ADINET Librarian's Day 2009 is Here

The much awaited ADINET Librarian's Day 2009 is here, very near. It will be celebrated on 29th August 2009 (Saturday) at Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA). This year the theme of seminar is "Information Literacy and Changing Landscape of Libraries", an appropriate theme at an appropriate time. Just read through the sub-themes:
--Understanding Information Literacy: An overview
--Information Literacy Standards, Guidelines, Implementations and Outcomes
--Information Literacy & Libraries: Case Studies
Academic
Special &
Public Libraries
--Information Literacy and Information Technology (Library 2.0)
--Recent Trends and Future Directions in Information Literacy

The lectures and presentations will be delivered by highly learned speakers both, from LIS Community and the User Community.

Librarians, it is your day, a day to learn something new, a day to interact with someone new in your profession, and enjoy with all and Celebrate Librarianship.

So, what are you waiting for, come and join the experience of Learning, Interacting and Enjoying...

Download the Registration form and send your registration by August 10, 2009.

Librarian's Day Brochure

Librarians' Dilemma

In our last posting we had an opinion poll asking to vote for a desired topic for Librarians' Day 2009. After more than 200 visits to this blog, there are only negligible votes to count. Don't know why? Does anyone know?
There could be many reasons:
-we are not serious about this
-we are very busy
-it does not matter to us
-we don't really care
-fear of getting noticed
-let them (ADINET) decide
-still there is a lot of time for this
-why should I vote
OR it could be anything. So, let us not discuss this anymore now, time will come and thing will be decided and we will have another successful Librarians' Day.

Now, let us rewind our thoughts to Librarians' Day 2008. The following were the recommendations and resolutions:-

-In the current era, Librarians have to reorient themselves. They should think creatively and embrace new technology to generate services and resources where their skills of structuring and organizing resources (especially Open Access Resources) are put to the best use.

-Explore the possibility of even small and new libraries in providing new services and making existing services available in new and interesting ways by using more ICT, since a lot of material is available in the digitized form.

-Use more specialized search engines (scholarly and meta search engines) that help to search even the contents of Deep Web, that are a rich wealth of information and available mostly free of cost.

-With collaborative and cooperative efforts, more sharing of bibliographic records amongst the librarians would reduce the duplication and workload. ‘COPY CATALOGUING’ facility will help to provide standardized Bibliographic Control.

-Information is a source of instant power as it facilitates decision-making, problem solving and action taking. In this world of ICT, Information Literacy (IL) is not only about the training in ICT but it is the ability to make effective use of information.

-Traditional LIS education should be supplemented with e-learning and LIS staff should be provided with short term training programs on ‘Library service marketing strategies’ and ‘development of soft skill’ (better communication and behavioral patterns etc.)

“One who makes a resolution and then makes sincere efforts to realize his dreams, nothing stops him from realizing his goal.” - Rig Veda

How true is this saying, we have made these (above mentioned) resolutions, if we make sincere efforts (collectively) to realize these resolutions, nothing can stop us to achieve our goals.

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