30th and last day of my Internship

The end of my Library Internship Program. Experience of working in a library and training given by a librarian in middle of completing our M.L.I.S.C degree was additional knowledge with our syllabus studies. Enjoyed and learnt a lot. Internship program wouldn’t have been successful without my mentor and SFIT library staff’s support😊

Will end my post with a quote.           Sayonara😊

From 17th Day to 29th Day of my Internship

Hii Girls!!!! 😊I am back😊

We all are about to complete our internship very soon. Then back to class, we all will be meeting after  1 ½ month. In this learning, practically working in a library, experiencing new things everyday didn’t realize how 1 ½ month went by😯. But was a great learning isn’t it girls?😊

Back to pavilion. So what did I learn in these two weeks? 

We celebrated International Women’s Day on 8^th March. I selected books and magazines on women from stack and displayed in library. We gave chocolate to each girl who came at circulation counter to issue books. Every time any student would come to browse the displayed books , i use to slowly peep through the counter to check which book is the user browsing, will he issue or he will not issue😊 When students issue a book from the display I use to feel very happy, because I selected it😊 I use to display books in a bookstore before, let me tell you I was very bad in displaying books, and I am still bad. You know you need to have that knack of which book to display and how creatively you should display so that the library user or customer will get attracted to and I was not at all good in that. If I display 10 books from my section only one use to get sold. So has the saying goes “Try Try till you Succeed”. In SFIT library they always experiment with new ideas for students comfort.

Also was working on my projects which were assigned to me. Learnt many new things while working on projects because I was working on new software Dspace. My learning through Dspace activity was more like archives we studied in class, what we learnt in class I was actually doing it practically. Collating photographs from every source of events we can get for eg: Newsletter, SFIT Magazine, Facebook, Website, hard copy of photograph etc. Arranging them year wise in folders (database management) etc. Was a great experience😊

There was another project preparing Library Orientation for First Year Students and that presentation to be prepared online through Prezi software, again working on a new software. Very much enjoyed😊

We celebrated Entrepreneur’s Day on 15^th March😊 Library has section full of entrepreneur books so we displayed books and magazine in library. We keep the display for 1 week😊

16th Day of my Internship

In my last post shared with you that i will be working on presentation of Library Orientation for F.E students. And you know girls I have to prepare that presentation in Prezi😊. Prezi is a software where you can prepare your presentation on your topic online and Prezi's amazing feature is that the presentation can be zoomed. I was going through Prezi presentations online, it was like i am watching 3D presentation. Once you get time do go through Prezi presentations you will love it😊

After a long gap, did shelving yesterday on my own, little improvement😊

When students apply for library card we have to enter their details and upload students photographs  in the system (Library software LibSuite). Ma'am was taking me through the process of how they scan and upload photographs of students and faculties, ma'am was sharing that while saving photographs in the system they don't save the photographs by students or faculties name, they save by their PID ( Permanent Identification) number, so there is no issue of spelling error😊


There is a nice article which i came through very long back, wanted to share with you girls. This article is written by Dr. Abhay Bang and he is sharing his experience studying at Nayee Taleem School set up by Mahatma Gandhi like how he studied mathematics not sitting in class but by constructing a water tank in school's cowshed, how they learnt cooking nutritious food by themselves by cooking in school kitchen in a very limited budget etc. You will love this article, do read it when you get time. Dr. Abhay Bhang is a social activist and researcher in the field of community health. I am sharing with you the PDF of the article and also the digital copy the booklet😊

https://archive.org/details/MyMagicalSchool-English-Dr.AbhayBang
http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/magic-school-eng-drbang.pdf