Intellectual property rights in library and information science

1. Library and Information
Science Education and Skills
in the Knowledge Era

2. Social Dynamics
•Agrarian Society
•Industrial Society
•Post-Industrial Society/
Information Society
•Knowledge Society

3. LIS Education: Changing
Paradigms
• Librarianship-Library and Information Science-
Information and Library Studies-Information
Studies
• Impact of Information and Society-Knowledge
Society
• Advances in Information and Communication
technology and Application in LICs and LIS
Education and Training
• Role of LIS Educators in Creating Appropriate
Human Resources

4. Recent Trends and Developments
• Primary Focus on Professional Knowledge and Skills
(Technology, Management and Communication)
• Library Professionals to Information Professionals
• Traditional Library to Digital Library
• Library Cooperation to Resource Sharing
Networks/Consortia
• Collection Development to Content Development
• Conventional Education to Web-Based Education
• Information Society-Knowledge Society
• Establishment of Knowledge Commission

5. Library Professionals to
Information Professionals
• Impact of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT)
• Information Management Skills( Library
Automation, Networking, Design and
Development of Information System,
Networking, Internet, Digitization, Content
Development
• Competencies of Information Professionals
(Managing and Organizing Information
Resources and Services, Applying Information
Tools and Technologies)

6. Traditional Library –
Digital Library
• Traditional Library-Automated Library-
Electronic Library-Digital Library
• Growth, Development and Popularity of
Internet Library( Access, Content and
Cost)
• Digital Library Initiatives in India
(Parliament, INSA, IIT,NISCAIR)

7. Library Cooperation to Resource
Sharing Networks/Consortia
• Library Cooperation-Library Networks-Library
Consortia
• INFLIBNET,DELNET and Many Other Local
Library Networks
• Library Consortia-UGC-Infonet E-Journal
Consortium, INDEST,NCSI,HELNET

8. Collection Development - Content
Development
• Acquisition-Collection Development-Information
Resource Development Cotent Development
• Content Development in Electronic Development
• Formats and Standards
• Legal Issues

9. Conventional Education - Web-
Based Education
• Conventional Learning-Web Based Learning/E-
Learning
• E-learning Provides:
-increasing access to learning resources
-interactive teaching and learning environment
-increasing student convenience
-reducing educational delivery cost
-developing a scholarship of web based
pedagogy
-providing 21st
century learning environment

10. Information Society-Knowledge
Society
• Information Society- “Information”
• Knowledge Society “Information and Knowledge”
• Knowledge Management-Collect, Organize and
Disseminate Information and Knowledge
• UN Initiative in World Submit on “Information Society”
with emphasis on “Connect the World by 2015”
• International Telecommunication Union recognized
India’s mission 2007:Every Village a Knowledge Center
as a Flagship of the “Connect the World Movement”

11. Establishment of Knowledge
Commission
• Establishment of Knowledge Commission in
India
• Emphasis on “Brain Power’-More Powerful than
Military and Economic Power of a Nation
• India Recognizes Building Knowledge Economy
as “Knowledge Society”-The only way to
challenges of “Globalization and 21st
Century”
• Role of Public Libraries as “Knowledge Centers”

12. Information and Knowledge
Society: LIS Perspective
A. Information Society:
• Information Society: Attributes, Characteristics
& Components.
• Information Infrastructure: National, Global
• Information Economics, Economics of
Information, Information as Economic
Resource.
• National Information Policy
• Information Literacy.
• Right to Information.

13. B. Knowledge Society:
• Definition, Characteristics and Components.
• Knowledge Economy and Knowledge Industry
• Knowledge Management
• National Knowledge Commission.
• Libraries as Gateways to Knowledge.
• Towards a Knowledge Society and Role of
Knowledge Professionals.

14. C. Trends and Developments:
• Role of Information in Planning, Decision
Making, Innovations and National Development.
• Impact of Information and Knowledge Society on
Education, Training and Research
• Conventional Vs Web Based Learning.
• Recent Trends and Developments in LIS
Education and Research.
• Impact of ICT on Societal and National
Development.

15. d) Library and Information Management
Technology:
• Resource Management and Development:
Human, Financial and E-Resources
• Resource Mobilization and Outsourcing.
• Information Marketing.
• Disaster Management.
• Digital Information Resources Management.

16. E. Library Networks and Consortia
• Networks and Networking: Types,
Hardware/Software Requirements.
• Data Networks and Library & Information
Networks.
• Networked Based Library and Information
Services
• Library Consortia.
• Management of Library and Information
Networks and Consortia.

17. F. Digitization
• Digitization: Need, Methods and Equipments.
• Digital Library: Components, Digital Library
Initiatives in India, Open Access Initiative
• Library Website: Design and Maintenance.
• Content Development: Concept, Scope, Content
Organization, Content Analysis, Web Based
Content Development: HTML, XML, HTTP, PDF,
Acrobat.
• Legal Issues: Copyright and Intellectual Property
Rights in Electronic Environment.

18. Developing Skills and
Competencies
• understand and interpret the contexts in which
information is originated, stored, organised,
retrieved, disseminated and used;
• comprehend the legal and policy issues that are
associated with,
• visualise future directions and prepare a
roadmap to provide the most effective and
efficient library and information services to the
users in the 21st century

19. Skills and Competencies :Core
Areas
(i) Information seeking
• understand and investigate how information is
effectively sought and utilised;
• identify and investigate information needs and
information seeking behaviour of the users
community

20. (ii) Information infrastructure
• understand the importance of information
architecture to determine the structure, design
and flows of information;
• forecast, plan, facilitate and evaluate appropriate
resource management to library and information
services.
(iii) Information organisation
• enable information access and use through
systematic and user-centred description,
categorisation, storage, preservation and
retrieval.

21. iv) Information access
• provide and promote free and equitable access
to information and client services;
• facilitate the acquisition, licensing or creation of
information in a range of media and formats.
(v) Information services, sources and products
• design and deliver customised information
services and products;
• assess the value and effectiveness of library and
information facilities, products and services;

22. • market library and information services;
• identify and evaluate information services,
sources and products to determine their
relevance to the information needs of users;
• use research skills to provide appropriate
information to clients.
(vi) Information literacy
• understand the need to develop information
skills of the user community;
• facilitate the development of information literacy
and the ability to critically evaluate information.

23. Generic skills
• effective communication skills;
• professional ethical standards and social
responsibility;
• project management skills;
• critical, reflective, and creative thinking;
• problem-solving skills;
• ability to build partnerships and alliances;(Public
Private Partnership)
• effective team relationship skills;
• self management skills;
• a commitment to life-long learning;
• relevant information and communications
technology and technology application skills;
• appropriate information literacy skills.

24. Issues Before LIS Educators
• Academic, Management, Technological
and Legal
• Balancing Education and Practice,
Research
• Need for National Accreditation Agency
• Internationalization of Education

25. Academic-Management-
Technological- Legal Issues
• Academic-Need based Curriculum and Syllabus
Enriching Professional Knowledge
• Management-Scientific Management and skills
associated, Management of new Technology
and Communication Skills
• Technological-Competency to Handle
Sophisticated Technology in an automated,
Networked and Virtual environment
• Legal-Copy Right/IPR, Cyber Laws

26. Balancing Education and Practice,
Research
• LIS Educators, Researchers and
Practitioners to identify Thrust Areas of
Education and Research
• Provide Future Direction Keeping in view
Potential Market Demand
• Coordination among the Three Groups

27. Need for National Accreditation
Agency
• National Accreditation Agency for Quality
Assurance and Achieve Standards of Excellence
• Allowing LIS Courses and Degree Holders at par
with International Standard
• Presently in India-Medical Council (Medical
education), Bar Council (Legal education),
AICTE (Technical education), AICTE (Teacher
Education)
• Need for National Council in LIS Education

28. Internationalization of Education
• Reorienting LIS Professionals and Create
competition in the National/Global Market
• Radical Change in LIS Curriculum and
syllabus keeping in view the need of
Information Workforce in the
National/Global Market

29. Challenges Before LIS Educators
• Need Based Curriculum
• Competent Faculty
• Instructional Technology Support
• Learning Resources (Print –Electronic and
Web based)
• Continuing Education Programs
• System of Continuous Evaluation
• Adequate Financial Support

30. Role of LIS Educators
• To cope up with Issues and Challenges as
Professional Obligation
• Balancing “Tradition and Technology”
• Creativity, innovations in Teaching,
Learning and Research lie with Educators
in the Transfer of Knowledge
• Ability or Capacity to Use and Exploit E-
Resources and Its Management

31. Conclusion
• 21st
Century compelled Library professionals to
Information Professionals through “Education for
Information”
• International initiatives and Developments forced the
Developing Countries to keep pace with such
Developments
• LIS Schools and Educators must be committed to act as
qualitative Problem Solvers and Effective Information
Managers
• Possessing broad range of capabilities to meet the
highest demand in the information sectors(academic,
corporate, government) to meet the challenges in new
millennium.
• Quality Assurance is not the Destination but a journey to
continuously improve.

32. Thank You All
Mr. Umrav Singh
Librarian
Department of Library: (SAIMS Group), Indore)
(M.P.)
Email: umravsingh2@gmail.com
Mobile No. 9827542731