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CSIR-<strong>IHBT</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> 2010-11<strong>IHBT</strong>-Knowledge Resource Centre (<strong>IHBT</strong>-KRC)<strong>IHBT</strong>-KRC continued to apprise scientific and technical staff of the institute and also otheracademia in and around Palampur (H.P.) by providing relevant knowledge resources and referenceand referral service. Following were the major achievements:• Collection of the centre was further enriched with addition of 185 scientific and technicalbooks, subscription of 155 journals in print and 4000 plus online full text journals• In-house databases and fulltext online journals under CSIR e-Journals Consortium weremade available• Scientific and technical staff were provided 256 books/journals on Inter Library Loan• Databases of books/journals were updated with 4690 new additions• Orientation on library resources and services were provided to 47 new users• Library resources were consulted by more than 9729 visitors• Routine services like document delivery, scanning, document setting, copying, printing,binding etc. were provided• Compiled citation reports for 26 scientists of the institute and other authors on specifictopics• Facilitated the preparation and printing of <strong>IHBT</strong> annual report, different technical bulletins,brochures etcComputer CellNetwork facilities were provided to scientific, technical and administative staff on more than 265data nodes over the fiber backbone. Wi-fi and videoconferencing facility with a fleet of serversfrom HP, IBM, SUN were maintained. The internet facility through dedicated leased line wasincreased from 256 Kbps to 8 Mbps throughout the campus including hostels and staff residences.Network security hardware like Unified Threat Management Solutions, IDS and Anti-Virus onclient server based model and SMTP spam/virus protection software etc, and its policies weremade and deployed to protect <strong>IHBT</strong> resources centrally. The DNS (Domain Name Server), WEB,Email and Proxy servers on Linux were managed routinely.The centre provided services to users in diagnosing problems related to network, computers andperipherals. Local Area Network was extended to the newly constructed Regulatory ResearchCentre.93
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