New inclusion from emerging fields in curriculum

Interdisciplinary activities are very much prominent in this department because of the nature of course contents of its BLISc and MLISc programmes. This initiative brings the students into contact with the knowledge generated in other disciplines and subsequently applied in LISc for its development. As a method of discovery, research sets no subject boundaries to this department. The research works carried out by different scholars are accelerated through cross-fertilisation of ideas drawn from Logic, Linguistics, Epistemology, Sociology, General Systems Theory, Electronics and Tele Communications, Environment Studies, Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, etc. The use of ideas and techniques developed in other subject fields facilitates the students and researchers to obtain new blends of knowledge and skills required in the design and development of tools and techniques of information processing along with the information systems and services of the future.

Syllabus up-gradation

The syllabi have been last modified in the year 2008. The curricula possess some special characteristics of their own, keeping in mind the very purpose of the University and to cater the need of the region. But, at the outset, the recommendations of the UGC-CDC Report and the report of the recently constituted National Knowledge Commission have been incorporated.

Research Areas / Fields

Ø       Multi lingual Knowledge Management using NLP

Ø       Semantic Web and Web Ontology

Ø       Content Management

Ø       Design of User Interface

Ø       Subaltern Librarianship

Ø       Multimedia applications in Library & Information Services

Ø       Digital Library Development

Ø       Scientometric and Webometric Study

Ø       Information Assimilation and Indigenous Knowledge System

Ø      Total Quality Management (TQM)

Research Projects Undertaken

1. Name of the Project   : “Design and Development of a

                                                  Source Vocabulary Control Device.”

Principal Investigator                 : Prof. Juran Krishna Sarkhel

Funding Agency                        : UGC

2. Name of the Project   : “Design and Development of a Depth

                                                  Classification Scheme on Anthropology.”

Principal Investigator                 : Dr. Pijush Kanti Jana

 Funding Agency                        : UGC

3. Name of the Project   : “Census of Newspaper Information Flow

                                                  and its Implication for Newspaper Information Retrieval.”

Principal Investigator                 : Dr. Goutam Maity

 Funding Agency                        : UGC

4. Name of the Project   : “Web-OPAC for CDS / ISIS and WINISIS

                                                  Databases: Development of a Mechanism for Internet,                                                                        intranet and Extranet Environment.”

 Principal Investigator                 : Dr. Partha Sarathi Mukhopadhyay

 Funding Agency                        : UGC

Seminars / Workshop and Special Lectures held

Organisation of National Seminars: 6

·         Scope of Retrieval for Assimilation (2008)

·         Access to Social Science Information (2007)

·         Use of Information Technology for Library Services (2005)

·         Information Support for Rural Development (2003)

·         Role of Classification and Cataloguing in Digital Era (2003)

·         New Dimension in Public Library Services (2001)

·         Designing WebPages for Libraries (2000)

·         Management of Internet Resources (1999)

·         IT Applications in Libraries and Information Centres (1998)

Organisation of Training Courses/Workshops: 3

• Development of OPAC through WINISIS (2003).
• CDS/ISIS: Bibliographic Databases (1997 & 1996) in collaboration with FIIT, IIT, Delhi.
• Library Automation (1996 & 1995) in collaboration with IASLIC and NISSAT

Collaborative Research:

Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute,       Bangalore

Highlights

Workshop        :

Students of this department are required to acquire the knowledge of different tools and techniques and their associated technologies relating to secondary information works and services ( SIWS ). The workshop attached to this department is a place providing opportunities to the students in acquiring the necessary skills through the repeated performance of the technical processing work, experimentation, observation and practice relating to their courses of study.