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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on January 31, 2019 at 22:18

Dear Sri Adesh Kumar Sharma,

Thanks for your post.

Incidentally, many e-book titles can be purchased (both on ownership as well as subscription basis) for various number of users  like Single user, 5 Users, 10/15 users as such. The books are licensed to institutions on the basis of IP encryption. now if you buy a book for 5 users, The publisher's system will allow not more than FIVE log-ins at a single time for that book. Once a reader log outs from the book or cluster of books then only 6th or subsequent user will be able to access the e-book.

Regarding the AICTE Approval Process Handbook 2019-20, it does have several ambiguities.Never the less, not only this, if you go through the AISHE manual, or the NAAC Manual, you will encounter more or less similar issues. However NAAC material is smarter among its other counterparts. Actually, mostly the items are prepared by bureaucrats having inadequate knowledge/experience about Libraries; some times, the parts are composed by high-profile Library professionals and s/he puts on quite hi-fi issues. which are quite different or unwanted or irrelevant to the given context. As such, they even ask during inspection of University's Bengali Department how many paper they have published in journals indexed in SCOPUS!!

There is no denying that  there are reasons behind to be so ridiculously strict. A section (mostly the Private funded) of the Institutions  do not want to invest in Libraries & Laboratories and as I foresee, if any forward-looking person becomes the PM (as Late Rajeev Gandhi did for computerization) and allows selected Foreign Universities to open their Campus in India, most of the Private institutions will either be closed down or merge with those foreign universities within a few years!! As a Library professional I look forward for this to happen as our students will be able to get quality education.

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray, Calcutta

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Permalink Reply by Adesh Kr. Sharma on January 31, 2019 at 23:13

Thank you Sir for your cooperation and support.

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Permalink Reply by uma rani on February 4, 2019 at 18:13

Sir

 In AICTE Handbook 2019-20  50% of the total number of Titles and Volumes shall be in the form of e-books with intranet accessis mandatory in case of Post Graduate Level Programme(s) and shall be desirable in case of UG/  PG .

For intranet Access we can use CDs of books?

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Permalink Reply by Sunita Gurav on February 4, 2019 at 0:01

sir, can give the links of mba e books

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Permalink Reply by Sunita Gurav on February 4, 2019 at 0:01

sir, can give the links of mba e books

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