Dear All, Greetings! We are glad to inform you that the Central Library, IIT Bombay is organizing one day workshop on *'Innovative Information Literacy: active learning and engaging pedagogies’ *on 8th March, 2019(Friday). Despite user’s’ wide use of Google Scholar and search engines, in order to succeed in developing critical thinking skills such as analysis and evaluation, not only in school/university but in the workplace our users need to learn about digital literacies. IL training is necessary for Librarians so as to improve library users abilities to transfer more effectively into professional work environments to become lifelong learners and get meaningful professional work, students need not only to learn IL, but also retain critical thinking skills (IL). Studies show that students retain critical thinking skills most effectively when engaging in active learning exercises. This workshop will highlight effective ways librarians can engage students in information literacy training through interactive and innovative activities. *About the Workshop Resource Persons: * *1. Aditi Gupta * Aditi Gupta is the Learning & Research Librarian: Engineering & Science, Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library and she has worked in libraries for the past 12 years. She is the recipient of the ALA Diversity Research Grant for her study titled “Exploring library perceptions, reading habits and library usage of the South Asian population in BC”. She has served as the Chair for the CLA Research & Development Grants Jury and is a current member of the American Library Association, American College of Research Libraries and the American Society of Engineering Education – Engineering Libraries Division. Aditi has attended the Librarians Research institute and collaborated and presented at a number of national and international library conferences. She is also a member of the ACRL Science and technology Awards Committee and a Peer Reviewer for Emerald Reference Reviews. *2.Rebecca Raworth * Rebecca Raworth is the Health Sciences Librarian at the University of Victoria Libraries. She received her Master of Library and Information Science from the University of British Columbia in 1990 and has worked in colleges, hospitals and universities since then. Her research interests include health informatics, health equity issues, diversity issues in health care and in libraries and promoting multicultural opportunities in libraries and beyond. She is a peer-reviewer of the Journal of Medical Libraries Association and is an active member of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, American Medical Library Association and the European Association for Health Information and Libraries. Rebecca has taken several graduate courses on research methods including courses on survey methodologies, designing and running focus groups and is experienced in facilitating Information Literacy workshops. *3.Dr Satish Kanamadi * Satish Kanamadi is presently serving as Librarian at Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai. He is a science graduate and has completed his Master’s(1995) and Doctoral Studies (2005) from Karnataka University, Dharwad. He was conferred with two Gold Medals for First Rank at Masters and was awarded UGC Junior Research Fellowship in 1997. He did his PG Diploma in Library Automation and Networking (2000) from Central University of Hyderabad. His major contributions at TISS include "Creating a Networked Library System" to integrate all four campuses of TISS and developing a functional and easy to navigate library portal http://library.tiss.edu to deliver web based library services. An innovative "Liaison Librarian" service involving 12 member team has been established to provide focused and personalised learning and research support services. He was the core member of the library leadership, he worked towards Library's Strategic Plan 2007 to conceive academic programmes in information sciences. As per its Strategic Plan 2007, TISS Library has launched a cutting edge dual mode PG Diploma in Digital Library and Information Management (2010) and Master of Library and Information Science (2013) and Direct PhD Programme (2012) In September 2010, he was awarded the Commonwealth Professional Fellowship by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, UK and was in London School of Economics, London, UK for three months.His research contributions include articles in national and international journals, edited volumes, book chapters, etc. He has been the coordinator for several workshops, conferences and UGC refresher courses. Here is the link for online registration. https://docs.google.com/forms/ https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZcxwmeX4sBtJ_yUEH_AIhZ-ciRvJdeWMl... We request you to kindly consider registering and actively participating in this workshop which is on the theme so important to all Library Professionals. Looking forward to your active participation. For more details please contact Dr.Manju Naika Chief Library Officer Central Library IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, 400 076 (India) Phone: (022) 25768920 librarian@iitb.ac.in With Best Regards -- * Bhagwan Krishnaji NagapureSr. Library and Information Assistant Central Library IIT Bombay* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.