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Connecting Library, Classroom and Curriculum
Dinesh K. Gupta,
Deptt. Of Lib. & Inf.. Sc..
Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University
Kota-324021• dineshkumargupta@vmou.ac.in
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Libraries: Companions in Higher Education
Libraries have been the companions of higher education for many centuries. They have preserved and given access to all sorts of materials – books, manuscripts, rare documents, journals, maps, etc. –that have supported the process of learning. They have also been the keepers of materials produced by students, faculty and researchers – graduate projects, theses & dissertations, technical reports, etc. – in this sense they have functioned as the institutional archive.
But Higher Education, Research and Publishing have significantly changed
Knowledge Era:
Educational Imperatives
• Education for all
• Education for life
• Education at the doorstep
• Students centered education
• Education across the space
• Crossing subject boundaries
Knowledge Imperatives: Education for all
•Education is not prerogative of few
These emerging
concepts radically
alter the ways in
which all sorts of
education are
delivered
traditionally
•New Learning Groups
•Equal opportunity of access
•Equal conditions of support
•Education for all
Educational Imperatives :
Internationalization of Education
•Offering programmes across boundaries
•Institutional collaborations for research
•Virtual University
•Opening of foreign universities
•Faculty collaborations
•Internationalizing the syllabi
Educational Imperatives:
Crossing Subjects Boundaries
There is no pure subject
Interdependence on the different subjects is rising
Emphasis on inter/multi-disciplinary research
Educational Imperatives:
Lifelong Learning
One shot of Philosophy of Education is no more
tenable
The life expectancy of knowledge is becoming
shorter and shorter
The concept of Learning while you earning is emerging in
Educational Imperatives:
Learner support and access
•Open Learning
•Distance Learning
•Collaborative Learning
•Self Paced Learning
•Student Centered Learning
•Resources Based Learning
•Flexible Learning
•MOOCs
Technology and Publishing Business
• Technology is drastically changing book publishing, and it has great contribution in the evolution of a traditional publishing business.
• The new publishing includes: e-Books, audio books, and books through iTunes.
• The soaring popularity of electronic book readers, such as the Kindle, Nook and iPad offer new opportunities for authors and publishers.
• It allows authors to self-publish and sell directly to would-be readers through Amazon, websites and through social media. It also undercuts the business model of traditional book publishing.
• Think e-Books with YouTube videos and the like. In other words, books with a multi-media component.
The Internet provides the means to revolutionise publishing
• Cost-effective
• Global distribution
• Ease of searching
• Interesting
• Place Independent
Open Access Publishing
• Free, immediate access online
• Unrestricted distribution and re-use
• Author retains rights to attribution and copyright
• Papers are deposited in a public online archive
OER Publishing Model
• Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely accessible documents.
• OER is openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, educational, assessment and research purposes.
MOOC• A massive open online course (MOOC) is an online
course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web.
• MOOCs provide interactive user forums that help build a community for the students, professors, and teaching assistants (TAs).
• MOOCs are a recent development in distance education.
Online Publication Types
• Blogs
• Forums
• E-Books: E-Books are simply books that have been digitally scanned and posted online.
• Personal website:
• Corporate and government websites:
• Tutorials
• Videos or texts
Need for Good Research
• Building your research skills are important because they can be applied to whatever area you may want to research , whether it be theory practice or everyday challenges
• Good research skills can give you an edge
• For effective analysis you want to find qualitative information, understand information cycle, information outlets...
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Information Generation Cycle
• It begins with a idea.
• The idea is researched & developed.
• Initial findings are shared with colleagues in the research community, research guides, often by email, news groups, list serv, discussion group, or in person.
• Preliminary results are communicated in a letter to the editor, comment in a journal or brief papers e.g., Electronics Letters.
• Full findings are presented in a conference
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Information Generation Cycle
• Results appear in a research or technical reports or thesis.
• Findings are submitted to a journal publication.
• Paper is indexed in a database
• Idea is incorporated in to text books, reviews, encyclopedia, handbooks and other sources.
• Book is indexed in pub/lib. catalogue.
• Information contained in these sources is used.
• Information use triggers new ideas; and
• The Cycle continues….
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What makes information scholarly?
• Length of article articles (i.e., more than seven pages) or texts written by experts or scholars for an expert, academic audience (faculty, graduate students, researchers) in a particular field.
• Employ a formal, scholarly or technical writing style utilizing a vocabulary that requires some degree of subject knowledge.
• The author's expertise is usually given near the beginning or at the end of the article or book and an abstract is included with journal articles.
• Sources are credited in footnotes / References and/or a bibliography.
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What makes…• Often reviewed by an author's peers (hence the term "peer-
reviewed") before publication. It is important to note that the peers referred to here are other scholars or academic experts studying the same academic subject as the author.
• Purpose of the publication is to share information within the subject field. Articles and books are based on original research and experimentation in science or social science or are the writings, criticism and reviews of scholars in the humanities.
• Published by academic presses, professional associations, or universities.
• Covered in Indexing/ Abstracting Databases
• Covered in Citation Index19Thursday, August 7, 2014
Players in the Information Cycle
• Scientists, engineers, academicians, researchers and others (working in institutions, associations, universities, government)
• Authors
• Publishers
• Abstracting & Indexing Databases
• Libraries & Information Centers
• Users
• INTERNET…..
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Time Cycle
Knowledge Cycle
Develop &
Discuss Ideas
Report
Research
Publish
Research
Popularize
Research
Generalize &
Formalize
Publications Cycle
Email,
listservs,
letters
Dissertations,
conference
papers
Scholarly
books and
journal articles
Magazine
articles, popular
history books
Encyclopedias,
text books
Access Cycle
Google?
Dissertation
Abstracts
Libraries Catalog,
indexes: AHL, HA
Indexes: Expanded
Academic Index,
Research Library;
Libraries Catalog
Libraries Catalog,
guides to history
research
Information Life CycleCreation
Application
Acquisition
Organisation
Storage
Retrieval
Access, Lending
Dissemination
Use
Sharing
Information
Management
Information
Use
Marketing Implications: Every information is Service and a
Product
Product life–time reduces drastically
[Wilson (2005): Extended life-cycle of Information]
More recent functions of libraries
• Sharing
• Relations building
• Publishing
• Collaborating
• Socializing
• Branding and Rebranding
Libraries as Media
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The collection in the [Digital] library should have copies
of all the documents [Media]created. It should be able
to give any information or knowledge sought . Its
organization should be perfect [Like semantic web]. It’s
potency for service should be supreme. It should be
easy to select whatever is of the highest value [through
Media Integration]. The instance a reader calls, all that
can satisfy his specific want should be given to him
expeditiously and in plenty…..Dr. S.R.
Ranganathan
Integrating Traditional Library Philosophy,
Digital Library Concept
Go for Digital…
Digital Technologies
Digitization
Digital Preservation
Digital resources access
Digital Resources Use
Guiding Principle
‘Right Information to the Right
user at the Right Time’
……Internet is like
nature and Digital is like
pen
Using Google for Collaborations/ Research
- Google Search
- Google books
- Google Drive
- Google Scholar
- Google Blog
- Google Alert
- Google Translator
- Google Trends
- Google Group 27Thursday, August 7, 2014
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http://www.lib.unca.edu/library/infolit/google_research.html
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http://www.library.illinois.edu/ugl/howdoi/use_google_scholar.html
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http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-
databases/databases-overview/using-google
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Can Google Compete?
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Out of Box Thinking?
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What people Think About Library Professionals
1. Helpful
2. Bookish
3. Friendly
4. Orderly
5. Boring
6. Polite
7. Quite
8. Kind
9. Conservatively dressed
10. Pleasant
11. Efficient
12. Wearing glasses
13. Reserved
14. Uncreative
15. Intelligent
16. UninterestingSource: Image problem even haunts hi-tech libraries, ASLIB Information, 60 (3), 2008, p.229-241
Librarians on the Catwalk…http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/39/2008/04/medium_librarian040708.jpg
Google looks differently…..
Where to begin?
• Banking upon your past study and experiences with future endeavours
• Balancing between Philosophy and techniques
• Working in Collaborative environment
• Strive for the Excellence
An effort to connect the Library, classroom and curriculum at the VMOU, Kota
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Course Work as Pre-Ph.D. Preparation (UGC regulations 2009)
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Researcher’s work for the six months and then rest of the two years
• To know and understand tit bits of Research, Research methodology
• To understand Use of ICT for Research
• To create a Bibliography
• To review a book
• To choose a topic for your research and develop synopsis
• To present papers for the seminar/ conference
• To publish some papers in reputed journals
• To successfully conduct of viva-voce and
• Get Ph. D. Degree: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY38Thursday, August 7, 2014
Research needs a Passion..
• If you have a passion for something, you love doing it.
• Passion is boundless enthusiasm
> Good teachers have a passion for teaching
> Good students have a passion for learning
> Good researchers have a passion for research
> Do YOU have passion for Research?
You need: belief, values, clarity of objectives, focus, commitment
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Mentor for Every Student
Mentoring responsibilities include
• Sharing research knowledge and skills
• Overseeing the researcher’s work,
• Helping the making to make contact with other researchers,
• Assisting with career counseling and overall development of the researcher
The researcher reciprocated by providing work hours and a fresh perspective for the mentor, and taking a proactive role in learning, developing a job.
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Forming of Focus Groups
• IT Group
• Literature Search Group
• Methodology Group
• Communication & Presentation Group
• Event Management Group
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Wider exposure through
• Meeting with a researcher ( once in a week)
• Specialist lectures by outside experts
• International lectures through Skype
• Three Days Workshop on Research Methodology
• Acquaintance with recent literature
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Researchers’ use of ICT
• Biometric attendance
• Group
• Online feedback on each session
• Reporting about each session on the Blog
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Group Blog on the Course Work
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Ph.D. Course Work
Module-1 (Common)
Module-2 (Subject Specific)
Module-3
(Common)
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Subject Wise Syllabi
Key Units with major subheadings
Further readings
Web resources/ Links
Key experts (Globally)
Key Associations
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Vice-Chancellor’s remark about the Library (1st Feb. 2013)
• This morning, I went to the Library and I am unhappy with the way the Library is maintained. There was no cleanliness and staff response was not good.
• Library reflects the health of the university and visiting the library you can imagine whether an institution is well or badly managed.
• I want that the Library should be the place for which we can be proud of and we may like to tell its glory to the visitors and it should contribute in the academic and research endeavors.
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Can we strive this way?
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Can We Survive This Way?
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Can We…?
Admission Test for Ph.D. Programme
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Library: A Class Room
• An Air Conditioned room was developed as Computer lab in the Library
• LCD Projector was made available for classes to take place
• Discussion place for different groups for development of skills
• Separate collection on Research methodology
• Wi fi connectivity made in the library
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Library as Class room
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Library Hours as Part of Time Table
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Evaluation linked with Library oriented Activities
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S.No. Description Marks
A. Continuous Assessment (CA) 200 Marks
1. Five assignments : Three from Module I & II and two from Module III 50 Marks
2. Presentation of a research proposal on any research problem of
researchers’ interest
25 Marks
3. Review of five research papers of different types 50 Marks
4. Review of five articles on different issues 25 Marks
5. Book review of one book 10 Marks
6. Annotated bibliography of any two books concerned with the
researchers’ subject area
10 Marks
7. Writing of 30 references and bibliography in APA, MLA and Chicago
format
30 Marks
An examination Centre
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OPAC
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Access to e-Resources
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Launch Of Automated Circulation..
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Library: a cultural place
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A Place To Interact…
Involvement of Course Work Students in Social Life
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Involvement of Course Work Students in Corporate Life
Refreshing moments
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Instrumental in Accreditation
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Library: University’s pride
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Thanks!
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Acknowledgements…
• Pavani , Ana M B, The Role of Digital Libraries in Higher Education at http://www.ineer.org/events/icee2007/papers/637.pdf
• Characteristics of Scholarly Writing and Evaluating Secondary Sources at: https://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/hst221/secondary2.ppt
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