IIA celebrates the birth anniversary of our founder director, Prof. M. K. Vainu Bappu, as Founder’s Day on August 10th every year. This year also, we celebrated the same in grand. IIA staff, outsource staff members, trainees, and students participated in the Founder’s Day meeting held at KSO Library on August 10, 2023, at 10.30 a.m.
Recently the team GalileoMobile project, in collaboration with IIA and the Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium at Bangalore travelled to 12 villages/towns in Karnataka to reach and educate the school children to kindle their awareness and inspire them in pursuing the knowledge in Astronomy. IIA library actively participated in this outreach program and one of the library…
The scientific community is commemorating the Centenary celebration of the 1922 Indian expedition to Wallal, Australia, to observe a solar eclipse. Albert Einstein published his Theory of Relativity, arguing that gravitational objects with gravitational influence warped spacetime around them. On September 1922, a group of renowned astronomers conducted an expedition on a remote shore in…
The 125th anniversary celebration of the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory took place on April 1, 2024. On this momentous occasion, a multitude of delegates honored the event with their presence, including a visit to the KSO Library. Among them was Mr. A.S. Kiran Kumar, the former Chairman of ISRO and current Chairperson of the Governing Council…
To support the ‘International Open Access Week‘ event observed all over the world between 22nd to 28th Oct., 2012, IIA library has designed a poster with the theme of promoting Open Access Journals. This poster is displayed in the campus.
Dear Friends, To support the ‘International Open Access Week’ event observed all over the world between 21st to 27th Oct.,2013, IIA library has designed a poster. This poster is available for viewing in the following URL, http://prints.iiap.res.in/handle/2248/6423 With Regards, Christina Birdie
To enhance user experience, the IIA library has recently installed Tablet Kiosks. These state-of-the-art kiosks provide library patrons with seamless access to a vast collection of resources of IIA. Acting as an Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC), these kiosks enable users to effortlessly search for and locate books, journals, e-books, e-journals, multimedia materials, and other…
