ICDL 2013

1. Commonwealth Educational
Media Centre for Asia
Role of LIS Professionals in
Promoting Teaching,
Learning and Research
Sanjaya Mishra, Director, CEMCA
28 November 2013

2. Role of LIS Professionals
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Collect, organise and
disseminate
information
In a library, procure,
classify, index and
retrieve books/
information for the
users
Information
intermediary
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Collection building
Classifier
Cataloguer
Indexer
Reference Librarian
Serials Librarian
Others…

3. What we actually do?
 Bibliographic control (knowledge about
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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

4. Knowledge and Technology Explosion
 From Guttenberg to advent of IT
 Growth of knowledge has been exponential
 Technology paved the way for creation of
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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

5. 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

6. Changing Roles… Changing Times…
 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

7. Changing Roles… Changing Times…
 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)

8. Changing Roles… Changing Times…
 Consolidator
– Traditional role of information consolidation
– Use appropriate tools to create relevant surveys,
trend reports for the users
– Contribute to curriculum design and development

9. Role in Teaching, Learning and
Research
 Not limited to academic libraries
 Library as place of formal as well as informal
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learning
Support in continuous professional
development
Access to research literature on different
subject domains
Organised access to digital resources for
teaching and learning

10. Teaching and Learning Resources
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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

11. Research Resources
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Open Access: is the provision of free access to peerreviewed, 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

12. OA and OER: Technology and
Platforms
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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
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OER
– Wikipedia,
WikiEducator,
Wikivarsity
– Wikispaces, etc.
– Connexions, MIT
OpenCourseware, OLICMU, FlexiLearn,
OpenLearn
– Directory of OER

13. Thank You