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The University was set up by Act No. 14 of 2002 vide Extraordinary Gazette notification of Government of Himachal Pradesh dated May 23, 2002 and approved by the University Grants Commission under section 2(f ) of the UGC Act. The University is spread over 10 hectares of lush green picturesque slopes of Wak- naghat, in District Solan of Himachal Pradesh, creating a tranquil environment that can heighten the spirit and energy level of all learners and inspire them to optimize their learning efforts. Functionally and aesthetically spread out, the architectural plan builds on providing an intellectual ambience in clusters in an exciting landscape that is easy flowing and community-friendly. The Campus, covering a total built up area of over 100,000 sq.m. comprises the Academic Block (with lecture theatres, classrooms, tutorial rooms, laboratories, administrative and faculty offices, and the library), hostel residences for boys and girls (around 1800 students), faculty residences, Guest House, Annapurna, Auditorium, sports facilities and other associated services. At present, around 1650 students (boys and girls) along with 90 faculty members reside on the campus. Internet connectivity is currently available to all the faculty members and students. JUIT is a wired campus with a fiber-optic network connecting its labs, classrooms, library, and student hostels. The computing infrastructure consists of state-of-the-art multi- processor servers accessed by an array of multimedia desktops. The University has seven computer laboratories - with more than 700 nodes operating on UNIX; Windows 2000/Linux environment. All the lecture theatres/classrooms have multimedia projection systems for facilitating computer-based and web-based learning. Besides the computer laboratories, the University has other well-equipped labs in Electronics, Communication, Bioinformatics/Biotechnology and Civil Engineering disciplines. A language laboratory has also been commissioned to assist students to enhance their language communication skills.

The Learning Resource Centre (LRC) is the backbone of academic and research activities of the University and has been catering to the information needs of the faculty members, students, staff, and research scholars. It has around 25000 volumes of books and more then 4000 e-journals which cover the disciplines of Computer Science, Information Technology, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mathematics, Physics and Materials Science, Humanities, Management and other areas related to Engineering, Science and Technology. The collection comprises printed documents such as books, reports, theses, standards, atlases, patents and back volumes of journals. LRC is regularly subscribing 38 International, 44 National and 45 national and international magazines regularly, in order to supplement research and development activities of the university. The non-book collections include material like audio/video cassettes and CD-ROM discs etc. The LRC is a member of Indian National Digital Library in Engineering, Sciences and Technology and All India Council of Technical Education (INDEST- AICTE) and has been subscribing ASCE, IEEE, ACM, SpringerLink and Emerald Management Xtra digital libraries. The faculty and student research community can access 16683 titles full text throughout the campus without any barrier. LRC is also a member of Developing Library Network (DELNET) for sharing the resources among its member libraries. LRC is subscribing databases of statistical importance from INDIASTAT and industrial database prowess. The LRC has four storied separate environmental friendly building which can accommodate around 295 users at-a-time to carry out academic and research activities such as reading books, accessing electronic journals, internet, computer programming and software development etc. It is connected to high speed internet and intranet of JUIT network. All activities of LRC are computerized, including bar-coded ID cards and separate On-line Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) terminals to know the status of books at any time. The LRC remains open 16 hours a day from 8 A.M. to 12 P.M except on holidays. LRC has implemented an integrated electromagnetic security system (3M India) for safety of LRC material. The LRC has also started the development of Institutional Repository by using DSpace, which is open source repository software.

The Jaypee Institute of Information Technology has been declared deemed to be University Under Section 3 of UGC Act. 1957 vide Notification No. F.9-27/2000-U.3 dated 1st November, 2004 of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. The JIIT is fully backed and supported by the Jaypee Group of Industries through its not for profit trust – Jaiprakash Sewa Sansthan (JSS). JIIT is situated near the Electronic City, Noida (UP) and is at a distance of 3 kms from New Delhi – UP border. The state-of-the-art university campus constructed at a total cost of over 90 crores with a total built up area over 68000 sq.m comprises smart buildings with Internet connectivity, environmentally conditioned Academic Block, Faculty Residences, Student Hostels, Annapoorna well-equipped modern laboratories and Learning Resource Centre provide a pleasant and intellectually stimulating ambience for students in an eco-friendly environment. M/s Arcop Associates Pvt. Ltd. an eminent Canada based architect firm has done the architectural design of the campus with the construction undertaken by the Group itself. The University offers Doctoral, Post-graduate (M.Tech. and MBA) as well as Undergraduate programs (B.Tech.) in the disciplines of Computer Science & Engineering, Information Technology, Electronics & Communication Engineering, and Biotechnology. The JIIT endeavors to produce engineers with a vision and capabilities to design and implement computer based systems, tools and equipment. Our graduates are possessed with appropriate inter-personal skills, group working skills, understanding engineering economics, finance as well as with knowledge of legal/social aspects of technology. For further information, Please refer university website i.e. www.jiit.ac.in

Learning Resource Centre (LRC) is the back bone of academic and research activities of the JIIT. It caters to the information needs of the faculty members, students, staff, and research scholars. The LRC possesses around 27000 books and more then 14000, e-journals covering the disciplines of Computer Science, Information Technology, Biotechnology, Mathematics, Physics, Materials Science, Management and other areas related to Engineering, Science and Technology. The LRC collection also comprises printed documents such as books, reports, theses, standards, atlases, patents and back volumes of journals. The non-book collection includes material like audio/video cassettes and CDROM discs etc. The LRC is a member of Indian National Digital Library in Engineering, Sciences and Technology and All India Council of Technical Education (INDEST- AICTE). It has been subscribing e-journals of IEEE, ACM, Springer Link, LNCS, Capitaline, EBSCO and various digital libraries. LRC is also a member of Developing Library Network (DELNET) for sharing the resources among its member libraries. LRC is housed in a three storied separate centrally air-conditioned building which can accommodate around 350 users at a time to pursue their academic and research activities by way of reading books, accessing electronic journals and internet, computer programming and software development etc. It is connected to high speed internet and intranet of JIIT network. All activities of LRC are computerized, including bar-coded ID cards and separate On-line Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) terminals to know the status of books at any time. The LRC remains open 14 hours a day from 8 A.M. to 10 P.M except on holidays. The LRC has implemented an integrated electromagnetic security system (3M India) for safety of LRC material. The LRC has also started the development of Institutional Repository by using DSpace open source repository software.

The acronym ‘SALIS’ stands for Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science. Like-minded library professionals established SALIS-Delhi-NCR Chapter as a professional chapter in the year 2005. The primary focus was to provide need-based services to the profession and to work for the advancement of Library and Information Science (LIS). The current focus of SALIS is to reach the unreached LIS professionals within the NCR and the Northern India belt in order to minimize the digital divide. It also pays attention on the working library professionals of educational Libraries as also the other segment of information specialists in view of the advances in the information and communication technologies and e-governance expectations from the professionals. SALIS-Delhi-NCR Chapter is happy to associate and to provide the technical back-up for the success of the “International Symposium on the Emerging Trends and Technologies in Libraries and Information Services” (ETTLIS-2010)

Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest engineering educational institution in the country. It was established in 1847 as College of Civil Engineering Roorkee which was renamed as Thomason College of Civil Engineering in the memory of James Thomason (then Lt. Governor of North West Provinces) in 1854. Thomason College was converted into University of Roorkee after independence in 1947 which now have been converted into Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in 2001 by the Central Government recognizing its national importance. The institute conducts 10 UG programmes in technology and 55PG programmes in Science/Technology. More than 750 research scholars are currently working at IIT Roorkee.

Central Library of the Institute is one of the best and oldest academic library in the country. It was established in 1848 as the College Library. Later on it was reamed as Central Library. The Library contains more than 3.40 lacs documents in every form of media. It subscribe to more than 12,000 journals in e-form and about 1000 titles in print. About 6000 books are added to its collection annually. Library has added 13,000 e-books to its collection last year. The Central Library is housed in a state of art building which has been specially designed keeping modern ICT facilities in view. The building has more than 200 I/Os to connect computers while for laptop are provided WI-FI connectivity on the philosophy of wired desktops wireless laptops. The Library maintains six servers, more than 130 desktops, one Minolta PS7000 book scanner, several HP scanners and printers. A training room with latest gadgets has been developed specially for the purpose of continuing education of the professionals.