St. Joseph Engineering College IEEE Student Branch in association with Central Library organized user awareness workshop on "IEEE Explore Digital Library" on 7 th April 2017. The Workshop began with a prayer song led by College Choir. Dr. Nalini Rebello, HOD, Civil Engineering and Chairperson of the Library Advisory Committee welcomed the gathering. Dr. Felcy D'Souza, Librarian, introduced the resource person Mr. Akshay Prasanna, Sr. Manager, Global Information Systems and Technologies Pvt. Ltd (GIST), Bangalore. The main objective of the workshop was to bring the awareness about IEEE and its resources among faculty, research scholars and students which would help in their research and publications and also to enhance the knowledge.
The Resource Person gave a detailed insight on IEEE and its resources. He also briefed about the basic search, advanced search, remote access, up-to- date access through mobile apps, choosing topics for projects from IEEE and its importance for placements, creating alerts on new articles and topics, different type of search techniques which help to narrow down the search results etc. He also added on how to publish paper in IEEE conferences and jouals and its importance to the students to strengthen their profile for placements as well as for seeking higher studies in abroad. He also highlighted on the free courses available on subjects and plagiarism. There was a good response from the faculty, research scholars and students, who have actively participated in the interactive session and cleared their doubts. The session was informative and very useful. At the end, Dr. Bini A.A, Associate Professor and member of Library Advisory Committee proposed the vote of thanks. Mr Arun Alvares IEEE SJEC Student Branch Chair honoured the resource person and Ms Alisha Patrao compered the program. Around 35 faculty members/research scholars and 20 students participated in the workshop.
