Searching and Review Tools in Research: A Practical Approach

Dear All,

This is to inform you that Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu has organised a special online lecture series Anveshan: Online Lecture Series in LIS for Research Scholars. The ninth online lecture in the series was organised on 22nd July, 2021 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM through Google Meet. Dr. Mayank Yuvaraj, Assistant Librarian, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya has been invited as resource person and he delivered a lecture on "Searching and Review Tools in Research: A Practical Approach".

The program commenced with a welcome address given by Dr. Akhandanand Shukla, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science, CUTN Thiruvarur followed by a brief introduction about the resource person.

Dr. Mayank Yuvaraj started his talk with a brief introduction to Push and Pull information seeking technologies and elaborated on it through a virtual experience using Google Scholar and other academic search engines. Dr. Yuvaraj expressed his concern over how the advanced features of Google Scholar is not being used to its full potential and educated the participants on these features like labeling the documents, adding documents to “My Library” etc. through a live demonstration. He went on to explaining about various Google Chrome extensions like Core Discovery, Endnote Click, Google Scholar Button, Scholarcy etc. He gave a hands-on training session on adding these extensions and using them to the right potential. Dr. Mayank Yuvaraj then moved on to the literature review techniques using Citation Gecko and Inciteful.xyz. He demonstrated the functioning of these techniques through a live practical session. He carried on by talking about literature review through artificial intelligence wherein he discussed about various OSS for literature review through artificial intelligence which include ASReview, Fastread, Abstrackr etc. He concluded the lecture with a detailed demonstration of ASReview. An active Q&A session took place thereafter.

The lecture was coordinated by Dr. V. K. Dhanyasree, Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur and attended by 26 participants. Dr. Akhandanand Shukla, Associate Professor and Head shared his insights on the topic. The lecture session ended with a formal vote of thanks delivered by Dr. V. K. Dhanyasree. Ms. Nayanthara S., Research Scholar, worked as rapporteur in the program.

The glimpses of the program is given below:

Department congrats to all who attended the program and taken the benefit to listen Dr. Mayank Yuvaraj on practical aspects of literature review.

Thanks.

Knowledge Management for Development: The ABCs

Dear All,

This is to inform you that Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu has organized a special online lecture series Gyan Pravah: An Online Lecture Series in LIS. The eighth lecture in the series was organized on 16th July, 2021 (Friday) at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM through Google Meet. Dr. Aparajita Suman, KM & IEC Specialist, DDWS, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Govt of India was invited as resource person and she delivered the talk on “Knowledge Management for Development: The ABCs”.

The program commenced with a welcome address given by Dr. Akhandanand Shukla, Associated Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science, CUTN, Thiruvarur followed by a brief introduction about the resource person Dr. Aparajita Suman.

Dr. Aparajita Suman stared her lecture by giving a brief and eloquent idea about the term “Knowledge Management” and the principles behind it. According to her, Knowledge management is the process of creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge and information produced in an organization. Further she focused on achieving the objectives of the organization and how to improve the performance and emphasized that KM gives keen attention in delivering right knowledge to the right person in right time. Different types of Knowledge such as tacit (knowledge difficult to express or extract) and the explicit, old and new etc. were also discussed. KM jargons with its purpose and relevance were simplified during the lecture. Different strategies and instruments in KM were also briefly mentioned which includes communities of practice, exit interviews, storytelling, white pages, identifying and sharing best practices etc. Core components required for the development of KM environment such as people, process, technology were mentioned and enlisted some tools and techniques of knowledge management. Some after effects of KM, the way in which it can be measured were explained. The reason for measuring it, how to measure and what to measure, some common approaches in measuring the effects were also discussed. A few questions were asked at the end of the session and those were answered neatly.

The lecture was coordinated by Dr. Anila Sulochana, Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur and attended by 29 participants. The lecture session ended with a formal vote of thanks proposed by Dr. Anila Sulochana. Mr. Abhijith B., Junior Research Fellow, worked as the rapporteur in the program.

The glimpses of the program are given below:

Department congrats to all who attended the program and taken the benefit to listen to Dr. Aparajita Suman on some of the practical aspects of the Knowledge Management.

Thanks.

Research Dimensions of Semantic Web

Dear All, 

This is to inform you that Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu has organised a special online lecture series Anveshan: Online Lecture Series in LIS for Research Scholars. The eighth online lecture in the series was organised on 15th July, 2021 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM through Google Meet. Prof. Aditya Tripathi, Department of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi has been invited as resource person and he delivered a lecture on "Research Dimensions of Semantic Web". 

The program commenced with a welcome address given by Dr. Akhandanand Shukla, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science, CUTN Thiruvarur followed by a brief introduction about the resource person.

Presentation started by giving brief account on the historical development of the present day Web environment. Features of early Web browsers such as LYNX were also mentioned. Later he discussed the changes happened to the Google browser and introduced the terms like class, entities, relationships, objects, properties etc. in the cyberspace. Here the discussion was mainly concentrated on the properties of cyberspace. Just like in the real world, cyberspace also contains objects and these are conceptualized into categories based on their properties. He gave the example of searching the word “knife” in Google in different situations. The intention for searching this particular term will be different in different situations, which can be understood by human but not always by machines. This is the main reason for retrieving huge amount of unwanted irrelevant results while searching. Later he described the way in which knowledge or objects are represented in cyberspace. After explaining these foundational ideas, he listed the features of Semantic Web. According to him, Semantic Web is a Web of actionable information. It is an extension of the present Web in which information is given in well-defined structure. Further, the architecture of Semantic Web was discussed in detail. Here each and every component in different levels of hierarchy were enumerated. Terms such as URI, Unicode, XML, RDF, RDF Schema, Ontology etc. were introduced and their properties were described. All these were considered to be areas for extensive research. A brief description on Ontologies and Taxonomies were also given. The main aim of the Ontology research is to study entities and their relationships. Insight on some Ontology languages such as OWL (Web Ontology Language), RIF (Rule Interchange Format), and SWRL (Semantic Web Rule Language) was also made. At the end of the presentation, the promises of the Semantic Web such as its ability to represent information in a more categorized way, hyperlinking facilities, ability to bring more reliable and trusted information and ability to pipe in the useful data from multiple sources were discussed. Also, interesting areas in which further research can be conducted were demonstrated. A few questions were asked and those were answered very well by the speaker. Dr. K.G. Sudhier gave a brief summary of the entire lecture.

The lecture was coordinated by Dr. V. K. Dhanyasree, Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur and attended by 26 participants. The lecture session ended with a formal vote of thanks delivered by Dr. V. K. Dhanyasree. Mr. Abhijith B., Junior Research Fellow, worked as rapporteur in the program.

The glimpses of the program is given below:

Department congrats to all who attended the program and taken the benefit to listen Prof. Aditya Tripathi on some technical aspects of Semantic Web.

Thanks.

Procurement and Management of Electronic Resources

Dear All,

This is to inform you that Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu has organized a special online lecture series OLSL: Online Lecture Series in LIS. The seventh lecture in the series was organized on 9th July, 2021 (Friday) at 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM through Google Meet. Dr. Neeraj Chaurasia, Deputy Librarian, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi was invited as resource person and he delivered the talk on “Procurement and Management of Electronic Resources”.

The program commenced with a welcome address given by Dr. Akhandanand Shukla, Associated Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science, CUTN, Thiruvarur followed by a brief introduction about the resource person Dr. Neeraj Chaurasia.

Dr. Neeraj Chaurasia started his talk by pointing the shifts of library services, users and staffs in the age of electronic resources. Then, he discussed availability, accessibility and the pros and cons of the e-resources, what is consortia? different consortia available in India and its need in organizing, managing and archiving e-resources. He also explained the steps followed by IIT Delhi for e-resource procurement. The complex processes included in electronic resource purchase like identification, collection, pricing, negotiation, licensing and different electronic resource management systems are also discussed.

The lecture was coordinated by Dr. Anila Sulochana, Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur and attended by 31 participants. The lecture session ended with a formal vote of thanks proposed by Dr. Anila Sulochana. Ms. Bhavya K. P., Junior Research Fellow, worked as the rapporteur in the program.

The glimpses of the program are given below:

Department congrats to all who attended the program and taken the benefit to listen to Dr. Neeraj Chaurasia on one of the the important aspect in e-resource management.

Thanks.