Dear All, Happy teachers day. Thanks to SRELS and Informatics for organising the following unique and much needed programme. It was wonderful to watch candid discussions between LIS practioners and teachers on the day of teachers day. It was very well conceived, planned, moderated and conducted by Prof. Shalini Urs, as always. It will be beneficial to the profession If we start similar discussion with LIS associations. In the context of New Education Policy 2020 and unexpected Pandemic situation. Getting together and working for strengthening the LIS profession is essential. We need many more good libraries and good LIS schools in the country to improve the professional image. Teachers, Practioners and associations ought to work together to reposition the LIS profession. It’s very critical to attract better students to the LIS schools. Delays in addressing transformation needs , Not fixing the gaps between teachers and practioners and ignoring low professional image/ perception may eventually Result in further dilution of the profession. If this happens, our generation is responsible for it! Again, Thanks to the organisers for the wonderful event. Thanks and Regards Anand Anand Byrappa Ph.D. Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 560012. India.

Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 06:41:09 +0000 From: Sathyanarayana NV To: lis-forum Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re-imagining LIS Education: An Online Dialogue between LIS Teachers & Librarian - 11am-1pm. Sep 5, 2020 (Saturday) . Message-ID: < MA1PR0101MB1720B7D900810402292DFD3ED52C0@MA1PR0101MB1720.INDPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM

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Greetings of Teacher’s Day celebrations to the LIS Teachers Community!

LIS Education has been a constant subject of debate for long. While LIS education responds to the twin challenges of changing landscapes in the disciplinary domains and the marketplace of LIS practitioners, the practitioners’ community laments the mismatch. This is not unusual in any professional education system. The debates contribute to strengthening the LIS landscape leading to the learning collective.

To celebrate Teachers’ Day on Saturday, the 5th September, Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS) and the Informatics Group, Bangalore are organizing an online DIALOGUE between LIS teachers and LIS practitioners. A group of 12 Librarians as discussants will interact with a group of 4 LIS educators as panelists on this virtual forum, moderated by Prof. Shalini Urs, an eminent LIS Teacher. This 2-hours dialogue (11am-1pm) is structured to enable LIS professionals to raise the issues and challenges they encounter, as questions/comments to the four eminent LIS teachers:

PANELISTS: The four LIS Professors in the panel of teachers are:

1. Prof. K. P. Singh, University of Delhi. 2. Prof. Sarika Sawant, SNDT University, Mumbai. 3. Prof. Swapna Banerjee, Dean, University of Calcutta, Kolkata. 4. Prof. B. T. Sampath Kumar, Tumkur University (Karnataka). DISCUSSANTS: The twelve LIS Professionals participating in the panel are:

1. Dr. Shantanu Ganguli, Fellow, Knowledge Management Division, The Energy Research Institute (TERI), New Delhi. 2. Dr. Santosh Hulagabali, Librarian, Central University of Haryana. 3. B P Prakash, Director, Library Services, Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana. 4. Dr. Rama Patnaik, Librarian, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore 5. Mr. S. U. Shiva Kumar, Librarian, BMS College of Architecture, Bangalore 6. Ms. G. N. Divyashree G.N, Teacher-Librarian, Silver Spring International School, Chikbanavara, Bangalore Dist. 7. Dr. Neeraj Kumar Singh, Deputy Librarian, Punjab University, Chandigarh 8. Dr. Mahesh Chand, Assistant Librarian, Jawaharlal Nehru University Library, New Delhi 9. Dr. Shakuntala Nighot, Librarian, , St Teresa's Institute of Education, Mumbai. 10. Mrs. Amruta Paranjape, Digital Archivist, Godrej Archives, Mumbai. 11. Dr. Sanjukta Mitra. Librarian. Rani Birla College, West Bengal. 12. Ms. Soumitra Chatterjee, Librarian, Damodar Valley Corporation, Kolkata. Additionally, 20 minutes out of two hours will be exclusively allotted to questions from the audience to panel members.

SRELS and Informatics cordially invite all LIS professionals and the LIS teaching fraternity to join this online Dialogue. Please register at: http://bit.ly/LISTeachersDayhttp://bit.ly/TeachersDay

N. V. Sathyanarayana Chairman & Managing Director Informatics India Ltd. Bangalore 560004.

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