Monday, October 19, 2020

Special Lecture on Open Access Week 2020@DLIS CUTN

Dear All,

This is to inform you that, Department of Library & Information Science, School of Communication, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur organised a special lecture program on the occasion of "Open Access Week 2020" on Monday, 19th October, 2020 at 11 AM through Cisco Webex platform. Prof. Sai Baba Magapu, TV Raman Pai Chair Professor, National Institutes of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore has been invited as the resource person (speaker) on the occasion. He delivered very thought provoking and informative talk on the topic "Access to the Information Resources: The Transition in the Digital Era". Dr. Anila Sulochana welcomed everyone in the program; Prof. S. Ravi, Head of Department has introduced about the resource person to the participants. More than 35 participants successfully attended the lecture program. Question-answer session was moderated by Dr. Akhandanand Shukla. Resource person has answered the queries raised by the participants. At the end of the program, a formal vote of thanks has been proposed by Dr. Anila Sulochana, Co-ordinator of the program.

The abstract of the lecture program has been given below: 
Providing access to information resources plays a crucial role in carrying out research, taking the outcomes of the R&D into tangible products and more importantly imparting education. With getting connected in the digital space becoming the new norm, the transition of users seeking information to information becoming available to the users, has happened. More importantly the emergence and dominance of newer non-library information sources. Open science and open access to information resources have been in discussion for some time. Taking cognition of the change in the way information is becoming available, libraries and librarians are making the transition. Traditional Librarians to Information Officers to Knowledge Managers. The talk summarized some of the developments and the need for re-skilling of the information science professionals to adapt to the change and the opportunities it offers.

The glimpse of the program is given here under:






Department thanks to all who attended the program successfully and shared their valuable time with us.

Thanks.

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