role of lis professionals in promoting teaching, learning and research

Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia

Role of LIS Professionals in Promoting Teaching, Learning and Research

Sanjaya Mishra, Director, CEMCA28 November 2013

Role of LIS Professionals

Collect, organise and disseminate information

In a library, procure, classify, index and retrieve books/ information for the users

Information intermediary

Collection building Classifier Cataloguer Indexer Reference Librarian Serials Librarian Others…

What we actually do?

Bibliographic control (knowledge about where you can find knowledge)

Process knowledge in various formats to help easy retrieval

Optimise available resources (through collaboration)

Create enabling environment for learning and research

Knowledge and Technology Explosion

From Guttenberg to advent of IT Growth of knowledge has been

exponential Technology paved the way for creation

of variety of knowledge resources, easily made available through the Internet

Google has become the first destination of information seekers

We still need people to perform the roles of librarians at the conceptual level doing things differently

Changing Roles… Changing Times…

Collector– Traditional information sources and

publications– Digital information (available free and in

open licenses)– Organise digital libraries– Use harvesting tools– Preserve information for perpetual access


Creators– What can you provide more to the users

than that are already available free on the net?

– Can you create services designed specially for groups and individual users? – A kind of CAS/ SDI

– Aggregate knowledge resources (research and learning materials)

– Use OER and OA to build collections– Create networked system that enables

seamless access to users from anywhere, anytime


Communicator– Use communication and social networking

tools, (such as blogs, wikis, etc.)– Digitally present information and

innovations– Visible on the internet search– Communicate globally, locally, and

individually– Teach/train users (information use training,

using free resources)


Consolidator– Traditional role of information consolidation– Use appropriate tools to create relevant

surveys, trend reports for the users– Contribute to curriculum design and

development

Role in Teaching, Learning and Research

Not limited to academic libraries Library as place of formal as well as

informal learning Support in continuous professional

development Access to research literature on different

subject domains Organised access to digital resources for

teaching and learning

Teaching and Learning Resources

Open Educational Resources: teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions. Open licensing is built within the existing framework of intellectual property rights as defined by relevant international conventions and respects the authorship of the work

Number of projects that provide teaching and learning resources from K-12 to graduate studies and continuing education

Research Resources

Open Access: is the provision of free access to peer-reviewed, scholarly and research information to all. It envisages that the rights holder grants worldwide irrevocable right of access to copy, use, distribute, transmit, and make derivative works in any format for any lawful activities with proper attribution to the original author.

Gold open Access (9947 OA journals, 1162516 articles in DOAJ)

Green Open Access (2353 repositories) Platinum Open Access (Social networking

approach) Mendeley, Research Gate, Academia.edu etc. 67% of Journals permit some form of self-archiving

OA and OER: Technology and Platforms

OER– Wikipedia,

WikiEducator, Wikivarsity

– Wikispaces, etc.– Connexions, MIT

OpenCourseware, OLI-CMU, FlexiLearn, OpenLearn

– Directory of OER

OA– DOAJ, DOAB– GOAP– Directory of OA

Repositories– Dspace/eprints/Greenstone– Mega OA journals, private

publishers– Green and Gold OA– Social networking approach

to OA: ResearchGate, Mandeley, Academia.edu

Thank You