Prof. S.S. Rao from the University of Miami, Florida, USA, inaugurated the ‘Digital Library’ at Gitam University, Hyderabad campus on Tuesday and appreciated School of Technology (SoT) for the latest state-of the-art high technology e-learning such as 30 lakh e-books, Ebrary (90,300 titles), Digital Engineering Library, Pearson E-Books, SONET & NPTEL videos, IRC technical papers and the course material developed by GITAM faculty, etc. He stressed the importance of “e-resource and digital library”.

Prof. P. Nithiarasu, College of Engineering, Swansea University, UK, inaugurated the systems in the digital library. The digital library aimed at thwarting out the traditional difficulty in finding out information required for the students for academic as well as for extracurricular purposes from huge voluminous books of numerous pages, is highly beneficial for the students as it has been structured with quick search facilities and various multimedia streaming techniques. With a single click, the students will be able to access information needed for them stored in the digital library server in various content formats.

Prof. N. Siva Prasad, Director, SoT, Prof. Ch. Sanjay, Prof. S.S. Prasada Rao, D.V.V.S.R. Varma, resident director and others were present.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Telangana / by Staff Reporter / Sangareddy – December 16th, 2015