Tuesday, December 27, 2011

UGC-NET Exam 2011 December- Suspect of Question Paper Leak in LIS


    I wrote UGC-NET exam, Dec 2011 in LIS at Vidyadhiraja Vidya Bhavan, Aluva, Kerala conducted under Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT). We were shocked to find that question booklets for Paper 2 and Paper 3 were duplicates of an original booklet. Instead of the coloured normal seal it beared a plain white sticker. So the seriel no of the booklet was same for all the candidates in LIS who wrote exam at this centre. The booklets of Paper 1 (General) and Paper 2 and 3 for other subjects were not faulty. When candidates raised objection, we were told to finish the exam and register a complaint afterwards.


    Candidates have given a written complaint to the UGC NET exam co-ordinatior of CUSAT. A copy will be sent to UGC also. The unverified information we got from different sources tell CUSAT does not received question booklets from UGC on time. Later on a copy was faxed from UGC to CUSAT and they photocopied the entire thing. If this is true, the questions of an important national exam were exposed to different people much before the exam. If CUSAT did not received the original booklets from UGC, then where it went missing? An inquiry should be made immediately into this matter and the exam should be cancelled. On behalf of candidates who wrote exam at CUSAT centre, I register strong protest against the mismanagement of UGC NET -2011 and making a mockery of the candidates who wrote the exam all over India.


Mithun Raj M.
Scientific Assistant  (Library)
Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai Centre Library
SETS Building, MGR Knowledge City, CIT Campus
Taramani, Chennai- 683110
Mobile: +919379916419
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Dear friends

What actually happened at CUSAT UGC-NET exam centre for LIS is clear now. The exam  Co-ordinator of that centre revealed  the incidents occured to  some media persons in Kerala. The centre has not received question paper for LIS in time. He says that, may be  it is because of the leave days before the christmas holidays. They got initimation from UGC to take photocopies of questions of LIS to distribute to candidates. They did it, that's all.

See the malayalam newspaper  story in this regard:


NB: dont ask CUSAT authorities  the following questions.They wont answer to that questions. :)

1) when they took photocopies of LIS second and third paper.
2) when they found that question paper bundle for LIS alone lacks
3) when they informed UGC that LIS question paper bundle not received
4) when intimation from UGC received to CUSAT authorities to take photocopies of question papers
5) afterall,why only for LIS ,this photocopy-bundle missing happened. 

An investigation should be done in this matter.

Jasimudeen.s
Mahatma Gandhi University Library
Kottayam

Monday, December 26, 2011

National Workshop on Science Information Literacy & Scholarly Writing, M.G University Kottayam, 17-19 January 2012

LIS WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS, CONFERENCES AND REFRESHER COURSES IN KERALA::


in association with the Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment (KSCSTE), Government of Kerala and Centre for Information Literacy Studies, University of Kerala.

Venue :
Mahatma Gandhi University Library, Kottayam, Kerala



http://inbofa2011.agrimainfotech.com/seminar/national%20seminar.html


Date :17-19 January 2012

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Youtube for Schools

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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Darwin Papers from Cambride University

The collection of Charles Darwin's papers at the University Library originates in the work of his son Francis, who published two editions of his father's letters, in 1887 and 1903.  For these editions he collected as many of Charles's letters and papers as possible, which remained in the family after Francis died.  In 1942 the Pilgrim Trust and the Darwin family gave most of these papers to the University Library, another portion being given to the museum recently established at Down House.

http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/manuscripts/darwin.html

Scientific works of Isaac Newton is now Online

Cambridge University Library holds the largest and most important collection of the scientific works of Isaac Newton (1642-1727). University presents here an initial selection of Newton's manuscripts, concentrating on his mathematical work in the 1660s.


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