Dear all LIS Professionals, We cordially invite you for the special lecture on "Information Sources in Social Sciences in Digital Library Environment: Obstacles and Opportunities". Speaker: Dr. M. Krishnamurthy Faculty, DRTC Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore-560 059   Date: Friday 20th Sep, 2013 Time: 2.00 p.m. Venue: Ground Floor Seminar Hall-2, Jain University, Jayanagar 9th Block, Bangalore   Abstract: The information source infrastructure inSocial Sciences needs to be strengthened. It isessential for social sciences in developing countries to paygreater attention to thenature ofknowledge and the need for its indigenization. In a situation of digital resources becoming more visible in the social sciences, use of these resources by scholars remains limited. Digital libraries are still evolving, and librarians and other information professionals are just beginning to understand and exploit the computer's ability to assist in the Social Science research process. Social scientists study all aspects of society- from past events and achievements to human behavior and relationships among group.Therefore, it is part of the social science institutions and associations to make a strategy that researchers and students become accustomed to regard Internet as a tool to be used in the learning process.   About the Speaker: Dr. M. Krishnamurthy is Faculty at Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Istitute, Bangalore. Prior to taking this assignment he served as librarian at Indian Statistical Institute and as University librarian at University of Mysore. He has 5 years of experience in teaching and 18 years of experience as a librarian. He is the recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship in 2006 and visited Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Illinois (USA) to carry out research in the field of digital library for the period of one year. He was also the recipient of the "Open Repository Scholarship: to attend a conference at Sydney, Australia in 2007. He has published 80 articles in national and international journals and conferences. He has received Bharath Shiksha Ratana Award in 2012, and Indian Library Association (ILA)"CD Sharma Best Paper Award" in 2013. His research interests are Information and Communications Technologie! s (ICTs), Institutional Repositories, Digital Libraries, Content Management Systems and Social Networking. At present he is Treasurer for the Association of British Scholars, Bangalore. He has visited USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Australia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and Scotland for academic assignments.     With Regards, Meeramani N Librarian School of Commerce and Management Studies Jain University 9th Block Jayanagar Ph: 080 43430920 Mob:9845500343 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.