LIBRARY XPRESS | Issue 49 Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal’s NARSEE MONJEE College of Commerce and Economics Access to Readings Rooms in HAPPY READING Mumbai February, 2019 Issue No. 49 Vaishali Dawar, Librarian. The following public libraries in Mumbai are providing reading room facility- 1. US Consulate in Bandra Kurla Complex - Cross three bullet-proof doors to get to the best library in suburbs in Mumbai. 2. David Sassoon Library, Kala Ghoda: The Reading room is functional but what is truly interesting is the exterior of this beautiful library/ reading room. 3. J N Petit Library, Near VT Station - The reading room is on the second floor, the lending on the first. 4. Asiatic Society of Mumbai and Reading Room, Fort, Mumbai - this is close on weekends and holidays unfortunately. 5. State Central Digital Library Center in Andheri - Best for people looking to work on their laptops or needing access to ebooks/reference material. 6. People's Free Library, Dhobi Talao - 80 rupees a month! This library is open on holidays! 7. Trilogy in Lower Parel - This is a very well run library, however the reading room is exclusively for members. 8. Akshara Library, near Le 15 in Elphinstone West - Exclusively for women, the reading room is a good place to work. 9. Ramakrishna Mission, Shivananda Library at Khar (West) 10. Mumbai Marathi Granth Sangralaya at Dadar (West) 11. Lalbaugh Cha Raja Sarvajanik Utsav Mandal Library 1 Catalogue of N. M. Library owned books – Available at Library on the College website N E W B O O K Last few days in old Library S 2 LIBRARY NEWSLINE Electronic Theses, Dissertations, Synopsis VidyanidhiVACHAN PREENA http://vidyanidhi.org.in/ NDLTDDIVAS http://www.ndltd.org/ shodhganga http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/ shodhgangotri http://shodhgangotri.inflibnet.ac.in/ etd@Saurashtra Univ http://etheses.saurashtrauniversity.edu/ Union Catalogue of Thesis https://indcat.inflibnet.ac.in/index.php/main/theses Free Online Courses for everyone MOOC-List courses https://www.mooc-list.com/ Swayam https://swayam.gov.in/ Udemy Free Courses https://www.udemy.com/ ITunesU Free Courses https://www.udemy.com/ Stanford Free Courses https://news.stanford.edu/2018/06/22/moocs/ UC Berkeley Free Courses http://webcast.berkeley.edu/ MIT Free Courses https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm Harvard Free Courses https://www.extension.harvard.edu/open-learning-initiative UCLA Free Courses https://www.class-central.com/university/ucla Yale Free Courses https://oyc.yale.edu/ Carnegie Mellon Free http://oli.cmu.edu/ Courses Alison https://alison.com/courses open2study.com/courses LIBRARY https://www.open2study.com/courses NEWSLINE OpenLearn http://www.open.edu/openlearn/ edX https://www.edx.org/ Coursera https://www.coursera.org/browse 3 4 Changing our vision There was a very wealthy man who was bothered by severe eye pain. He consulted many physicians and was being treated by several. He did not stop consulting a galaxy of medical experts; he consumed heavy loads of drugs and underwent hundreds of injections. But the ache persisted with more vigour than before. At last, a monk who was supposed to be an expert in treating such patients was called for by the suffering man. The monk understood his problem and said that for sometime he should concentrate only on green colours and not to let his eyes fall on any other colours. It was a strange prescription, but he was desperate and decided to try it. The millionaire got together a group of painters and purchased barrels of green paint and directed that every object his eye was likely to fall to be painted green just as the monk had directed. When the monk came to visit him after few days, the millionaire's servants ran with buckets of green paint and poured it on him since he was in red dress, lest their master see any other colour and his eye ache would come back. Hearing this, the monk laughed and said "If only you had purchased a pair of green spectacles, worth just a few dollars, you could have saved these walls and trees and pots and all other articles and also could have saved a large share of his fortune. You cannot paint the world green." Let us change our vision and the world will appear accordingly. It is foolish to shape the world, let us shape ourselves first. 5 Andheri Ghatkopar road, Guru Hargovindji Marg, Andheri (East), Mumbai. Timings: 10:00 AM to 5:30 PM. Government of Maharashtra has opened the State Central Library Digital Centre in Mumbai, located in Andheri East. Maharashtra state’s very first High-Tech Digital Library is a 3-storied building with best possible modern facilities and a separate reading room. It houses digital contents in CDs/DVDs as well as various reference books, legal database Manupatra, all free for public. Each floor used for different purposes. The ground floor is for children and senior citizens. It also has Audio and VCD’s, X-boxes, toys which makes it a unique library where knowledge goes with fun factor. The first floor is for all public. It has 48 internet-enabled computers on first floor and spacious reading room with storage of more than 15000 books on second floor. The third floor has AV room and cafeteria. All absolutely free for the citizen. Just take membership and enjoy this Mumbai’s free books library for reference. 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