Thursday, September 20, 2007

Refresher Course Attended at Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Dr. Manoj Kumar Sinha, Assistant Librarian , Assam University, Silchar has successfully attended 21 Days Refresher Course on " Academic Library Management in Changing Environmnet" being organised by the Academic Staff College and Department of Library and Information Science, Jadavpur University , Kolkata during August 21 to September 11, 2007 and awarded Grade 'A' .
Altogether 36 participants have attended the course. Out of these, six participants were from out of West Bengal( 3 from Assam, 1 from Nagpur , 1 from Chattisgarh, 1 from Sikkim) and remaining participants were from the different colleges of West Bengal.
The Course was inaugurated by the Hon, ble Vice-Chancellor, Jadavpur University, Kolkata and in the Valedictory function , the Hon'ble Pro-Vice-Chancellor has grace the occassion as the Chief Guest and in his valedictory address , he congratulaed all the participants for succesfully completing the course and at the end of the programme, he presented the Certificates to the participants.
All the three Course Coordinators (Professor K.P Mazumdar, Dr. S.K.Chatterjee and Dr. Udayan Bhattacharyya from the Department of Library and Information Science, Jadavpur University ) have nicely coordinated the course.
All the estemed Resource Persons ( Prof. Arjun Das Gupta, Prof. Amithabh Chatterjee, Dr. S. K. Deghuria, Dr. B.B. Das, Librarian , Dr. Subarna Kumar Das, Dr. T K. Mandol, Prof. Mukherjee, Parthosarthi Das and others ) have nicely delivered their lectures on the relevant topics in interactive way.
On behalf of the participants Dr. Manoj Kumar Sinha, Asst Librarian , Assam University, Silchar has extended vote of thanks to all the resource persons at the end of the lecture session.
During the course period, all the participants have exchanged their views and extended cooperation amongst themselves.
At the end of the course, Group Photographic Session was held and all the particiapnts have received group photograph. After the completion of 21 days all the participants have returned to their location to resume their work at parent organisation.
The 21 days , we have spent together were unforgatable days for us and we would always remember these days in our life.
I, Dr. Manoj Kumar Sinha, on behalf of all the participants extended our sincere thanks to the Prof. Ranjan Bhattacharyya, Director, Academic Staff College, J.U. Kolkata and all the Coordinators , Resource Persons, Faculty members and Staff of the Department of Library and Information Science, J.U. , Kolkata for their cooperation and support. Dr. Subarna Kumar Das , my friend deserves my special thanks from my behalf for giving me an opportunity to particiate in this course and arranging Guest House and extending support during the period of my stay.
For me it was a wonderful experience. I have made all the participants my professional friends. I will remember the support of all the participats especially Mr. E.K. Rout, Mr. K.P. Singh, Mr. Saptarishi Ghosh, Mr. Badal Barman, Mr. Sukumar Das Chaudhury, Dr. Panday, Dr. Sahu, Ms. smitha Sett, Ms Rinti Barua , Ms Nirodha Dutta and Deepak K Kndu.