2nd LIS Academy Conference on "Innovations in Libraries"
The 2nd LIS Academy Conference, held from June 6th to 8th, 2019, at Visvesvaraya Technological University in Belagavi, Karnataka State, was a groundbreaking event that explored the theme of "Innovations in Libraries." In an era characterized by rapid technological advancement, this conference sought to delve into the transformative power of technology in shaping libraries, information access, and the Library and Information Science (LIS) profession. The fundamental premise of the conference lay in recognizing that technological progress has the capacity to augment human work and make information more intelligent and accessible. This transformative process encompasses the ability to learn, adapt, anticipate, think, reason, and continuously improve performance, all while being self-generating and self-sustaining. In this context, innovation emerged as the driving force that harmonizes these technological advancements with the broader changes in society and the evolving library landscape.
Organized by VTU, Belagavi, Dept. of Public libraries,
Bangalore and Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation,
Kolkata
Date:
6-8 June 2019
Venue:
Visvesvaraya Technological University,
Belagavi
The highly awaited 2nd LIS Academy national conference 2019 in collaboration with Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Department of Public Libraries and Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation, Kolkata was held from 06-08 June 2019 at the VTU, Belagavi (Karnataka) on the theme ‘Innovations in Libraries’. Distinguished delegates working in the areas of digital library, knowledge management, data and library and information science from all over India and Bangladesh participated in the event.
The conference started with inauguration of “e-Resource Conclave” by the invited Chief Guest of the conclave Major Siddalingayya S Hiremath K.A.S, Additional Commissioner for Public Instructions Dharwad, GoK, Dr. Satish Kumar Hosamani, Director, Department of Public Libraries, GoK, was the Guest of Honour and Prof. PV Konnur, President LIS Academy, Bangalore. Dr. KR Mulla, Librarian, VTU were present on the dais as organizers. They spoke about the success story and challenges of VTU E-Resource consortium, which is one and the unique mega cooperative movement in India in providing access to E-resources to VTU and its affiliated institutions.
The VTU consortium publisher partners demonstrated the unique features of their platforms, which enables and empowers VTU community with state of the art tools and technologies to retrieve scholarly content. Mr. BS Shivaram, NAL, Bengaluru delivered a tutorial talk on “usage metrics to manage e-resources”, and discussed various metrics for e-resources including decision support case APUPA pattern, criteria for collection development policy. He also spoke about Counter and SUSHI based download system, which helps librarians in determining RoI of the resources. Through case studies of VTU E-resource consortium and NAL Resource metrics, he demonstrated the importance of usage metrics.
The theme of LIS Conference 2019 - Innovations in Libraries - provides a futuristic outlook about understanding, visualizing, and exploring the possible scenarios of the interconnected knowledge-generating activities. LIS Conference 2019, aimed to provide a national forum for sharing of experiences among researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers from a wide range of disciplines such as library and information science, information and communication technology, archival and museum studies, knowledge management, data analytics, and social media. In addition to the above aspects, LIS Conference 2019 focused on associated emerging disciplines and cutting edge topics such as:
The three strategic objectives of the conference, including predicting the future, preparing for the future and, finally, taking requisite actions to apply this knowledge to create, what is being called the ‘Smart Future’.
The second-day conference was started with the extended keynote address by Prof. Kavi Mahesh’s (Director, IIT, Dharwad), “Facilitating knowledge transfer in learning communities” was insightful. He referred to massive technologies in classrooms. In his old model knowledge view, teachers are the primary knowledge source and students are the knowledge transferee
The second day of the Conference started with Technical Session 1, chaired by Prof. P G Tadasad. Mr. Wodeyar co-chaired the session. Also, six papers were presented in this session. Dr. M P Tapaswi, Former Librarian of NIO, Goa presented an invited paper titled “Embrace technology with innovative approaches”, in his presentation, emphasized the need for libraries to redefine its role and come up as smart libraries with smart librarians equipped with emerging tools and technologies that are embracing the academic and research libraries with accelerating technology adoption. Dr. S M Pujar, Librarian, IGIDR, Mumbai in his presentation dealt with technology trends for libraries, such as, mobile technologies, social media, Internet of Things, drones, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, blockchain technology, and open platforms are emerging technologies, which libraries may embrace in their day-to-day operations. Dr. Buddhi Prakash Chauhan, Director, Global Library, O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Delhi presented his paper on resource provision in private academic libraries in India, he discussed on various trends in higher education in general and publishing and delivery of content in particular including new challenges that the private academic libraries they face. To overcome such problems, he also proposed new business models for books/e-books acquisition with new and equitable ways of resource sharing. Dr. Umesh Reddy Librarian, IISER, Pune, presented his study on plan S and open access (OA) publishing trends in IISER, Pune highlighted the concept of Plan S, its application and impact in the open-access publications. His case study findings indicate that OA publications have more visibility and impact than the paid access publications. Dr.Prabhash Rath Deputy Librarian, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune presented his study on open access movement and Indian Social Science Literature, focused on the scholarly communication process in social sciences, reasons for the popularity of open-access. He concluded that OA publishing is a welcome development and adequate safeguards need to be taken to maintain the quality of journals by blacklisting predatory journals. He suggested relevant journal collection development policy should be in place in libraries for identifying whether the journals fulfill well-established quality parameters. Dr. Snehanshu Saha, Professor of PES University, Bangalore presented his study on delay differential equation based model to interpret rapid growth of a journal in an emerging area, discussed on road map for motivation and scientometrics and machine learning. He defined the concept ‘scholastic influence’ and proposed the computational of ALIS using Genealogy tree.
The session was chaired by Dr. S.K. Savanur former Librarian of WRIC, Bombay University Mumbai co-chaired by Mr. Arun Adarakatti. Four papers were presented in this session. The first speaker Dr.P.Kannan, Deputy Librarian, Central University, Punjab an Invited Speaker spoke about IRNIS: The development and promotion of research information management system within India which aims to project recent developments in the CRIS related activities around the world and recent programs in India. He also described the current challenges of IRNIS. He gave the solution to organize the research related metadata, practical use of RIM, and its benefits to the scholars and faculty members and research administrators. Mr. Jahangir Alam, from Bangladesh, presented his contributed paper on the effectiveness of open source integrated library systems in University Libraries of Bangladesh. His study indicated that Koha is performing effectively in the University Libraries in Bangladesh and help to build consciousness among library users and professionals regarding Koha. Dr. Pradeep P Kavi, assistant Librarian of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore spoke on low-cost innovations in academic libraries, particularly, Raspberry Pi based system, which presents a significant cost saving over traditional desktops. He also gave many ideas on facilities for persons with disability and proposed ‘Go Green’ is today’s mantra for developing environment-friendly products and infrastructure with suitable examples in JRDTML, IISc, Bangalore. Mr.Vysakh, Research Scholar of Tumkur University in his presentation, emphasized the need of flying books. He focused on various applications of the drone in library operations and their benefits in modern libraries to reduce the refrains in the delivery of library products and services
The session was chaired by Dr. Suresh Jange, who spoke about technology-based innovative library services. The session was co-chaired by Dr.T.A.Mohan. Also, seven delegates presented their papers.
Ms. E.Nada Kumari, in her presentation, spoke about how digitized collections might be preserved according to the quality standards and suggested best practices on the preservation of digital archives collections. Dr. Satish Munnolli presented his invited paper on the library, technology, and services, highlighted the importance of e-alert services in the libraries, particularly, ‘science sparks @ ACTREC, a platform amongst the scientific community to showcase their publications which reaches everyone in the center.
Dr. Rajendra Babu H, Assistant Professor, Tumkur University, Tumkur emphasized on innovative and value-added services, particularly, proactive and reactive services to keep pace with the fast changing business scenario and said that it is a huge challenge on the part LIS professionals. He gave an overview of information dossiers which are collated from re-packed information pool and disseminated to users throughout the world by library teams in the respective geographies for the present day user needs. Dr. C. S. Venkataram Reddy, Librarian, Government College, Bagepalli presented his invited paper on delivering e-content through higher education web portal to the students of Government and aided colleges of Karnataka. Dr, Nisanth K of NAL, Bangalore presented his contributed paper on the digital archiving system for grey literature at CSIR-NAL. He gave an overview of Prakas. Mr.Vasu Deshpande of EazyLib, Bangalore talked about increasing library user base and demonstrated the EasyLib software.
The session was chaired by Prof. B.S.Biradar, Professor, Kuvempu University, Shivamogga co-chaired by Mr. Ravish, Librarian of Sir MVIT, Bangalore. Three papers were presented in this session. Prof. Nasiruddin Mitul, Professor of Library and Information Science, National University Bangladesh, presented his Invited paper on libraries and information centers in disaster risk reduction of Bangladesh: experience sharing of an innovative project. He gave a detailed overview of DEMLIC project. Dr. Anupama N Joshi, Deputy Librarian of Karnatak University, Dharwad in her invited presentation discussed weeding in libraries and described the different stages of the entire project undertaken by the Karnatak University Library, Dharwad. Dr. P. R.Tippeswamy, Deputy director of the Department of Public Libraries, Chitradurga spoke about readership pattern among the public library users. The case study of the Chitradurga district focused on “today’s readers are tomorrow’s leader” and role of the public library in inculcating the reading habits of users.
The session was chaired by Dr. G.Mahesh, Head NISCAIR, New Delhi. The session was co-chaired by Mr. Somaraya Tallolli, Librarian, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Bengaluru and Mr. Govinda Reddy Librarian, Karnataka High Court, Bangalore acted as Rapporteurs. Four Papers were presented in this session. Prof. S.L.Sangam, Former Professor of Karnatak University, Dharwad presented an invited paper titled “tools and methods for science output evaluation”, in his presentation, emphasized the good science leads to novel ideas and changes the way that influences the direction. He also spoke about various metrics, including Librametrics, bibliometrics, informetrics, scientometrics, cyber metrics, h-index in science stream context. Dr. Rabindra Kumar Mahapatra Associate Professor & Head Department of Library Information Science, Tripura University, Tripura, in his invited Paper dealt with innovative marketing library services in academic business school libraries in India. He spoke on evidence-based, innovative strategies, and approaches being adopted by the librarians to promote collection and services to their clientele. He also proposed evidence-based, innovative techniques such as innovative library portal, virtual video, search engine optimization, use of social media are some of the innovative ideas that libraries should explore, and adopt for effective utilization of services, and update information. Dr. V M Bankapur, Associate Professor, DLISc, Rani channamma University, Belagavi discussed innovations in library explored through the pages of the journal of innovations and various aspects of innovations that are sketched in the articles with tables and graphs. Dr. H. Diwakar Bhat, Librarian, NMAMIT, Nitte, Udupi presented his contributed paper on a sustenance of momentum of NMAMIT, Nitte, Udupi academic libraries in the current digital era. He spoke on Librametrics concerning and proposed innovations and best practices for effective use.
Prof. Mallinath Kumbar, Professor, DLISc, University of Mysore in his Invited Paper dealt with the twitter contents of IIT Bombay library. His study findings show that Twitter is one of the virtual communication tools, and academic libraries can offer their services through this platform effectively. Dr. T.A. Mohan, Librarian, SIT Tumkur in his presentation spoke about social media as an alternative information source for learning among PG students and its benefits derived by the use of social media among the students such as educational benefits, cultural benefits and behavioral benefits derived by reading Facebook posts. Dr. M. Raghavendra, Librarian, Government College, Chitradurga presented his contributed paper on the impact of social networking sites on LIS professionals: A hidden appraisal. His findings show that If the working LIS professionals innovatively use SNS’s, they can create wonders in the professions by offering different services. Dr. S K Parameshwar, Research Scholar of Goa University, Goa dealt with the impact of social media on the usage of the library by PG students of Goa University. Mr. Dayanadappa Kori, Research Scholar of VTU Belagavi, presented his paper on mobile reading habits among computer science students at Mangalore University, Mangalore, Karnataka
Dr. H.S. Siddamallaiah, University Librarian, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore, in his invited paper highlighted the need for developing a state of art curriculum for LIS Education in India. He presented a case of efforts put in by his team in proposing one such a syllabus for VTU Belagavi. Prof. Mohammad Mezbha-ul-Islam (Bangladesh) present a clear picture of Information Literacy (IL) programs organized in different secondary schools in rural Bangladesh. The study developed a training module and described the awareness raising techniques of IL to build awareness and empower the students in the rural high schools of Bangladesh for the first time that will trigger future research. Dr. Vijay Kumar, Librarian, Central University Rajastan, Ajmir in his Invited Paper highlighted the research visibility of higher education institutes of Rajasthan with their citations, collaboration, subject area and h-index using Scopus database. The last paper presented was by Mr. Md. Jahangir Alam, (Bangladesh) presented a historical perspective of LIS education in Bangladesh and traced the growth and development of the discipline of the University of Dhaka in the digital age.
The conference was concluded with the Valedictory Function. Prof. Srinivas Kumar, Hon’ble vice chancellor, JNTU, Ananthapuram was the Chef Guest and delivered his Valedictory address. Dr. S.M.Pujar Director of the Conference presented the Recommendations of the conference and the Conference Report was read out by Dr. Margam Madhusudhan, Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science as Rapporteur General. Thus, the well-attended conference concluded successfully with a vote of thanks proposed by Dr.K R Mulla.
