umravsingh ipr
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Library and Information Science Education and Skills
in the Knowledge Era
![Page 2: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Social Dynamics
•Agrarian Society•Industrial Society
•Post-Industrial Society/Information Society•Knowledge Society
![Page 3: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
LIS Education: Changing Paradigms
• Librarianship-Library and Information Science-Information and Library Studies-Information Studies
• Impact of Information and Society-Knowledge Society
• Advances in Information and Communication technology and Application in LICs and LIS Education and Training
• Role of LIS Educators in Creating Appropriate Human Resources
![Page 4: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Recent Trends and Developments
• Primary Focus on Professional Knowledge and Skills (Technology, Management and Communication)
• Library Professionals to Information Professionals• Traditional Library to Digital Library• Library Cooperation to Resource Sharing
Networks/Consortia• Collection Development to Content Development• Conventional Education to Web-Based Education• Information Society-Knowledge Society• Establishment of Knowledge Commission
![Page 5: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Library Professionals toInformation Professionals
• Impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
• Information Management Skills( Library Automation, Networking, Design and Development of Information System, Networking, Internet, Digitization, Content Development
• Competencies of Information Professionals (Managing and Organizing Information Resources and Services, Applying Information Tools and Technologies)
![Page 6: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Traditional Library –Digital Library
• Traditional Library-Automated Library-Electronic Library-Digital Library
• Growth, Development and Popularity of Internet Library( Access, Content and Cost)
• Digital Library Initiatives in India (Parliament, INSA, IIT,NISCAIR)
![Page 7: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Library Cooperation to Resource Sharing Networks/Consortia
• Library Cooperation-Library Networks-Library Consortia
• INFLIBNET,DELNET and Many Other Local Library Networks
• Library Consortia-UGC-Infonet E-Journal Consortium, INDEST,NCSI,HELNET
![Page 8: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Collection Development - Content Development
• Acquisition-Collection Development-Information Resource Development Cotent Development
• Content Development in Electronic Development• Formats and Standards• Legal Issues
![Page 9: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Conventional Education - Web-Based Education
• Conventional Learning-Web Based Learning/E-Learning
• E-learning Provides: -increasing access to learning resources -interactive teaching and learning environment -increasing student convenience -reducing educational delivery cost -developing a scholarship of web based
pedagogy -providing 21st century learning environment
![Page 10: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Information Society-Knowledge Society
• Information Society- “Information”• Knowledge Society “Information and Knowledge”• Knowledge Management-Collect, Organize and
Disseminate Information and Knowledge• UN Initiative in World Submit on “Information Society”
with emphasis on “Connect the World by 2015”• International Telecommunication Union recognized
India’s mission 2007:Every Village a Knowledge Center as a Flagship of the “Connect the World Movement”
![Page 11: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Establishment of Knowledge Commission
• Establishment of Knowledge Commission in India
• Emphasis on “Brain Power’-More Powerful than Military and Economic Power of a Nation
• India Recognizes Building Knowledge Economy as “Knowledge Society”-The only way to challenges of “Globalization and 21st Century”
• Role of Public Libraries as “Knowledge Centers”
![Page 12: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Information and Knowledge Society: LIS Perspective
A. Information Society:• Information Society: Attributes, Characteristics
& Components.• Information Infrastructure: National, Global• Information Economics, Economics of
Information, Information as Economic Resource.
• National Information Policy• Information Literacy.• Right to Information.
![Page 13: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
B. Knowledge Society:• Definition, Characteristics and Components.• Knowledge Economy and Knowledge Industry• Knowledge Management• National Knowledge Commission.• Libraries as Gateways to Knowledge.• Towards a Knowledge Society and Role of
Knowledge Professionals.
![Page 14: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
C. Trends and Developments:• Role of Information in Planning, Decision
Making, Innovations and National Development.• Impact of Information and Knowledge Society on
Education, Training and Research• Conventional Vs Web Based Learning.• Recent Trends and Developments in LIS
Education and Research.• Impact of ICT on Societal and National
Development.
![Page 15: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
d) Library and Information Management Technology:
• Resource Management and Development: Human, Financial and E-Resources
• Resource Mobilization and Outsourcing.• Information Marketing.• Disaster Management.• Digital Information Resources Management.
![Page 16: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
E. Library Networks and Consortia• Networks and Networking: Types,
Hardware/Software Requirements.• Data Networks and Library & Information
Networks. • Networked Based Library and Information
Services• Library Consortia.• Management of Library and Information
Networks and Consortia.
![Page 17: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
F. Digitization• Digitization: Need, Methods and Equipments.• Digital Library: Components, Digital Library
Initiatives in India, Open Access Initiative• Library Website: Design and Maintenance.• Content Development: Concept, Scope, Content
Organization, Content Analysis, Web Based Content Development: HTML, XML, HTTP, PDF, Acrobat.
• Legal Issues: Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights in Electronic Environment.
![Page 18: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Developing Skills and Competencies
• understand and interpret the contexts in which information is originated, stored, organised, retrieved, disseminated and used;
• comprehend the legal and policy issues that are associated with,
• visualise future directions and prepare a roadmap to provide the most effective and efficient library and information services to the users in the 21st century
![Page 19: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Skills and Competencies :Core Areas
(i) Information seeking• understand and investigate how information is
effectively sought and utilised; • identify and investigate information needs and
information seeking behaviour of the users community
![Page 20: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
(ii) Information infrastructure• understand the importance of information
architecture to determine the structure, design and flows of information;
• forecast, plan, facilitate and evaluate appropriate resource management to library and information services.
(iii) Information organisation• enable information access and use through
systematic and user-centred description, categorisation, storage, preservation and retrieval.
![Page 21: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
iv) Information access• provide and promote free and equitable access
to information and client services; • facilitate the acquisition, licensing or creation of
information in a range of media and formats. (v) Information services, sources and products• design and deliver customised information
services and products; • assess the value and effectiveness of library and
information facilities, products and services;
![Page 22: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
• market library and information services; • identify and evaluate information services,
sources and products to determine their relevance to the information needs of users;
• use research skills to provide appropriate information to clients.
(vi) Information literacy • understand the need to develop information
skills of the user community; • facilitate the development of information literacy
and the ability to critically evaluate information.
![Page 23: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Generic skills • effective communication skills; • professional ethical standards and social responsibility; • project management skills; • critical, reflective, and creative thinking; • problem-solving skills; • ability to build partnerships and alliances;(Public Private
Partnership) • effective team relationship skills; • self management skills; • a commitment to life-long learning; • relevant information and communications technology and
technology application skills; • appropriate information literacy skills.
![Page 24: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Issues Before LIS Educators
• Academic, Management, Technological and Legal
• Balancing Education and Practice, Research
• Need for National Accreditation Agency• Internationalization of Education
![Page 25: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Academic-Management-Technological- Legal Issues
• Academic-Need based Curriculum and Syllabus Enriching Professional Knowledge
• Management-Scientific Management and skills associated, Management of new Technology and Communication Skills
• Technological-Competency to Handle Sophisticated Technology in an automated, Networked and Virtual environment
• Legal-Copy Right/IPR, Cyber Laws
![Page 26: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Balancing Education and Practice, Research
• LIS Educators, Researchers and Practitioners to identify Thrust Areas of Education and Research
• Provide Future Direction Keeping in view Potential Market Demand
• Coordination among the Three Groups
![Page 27: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Need for National Accreditation Agency
• National Accreditation Agency for Quality Assurance and Achieve Standards of Excellence
• Allowing LIS Courses and Degree Holders at par with International Standard
• Presently in India-Medical Council (Medical education), Bar Council (Legal education), AICTE (Technical education), AICTE (Teacher Education)
• Need for National Council in LIS Education
![Page 28: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
Internationalization of Education
• Reorienting LIS Professionals and Create competition in the National/Global Market
• Radical Change in LIS Curriculum and syllabus keeping in view the need of Information Workforce in the National/Global Market
![Page 29: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
Challenges Before LIS Educators
• Need Based Curriculum• Competent Faculty• Instructional Technology Support• Learning Resources (Print –Electronic and
Web based)• Continuing Education Programs• System of Continuous Evaluation• Adequate Financial Support
![Page 30: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
Role of LIS Educators
• To cope up with Issues and Challenges as Professional Obligation
• Balancing “Tradition and Technology”• Creativity, innovations in Teaching,
Learning and Research lie with Educators in the Transfer of Knowledge
• Ability or Capacity to Use and Exploit E-Resources and Its Management
![Page 31: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
Conclusion• 21st Century compelled Library professionals to
Information Professionals through “Education for Information”
• International initiatives and Developments forced the Developing Countries to keep pace with such Developments
• LIS Schools and Educators must be committed to act as qualitative Problem Solvers and Effective Information Managers
• Possessing broad range of capabilities to meet the highest demand in the information sectors(academic, corporate, government) to meet the challenges in new millennium.
• Quality Assurance is not the Destination but a journey to continuously improve.
![Page 32: Umravsingh ipr](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022021419/58a3488e1a28ab62248b5ff9/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
Thank You AllMr. Umrav Singh
Librarian Department of Library: (SAIMS Group), Indore)
(M.P.) Email: [email protected]
Mobile No. 9827542731