We are looking for volunteers who can get us information from the Institute library and post it here. We would like the present students to come forward ..
Review and Post Comments (19)- Dr. Pradip Kumar Jain, Reader ECE, IT - BHU
- Mr. Ujj Nath
- Mr. Anshuman Singh
- Mr. S. S. Maurya
- Mr. Anurag Dubey
- Mr. Rakesh Kumar
- Mr. Manish Srivastava
The project was launched March of 2003
2003-06-24
Posted By : Shiv Shankar Maurya
The Charitable trust in the name of "PRAYAS" has been registered. The paper work for opening an account is currently in progress.
Various softwares are being evaluated to see which software could be used in this project. We would request people to help us out with the evaluation process.
The IT Library has around 150,000 books, journals, periodicals etc. and it is a humungous task managing the system as it as now. The people at the library are doing a fantastic job of providing the books and the needed literature to the students with the help of all they have.
As the Library grows to have more and updated litrature the load on the the library staff grows.
The people using the library as of now have to rely on manually going and checking out whether a perticular book is available or not. And as the books increase the whole effort needed increases.
Towards this end a project has been started to automate the IT library. The effort is being headed by S. S. Maurya ECE98 and is being co-ordinated by Dr Pradip Kumar Jain (Reader, Electronics Engg)
After a quick analysis the team has come to a conclusion that
- The project will require USD 40K for completion.
- Roughly, INR 0.1M is needed for customized software
- INR 0.3M for hardware, INR 0.1M for supplies,
- and the balance for data entry.
The library has 0.15 M books to be entered in the database. The cost of data entry is INR 8-10 per book. A minimum of USD 20K is needed to get books from the last ten years on the database.
Having given the estimate, we feel it is a hugh sum and would like that the alumni come forward and contribute towards the whole venture.
Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi 221005 INDIA