G DEPARTMENT OF STUDIES IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

1. Name of the Department : Library and Information Science

2. Courses offered in the Department : Master Degree in Library and Information Science, M.Phil. and Ph.D

3. Self- financing courses (if offered by the Department) :NIL 4. Details of students strength in the Department:

Course SC/ST Gen. Total

M.LISc.

Male 9 24 33 Female 5 21 26 Total 14 45 59

5. Total number of teaching staff : 05

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Name of the teacher with Qualifications

Designation Specialization and Area of Research Workload Per Week 1. Dr. B.D. Kumbar M.A. MLISc. Ph.D. Professor & Chairman Management of Library, Information Systems and

Public Library System

12 hrs.

2. Dr. S. L. Sangam M.A. M.Lib. Sc. Ph.D.

Professor Information Technology, Information Retrieval , Scientometrics 12 hrs. 3. Dr. R.R. Naik M.Sc. M.L.I.Sc. Ph.D. PGDCA Associate

Professor Repackaging & Consn.Information Retrieval, 16 hrs. 4. Dr. G.S. Hadagali

M.L.I.Sc. PGDLAN, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Knowledge Society, Special Library system and Research Methods

22 hrs.

5. Dr. C. Krishnamurthy M.L.I.Sc.

Assistant Professor

Information Sources and Services, Classification

and Cataloguing

22 hrs.

6. Number of members of non- teaching staff of the Dept. at present:

Female Male Total Administrative 01 00 01 Technical staff --- --- ---

7. Has the Department collaboration/ linkages with other (national/international) institutions.

Yes No

If yes, mention the names of institutions. National

1. Indian Library Association (ILA)

2. Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science (IATLIS)

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4. Tata Institute of Social Science

5. Research and Development Organizations 6. Public Libraries

International

1. Free University, Germany 2. General University, Xiang, China 8. Details of research projects

9. Furnish the following (last 3 Years):

Publications National International

Number of research papers 81 10 Number of books 3 --- Awards and recognition for research --- ---

10. Does the Department provide any consultancy services?

Yes 3 No

If Yes

a) List the broad areas of consultancy services provided and the beneficiaries during the last three years.

i. Providing assistance in accessing the information irrespective of its location to the PG students, research scholars, executives, administration and even in the preparation of important documents for the University. ii. Guiding in the fair use of information, protecting intellectual property

rights, citation right and other social and legal issues. Creating awareness regarding citation standards, compiling bibliography, writing of technical reports, theses, dissertations etc.

iii. Developing library infrastructure, collection development, planning, services, and designing information products in different types of libraries. iv. Guiding the users to the proper use of different sources of information

(documentary sources, human and institutional sources).

v. Creating awareness regarding information literacy among the user community to become life long learners.

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Name of project Funding Agency

Amount Date of sanction

01 Applications of Scientometrics and Informetrics for India under UGC/SAP/DRS-I Programme

U.G.C. 35,50,000.00 01.04.2010

02 Performance Evaluation of Library and Information Professionals of Special Libraries in Karnataka State with special reference to Internet and WWW.

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vi. Delivery of series of lectures for the benefit of all students, research scholars and faculty members as and when the occasion is provided. vii. To provide advisory service and assistance to the institutions asking for

NAAC document preparation – planning and designing. viii. To participate in the NAAC Mock sessions.

ix. To assists the University in the crucial tasks of preparing the NAAC reports, AAA and plan review / proposal documents from time to time. x. To represent on all missions connected with information access,

distribution, Networking, retrieval and dissemination. b) Finances generated through consultancy services.

• The benefit in terms of money is invisible in all the above consultancy provided to the individuals, community, research group, university, other institutions and to the society as a whole.

• The reward is only in terms of recognition, appreciation and providing opportunity to serve the society.

11. Tick the areas of extension activities of the Department, if any

Community Development 3 Medical Camp

Health and hygiene awareness Blood donation camp 3 Adult education Environment awareness

AIDS awareness Any other (Briefly mention) Social work

12. Is counseling for students available?

If so, what are the tangible results? YES

1. Students are motivated to involve themselves in in-depth studies learning and developing attitude towards research as well as the profession.

2. Stimulating counseling sessions are regularly organized for developing awareness and competitive spirit in securing the good placements in information industry.

Past students of the department who are serving in the leading IT industries are given an opportunity to motivate the students to have a broad vision of the job and the career opportunities, linkages with industrial establishments, IT firms also helped in placement of students and as a result, considerable number of products of the department are inducted into the well known information industries.

I. Observations:

• Best department among the Departments in Social Science Faculty. • Excellent team spirit observed.

• Good infrastructure is available. • Good computer laboratory.

120 • UGC-SAP- DRS Phase I department.

• Every year the department is organising two conferences regularly.

• All faculties are having publications with good h-index and impact factor of journals.

II. Commendations:

• It is the only department in the social science, which is having 100 per cent English medium students.

• Golden Jubilee Programme chalked out and the International Conference is planned.

• Placement is 100 per cent.

• Special efforts have been taken by the faculty in conducting of NET/SET coaching.

• Well equipped computer laboratory and classrooms. III. Recommendations:

1. Department is having collaborations with national and international agencies but need to have MOU with them.

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