Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Assam University Book Exhibition-Cum-Sale-2008

The Book Exhibition –Cum-Sale was organised at Assam University, Silchar during February 22 to- 26 , 2008 (including extended period of two days from Feb 25-26, 2008) at Netaji Subhash Mancha under the dynamic leadership of Prof. Tapodhir Bhattacharjee, Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor , Assam University, Silchar.

For organizing such an event, a Book Exhibition –Cum-Sale Committee was constituted by the Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor, Assam University, Silchar under the Chairmanship of Prof. Subir Kar (Retd. Prof. Dept of Bengali), Academic Consultant, Assam University with few members comprising of Prof. Goutam Biswas, Dept of Philosophy, Dr. Natraju , Dept of Philosophy and with other faculty members . Dr. Manoj Kumar Sinha , Assistant Librarian was made Convener to coordinate and organize the Book Exhibition –Cum-Sale.

The Book exhibition-Cum-Sale was inaugurated by our Hon’ble Vice –Chancellor, Prof. Tapodhir Bhattacharjee and in his inaugural address he apprised the faculty members and students about the background of organizing Book Exhibition-Cum-Sale and appealed them to come forward and take the full benefit of selecting the relevant books for the respective departments. He expressed happiness and congratulated the members of the Book Exhibition-Cum-Sale Committee for organizing such an event in short possible time. The Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor expressed his desire to organize such event in the coming years to come.

Prof. Subir Kar, Chairman, Book Exhibition-Cum-Sale Committee informed about the genesis of organizing Book Exhibition –Cum Sale and made appeal to the faculty members and the students to visit the book exhibition and make full utilization of the opportunity to purchase books for their own collection and reading. Prof. Kar extended cordial thanks to the Hon’ble V.C. for his vision to organize such an event in the campus.

Prof. G.D. Sharma, Hon’ble Pro-V.C. has also congratulated the members of the Book Exhibition-Cum-Sale Committee for organizing book exhibition in very short notice and also emphasized the need of organsing such event in the academic institutions like University.

Dr. V.D. Shrivastava , Librarian appreciate the initiatives taken by the members of the Book Exhibition –Cum-Sale Committee and highlighted the importance of book exhibition. He also talked about the e-books and e-journals and Internet services provided by the Assam University Library to the academic community under UGC-INFONET E-Journals Consortium. He felt satisfaction over the arrangement made for the book exhibition and extend best wishes to the faculty members and students to select the relevant books as per their requirements.

At the end of the inaugural programme, Dr. Manoj Kumar Sinha, Assistant Librarian and Convener, Book Exhibition-Cum-Sale Committee offered vote of thanks to the Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Tapodhir Bhattacharjee and other dignitaries on the dais, Deans of various Schools, Head of the Departments, Statutory Officers, other university officers and staff the faculty members, students sitting in the audience for their kind presence and making this event a grand success.

Dr. Sinha also extended sincere thanks to all the publishers/ suppliers who have come from Silchar, Guwahati, Kolkata and New Delhi for their overwhelming response at short notice and for making this event a grand success.

Special thanks is also due to the Registrar, Sri S. Sengupta , Finance Officer, Dr. Alok Sen , Prof. Subir Kar, Academic Consultant and Chairman, Book Exhibition –Cum-Sale Committee , Prof. Goutam Biswas , Dept of Philosophy, Sri Jayanta Bhattacharjee , Information Scientist, and Dr. Natraju , Dept of Philosophy and other members of the Book Exhibition –Cum-Sale Committee for their sincere effort since the beginning for making this event a grand success.

The inaugural programme was well coordinated by Dr. Natraju, Dept. of Philosophy, Assam University, Silchar.

After the inaugural function, the book exhibition was made open for all the university members. The Hon’ble Vice-chancellor along with PVC, and the other faculty members has visited various book stall and made very important selection of books for the Central Library.

About more than 28 publishers and distributors from Silchar, Guwahati, Kolkata and New Delhi have participated in this event and displayed their best collections. The faculty members and students enjoyed the book exhibition and selected the relevant books for the Assam University Library and also purchased for their private collection. The faculty members of 29 departments and students have selected the books for their courses as per the allocated fund available for each department. Altogether more than 9000 books worth Rs.55, 00,000.00 have been procured from the Book Exhibition-Cum-Sale by the Assam University, Silchar.

In view of the great response from the faculty members, students, college teachers and local people from neighboring districts, the Hon’ble Vice-chancellor Prof. Tapodhir Bhattacharjee has extended the period of Book Exhibition for two days from 25-02-2008 to 26-02-2008 for the benefit of the society at large.



Reported by : Dr. Manoj Kumar Sinha,
Asst Librarian and Convener
Book Exhibition-Cum-Sale Committee,
Assam University, Silchar

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