Dear Friends, It is my pleasure to inform about the ‘Library Science Professionals’ Development Program’ which has been started by Librarian Guide. The basic purpose of the program is to reach the professional friends with the contents on different topics of library & information science to enrich the knowledge of each other and encourage knowledge sharing. The following topics at the initial stage have been taken into consideration. 1. Library Operations This topic will be an introductory session about the library operations, which will include the housekeeping operation of any academic library such as a. Acquisition b. Cataloguing c. Circulation d. Serial Control e. Management of Resources f. Collection Develop Policy – Print and Online Resources 2. Information Technology – Applications in Libraries This topic will cover the use of information technology and its applications in the library. a. Automation of Library and Information System b. Digitization of Institute Materials c. Web Application Development d. Web Document Management 3. Reference & Information Service – Tools & Techniques This topic will mainly cover the tools & techniques in order to provide better research support to the research scholars and faculty. This will cover a. Identify information sources b. Select information sources c. Evaluate information sources d. Select information sources e. Utilize information sources f. Provide information service g. Tools – Mendeley, Zotero, Scopus etc. 4. Management and Procurement of Electronic Resources a. Process of procurement of E-Resources b. Management of E-Resources c. Usage Analysis d. Role of Consortium in Procurement 5. Multimedia Librarianship 6. Legal, Policy and Information Ethics This topic will be mainly cover the discussion about policy and legal issues related to institute publications. a. Information Ethics b. Copyright c. Plagiarism d. Tools for plagiarism checking 7. Technology Trends for Academic Libraries 8. Research Writing – Journal Articles, Technical Paper, Proposal etc. 9. National and International Associations – Role and Responsibilities The Librarian Guide welcomes the participants’ opinion for some more topics to be included in this program. Librarian Guide will prepare the content and share the same via an email being collected through google form mentioned below. The interested professionals may register their name in google form to receive the content via an email. https://goo.gl/forms/zdkHtOXaRkR73FLn2 Feel free to write if you have any further query / question please. Thanks Librarian Guide www.librarianguide.org -- ********************************* *Dhanwantari Prakash Tripathi* MA (ECO), MLISc, HDISM, ECDL ********************************* Assistant Librarian, Periodicals Biju Patnaik Central Library National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha –769008 INDIA ********************************* *YouTube - Librarian Guide https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqq2XkD5KKp5W7VrMJOsGhw* ********************************* *M - +91-8895296796* *U - www.dptripathi.in http://www.dptripathi.in * *********************************