Celebration of
Librarians’ Day at WeSchool, Mumbai,
13th August 2013.
The Learning Resource Centre at Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research (We School), Mumbai organized a one day event titled “Celebration of Librarians’ Day” on Tuesday, 13th August 2013. The celebration saw 60 librarians from different institutions, organizations and corporates across the board, gathering in the portals of WeSchool, a leading B School in the country.
13th August 2013.
The Learning Resource Centre at Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research (We School), Mumbai organized a one day event titled “Celebration of Librarians’ Day” on Tuesday, 13th August 2013. The celebration saw 60 librarians from different institutions, organizations and corporates across the board, gathering in the portals of WeSchool, a leading B School in the country.
The event was inaugurated at the hands of Prof. Dr. Uday Salunkhe, Group Director, WeSchool with Prof. Harsha Parekh,HOD and Librarian(Retd), SNDT, B.P. Prakash, Global Head, Information Resources Centre, TCS and Dr. Venkadesan, Director, Learning Resource Centre, ISB who joined him in lighting the auspicious lamp.
While delivering the keynote
address Prof. Dr. Uday Salunkhe said,"We are really happy to be to celebrate the spirit of librarianship.
The main aim here was to discuss the need to convert libraries into futuristic
knowledge centers, with the ability to add value to the education system
through relevant TLPs”
Harsha Parekh spoke about the relevance of fives laws of Library Science in the digital age, making it quite interesting and apt for the occasion. B.P. Prakash talked about the emerging trends in corporate libraries and how they are creating an impact on the ever so busy and yet demanding employees from the corporate world.
Harsha Parekh spoke about the relevance of fives laws of Library Science in the digital age, making it quite interesting and apt for the occasion. B.P. Prakash talked about the emerging trends in corporate libraries and how they are creating an impact on the ever so busy and yet demanding employees from the corporate world.
Dr. S Venkadesan in his
speech focused on how traditional libraries are becoming Learning Resource Centers
to cope with the needs of Gen Y and how
they should strive to become an inspiring learning environment for meet the
expectations of the young students.
The concept of shelf-less Libraries and how digital content is adding value to the teaching and learning process in the education, research and corporates was emphasized by N.V. Sathyanaryana, Chairman and MD, Informatics (India) Ltd, Bangalore and M.K. Chettiar, CEO, Bharat Book Bureau, in his talk focused on the role of intermediaries in building e-resources in current scenario.
The concept of shelf-less Libraries and how digital content is adding value to the teaching and learning process in the education, research and corporates was emphasized by N.V. Sathyanaryana, Chairman and MD, Informatics (India) Ltd, Bangalore and M.K. Chettiar, CEO, Bharat Book Bureau, in his talk focused on the role of intermediaries in building e-resources in current scenario.
The
deliberations were followed by a special session, Anchored by Dr Medha Joshi,
HOD, Library and Information Services, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai where participating librarians had the stage to themselves to share their
best practices in LIS. The librarians shared what they had implemented as
best practices in their libraries under seven different themes like Library
Collaboration, IPR and Digtial Rights Management, Innovations in Marketing
Library Services, E-Resources, Library as a Social Space, Collection
Development and Capacity Building to meet Customer Needs through library
Services The highlight of this session was the innovative group discussion where the
participating librarians were split into seven teams to deliberate on the above
themes to come out with what could be the best practices that can be adopted by
the libraries to connect well with the
tech- savvy users, put the library resources to their optimum use and increase
the number of footfalls in the libraries.
This session was moderated by Mrs. Sushma Karnik, Director, American Center Library, Mumbai, Dr. S.K. Savanur, Sr. Faculty, Bedekar College, Thane and Dr. S. Venkadesan.
This session was moderated by Mrs. Sushma Karnik, Director, American Center Library, Mumbai, Dr. S.K. Savanur, Sr. Faculty, Bedekar College, Thane and Dr. S. Venkadesan.
During
the Open House Session, the participants were actively engaged in asking many
questions related to the problems faced by them and on improving the work
scenarios in their libraries to deliver quality service to their users.
This session was moderated by Venkata Kesavan, Dy General Management, TAKC, TOI Group, Mumbai who was joined by Vasumathi Sriganesh, CEO, QMed Knowledge Foundation, Mumbai and Kishore Ingale, IRC, TCS, Pune.Giridhar Kunkur, Librarian, We School, Mumbai, who took the lead in organizing this event, proposed the Vote of Thanks. But as it rightly said that, as every story ends a new one begins ; based on the deliberations and inputs provided by the librarians, the LRC team at WeSchool is busy preparing a list of the best practices that could be adapted by libraries in order to improve the performances of the libraries in this overwhelming digital environment.
This session was moderated by Venkata Kesavan, Dy General Management, TAKC, TOI Group, Mumbai who was joined by Vasumathi Sriganesh, CEO, QMed Knowledge Foundation, Mumbai and Kishore Ingale, IRC, TCS, Pune.Giridhar Kunkur, Librarian, We School, Mumbai, who took the lead in organizing this event, proposed the Vote of Thanks. But as it rightly said that, as every story ends a new one begins ; based on the deliberations and inputs provided by the librarians, the LRC team at WeSchool is busy preparing a list of the best practices that could be adapted by libraries in order to improve the performances of the libraries in this overwhelming digital environment.
By Giridhar Kunkur
Librarian
Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research Mumbai.giridhar.kunkur@welingkar.org
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