Thank You Note – Sinhgad Institute

Thank You Note – Sinhgad Institute

Happy to inform you that I was invited as a solo Resource Person at Sinhgad Institutes for their “Librarian 2020” 12th One Day Workshop on Social Media & Open Source Applications in Modern Libraries on 11th January 2020 at Sinhgad Academy of Engineering Kondhwa Campus, Pune.

The topics on which we had an interactive discussion they are,

·         Social Media & Other Applications for Modern Libraries

·         Trends in Open Source Software

Topic 1 | Social Media & Other Applications for Modern Libraries

In the first session, we had an interactive discussion on how social media & other innovative applications creating an impact on Modern Libraries. In today’s era of competition, LIS professionals should equip with more innovative skills.

We discussed various SM tools which can be used by LIS professional to promote their Library services. Not only SM tools there are handy tools which are available from MS office which can be for improving the library services

The other applications which we covered for the session are Google tools, how we can use Google tools in our day to day activities of the Library.

Topic 2 | Trends in Open Source Software

Information Technology (IT) impacted in every domain of knowledge; Libraries is one of the most impacted areas due to IT. Now a day’s it is understandable that a graduation degree is not only enough for getting a job. In today’s environment, you should have some additional skills in your kitty bank, and then only you will be sustained in this competition.

Open Source movement within two centuries it reaches where it makes OS application accessible to each one. No doubt, in the early days of the introduction of OS, there is a lot of concentration on OS versus proprietary. But due to commercial support for OS ensure that citizen can use the OS application without much hesitation.

We discussed Open Access (OA), Open Educational Resources (OER’s), and Open Source Software (OSS). We had a detailed discussion on OSS applications in the Library domain for Library Automation & Institutional Repository.

Thanks to the below dignitaries for valuable supports and encouragement throughout the workshop.

¢  Dr. K P Patil, Principal of SAE

¢  Dr. Kaustab Gaikwad of SAE

¢  Dr. Mrs. Amita Pradhan Chief Librarian, Central Library’

¢  Mrs. Sneha Deole, Librarian SAE

¢  Mr. Shyam Bachute, SKNCOP

¢  Management of Sinhgad Institute

Last but not thanks to all the participants for patience hearing me during the session.

Regards

Pralhad