyajit Ray Society, Vidya Prasarak Mandal and Others	More than 262 Audio Lectures in English and Tamil, more to follow	More than 18000 + Video Lectures from 11 Sources

This is to inform all the faculty, staff & students that, SITE Central Library is a member of National Digital Library of India (NDL India, An initiative of MHRD, Govt. of India). We have submitted the details (E-mail id & Name) of faculty members to the NDL India.

You will receive an email from NDL India in due time, containing the instructions for account activation. Please follow them correctly so that your account activation process gets completed without any issues. After successful activation, you may access the available resources at URL: https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in

Note: All the students (New Users) and those who are not received the activation mail may please contact library staff for further assistance.

I hope that all the members of SITE Central Library will benefit by using the NDL India

databases and services.

Sd/-

Librarian