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ILA Elections 2022-2025 - Team of Dr. Mohan R. Kherde, Director KRC, SGB Amravati University
by Dr. Ravindra Mendhe 07 Feb '22

07 Feb '22

Dear LIS Professionals, Greetings! We all as a team are requesting you to cast your valuable vote in favour of us and to give wholehearted support in ILA Election for the term 2022-2025. The Indian Library Association is the premium association in the field of library and information science working at national level with concrete objectives. Our team will work, keeping these objectives in the vision and will attempt to put the association at the peak in respective of the recognition at the international level with the guidance, and cooperation of seniors and also young blooded valuable members of association like you all. Sr.No. Name Post 1. Dr.Mohan Rambhau Kherde, Director Knowledge Resource Centr, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati President 2. Dr. Prabhat Kumar Pandey, Head & Librarian, Department of Library and Information Science Sarojini Naidu Govt. Girls PG Auto College Bhopal (M.P.) Vice President (Central Zone) 3. Dr. Rupesh Gaur, Librarian, Indira Gandhi National college, Ladwa, Kurukshetra, Haryana. Vice President (North Zone) 4. Dr. Pardeep Rai, Librarian, Matreyi College, University of Delhi, New Delhi Vice President (UT Zone) 5. Dr. Abhijeet Sinha, Librarian, DDU College, New Delhi Council Member (Open) 6. Dr. Anand Pratap Singh, Deputy Librarian, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi 7. Dr. Dharam Kumar, Librarian, Aryabhatta College, University of Delhi, New Delhi 8. Dr. Ganesh D.Kulkarni, Librarian, Shri Sant Savta Mali Gramin Arts & Commerce College, Phulambri, Maharashtra 9. Dr. Gururaj S. Hadagali, Assistant Professor Department of Library and Information Science Karnatak University, Dharwad Karnataka 10. Dr. Jivesh Bansal, Librarian, Panjab University, Chandigarh 11. Dr. P.S.Kattimani, University Librarian, Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi 12. Ms. Mamta Amarpuri, Librarian, Darshan Academy, New Delhi 13. Mr. Nitin S. Joshi, Librarian, Dr. Vishwanath H Karad MIT World Peace University, Pune A. Contesting Team 14. Dr. Parveen Kumar, Librarian, I B (PG) College, Panipat 15. Mrs. Rajni Sharma, Librarian, Mahavir Senior Model School, Delhi 16. Dr. Shakuntala Dahiya, Sri Aurobindo College (Eve.), University of Delhi 17. Dr. Sivasankar Prasad Orugonda, Dy. Librarian, Central University of Hyderabad 18. Dr. Subhash Chavan, Director, KRC, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai Vice President (East Zone) Council Member (North Zone) Council Member (South Zone) 1. Dr. O. N. Chaubey, Indira Gandhi National Center For the Arts, New Delhi 2. Dr. Suresh Jange, Librarian Gulbarga University, Kalaburagi, Karnataka 3. Dr. Mayank Jasvantray Trivedi, University Librarian, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara 4. Dr. Sanjay Kumar Singh, Professor Department of Library and Information Science, Gauhati University, Guwahati 5. Dr. Chetan Sharma, University Librarian, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra 6. Dr. P. Rajendran, University Librarian, SRM Univerisity Kattankulathur 7. Dr. Milind Babarao Anasane, Librarian, College of Engineering & Technology, Amravati 8. Dr. Rakesh Kumar Mohindera, Asstt. Librarian, Dept of Law, Panjab University, Chandigarh General Secretary Vice President (South Zone) Vice President (West Zone) Council Member (West Zone) Council Member (UT Zone) B. Team Members Elected Unopposed Sr.No. Name Post Attempt to take follow -up to strengthen Public Libraries in India in all se Thanks and best wishes; Sincerely, Dr. Ravindra M. Mendhe, Ph.D. Deputy Librarian SVKM's NMIMS ( Deemed to be University, Mumbai) MPTP, Shirpur Campus, Dist- Dhule (MS) M- 9421149820 website: http://ravindramendhe.weebly.com/ https://sites.google.com/site/ravindramendhe/ http://ravindra4474.wix.com/ravindralibrary http://circular.lislinks.com/ Orchid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7103-6567 Vidwan ID : https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/254650 Profile URL: https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/254650 <https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/254650> *“New Technology, New Trends, New Ideas; Modifying the Library with the User in Mind'.*

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Re: [LIS-Forum] ILA election
by Koteswara Rao Mamidi 07 Feb '22

07 Feb '22

Yes, it is wrong and unethical to use this forum for election propaganda, be it ILA or others. I fail to understand how the moderator had allowed this post? Dr. M Koteswara Rao ________________________________ From: LIS-Forum <lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> on behalf of lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in <lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Monday, February 7, 2022 9:56 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 227, Issue 11 Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in You can reach the person managing the list at lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything I’ve ever written! - Paulo Coelho
by Subbiah Arunachalam 07 Feb '22

07 Feb '22

Friends, Allow me to add my two cents to the discussion generated by Mr Muthu Madhan's post on Paulo Coelho's 'interesting call.' Is Ms Alextandra Elbakyan a thief, or is she stealing from others? No, she is not a thief nor is she stealing from others. What she is doing is helping researchers achieve what they want to achieve but cannot achieve as individuals. Why do researchers around the world (including the tens of thousands in India and the rest of the Global South) write up their findings? Because they want to make their findings known to other researchers around the world, who in turn can use the findings along with the findings of many other researchers in their own research. As Sir Isaac Newton famously said in a letter he wrote to Robert Hooke as far back as 1675, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." By shoulders of giants, Newton meant the work of others. It is important for us to remember what Prof. Robert Merton has said about science; it is a communal (or community) activity, a collective enterprise of building knowledge brick by brick, the bricks coming from thousands of researchers and research groups (past and current), and institutions around the world. Ms Elbakyan and SciHub are making it possible for individual researchers around the world, no matter where they live and work, to make their own contribution by facilitating access to the bricks made by others. All one needs is access to the Internet and a device (say a laptop or mobile phone). At a scale unimaginable till two or three decades ago. She deserves to be rewarded for her innovative solution to a long standing problem (of access to relevant information) and not accused of thievery. Whose work is she making available to researchers (and whoever is interested)? The work of researchers which they want to give away to others so it could be read, used to advance knowledge and used in other ways, say in teaching and in treating patients in hospitals. As far as I know, no researcher has objected to Elbakyan making their work available to a worldwide audience. In the course of my work I meet a number of physicists, and they all make their preprints available through arXiv. In recent years, biologists and chemists have started placing their preprints in bioRxiv and chemRxiv. Why? All of them want their work to be known by researchers all over the world and almost immediately. Which is exactly what Ms Elbakyan is doing. Which is what Aaron Swartz tried to do before his untimely death in 2013 at the age of 26. No owner of scientific/scholarly knowledge has objected to Elbakyan making their work publicly accessible or dragged SciHub to court. It is some intermediaries who use scientific journal publishing as 'a perpetual financing machine' (I did not coin this term; it was coined by the man who actually showed that journal publishing is a perpetual financing machine, Mr Robert Maxwell), who are suing SciHub and Ms Elbakyan. Please see https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/13/ scientific-publishing-rip-off-taxpayers-fund-research . If you want to hear it from an Indian expert, please listen to the last 13 minutes of Prof. Balaram's 22-minute talk at the IISc DST CPR OA Week 2021 webinar. [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdCoJUrqeQA&t=3s; see from 08.45]. In reality, it is these intermediaries (unfortunately, including a large professional society) who are keen to protect their revenue and profit margins at the expense of science, scientists and knowledge production who have gone to court. Does it cost money to produce knowledge? Undoubtedly, yes. You can't build and sustain TIFRs, IITs, IISc and other centres of scientific learning and knowledge production without investing huge sums of money. That is why enlightened governments and philanthropic organizations around the world continue to invest huge sums on setting up such institutions and supporting the research and allied activities of the scientists and students working in these and other research institutions. Often, governments have to make choices such as should one invest their limited resources in scientific research or should one invest in poverty alleviation or providing noon meal to poor children who might not otherwise be able to attend schools. Obviously, scientists and their institutions must be aware of the need to spend the funds with utmost care. That is why we should not support publishers who have made 'journal publishing a perpetual financing machine' and who report upwards of 35% profit year after year. That is why we should persuade our government and its various agencies not to underwrite the immoral and unethical practice of paying APC to journal publishers. That is why we should collectively insist that the many institutional archives and central repositories in our country be run professionally. Please visit *https://kisdfoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-Top-21-Free-Online-Journal-and-Research-Databases.pdf <https://kisdfoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-Top-21-Free-Onlin…>* . And if you have not watched the European Open Science Conference (EOSC 2022) held online on 4 and 5 February, please watch it. The replay will soon be up, any day this week, on the EOSC website. Thanks Madhan for starting this discussion. Subbiah Arunachalam On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 6:50 PM madhan muthu <mu.madhan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: madhan muthu <mu.madhan(a)gmail.com> > Date: Thu, 31 Dec, 2020, 12:16 > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything > I’ve ever written! - Paulo Coelho > To: Sathyanarayana NV <sathya(a)informaticsglobal.com> > Cc: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > > > Dear Sathya: > > "For someone denounced as a criminal by powerful corporations and > scholarly societies, Elbakyan was surprisingly forthcoming and transparent. > After establishing contact through an encrypted chat system, she worked > with me over the course of several weeks to create a data set for public > release: every download event over the 6-month period starting 1 September > 2015, including the digital object identifier (DOI) for every paper." > > "Elbakyan also answered nearly every question I had about her operation of > the website, interaction with users, and even her personal life. Among the > few things she would not disclose is her current location, because she is > at risk of financial ruin, extradition, and imprisonment because of a > lawsuit launched by Elsevier last year." > > ......"It’s hard to discern how threatened by Sci-Hub Elsevier and other > major publishers truly feel, in part because legal download totals aren’t > typically made public." > > > https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-eve… > > Why publishers are not revealing "article level" download statistics to > even institutions that take subscription to their journals? > > Madhan > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 31 Dec, 2020, 08:34 Sathyanarayana NV, < > sathya(a)informaticsglobal.com> wrote: > >> Dear Madhan, >> >> Interesting call by Paulo Coelho! >> >> The universe owned by the authors should turn Gandhian by changing the >> currently used copyright statement “All rights reserved” to a new statement >> “All rights unreserved”. >> >> >> >> Gandhi wrote his famous book “Hind Swaraj: Indian Home Rule” in 1915 >> during his journey by ship from South Africa to India. He released this >> book in Gujarathi and English with both imprints carrying the statement >> “All rights unreserved”. Gandhi was a lawyer by profession as we know. Back >> in India, he intended this book to serve the purpose of launching his >> non-violence style of freedom movement. It is another story that his >> Gujarathi edition was banned by the British Government. They didn’t bother >> about Indian edition as they thought that none would read English version! >> >> >> >> The important message here from Gandhi to the authors of the scholarly >> communication in particular -- which is a far better message than Paul >> Coelho, is: declare your papers at the pre-print level itself with the >> statement: “All rights unreserved” and post it in a public repository site >> like arXiv or chemrXiv or medrXiv or biorXiv. This may start a new >> “Sathyagraha” (civil disobedience) movement leading to free the scholarly >> journals from the pay-wall controlled subscription model for ever! Gandhi >> taught us to be truthful and not steal from others. Instead of giving a >> call to defend thieves and pirates like Alexandra Elbakyan, OA movement >> should pursue the leading scientists and researchers of India and the >> world to rigorously pursue the Gandhian model. >> >> >> >> OA movement needs to be re-invented, two decades after its first-round of >> limited success so far, waking up the scholarly world only partially! We >> need a Gandhian of the scholarly world to emerge for this. Who could this >> be? >> >> >> >> *Sathya* >> >> N. V. Sathyanarayana >> >> *| *Chairman & Managing Director *| *Informatics India Ltd.* | *Bangalore >> 560004 *|*INDIA *|* >> >> *| **www.informaticsglobal.com* <http://www.informaticsglobal.com> *|* >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *From: *LIS-Forum <lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >> *Date: *Wednesday, 30 December 2020 at 11:08 PM >> *To: *lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >> *Subject: *[LIS-Forum] Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything >> I’ve ever written! - Paulo Coelho >> >> My thoughts on S.O.P.A. >> >> Paulo Coelho >> >> https://paulocoelhoblog.com/2012/01/20/welcome-to-pirate-my-books/ >> >> As an author, I should be defending ‘intellectual property’, but I’m not. >> >> Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything I’ve ever written! >> >> The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever. >> >> First, because all anyone ever does is recycle the same four themes: a >> love >> story between two people, a love triangle, the struggle for power, and the >> story of a journey. >> >> Second, because all writers want what they write to be read, whether in a >> newspaper, blog, pamphlet, or on a wall. >> >> The more often we hear a song on the radio, the keener we are to buy the >> CD. It’s the same with literature. >> >> -- >> Madhan, M >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >> believed to be clean. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LIS-Forum mailing list >> LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >> http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >> > -- Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009

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Omeka online tutorial
by Vimal Kumar V. 06 Feb '22

06 Feb '22

Omeka online tutorial Kerala Library Association-Kottayam Region is organising Four days of “Omeka Online Tutorial” on 11,12, 13 and 20 February 2022 for the Library and Academic community. About Omeka Omeka is an Open Source web publication system for universities, galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. It consists of a local network of independently curated exhibits sharing a collaboratively built pool of items, media, and their metadata. Omeka is a lightweight solution in comparison to traditional institutional repository software like DSpace and Fedora. Originally developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Omeka was awarded a technology collaboration award by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Since 2016, the Omeka project has been a project developed by the non-profit Corporation for Digital Scholarship. Example Omeka Exhibits https://suffragettestories.omeka.net/ https://marathon.library.northeastern.edu/ http://peacockroom.wayne.edu/ Session details 11 February 2022(Friday), 7:30 PM - 9 PM(IST) Installation of LAMP Stack on Debian/Ubuntu 12 February 2022(Saturday), 3 PM - 4:30 PM(IST) Omeka: Installation and configuration 13 February 2022(Sunday), 3 PM - 4:30 PM(IST) Community, collection and items 20 February 2022(Sunday), 3 PM - 4:30 PM(IST) Advanced features in Omeka. Resource Persons Dr. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay Professor, Dept. of Library & Information Science, Kalyani University, West Bengal. Dr Vimal Kumar V. Reference Assistant Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam, Kerala. Registration Fee: Rs. 500 (Reg. The fee is non-refundable) The registration is open now and will be closed by the 10th of February 2022. Online registration form, https://forms.gle/BRKuB2esbmcU55tF6 Interested persons shall register using the link provided below (Need to sign in to Google to fill the form). UPI ID for the payment: keralalibrary@sbi For online payment, the bank accounts details of KLA is as follows: Account Name: Kerala Library Association-Kottayam Account No: 67151377251 Bank: State Bank of India Branch: Mahatma Gandhi University Campus, Priyadarshini Hills, Kottayam IFSc: SBIN0070669 Upload the fee receipt from the bank/UPI/Internet banking to the online registration form. For more details: Smt. Savithry T K Secretary KLA Kottayam Region 7025440235(Call/WhatsApp) -- *Dr Vimal Kumar V.* Reference Assistant Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala-686560 ------------------------------------------ My Home page:www.vimalkumar.info My Blogs:linuxhalwa.blogspot.com kohageek.blogspot.com moovandan.blogspot.com ----------------------------------------------------------- *"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Alvin Toffler* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request Article
by Sankar 05 Feb '22

05 Feb '22

Dear Sir / Madam I request you to kindly send the below mentioned three article for our Doctor's references purposes. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.11.025 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCEP.121.010557 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCEP.121.010631 -- Thanks & Regards for Madras Medical Mission P. Sankar Sr. Librarian Madras Medical Mission No.4A, Dr.J.J. Nagar Mogappair, Chennai Tamilnadu, India PIN 600037 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Project Euclid makes some Math literature available on OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 05 Feb '22

05 Feb '22

This site should be useful to libraries and librarians serving students, teachers and researchers in the area of mathematics and statistics, *https://projecteuclid.org/open-access <https://projecteuclid.org/open-access>* Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Great artworks
by Subbiah Arunachalam 05 Feb '22

05 Feb '22

Friends, Are you or any of your users a connoisseur of art? This site should be of interest to you: *https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access <https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access>. * Data about the famous Metropolitan Museum of Art, including more than 492,000 images of public domain artworks are available for free and unrestricted use under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>. Now anyone can download, share, and remix images and data about artworks in The Met collection. Please spread the word, and persuade Indian museums to make as much Indian artworks as possible freely accessible under a Creative Commons license. Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Final Call for Papers: Design and Development of Public Library Services; Patterns, Experiences & Ideas
by Leili Seifi 05 Feb '22

05 Feb '22

Dear all, We are pleased to announce the *final call* for papers for the DDPLS 2022 <https://hamayesh.ipla.ir/en/>, which will be held virtually on 17-18 May 2022. The conference will be *free of charge* for all the participants and authors. The aim of this conference is to provide a common platform for librarians, researchers, academicians, leaders, information providers, and policymakers to share their experiences, innovative ideas, and research findings especially on the design and development of public library services. DDPLS <https://hamayesh.ipla.ir/en/> welcomes professionals, researchers, librarians from all over the world to contribute to the service design and developments of public libraries. The conference is organized by the Iranian Public Libraries Advancement Association, Iranian Sociological Association & the Iran Public Libraries Foundation. The conference language is Persian and English. The selected English papers will publish in the International Journal of Information Science and Management (IJISM) <https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=21100200830&tip=sid&clean=0> Scopus Indexed Journal. *Conference Themes* Designing Services for Public Libraries - Service Design Training - Legal and Managerial Features of Services - Services for Special Groups - Designing Outreach Services - Innovation in Social Services Design Development of Public Library Services - Advertising and Marketing Services - Role & Function of Ethical Values in Service Delivery - Governance and Service Policy - Librarians and Services Development - Development of Services by Advanced Technologies - Role of Voluntary Activities in Services Development The deadlines for this conference are as follows: · Last Date of Full- text Paper Submission: *19 February 2022* · Notification of Acceptance: *11 March 2022* · Last Date of Registration: *10 May 2022* · Conference Date: *17 & 18 May 2022* Submissions can be sent by conference website at: https://hamayesh.ipla.ir/en/ *Contact:* leili.seifi(a)gmail.com Kind regards, Leili Seifi Scientific Secretary -- Regards, Leili Seifi, PhD Associate Professor Department of Knowledge & Information Science Faculty of Behavioral Science University of Birjand,Birjand, Iran Tel: +98 56 31026855 https://cv.birjand.ac.ir/seifi/en -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Advertisement for the Post of Library Trainee at Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore
by arumugam.pitchai＠iiap.res.in 04 Feb '22

04 Feb '22

Dear LIS Professionals, Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) offers training in the Library & Archives, including hands-on training in state-of-the-art library techniques and services. Online applications are invited from postgraduates who are highly motivated to pursue their career for the following position: No. of position: 2 Remuneration: Rs. 30,000/- per month (Consolidated) Place of Posting: Bengaluru Essential: Post-graduate in Library & Information Science (M.L.I.Sc.) from a reputed University/Institution. Students who have appeared for the final exam and awaiting results may also apply. Desirable: Basic knowledge of computer and working knowledge of any library automation management (Koha, Libsys, etc.), institutional repository software (DSpace, Eprints, etc.), archives management software (ArchivesSpace, Atom, etc.), research data management software (CKAN, Figshare, etc.) content management software (Drupal, WordPress, etc.). Above 60% academic performance throughout and UGCNET qualification for lectureship. For registration, please visit: https://www.iiap.res.in/iia_jobs/ The last date for receipt of the online application is 22.02.2022 at 17:30 hours. Kindly bring this advertisement to the notice of interested candidates to apply for the positions. Thanks and Regards, Dr. Arumugam Pitchai Librarian Indian Institute of Astrophysics Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka-560034 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Kalamassery, Kochi, Kerala invites applications for M.Lib.I.Sc. regular full-time programme for the academic year 2022-2024.
by Dr. A.T. Francis 04 Feb '22

04 Feb '22

Rajagiri College of Social Sciences (RCSS), Kalamassery, Kochi, Kerala invites applicationsfor “Master of Library and Information Science” (M.Lib.I.Sc.)regular full-time programme for the academic year 2022-2024. This two year, four semester master’s programmeprovide common and essential inputs covering the Library andInformation Science. Building on these fundamentals, students undertake a dissertation inan emerging area of their interest. Programme lays moreemphasis on practical aspects and is multidisciplinary drawing expertise from all theschools/centres of RCSS and other related institutions/industries in India. Dept. of Library &Information Science The Dept. of Library& Information Science (DLIS) of RCSS, established in 2005, is now conducting(i). 02 Year M.Lib.I.Sc.; and (ii). 06 Months Diploma in Library Automation(DLA). (iii). Research, Extension and Social Projects. RCSS is an autonomous college, affiliated to Mahatma GandhiUniversity, Kottayam. It has First Rank(3.83 out of 4) as per NAAC 4th Cycle (2021) Accreditation and 31stas per NIRF Ranking 2021. RCSS is known for its well-crafted curriculum, soundtheory, high quality teaching and unique experiential learning. Admission Eligibility Candidates with Degree in any subjects having 50% marks (CGPA of 2out of 4 or 5 out of 10) will be admitted M.Lib.I.Sc. Relaxation in Marks willbe allowed to special categories, as per Rules. Lateral Entry B.Lib.I.Sc. holders will be admitted to the 2nd Year ofM.Lib.I.Sc. Qualified Library Professionals / Working Librarians will beadmitted to the DLA Programme. Highlights of theProgramme Major highlights of the Library Science Programmes in RCSS are:- ExcellentFaculty Team, Modern Library & Info Lab with One Computer for each Student,Internship/ Field Projects, Add on/ Value added courses by the SpecialistTeachers, Placement and Career / NET / JRF Guidance and Coaching, National andInternational Seminars, Conferences and Workshops, Scholarship for Eligiblestudents, Expert Coaching for IT, English, Statistics, Research Methodology,etc. Faculty Members The DLIShas 07 Regular Teachers, largest in India, 05 of them have PhD and all have publishedbooks and articles in reputed national and international journals and earnedreputation as researchers, trainers, and consultants for many esteemed nationaland international agencies such as UGC, ICAR, DRDO, Govt. of India and Govt. ofKerala, Universities, etc. Fr. Moses Library The College Library is in the name, Rev. Dr.Abraham Moses, CMI, the first principal of RCSS. The Library is 17000Square Feet size, 4740 Sq.ft. stack area and 300 seatingcapacity, functioning 8am to 8pm. The resource collection includes 30,000books, journals in print and online, subscribing databases like ACM, EBSCO,IMC-E-Journals, J-Gate, Sage, Questia, N-LIST, DELNET, EPW, IMF-E Library, TurnitinPlagiarism Tool, Language Editing Tools, SPSS and so on. Live Labs Live Labs are Rajarigi’s unique contribution tosocial work education and practice whichensures strengthened experiantial learning environment. Rajagiri Centres forSkill Development, Sustainable Livelihood, outREACH, Family Counselling,Childline, Middle Level Training Centre (MLTC) for ICDS, etc. are major LiveLabs. Application Last Date: 31-03-2022. For enquiries contact us at: Website: https://rajagiri.edu/admission-process/m-lib-i-sc-2-year Email: dlis(a)rajagiri.edu Phone: 9140881625; 9496839409; 0484-291-1363 Dr. A.T. FRANCIS, MCom, MLISc, NET, PhD PROFESSOR & HEADRajagiri College of Social Sciences (Autonomous)Kalamassery - 683 104Former University Librarian Kerala Agricultural University Thrissur - 680 656, India, 0484-291-1363 (o); 9496839409 (m) francisaloor(a)yahoo.com

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