Monday, August 25, 2014

Lecture at Ranganathan Memorial Event by RRC 24 Aug 2014

Ranganathan Research Circle organised the above event on Subday at Pragati Maidan, Delhi. I attended the same after a very long time. I was invited to be one of the panelist. The hall was full to capacity. Subash Deshmukh, Librarian, GGSS Univ was the anchor.

The panel speech session started after homage to Dr SR Ranganathan, Dr Shadab Ansari Ex Head Deptt of LIS, Jamia was the Chairman. Besides me, other speakers included, Dr Daulat Jotwani, Librarian, IIT Bombay, Mr Babbar from JNU Library, Dr Srivastava from Supreme Court Library and Shubhash Deshmukh. Other present in the audience included Miss Heera Kapasi (Ex Libn American Centre), Dr Ratnakar, Dr Dhawan, Dr Sharma from (MIn of I&B), Dr Verma (Ex Patel Chest Library), Dr DK Kaushik,
I spoke on the challenges in Library administration and Management. About the cahllenged in acquiring E-journals and e-books . especially the event when Harper & Collins changed their terns asking libraries to buy again after 28(?) downloads.