A TECHNICAL REPORT ON 1 WEEK INTERNSHIP IN

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY (IICB)

By

Kaustuv Chakrabarti

6th Semester

5 -Year Integrated MLIS Course

University of Calcutta

Year:2015

INTRODUCTION

In 6th semester, 5 -Year Integrated MLIS Course

has internship programme as a part of our coursefor hands on training in reputedlibraries/information centers. Therefore, we weredivided into 3 groups and were sent to threeimportant institutions of India. One of them isIndian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB).

10 students were sent to IICB and I was in thisgroup.

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY (IICB)

Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB) is a biomedical research centre in Kolkata, established in 1935. The Library and documentation centre of this institution is perhaps, the biggest one on biomedical sciences in the eastern zone of India.

1ST DAY (6TH APRIL)

Our training started on 6th April. We arrived atsharp 10a.m and reported to the librarianN.C.Ghosh.

He taught us about the library rules andprofessional ethics, library management andtime management.

He introduced us to the library personnel.

He told us to observe the library acutely.

ACTIVITIES

The library

Has an archival section for printed documents.

Has a well furnished reading hall with a net section having 30 computers.

Is open from 9-30 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. (from Monday to Friday).

PROBLEMS

Dust and insects in some areas.

Improper shelving.

We formed two groups to do library works. Firstgroup consists of six members and second groupconsists of four members. Our group memberswere Akhil, Aishee,Sudeshna and me.

Sutapa madam guided us to repair the damagedspine labels on the cover of books and sheprovided us some useful materials to arrangethe books in a proper way.

We completed more than 250 books andarranged them properly.

2ND DAY (7TH APRIL)

We had an interactive session on thatmorning with Sutapa madam.

She divided us in 3 groups A, B and C.

I was in team C and my group memberswere Sujata Biswas and Arpita Mondal.

3RD AND 4TH DAY (9,10/O4/15)

Our task was:

Classification of books from IICB according Universal Decimal Classification, Standard edition;

Cataloguing of the books and theses in MARC21 format, Libsys4 software;

Data entry of 18 books in Libsys4;

Circulation process (issue and return of books by barcode);

Barcode generation;

Membership card generation;

5TH DAY (10TH APRIL)

59th foundation day of IICB.

The institute organized a programme andwe were allowed to attend it. We becameaware of the glorious history of theinstitution till date. I was proud that as atrainee, I listened to the lectures of theworks of the renowned personalities whowere present on the day.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This entire work was learnt under the supervision of library personnel Sutapa Madam and Shantanu da.