Knowledge Management Centre (KMC)

The National Institute of Design is an internationally acclaimed multidisciplinary institution in the field of design education and applied research. NID with its main Campus at Ahmedabad established in 1961 has established a new R&D Campus in Bangalore. The R&D Campus is a major initiative of NID to achieve design leadership in India by making “Designed in India”, a powerful positioning in global arena through original Design research and innovation.

NID’s R&D Campus is the first of its kind in the country entirely devoted to Design Research and Research-led design education.

Knowledge Management Centre, NID R&D Campus, Bangalore
The Knowledge Management Centre at the NID R&D Campus at Bangalore is a new age format of an integrated approach to managing human, print, digital and other resources all in a seamlessly integrated manner thus envisaging a central role in the educational and research activities at NID. This Center has a focused collection of books, journals and audiovisual materials on design and other related fields. Apart from this the Centre has access to a large collection of books, student diploma projects, craft documentation, research and other professional project documents through its central collection at Ahmedabad. Some of these resources are available through online access for reference and others through bibliographical annotations.

The collective strength of all resources at the KMC is aimed at giving the Centre the power to provide services under one roof with online facilities to students, faculty, researchers, institutions, corporate bodies and industry.

The main focus of the KMC would be to harness intellectual property at NID. At the KMC, the focus will be to expand the intellectual property base through promoting processes of sharing knowledge, brainstorming sessions, exchange of ideas and experience, specialized training to faculty/staff and students as to how effectively they could make use of the KMC through the Intranet & Internet facilities to achieve efficiency at all levels. Strengthening the Intranet and Internet facilities is a moving target which the KMC would be pursuing, as these are two vital areas through which Information Technology can cater to the needs of knowledge sharing among students, faculty and the outside world.

Book and Print Resources
The KMC has a wide range of collection of books in its resources on design, science and technology, art & architecture, paintings, history, humanities, etc. The present collection is expected to grow steadily as the activities at the campus increases. The periodical section has nearly 56 journals subscribed currently which are also expected to grow further as per the curriculum needs.

Audio Visual Resources
The AV section has a collection of films on DVD’s. These include award winning films, film classics, study and experimental films, animation etc. The Audio Collection contains both Indian as well as Western music (Classical, folk, jazz, pop, country, etc.)

NID K-portal
The Knowledge Portal, earlier known as NID Intranet, is one of the landmarks of the institute towards stream lining the educational as well as the administrative activities made available through online access. The access to the k-portal will help the student to interact with the faculty, submit project report, access the resources, and many other administrative procedures within the campus as well as at campus at Ahmedabad & Gandhi agar.

Physical Layout Floor Plan
The Knowledge Management Centre is situated in a centrally located position on the first floor. The Centre is spread over an area of approximately 6500 square feet with comfortable sitting arrangements with special research, and preview areas for audio and video materials. The books and periodicals are stacked on aesthetically designed wooden furniture specially designed and manufactured by one of NID’s own alumni.

Services

Reading Room Facility
Reading Room facility is available to all students, faculty and staff of the NID R&D Campus. Registered members from other institutions can also avail this facility. Normally, the reading room is open on all working days from Monday to Friday from 9.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.

Borrowing of materials
The registered members can borrow material depending upon its availability and borrowing status as per the membership category. Rare and Reference books are not issuable. The books marked RES are to be referred in the KMC, however in exceptional cases these can be issued for over night reading.

Reference Services
The NID Community will not be charged for reference services. However, there will be charges for reference related queries from non members especially from organizations, institutions, and individuals depending on the complexity, subject coverage, and availability of resources, etc.

Content page services
The content pages of selected periodicals from the KMC can be provided on a regular basis on special request. For this service there will be a special charge which is mentioned in the rate card at the Information Counter.

Bibliographic Information
On demand, bibliographic listings on design related topics could be provided. The requests with subject headings and key words can be given to the Information Counter for processing. There will be special charges for this service, which will be available at the Information Counter.

Indexing and Abstracting Service
In order to help the students, faculty and other design professionals in their information search, the KMC will be planning shortly to started an Indexing and Abstracting Service from major design journals, books and other resource materials. These indexes and abstracts are expected to be the major resource collection related to design and its allied fields. The KMC intends to bring periodic bulletins on the topics of Design Indexes, which will be both in print as well as an online service.

Membership
The regular students and staff of NID are entitled to membership of the Knowledge Management Centre for borrowing books, and other reading materials on the recommendation of the concerned Faculty Coordinator/ Discipline Coordinator/Heads of Departments. NID staff on probation or on temporary project appointment will have to pay either a member ship fee or a deposit amount or get a guarantor from the Head of Department or any of the confirmed staff/faculty members.

Inter Library Loan
The KMC is in the process of arranging an Inter Library Loan facility with other institutions. Once it is implemented students and faculty need to use this facility will have to get an authorization letter from the Chief Coordinator, KMC as and when required.

Reprography Services
Reprography facilities such as Xeroxing, scanning, digital photography facilities are being set up at the campus. The rates for various services are available at the Academic Administration. However, students and faculty are requested to restrain from Xeroxing scanning and other coping practices unless it is absolutely necessary as part of their project work. This is to protect the copyright and intellectual property act. In any case
the KMC will allow reprography only on a written declaration from the concerned person.

Photo coping from any of NID’s Archival Documents (diploma projects, craft documentation, project reports and other copyright materials) needs special permission from the Director or Head, R&D Campus. There will, of course be, a special charge for the same, if approved.

Timings

Reading Room
Monday to Friday
9.00 A.M. to 7.00 P.M.

(PS: The KMC will remain closed on Sundays and other declared holidays)