Padma Shri Dr. S. R. Ranganathan's 129th Birth Anniversary Celebration on 12th August, 2021

Dear All,

This is to inform you that Department of Library & Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur has organised National Librarians' Day Celebration on the occasion of Padma Shri Dr. S. R. Ranganathan's 129th birth anniversary on 12th August, 2021 at 03:30 PM through Google Meet. On the occasion, Department has invited Prof. (Dr.) Ramesh Chandra Gaur, Dean (Academics) & Head, Kalanidhi Division, IGNCA, New Delhi as a special guest to deliver the theme talk "Indian Librarianship after Dr. S. R. Ranganathan: A Bird's-eye View".

The programme commenced with a welcome address given by Dr. Akhandanand Shukla, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN), Thiruvarur followed by a detailed introduction about the resource person Prof. (Dr.) Ramesh C. Gaur, Dean (Academics) & Head, Kalanidhi Division at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi, Ministry of Culture, Government of India by Dr. S. Ravi, Dean, School of Communication and Professor, DLIS, CUTN. Prof. Ravi also spoke about Dr. S. R. Ranganathan, his contributions, and how his ideologies are still relevant to the realm of Library and Information Science.

Prof. Gaur started by expressing his happiness to address DLIS CUTN, especially because the university is situated at Dr. S. R. Ranganathan’s birth place. He spoke about how Ranganathan influenced him to be a proud librarian because Ranganathan found his passion in Library Science even though he was from the Mathematics community. He went on to talk about how Ranganathan taught us to be a multifaceted personality to realize what one’s profession demands by observing the reality and surroundings. He carried on by talking about how Ranganathan was the front runner in creating library associations and how he paved the way for quality education in Library Science in India. Prof. Gaur mentioned the contributions of Dr. S. R. Ranganathan like setting up standards and guidelines for a classification scheme and code, DRTC, making the Library Science education in India of highest quality, convincing the government and other national bodies to create opportunities and avenues for the LIS community, bringing all the libraries and professionals under one umbrella with ILA etc. The speaker expressed his admiration for Ranganathan by referring to him as a true nationalist. He stated that the time of Ranganathan was the golden era of Indian librarianship.

He then moved on to a narration about the current state of librarianship in India. He expressed his opinion that there is an absence of true leadership in the profession. He mentioned that the one thing he feels like Ranganathan failed to do is that creating or developing secondary leaders. He emphasized on how everyone wants to be a leader instead of recognizing a leader. The next point he elaborated was on the lack of one single, powerful and functional national association and how he thinks that the community has lost its voice because of this. He expressed his concern over how divided we are as a community and enunciated that the lack of unity and adherence of the library professionals as a community results in things like library staff positions getting cut off in numbers, no revisions being made to previously written or drafted rules or guidelines according to the changing landscape, not having a collective voice to raise awareness etc. He then carried on speaking about how the library community saw the technological revolution as a threat instead of an opportunity. He said that the library professionals must understand technology and have good IT & communication skills, and added that redesigning the Library and Information Science curriculum in connection with the dynamic landscape is the way to attain it. Prof. Gaur suggested the young professionals to be proud of their profession and the senior professionals to seek leaders and the best of the individual in each person. He concluded by stressing on the importance of respecting your colleagues, keeping the values the Father of Library Science has taught us, the fact that we have to choose our leader & the leader has to work towards the collective goals without any self-interest and that it is high time that we, as library professionals give back to the profession.

Prof. Gaur emphasized the importance of school libraries and how they are of great potential to do wonders in shaping the new generation as a reply to Mrs. Mamta Amarpuri in the Q&A session. He added that in his opinion, every library should be considered as public libraries in our country. Prof. Ravi added on his perspective on how important school librarians are and how an attitude to see the potential in a situation.

The glimpses of the program is given below:

The programme was attended by more than 75 professionals and ended with Dr. K. G. Sudhier, Assistant Professor expressing his perspectives and delivering the formal vote of thanks. Ms. Nayanthara S., Research Scholar, worked as rapporteur in the program.

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Brief Report 5 - UGC-NET Coaching (Online)@DLIS CUTN

Dear All,

This is to inform you that Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu has initiated UGC-NET Coaching (Online) for MLIS students of the Department. The UGC-NET Coaching classes continuously running in the month of July, 2021. Department has conducted 17 lectures (17 hours course) in the month of July, 2021. The brief report of the UGC-NET Coaching classes is given herewith:

SN	Date	Instructor	Unit	Topic Covered	No. of Participants
1	01-07-2021	Mariam Bhanu M.A.	8	Digital Resource Organization	9
2	02-07-2021	Suman Barath P	9	Reference Style Manual	8
3	05-07-2021	Abhijith B.	2	Public Library System in India: Four National Depository Libraries, Related Q&A	10
4	06-07-2021	Ammaji Rajitha	4	Marketing Library and Information Services	6
5	07-07-2021	Hasbi Alikunju	5	Universe of Knowledge	8
6	08-07-2021	Maiam Bhanu M.A.	8	Digital Preservation, Major National and International Digital Preservation Projects	8
7	09-07-2021	Suman Barath P	9	Reference Management Software/Tool	6
8	10-07-2021	Bhavya K. P.	Paper I Unit 1	Models of Teaching	11
9	12-07-2021	Abhijith B.	1	Important Model Questions from Unit 1	13
10	13-07-2021	Ammaji Rajitha	4	Q&A from Unit 4	8
11	15-07-2021	Mariam Bhanu M.A.	8	Major Digital Library Initiatives- National and International	7
12	16-07-2021	Bhavya K. P.	Paper I Unit 1	Student Centric Teaching Methods, Previous Year Q&A and Related Facts	8
13	17-07-2021	Suman Barath P	9	Anti-Plagiarism Tool	12
14	19-07-2021	Abhijith B.	2	Important Model Questions and Answers from Unit II	13
15	20-07-2021	Ammaji Rajitha	3 & 4	Q&A from Unit 3 & 4	11
16	22-07-2021	Mariam Bhanu M.A.	8	Institutional Repositories	7
17	24-07-2021	Bhavya K. P.	Paper I Unit 1	Evaluation Systems, Previous Year Q&A and Related Facts	12

The glimpses of the UGC-NET Coaching classes is given below:

Department congrats to research scholars and MLIS students for completing fifth month in the UGC-NET Coaching preparation. Dr. V. K. Dhanyasree, Assistant Professor is Coordinator of the UGC-NET Coaching.

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Job Achievement by Ms. Aswathi A V

Dear All,

This is to inform you that Ms. Aswathi A V, MLIS pass out student (2019-2021 batch) and Alumni of the Department of Library & Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur has been appointed as Librarian (on contract) at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Trapaj (Bunglow), Taluka-Talaja, Bhavnagar, Gujarat. She attended virtual interview conducted by Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, Pune.

Department congrats to her on this achievement and shower blessings for future endeavour.

Thanks.

Searching and Review Tools in Research: A Practical Approach

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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.