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NIA library is a library of libraries – a collection divided into user-friendly categories. Collections reflect the academy’s role as the ‘Knowledge Resources Provider’ of the Insurance industry.
Online register keeps the record of Library users. Registration forwards the user to Programme Library Display. This is a display of books in connection with ongoing training programmes at academy. This saves the time of the user for selecting relevant books. Reference Library holds publications by Chartered Insurance Institute, Munich Re, Swiss Re, AICPCU and annual reports of LIC of India, GIC of India and General insurance Companies. Insurance Institute of India course books are used for subject introduction. Crisp Library is a collection of books recommended for self-development. Current Awareness Library includes display of New Books, Current Issues of Journals, and Regulatory documents from different countries.
Book collection of 18576+ includes books on Life and Non-Life Insurance, Actuarial Science, Pensions, Management and Training books. A few general awareness books and literary classics are also available in the library.
Periodicals Section has 185 user-friendly journals. Titles include national and international journals on insurance, economics, finance, management and training related subjects. Most of the important Newspapers find their place in the library. Journal Holdings include 276 titles with research value in insurance and allied subjects.
C.D. Deshmukh Digital Library is a collection of Software CDs, VCDs and other CDs on different subjects, which are widely used for reference and study. The focus of such digital collection is insurance & risk management.
Library Services are divided into Reference Service, Photocopying Service, Bibliography, CD viewing at Digital Reference Desk and other services on demand. Broadcasting Service is one of the advanced technology based services used for Daily News Alert and telecast of VCDs. Sky Watching Sessions are conducted under the Isaac Newton Library services. In addition Alert Sessions, Sant Tukaram Music library services are supporting activities to develop general awareness of the users. Informative books for such activities are also made available in the library.
Membership facility is extended for research scholars, industry personnel and businessman mostly in and around Pune. Corporate Membership is selectively extended to insurance entities for their professional reference.
Library department conducts training for developing and maintaining insurance library at insurance offices/entities. Advisory services are also provided for the setting up of Insurance Library as per the requirement. GIC library is one such manifestation at Mumbai.
One of the unique developments called ' Digital Library of NIA™' deserves a separate mention all together.
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DIGITAL LIBRARY
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NIA has initiated its digital library from April 2005. This library has been developed using an open source software i.e. Greenstone Digital Library Software (GSDL) and is installed on Windows 2000 Server. The activities of Digital Library are:
- Collection of presentations in a soft form, from all the programmes /seminars conducted in NIA and outside NIA including presentations made in MBA classes
- Classifying and segregating the presentations subject-wise / author wise / programme title-wise / programme number-wise for easy accessibility
- Sorting and converting them into secured Acrobat PDF format
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All members of NIA can access the Digital Library through Intranet. Till date 370 programme documents and 30 MBA documents are uploaded. Uploading of further documents is in process.
The introduction of the NIA digital library has enhanced the effectiveness of the presentations made by various speakers by enabling them to obtain substantial relevant information on a wide range of topics.
A report has been published on NIA Digital Library under the DJRS series.
The provision of the Digital Library has evoked all round appreciation from the users of the Academy spurring on the team for making continuous improvements in it. |
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