Message from the Head of the Department
The prime objective of the programmes is to develop high-quality minds in the domain. Librarianship is certainly a noble profession that requires specialized knowledge and skills.
It requires intrinsically interdisciplinary needs alignment with the core value of the organisational work field, and demands additional skills in computer application, psychology, societal communications, digital advancements, business and management laws, etc.
Thus, librarianship is an excellent profession for those who enter into it with a seriousness of purpose. Therefore, I am excited to welcome such devoted and dedicated aspirants.
We educate and train our students to meet the challenges in fast-changing world of ICT to:
- Learn and understand the foundational principles and raise voice to implement the library and information law, policy, and ethics.
- Understand the organisational vision, structure, hierarchy, system, and social environment for achieving its goal, objectives, and mission.
- Identify the patrons of the organisation, and readers community, communicate with them to understand their information, research, and allied requisitions, and address their information and resource needs in context.
- Understand the importance of orientation/awareness and organise programs to promote and inculcate reading habits, and use research resources available in print or digital subscription. Ensure the optimum utilisation of information resources and services.
- Understand and establish a congenial relationship between the information centre, the reader’s community, and the decision-makers.
- Understand, design, advise policymakers, plan, and implement the policies related to information resource procurement, management of resources, preparing budget, rules and regulations, collection development, and customisation and delivery of information services.
- Understand and focus on the overall development of the library and information centre such as modernisation of functions, application of new technologies and tools, building the latest collection of print and digital resources, and crafting of new information services to meet the emerging needs of the teaching, learning, and research fraternity of the organisation.
- Understand and support to transformation of the library into a state-of-the-art knowledge centre for research, intellectual, and innovative activities.
- Identify and explore the emerging technologies, tools, techniques, and resources to fulfill the changing expectation of modernise knowledge society.
- Develop competency to work as an individual or as a team member to plan, manage, and accomplish small and mid-level projects.
I look forward to engage with future Information Administrator & Scientist, Bibliometrician, Cybernetician, Informatician, Librametrician, Scientometrician, or Knowledge Navigator.