Dear Professionals, I totally disagree with the excess of webinars phenomena. In these lockdown days, this helps the learners and speakers both to share their queries and exploring the knowledge without travel, registration and boarding costs simply sitting at home saving time and money. Of course I do agree there should be quality in our lecture so that a clear concept reaches to the learners. With regards, Dr. S.K.Pathy On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 7:12 PM Sharmila Ghosh wrote:

The debate on the current scenario on excess of Webinars 👇 for the perusal of LIS Forum members 👇

-------- Forwarded message --------- From: Sharmila Ghosh Date: Sat, 23 May, 2020, 3:01 PM Subject: Re: Excess of webinars.. Too much to take.. To: Nabi Hasan Cc: Anup Kumar DAS , , vinod mishra

When you attend an event physically / in person.. Be it a scholarly event or a socio-cultural event, the levels of *active* participation, verbal interactions with fellow participants , information exchange and knowledge sharing.. Happens at different levels altogether.. This *cannot* be possible from the space of your home or office, you being solo.. And isolated.. Just you, your equipment, the network and everything that is possible online!

Agree.. In a situation like this (lockdown and compulsory social distancing) we don't have a better option. But, why not keep the number of such webinars limited ONLY to what is actually required.?

On Sat, 23 May, 2020, 2:37 PM Nabi Hasan, wrote:

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Infact this is good, that the people have choice to attend without cost, keeping busy and learning as well. Its better than predatory conferences or publishing or predatory awards. -- Thanks and regards,

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On Sat, 23 May 2020 at 12:58, Anup Kumar DAS wrote:

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Dear Sharmila-di,

Thanks for your insightful comment. However, I feel that webinar is spreading more knowledge than pre-Covid19 situation. Let the budding professionals learn from the experienced professionals and scholars through these webinars.

With Best Wishes

Anup

On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 12:53 PM Sharmila Ghosh wrote:

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Number of webinar cases each day is exceeding spike in corona cases

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