Library And Information Center
- Purpose :
- To provide facilities for hands-on-practice on Computers for developing skills of
Trainee Officers
- Software Development related to Irrigation Water Management
Avaible Books, Journals & Periodicals
Total number of books
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27574
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Total number of subscribed Periodicals
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50
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Computer Assisted Information Services
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Bibliographic database of books
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15054
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Database of technical Journal articles
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4997
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Database of Institutions
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71
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Collection:
The library holds a reference collection of documents on the following subject areas
relevant to Irrigation Water Management.
- Irrigation Engineering including Operation and Maintenance
- Drainage Engineering
- Hydraulics
- Plant Science
- Soil Science
- Soil Water plant relationship
- Statistics
- Social Science & Agricultural Extension
- Economics
- Computer Applications in IWM.
- Principles of Management
- Modern Education Technology.
Books:
27574 books are available in the library. International section of publications
published by IWMI, IRRI, ILRI, ICID, FAO, DFID, GWP, IFPRI, IPTRID, USAID, USBR,
World Bank, WWC ,etc. is available.
Journals:
50 Journals are subscribed on the relevant topics and also subscribed to 9 Newspapers.
Out of 50, four international Journals are subscribed as under:
Irrigation & Drainage (Q)
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Wiley & Sons Limited, England
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Journal of Irrigation & Drainage Engineering (M)
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American Society of Civil Engineers, 1801,Alexander Bell Drive Reston VA 20191-4400
USA.
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Irrigation Science (BIM)
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Springer International, Germany
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Transactions of ASABE(BIM)
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American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, USA
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Library facility is open to outside users on nominal charges of Rs. 10 per day per
head for reading and referencing.
Information Services:
- Current Awareness Bulletin – WISWAM :
- A quarterly current awareness bulletin on Irrigation Water Management is published.
It contains following:
- Select articles on IWM
- Recent periodical literature
- New arrivals
- Media clippings
- Calendar of events
Reprographic Services:
Photocopying facilities available in the Institute are utilized for providing document
delivery support.
Computer assisted information services:
The main objective of computer assisted information services is to document and
store data and information relevant to IWM as well as disseminating it to the users
and exchange information with other interested organizations. Computer assisted
information services are being developed in the following areas:
- Bibliographic database of books available in the library: About 27574 books on different
subject areas are available in the library. WINISIS Software supplied by USAID under
WRM&T Project is being used to create bibliographic database of books. About 700
keywords have been standardized for retrieval of the information. Information based
on author, title, subject, keywords etc. can be retrieved using this database and
disseminating it to the users or other organizations. The database of all available
books has been created.
- Database of Technical Journal articles: WALMI subscribes about 50 technical journals
on different subject areas. The database of selected journal articles with abstract
is being developed using WINISIS software. This database will help in making available
the State – of – the - art on any subject area. So far database of about 4997 articles
is created. Every month about 25 articles are added in the database.
- Database of Institutions and experts: The database of Institutions in the country
working in the area of Irrigation Water Management is created using CDS/ISIS. This
database will be useful in providing information of the Institutions and experts
for obtaining detail information.
Hardware
Name of Equipment
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Configuration
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Computer Hardware
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HCL AMD Phenom™, II2,x2 560 Processor 3.30 GHZ, 4 MB RAM
HCL Pentium IV, 3.06 GHZ, 1 GB RAM, 1 No Rptech P4
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Printer
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Samsung SCX 472x series,1 No. Samsung ML-3310 D
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Software
- OS:-Microsoft Campus license, Windows 8.1 , Ubuntu 14.04