Connecting Library, Classroom and Curriculum

Connecting Library, Classroom and Curriculum

Dinesh K. Gupta,

Deptt. Of Lib. & Inf.. Sc..

Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University

Kota-324021• [email protected]

Thursday, August 7, 2014 1

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


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


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


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….


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.


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…..


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


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


http://www.lib.unca.edu/library/infolit/google_research.html


http://www.lib.unca.edu/library/infolit/google_research.html

http://www.library.illinois.edu/ugl/howdoi/use_google_scholar.html


http://www.library.illinois.edu/ugl/howdoi/use_google_scholar.html

http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-

databases/databases-overview/using-google


http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases/databases-overview/using-google

Can Google Compete?


Out of Box Thinking?


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…..

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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


Course Work as Pre-Ph.D. Preparation (UGC regulations 2009)


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


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.


Forming of Focus Groups

• IT Group

• Literature Search Group

• Methodology Group

• Communication & Presentation Group

• Event Management Group


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


Researchers’ use of ICT

• Biometric attendance

• E-mail

• Group

• Online feedback on each session

• Reporting about each session on the Blog


Group Blog on the Course Work


Ph.D. Course Work

Module-1 (Common)

Module-2 (Subject Specific)

Module-3

(Common)


Subject Wise Syllabi

Key Units with major subheadings

Further readings

Web resources/ Links

Key experts (Globally)

Key Associations


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.


Can we strive this way?


Can We Survive This Way?



Can We…?

Admission Test for Ph.D. Programme


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


Library as Class room


Library Hours as Part of Time Table


Evaluation linked with Library oriented Activities


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



OPAC


Access to e-Resources


Launch Of Automated Circulation..


Library: a cultural place






A Place To Interact…

Involvement of Course Work Students in Social Life



Involvement of Course Work Students in Corporate Life

Refreshing moments


Instrumental in Accreditation


Library: University’s pride


Thanks!


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


https://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/hst221/secondary2.ppt