Librarians' Day 2008

ADINET Celebrated Librarians' Day 2008 and Seminar on August 9, 2008 to mark the birth anniversary of Dr. S. R. Ranganathan, father of Library Science in India, the Topic of this year Seminar was "Current Trends in Libraries in the Digital Era". It was huge gathering of library professionals from across the State of Gujarat.

The days program started with beautiful invocation by Ms. D. Patel followed by Introduction by Ms. R. R. Bharucha, Director ADINET and lamp lighting by eminent dignitaries which included, Prof. J . N. Goswami, Director PRL, Shri. K. Sarabhai, Chairman ADINET, Shri. S. Shah, Vice President AMA and Dr. J. Arora, Director INFLIBNET.

Inaugural address by Prof. J. N. Goswami was lively but sounded warning bells for the profession, he expressed his view from the point of view of a scientist, what he thinks of a librarian, emphasized on understanding the difference between Information and Knowledge. Can librarians provide knowledge? That's a big Question, attention professional friends, time for re-thinking...

Guest of Honor Mr. Sunil Shah gave his thoughts from the point of view of an entrepreneur.

Presidential address by Shri. Kartikeya Sarabhai was as usually enlightening, he too emphasized on embracing technological advancements in our libraries to meet the changing demands.

In his keynote address Dr. Jagdish Arora give an overall picture of the current trends in libraries and beautifully explained Library 2.0 and its applications.

Inaugural session ended with vote of thanks by Shri. K. Manoj Kumar, Scientist D (CS) INFLIBNET.

There were seven technical papers in total divided in two sessions, technical session-1 was chaired by Shri. Satish Deshpande, Ex-Head British Library Ahmedabad and it had following technical papers:
1. Information Literacy: A Critical Skill of Knowledge Society - Dr. C. R. Karisiddappa
It was gem of a lecture, a class apart.
2. Emerging Trends in Librarianship - Mr. H. Anilkumar
3. Virtual Reference Service - Dr. T. S. Kumbar

This session also included three commercial presentations by Elsevier, Sage and Springer respectively.

Technical Session-2 was chaired by Mr. Prem Chand, Scientist-D (LS) INFLIBNET and it had following technical papers
4. E-learning: Trends & Opportunities for LIS - Ms. Shweta Shroff
5. Bibliographic Control: Electronic Media - Mr. Shailesh Yagnik
6. Impact of ICT on Changing Scenario of LICs - Dr. (Ms.) P. Lalitha
7. Scholarly Search Engines - Mr. Saroj Das

This session also included four commercial presentations by Beegees Computers Pvt. Ltd., IET, Emerald and INFLIBNET respectively.

The event was successful though there are some areas to be looked upon in future as there is always scope of improvement in any aspect.

Those who participated may share their views/opinion/suggestions so that we can conduct such events in a better way.

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Librarians' Day 2008