Connecting Library, Classroom and Curriculum

Connecting Library,
Classroom and Curriculum
Dinesh K. Gupta,
Deptt. Of Lib. & Inf.. Sc..
Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University
Kota-324021
• dineshkumargupta@vmou.ac.in
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 Index

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 Cycle
Creation
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_r
esearch.html

http://www.library.illinois.edu/ugl/ho
wdoi/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

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. Uninteresting
Source: 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

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 PHILOSOPHY

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

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