Greetings of Teacher’s Day celebrations to the LIS Teachers Community!
LIS Education has been a constant subject of debate for long. While LIS education responds to the twin challenges of changing landscapes in the disciplinary domains and the marketplace of LIS practitioners, the practitioners’ community laments the mismatch. This is not unusual in any professional education system. The debates contribute to strengthening the LIS landscape leading to the learning collective.
To celebrate Teachers’ Day on Saturday, the 5th September, Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS) and the Informatics Group, Bangalore are organizing an online DIALOGUE between LIS teachers and LIS practitioners. A group of 12 Librarians as discussants will interact with a group of 4 LIS educators as panelists on this virtual forum, moderated by Prof. Shalini Urs, an eminent LIS Teacher. This 2-hours dialogue (11am-1pm) is structured to enable LIS professionals to raise the issues and challenges they encounter, as questions/comments to the four eminent LIS teachers:
PANELISTS: The four LIS Professors in the panel of teachers are:
1. Prof. K. P. Singh, University of Delhi.
2. Prof. Sarika Sawant, SNDT University, Mumbai.
3. Prof. Swapna Banerjee, Dean, University of Calcutta, Kolkata.
4. Prof. B. T. Sampath Kumar, Tumkur University (Karnataka).
DISCUSSANTS: The twelve LIS Professionals participating in the panel are:
1. Dr. Shantanu Ganguli, Fellow, Knowledge Management Division, The Energy Research Institute (TERI), New Delhi.
2. Dr. Santosh Hulagabali, Librarian, Central University of Haryana.
3. B P Prakash, Director, Library Services, Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana.
4. Dr. Rama Patnaik, Librarian, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
5. Mr. S. U. Shiva Kumar, Librarian, BMS College of Architecture, Bangalore
6. Ms. G. N. Divyashree G.N, Teacher-Librarian, Silver Spring International School, Chikbanavara, Bangalore Dist.
7. Dr. Neeraj Kumar Singh, Deputy Librarian, Punjab University, Chandigarh
8. Dr. Mahesh Chand, Assistant Librarian, Jawaharlal Nehru University Library, New Delhi
9. Dr. Shakuntala Nighot, Librarian, , St Teresa's Institute of Education, Mumbai.
10. Mrs. Amruta Paranjape, Digital Archivist, Godrej Archives, Mumbai.
11. Dr. Sanjukta Mitra. Librarian. Rani Birla College, West Bengal.
12. Ms. Soumitra Chatterjee, Librarian, Damodar Valley Corporation, Kolkata.
Additionally, 20 minutes out of two hours will be exclusively allotted to questions from the audience to panel members.
SRELS and Informatics cordially invite all LIS professionals and the LIS teaching fraternity to join this online Dialogue. Please register at:
http://bit.ly/LISTeachersDay
N. V. Sathyanarayana
Chairman & Managing Director
Informatics India Ltd.
Bangalore 560004
