Draft Report
29th
Convention & Conference of SIS
on Information Innovation Technology: Creating
Seamless Linkages
held during 26-28 Nov., 2012 at NIT Silchar
26.11.12: Inaugural Programme
The three days SIS
2012 29th Convention & Conference of SIS on Information
Innovation Technology: Creating Seamless Linkages commenced at 9.30 AM in NIT, Silchar with an inaugural song by the
library staffs followed by lightening of lamp by Prof. N V Deshpande, NIT Silchar,
Prof. R. Gupta, Director, NIT Srinagar, Prof. A K Dey, Chairman, Organizing Committee,
Dr. M.Ali Ahmed, Coordinator TEQIP- II, NIT Silchar, Dr N K Wadhwa, NPL New
Delhi, Dr. Sujit Bhatacharya, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR- NISTADS New
Delhi, and Dr. Kishor Satpathy, Librarian and Organising Secretary amidst a
gathering of more than 180 participants from various parts of country.
Dr. Satapathy highlighted the importance of SIS and
extended a warm welcome to the Hnourable members of the dais, resource persons,
speakers, paper presenters, participants and others. While mentioning the
prominence of the conference, Dr. Satapathy obliged Dr. N K Wadhwa, NPL New
Delhi for choosing NIT Silchar as venue of the conference which is first of its
kind in North East. Sri Satpathy
highlighted the programme schedule pertaining to Technical Sessions and Invited
papers in brief.
Prof.
Dey in his speech highlighted the importance of library which acts as a
facilitator of resources to the teachers, research scholars and the students
who get the optimum benefits for various academic pursuits. Dr. Ali Ahmed
another senior eminent faculty of NIT, Silchar while acknowledging the work of
Dr. Satahathy for his pioneer spirit and intuitiveness in developing the
library services in NIT, Silchar emphasized on the issues relating to
e-resources where the library plays a crucial role in disseminating
information. He emphasized on various issues of the library and providing
seamless linkages.
Dr.
Sudip Bhattarcharya, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-NISTADS New Delhi while
presenting the key note address mentioned about the different dimensions of
Scientometrics, Bibliometrics and their relevance in measurement of the growth
of science. In his discussion, Dr. Bhatacharya focused on rational policy,
exponential model of Derek De Solla Price, contribution of science on social
phenomena and justified the relevance of the present theme of conference.
During the inauguration hour, Director, NIT, Silchar released the souvenir and one
book.
Prof.
Deshpande, Director, NIT, Silchar in his address pointed out the role of the
libraries in establishing the linkages between the library and the society and
stressed upon the societal development through technology. While recognizing
the innovative work of Dr. Satapathy the Director discussed about the changing
role of library services. The inauguration session concluded with a vote of
thanks by Dr. Satpathy who thanked one and all who provided whole hearted
support in successful organization of the conference and obliged to the
administrative support of the NIT, Silchar including the advice of Dr. Dey and
Dr. Ali for their advice and continuous support and also recognized the
untiring efforts of the library staffs. The session concluded with a MOU signed
by the Director, NIT Silchar and the Director, NIT, Srinagar for exchanging
various programs. Prof. Gupta put his request to Dr. Wadhwa to organize the
next SIS conference at NIT, Srinagar and Dr. Wadhwa obliged his request to hold
the next conference at NIT, Srinagar. Prof. Gupta made an open invitation to
one and all to meet at the next SIS conference at NIT, Srinagar.
S. Nagarajan Memorial Oration
The special session on S. Nagarajan
Memorial Oration chaired by Prof. C K Ramaiah, Head of the Dept. of Library and
Information Science, Pondicherry University commenced through a presentation
and discussion by Dr. Sujit Bhattarcharya, Senior Principal Scientist,
CSIR-NISTADS, New Delhi on the topic ‘Changing Landscape of Knowledge
Production and Measurement Issue’. Dr. S N Singh, Mizoram University and Dr.
Ram Kumar Dangi from BHU were the rapporteurs of the session. The session was
very interactive and concluded with a remark by Prof. Ramaiah, the Chairman.
Including the invited lectures and in
various technical sessions spread over different themes altogether 32 papers as
follows were presented.
Day One: 26.11.2012
Technical Session I
Theme: Information, Innovation & Technologies:
Creating Seamless Linkages
The first technical session
of the day commenced with a panel discussion on Information Innovation Technology: Creating Seamless Linkages under the chairmanship of Prof. N N
Pandey, Assam University where Dr. R N Mishra, Mizoram University and Dr.
Sadananda Nath, IIM, Shillong were the rapporteurs. The panelist Prof. R. Gupta, Director, NIT,
Srinagar, Dr. N C Jain, ICMR, New Delhi, Dr. S Bhatarcharya, CSIR, New Delhi,
Dr. KMB Islam, IIM, Kashipur, Dr. R K Verma, Prof. C K Ramaiah, Pondicherry
University during their discussion pointed out various pertinent issues
relevant to the conference and current issues such as advancement of science, access
to information, solving local problems with application of high science, Hypertext,
Hypermedia, Constraints while accessing the Internet through new terminology,
etc. The session concluded with a remark by the Chairman.
Technical Session
II
Theme: Intellectual Property Rights and
Knowledge Management
The second technical session began under the chairmanship of Prof. N P
Biswas, Assam University and Co-chairmanship of Dr. Rajendra Soni, IMTECH,
Chandigarh on the theme Intellectual Property Rights and Knowledge Management.
The rapporteurs were Dr. Susmita Chakravorty, BESU and Dr. Sanjeev, Mizoram
University.
The first paper entitled,
‘Digital Rights Management and IPR issue in Open Education Resources’ was
presented by Dr. Islam who highlighted on some issues relating to innovation,
Indian Education System, IPR on Process innovation, Innovation Iceberg,
Invisible innovation etc and the discussion came to an end with an interaction.
The second paper entitled,
‘Patent Landscaping of vaccines and drugs available for HIV-AIDS was presented
by B Pandiya and N Pandiya who discussed about patents, copyrights, exclusive
rights, patent tools software, vaccine. They analyzed the databases of USPTO,
CENET, Patent LENS etc. and the discussion was interactive.
The third paper on ‘Data Mining:
A Tool for KM’ was presented by B Nazary and Dhiru Barman and R Jyoti Kalita.
They discussed the relevance of data mining in the libraries. While mentioning
the Bibliomining, they pointed out its importance in library systems to take
decision making and justify services.
The fourth paper on ‘Information
and KM in college libraries: A case study of Hailakandi District, Assam was
presented by A H Laskar. The author in his discussion pointed out the use of
organizational knowledge through sound practices information management and
organizational learning. The author mentioned that it is a process of
transforming information and intellectual assets into enduring value.
The fifth paper entitled,
‘Knowledge Management and Knowledge Workers in the Digital Era: Challenges and
Issues’ was presented by S B Choudhury where the author apart from other
discussions highlighted on unlocking and leveraging the knowledge of
individuals and suggested for installation of a network environment to support
the knowledge systems and LIS professionals to play the role of knowledge
worker.
The sixth paper on ‘Strategy for Implementation Effective
Knowledge Management in Libraries’ was presented by Mrs. K Singha, where the
author discussed many prominent issues on effective knowledge management powers
to sustain competitive advantages. They mentioned about the global dynamic
knowledge and proactive library system.
The day concluded with a cultural program.
Day Two: 27.11.2012
Technical Session
III
Theme: Lib 2.0/ ICT Application in LIS
At 9.30 AM, the first session of the second day was chaired by Dr.
N C Jain, ICMR New Delhi and co-chaired by Dr. Abdul Rashid, Librarian, NIT,
Srinagar. Dr. Badan Barman and Mr. Kalol Talukdar were the rapporteurs.
Ms. Sucheta Bhattacharya and Mr. Sudip Bhattarcharya presented a
paper on ‘ICT Awareness, internet Literacy Skills and Internet Searching
Patterns of College Library Users of Barak Valley, South Assam: A Survey’ who
distributed questionnaire to 400 people of 10 colleges of Barak Valley and
after analysis, they found that the young generation use the ICT services more
in comparison to older generation.
Mr. Kumarjit Paul on the topic ‘Status of ICT Infrastructure in
College Libraries of Karimganj District, South Assam: A Survey’ discussed that
the he college libraries should switch over from the traditional system to the
modern system to cope up with the ever changing world of Science and
technology. For this the college librarian must take a leadership role to have
long-term planning and well-defined strategy for ICT application.
Arundhati
Chakraborty in her paper ‘Managing
Collection Development in Selected College Libraries of Barak Valley in Digital
Era: An Exploratory Study’ mentioned that structure of college library
personnel is insufficient to maintain a digital library system. Every library collection should
be established for a definite purpose. The collection of the library should be
developed keeping in mind three things: relevance, quality, and material.
Deepshikha
Sen and Nilaratan
Bhattacharjee presented a paper on ‘Cloud Computing:
A Boon for Library Services’. They stressed on using of cloud computing by
libraries to save cost and provide effective library services. The presenter demonstrated
and elaborated various aspects of cloud computing in library and
information centers for providing better services. They discussed that cloud
computing has a significant impact on the library community.
Nilratan
Bhattacharjee and in his paper Analysis of Internet Access and Use by Students
of Science and Technology Departments of Assam University, Silchar discussed
that a large
number of the respondents have learnt to use the Internet tools by themselves,
without attending any formal training programs. Moreover, the
result of the survey also provided information about
the benefits of the e-documents over conventional documents.
Abdul Hannan Choudhury in his
paper Status of Modern Technology
Implementation in College Libraries of Hailakandi District, Assam: A Survey
discussed that majority of the college libraries are using computers for office
maintenance, the study suggests that they need to concentrate on housekeeping
operation activities more and more using standard library management software.
Dr. Badan Barman, presented a paper on LIS Links: A virtual Community
of Indian Library and Information Professionals. In his paper he stated that
LIS links (www.lisliks.com) is mostly used among library professionals in
India.
Technical
Session IV
Theme: Library Consortia and HRD issues
The second session under the chairmanship of Dr. M K Sinha, Assam
University , Silchar and rapporteurs Dr.
S N Singh, Mizoram University and Mrs. Ridip Jyoti Kalita commenced on ‘Library
Consortia, Networking and Resource Sharing and HRD issues’.
Prof.
Nityanand V Pandey, Assam University in his paper entitled ‘Employees’
Motivation for Quality Excellence in Institutes’ discussed prominent issues on
motivation and Adam’s theory. He viewed that motivation of an employee rests on
reward.
Ms. Tuhina
Choudhury (Deb Roy) discussed her paper on the topic ‘Resource Sharing through
Consortia and Networks in Assam University Library, Silchar’ discussed various
issues relating to resource sharing and consortia and viewed that, resource
sharing aims basically at maximizing the availability of library resources and services
at minimum expense.
Technical Session V
Theme: Digital Library and Open Access Initiatives
The third session was chaired by Dr. Amjd Ali, AMU, Aligarh on the
theme ‘Digital Library and Open Access Initiatives’ and the rapporteurs were
Dr. Nabin Kumar Dey, Assam university and Ms. Dudipta Deb Roy, VCE, Karimganj.
Dr. Amjad Ali in his paper
‘Digital Libraries in India: An Analytical Study’ discussed some prominent
issues on digital Library. He discussed that extensive efforts are being made
in a large number of organization and institutions in the country but most of
them are in isolation and without proper guidelines from a central agency. The
efforts so far are concentrated on digitizing the print media only whereas the
country has large resources in the other forms of the media also.
Dr. Sadananda Nath while discussing his paper on Designing and Developing Digital Library with
Greenstone Digital Library Software shared his experiences on
GSDL and demonstrated live the various attributes of GSDL and justified its
application in libraries.
Ms. Jayanti Chakraborty in her paper on
Digital Rights Management: An Essential Feature in the Digital Era mentioned
that Digital Rights Management aims to stop this practice of piracy and to help
copyright holders safeguard their digital content. DRM refers to schemes that
control access to copyrighted materials using technological means.
Ms.Sonali Choudhury Biswas in her paper Open Source Software: Scope and Implications discussed that Open-source software is the most prominent example of open-source development and often compared to (technically defined) user-generated content
or (legally defined) open content movements.
Sriparna Das
Purkayastha while discussing her paper on ‘Web Resources on LIS with special
emphasis on Open Access Journals: An Exploratory Study’ mentioned about online
publications. She apart from discussion that free resources are available
through open access also highlighted the web resources on LIS.
Dr. S N Singh in his
paper entitled ‘Open Access Journals
and Institutional Repositories with Special Reference to India: A Case Study’ discussed
role of open access journals and institutional repositories in a digital
environment. He mentioned about recent developments of open access journals and
institutional repositories in world trend as well as in Indian context.
Technical Session VI
Theme: Informatics and Bibliometrics Study
The fourth session was chaired by Dr. R N Mishra, Mizoram
University on the theme ‘Informatics and Bibliometrics Study’ and Dr. N K
Wadhwa, NPL, New Delhi and Mr. Nishad Abhay Deshpandey, CSIR were the
rapporteurs.
Rofique Uddin Laskar in the paper
‘Citation analysis of Ecology and Environmental Research: A case study of Assam
University (a central university), Silchar’ discussed that Bibliometric analysis
plays a vital role in assessing the scholarly material produced by a particular
community. The main purpose of the study is to find out the current research
trend in the field of ecology and environmental science in Assam University,
Silchar. For this purpose, a total number of 3020 citations were taken from the
Ph.D. theses submitted by the scholars. These citations stand as the source
data for the citation analysis and interpretation of the data taken were
analyzed.
Technical Session VII
Theme: Information Literacy and e-Learning and e-Resources
The final session of the day concluded under the chairmanship of
Dr, Rama Patnaik, Librarian, IIM Bangalore on the theme ‘Information Literacy
and e-Learning and e-Resources’ where, Ms. Krishnamati Singh and Mrs. Sonali Choudhury Biswas were the
rapporteurs.
A S Raizada
Memorial Lecture was given by Dr. N C
Jain on ‘Trends in Biomedical Communication’ where vividly explained the number
of biomedical journals including Indian journals indexed in various databases
[PubMed, IndMED, medIND, Science Citation Index(SCI)-Expanded, Journal Citation
Reports(JCR), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), etc.], S&T indicators (Impact Factor (IF), h-index, p-index, etc.], information retrieval from open
access electronic databases were also discussed by him. The presentation also
covered briefly important ethical issues in publication practices [research
misconduct – fabrication/ falsification / plagiarism] like redundant
publication, retraction of publication, anti-plagiarism software. Presentation
was followed with felicitation to Dr. Jain.
Mr. Sabir Ahmad in his paper
entitled ‘Information Literacy in Library and Information Science Curriculum in
Northern India: An analytical study’ highlighted some pertinent issues on
information literacy which create information literate in the society and
library as well. On analysis of the data he concluded that, 50% of the LIS
schools have incorporated information literacy in their curriculum.
Dr. R N Mishra in his paper
entitled ‘Potentiality of E-Resources
in E-Learning’ discussed some vital components of e-resources that could
facilitated to the growth of education through e-learning which also is
recognized as web learning, on-line learning, internet learning etc.
Dr. R K Dangi in his paper
‘E-resources for Law Libraries: A study’ discussed that law libraries in India
are facing a lot of problems due to static budget and emphasized on use of ICT
in the libraries . He also mentioned about the e-resources and types being used
by many law school libraries in India.
Ms. Shibojit Choudhuey while
discussing his paper on ‘Availability and access of e-resources in Assam
university, Silchar: A case study’ inferred that, e-resources have a pragmatic
approach of the users. In her suggestions she mentioned about the induction of
various training programs to make use of e-resources in efficiently.
Ms. Susmita Nath in her paper on
‘Use of e-resources in view point of a researcher in Science and Engineering
Institutions’ discussed that scientists and engineers due to quick and easy
access mostly use e-resources. She suggested that research value is enhanced in
an e-learning environment.
Day Three: 28.11.2012
Technical Session VIII
Theme: E-Books
The third and concluding day of the conference commenced at 9 AM
with a presentation by under the Chairmanship of Dr. S N Singh, Mizoram
University where, Dr. R N Mishra and Dr. R K Verma were the rapporteurs.
Prof. C K Ramaiah in his paper’
Evaluation of e-Books user interfaces by the University Students: A case study’
had threadbare discussions on e-books. While discussing he mentioned about the
e-book publishers mostly subscribed by the Indian University and other
institutes. He also evaluated the user inface of e-books in Pondicherry
University Central Library and concluded that, the students like the unique
features of e-books compared to print version of the same books including
hyperlinked contents, index etc.
Rajashree Borkakoti and Gagan
Chandra Talukdar in their paper on ‘Role of National Mission for Manuscripts on
Preservation and Conservation of Manuscript’. In K.K.H. Library, Gauhati
University and Sankardeva Kalakshetra, Guwahati: A Study discussed about the
present scenario of conservation and preservation of manuscripts in
K.K.Handiqui Library, Gauhati University and Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakhetra,
Guwahati and role played by National Mission for Manuscripts.
Valedictory Session
Some Important Recommendations :
On the basis of suggestion
received from the experts and paper presenters, following suggestions and
recommendations have been made for onward forwarding to the Ministry, Govt. of
India for implementations:
Ø The convention strongly
recommendsat a separate Library Network can
be planned for networking the library and information centres of North Eastern
States which is the need of the hour. Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India,
DONNER, and the respective State Govts
may be approached for necessary support and financial assistance for
establishing the North eastern Library Network / Regional Knowledge Network for
N E Region of India;
Ø The seminar recommends to
organise User Awareness Programme, Manpower Training for early implementation
of Library Automation and Networking and to provide computerised LIS services
to its end users; and
Ø Recommends strengthening ICT
infrastructure in the school, college, institutional, university, public and
special libraries and information centres of North East India with special
assistance from the Central Government.
