Role of College Libraries in Digital Era

Role of College Libraries in meeting user’s
information needs:
issues and challenges in digital era
Key Note Address
15th Biennial Conference of ACLA
11-12 Oct. 2018
Tinsukia Commerce College, Tinsukia, Assam
Utpal Das M.Sc., MLISc., M.Phil. Ph.D.
Deputy Librarian, LNB Library, DU, And,
Chairperson, Centre for Library & Information Science Studies,
Dibrugarh University, DibrugarhCopyrighted to Dr. Utpal Das, Dibrugarh
University

1. Enriching
academic
ambience of
intellectual
activities
2.
Information
and
knowledge
support
3. Access of
various
information
channels
electronically
4. To
preserve and
protect the
intellectual
assets
5. To generate
awareness on
importance of
knowledge
resources
Role of
College
Library
Copyrighted to Dr. Utpal Das, Dibrugarh
University

Institutionalizi
ng concept of
dynamics of
library
Limited
and
shrinking
budget
Poor Planning
and
underrated
infrastructure
Increased R
& D in the
ICT sector
Information
explosion &
Information
overload
and its
control
Vital Issues of
College e Library
Increased
pressure
from the
peer
agencies
Augmenting of
human
resources in
Libraries
University

Challenges of Library in the Digital Era
Objectives
/Role
Issues
Challenges
University

UNDP’s Sustainable Development Goals 2015 – 2030
GOAL 4.
ENSURE INCLUSIVE AND
EQUITABLE EDUCATION AND
PROMOTE LIFE-LONG LEARNING
OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL
University

Goal 4.a.
Build and upgrade education facilities
that are child, disabilities, and gender
sensitive and provide safe, non-violent
and inclusive and effective learning
environments for all.
University

UNESCO Public Library Manifesto 1949
(renovated in Paris 1994 jointly with IFLA)
“essential institutions for the promotion of
peace and well-being spirit of humanity”
“living force for education, culture and
information”
“essential agent for the fostering of peace
and spiritual welfare through the minds of
men and women”
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“local gateway to knowledge, provides a
basic condition for lifelong learning,
independent decision- making and
cultural development of the individual
and social groups”
“collections are not built only on optical
or recent political and milliners, but also
seek to balance the traditional and the
modern in order to include all age
groups of the population involved”
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The Five laws of Library Science, the
guiding principles of operating a library
System, propounded in the year 1931
by Dr. S. R. Ranganathan, the Father of
Library Science in India
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ROLE OF COLLEGE LIBRARIES
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1. To provide and augment an enriched academic
ambience of intellectual activities
Laboratories
of mind
Continuing
education
Centre of
self learning Place of
intellectual
recreation
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2. To provide Information and knowledge support (hybrid)
to the college academia
Information
and
knowledge
support
Subscribing
print & online
journals &
databases
Purchase of
right books to
the right
users
Subscribing
citation tools
for research
support
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3. To Support access of various information
channels electronically
Online access to subscribed journals, databases
and other resources under NMEICT and others
Providing access to open access resources and
agencies under NMEICT and others
Electronic equipments, tools, software /
hardware, internet, networking (LAN), etc
University

Digital Initiative under NMEICT
SWYAM, NAD, NPTEL, CEC, NDLI, Vidyamitra,
e-Shodh Sindhu, Vidwan, e-Yantra, FOSSEE,
Virtual Lab, e-Kalpa, Campus Connectivity,
NPAT, and many more.
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4. To preserve and protect the intellectual assets
of the Academic Institute and the locality, both
physically and digitally
Planning and formulation of Rules and
Guidelines
Physical Preservation
Electronic & Digital Preservation /
Institutional Repository
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5. To generate awareness on importance of knowledge
resources through Information Literacy Programme (ILP)
InformationLiteracyforAll
SkillIndia
DigitalIndia
InformationforAll
EducationforAll
University

5.1 Needs of Information Literacy Programme
i. Societal Needs:
student to learner: learner-centered education that
focuses on skills and practices
that enable lifelong learning and
independent problem-solving
teaching to learning management: teaching to the
design and management of learning experiences
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Faculty centric to learner centric:
Participatory learning module where students
answer each other’s questions, using instructor as
an information resource. Students talk without
constant instructor monitoring; instructor provides
feedback/correction when questions arise; rather
than Instructor talks, students listen Students work
in pairs, in groups, or alone depending on the
purpose of the activity but not like traditionally
students work alone
Synchronous to asynchronous:
New technology is taking over the traditional
classroom; e-learning is a integral part now which
may be only online (i.e. Synchronous) and online
and offline both (i.e. asynchronous)
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ii. Technology Driven learning System:
services to anyone, anytime, anyplace
Plug and Play
Plunge in and learn through participation and
experimentation
teachers should act more like a consultant or a coach
to motivate, inspire, and manage an active learning
process
E-Learning: Moocs (swayam & other online courses)
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iii. Emerging Research Area
inter disciplinary, multi disciplinary, cross
disciplinary and extra disciplinary research
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iv. Focus on Library & types of ILP:
tremendous growth of the e-information
resources in the form of CD-ROM Databases,
Online Journals, audio and visual materials, ebooks,
institutional repositories, etc.
i. E-Resource Orientation Programs
ii. To enhance visibility of subscribed
electronic resources
iii. To enhance visibility of public
domain electronic resources
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iv. Demonstration of various search techniques
in OPAC, Publisher’s platforms, Citation tools
(Scopus, ISI, WoS: h-index, citation index, etc)
v. Orientation to intellectual property right,
copyright, creative commons, etc
vi. Orientation and demonstration on issues
of plagiarism /similarity check /introduction to
anti-Plagiarism software, etc
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ISSUES OF COLLEGE LIBRARIES
University

1.
Institutionalizin
g concept of
dynamics of
library
2. Limited and
shrinking
budget
3. Poor
Planning and
underrated
infrastructure4. Increased R
& D in the ICT
sector
5.
Information
explosion &
Information
overload
and its
control
Vital Issues of
College e Library
6.
Increased
pressure
from the
peer
agencies
7.
Augmenting
of human
resources in
Libraries
University

1. Institutionalizing concept of dynamics of
library in the College
i. Understanding vital role of library in fabricating
academic environment
Role of higher education agencies
Role of college stakeholders
Conveying the value of Librarians in
academics and researchCopyrighted to Dr. Utpal Das, Dibrugarh
University

1. Institutionalizing concept of dynamics of
library in the College
ii. Establishing Library Framework
Constituting, legalizing and ascertaining
library norms & guidelines
Internalizing library usage into course
curriculum
Expanding role of Librarian into new related
domain Copyrighted to Dr. Utpal Das, Dibrugarh
University

2. Limited and shrinking budget
Unstructured Budget
Deficit Budget
Zero Fund Status
Non Reliability Fund Status
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3. Poor Planning and underrated
infrastructure
Lack of architectural design and poor civil works
Unergonomic and inferior quality infrastructure
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4. Increased R & D in the ICT sector and changing
technical requirements
i. Communicating about changes in the Library
• Print to Electronic Media
a. Changes in
procurement of
collection
• Change in information seeking
behavior
• Change in information retrieval
tools:
b. Changes in
Access
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University
• Digital Archiving or
Institutional Repositories
c. Changes in
Archiving
• Traditional to Modernd. Changes in
Library Services

b. i &ii. Change in information seeking behaviour
and retrieval tools
1
• card catalogues to OPAC, WEBOPAC
2
• indexing & abstracting journals to
citation tools with full text linking
3
• traditional ready references process to
RSS feed
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c. Changes in Archiving: Digital Archiving or
Institutional Repositories
Archiving of thesis,
dissertations, rare
books, articles, other
research outputs
Archiving necessary
college documents and
other activities digitally
recorded for storage
Retrieval of the archival
record is a part of digital
initiatives to be
undertaken by the
library.
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d. Changes in Library Services:
1
• Computerized circulation of documents using
various software
• OPAC & WEBOPAC
2
• Resource sharing through Internet
• Resource sharing through Consortia
3
• Link to Web resources through library portals &
electronic resources.
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5. Information explosion & Information overload and
its control
• “As much new information will be available in the next decade
as has been discovered in the whole human history.”
• “It is estimated that it would take seven centuries to read a
year’s chemical literature.”
• “There are 550 billion web-connected documents.”
• “Fifty thousand new book titles appear annually, with 1.5 million
books now in print from 20,000 different publishers.”
• “People could read 24 hours per day, 365 days per year and
never catch up with what is written.”
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• Jungwirth (2002) posits that around 1,000
books (beside journals) are published
internationally everyday and that the total of
all printed knowledge doubles every five
years. More information is estimated to have
been produced in the last 30 years than in the
previous 5,000.
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• Wurman and Bradford (1996) called it
“information tsunami”
They assert that
“There is a tsunami of data that is crashing onto the
beaches of the civilized world……..The tsunami is a well
of data – data produced at greater and greater speed,
greater and greater amounts to store in memory, on
tape, on disks, on paper, sent by streams of light faster,
more and more and more……….This tsunami of data
appears to be on the increase by the day, from the
developed world of Europe and America to Asia and
Africa” Copyrighted to Dr. Utpal Das, Dibrugarh
University

Effects of Information explosion in the Library
i. Effects on acquisition, cataloguing and classification, and
reference services in libraries
ii. Intervention and control on the effects of Information
explosion:
• subject specialization among librarians or taking help
of subject experts,
• library cooperation and outsourcing,
• use of ICT as strategies for intervention
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6. Increased pressure from the peer agencies:
• NAAC, NIRF, External Audit Survey, Academic
Audit, etc.
• The data for survey includes Collection
identification, governance, service hours, service
outlets, library service transactions, Resource
sharing, consortium, library development
transactions, services to other libraries in the
state, allied operations, staff, income,
expenditures, and electronic services and
information.
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Augmenting human resource in Libraries
i. Workloads
ii. Institutional sponsorship
iii. In-house programmes
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CHALLENGES OF COLLEGE LIBRARIES
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Challenges in the Digital Era
Fulfilling the Objectives/Role to perform and
Issues to mitigate bring challenges to the
performance
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a. AIM to fulfill best in the present scenario of
digital age
»Robust hybrid library
»User friendly libraries
»Collection and Collaborative Libraries
»Portal Libraries
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Why ICT Learning?
i. Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) : India 24%; 36.5% for
developing countries; 45% for Developed countries;
USA 84%; Russia 71%
ii. ICT Developed Index (IDI): As per 2016 Report, UN
ITU. Measure of Digital Devide and ICT
performance (Indicator for measuring the
information society) Rating to ICT categories:
Access, Use and Skills:
India (131) out of 167 countries; S. Korea (1); UK
(5); Japan (11); US (14)
iii. Why not Distance: Course material needs Paper of
4000 Tones/Annum
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Connectivity under NMEICT
1. Extending NKN Connectivity to all the
Universities (Horizontal Connectivity
2. Extending NKN Connectivity to all the Colleges
with the respective university (Vertical
Connectivity)
3. Providing WiFi to all the Colleges and
Universities for the faculty and students to get
access to NKN and Internet
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Status of Provision of NKN Connectivity
1. 110 Universities (Central and State), Deemed
university accredited by NAAC were provided
with NKN Connectivity
1. Out of 38,000 colleges, 22,029 colleges were
provided with the NKN Connectivity
MHRD bears 75% and the college bears 25% for
the Fund. For NE, the ratio is 90:10
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b. Crafting VISION for future libraries in digital
age
»Hybrid to virtual Library
»Collection and Collaborative to Creation
Libraries
»Library 3.0
»International Wireless Network
»Artificial Intelligence
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c. Flipside of future libraries in digital age:
»Closing the gap between biology &
technology
»Increased free time
»Increasing Entrepreneurial/Flex work
force/Project-based workforce
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Conclusion
The collection development in order to ensure long-
term access by the users and preservation and
retrieval of the same is regarded as the prime
function of libraries since ancient times, and thus the
“memory institution” justifies its existence as service
provider to the humanity and its long continuity in
the society. Therefore, the future librarians will
remain accountable to keep its pride intact
regardless of ‘changes in technology or ideology’
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Thank you
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