IASLIC NEWSLETTER

Indian Association for Special

Libraries and Information Centres

APRIL, 2019 A Monthly Newsletter Published by IASLIC

Editor
IASLIC ACTIVITIES
Prof. Amitabha Chatterjee
IASLIC 32nd All India Conference, 2019
December 3 - 5, 2019
Associate Editor:
Organized by
Dr. Gurudas Ghosh Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi
Assistant Editor: Main Theme - Future of Library and Information Profession in India.
Shri Partha Sarathi Das SIG 1 - Digital Archiving.
SIG 2 - Performance Appraisal of Libraries / Information Centers.
(Facets will be published later)
Editorial Board Organizing Secretary: C Beena, University Librarian
(Ph: 0484-2575715, 2575092; E-mail: ul@cusat.ac.in)
Prof. K P Majumder General Secretary, IASLIC: Sajal Kanti Goswami (Ph: 9433426495)
Prof. P K Panigrahi
IASLIC Ph: 033-2362-9651; E-mail: iaslic.india@gmail.com

CONFERENCES / SEMINARS / WORKSHOPS

Quote of the Month
National
Workshop on Koha
There is more treasure in Automotive Research Association of India, in association with First Ray Consultancy, Pune,
books than in all the pirates' is organizing a KOHA workshop for library professionals, faculty, students and system
loot on Treasure Island. administrators at ARAI-FID, in the MIDC Chakan, Pune, during April 8 - 9, 2019. For details
visit: https://cms.araiindia.com/MediaFiles/Koha_1272.pdf
- Walt Disney,
Seminar on Role of Libraries
Pioneer of American
Animation Industry Kala Nidhi Division of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, in
collaboration with Asian Library Association, is organizing a Seminar on 'Role of Libraries
in Socio, Cultural and Economic Development: An Emerging Perspective' on April 12,
Appeal to Readers 2019. For details email to rcgaur66@gmail.com or gaur@ignca.nic.in
Conference on Digital Age IM
News from different regions / Delhi Library Association and Satija Research Foundation for Library and Information
states are solicited from IASLIC Science are jointly organizing an International Conference '3rd DLA-SRFLIS Summit 2019'
members for inclusion in the on 'Digital Age Strategies in Information Management for Sustainable Librarianship' during
newsletter. Send such news to the
April 19 - 20, 2019 in the North Campus, University of Delhi, Delhi. For details visit:
Editor.
www.srflisindia.org/summit2019/
Email: chatterjeeamitabha@yahoo.co.in
Conference on Ethical Research
Federation of Health Science Library Associations and Rajasthani Medical Library
Association, in collaboration with IIHMR University, Jaipur, are organizing a National
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Conference on 'Ethical Research and Effective Writings' Data Mining to Transform Knowledge Management and
during April 20 - 21, 2019. For details visit: Information Services in Libraries and Information
http://fhsla2018.org/events or http://rmla2017.org/events Organizations.
Workshop on Research Data Analysis IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace
INFLIBNET is organizing a National Workshop on Learning Section: The theme for open session is Navigating
'Research Data and Statistical Analysis using R Your Own Professional Development: Effective Use of the
Programming' during May 6 - 11, 2019. For details visit: 2016 IFLA Guidelines for Continuing Professional
https://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ Development.

International IFLA Library and Research Services for Parliaments

Section: The theme for open session is Informing dialogue,
World Library and Information Congress enabling change.
Themes for discussion in the meetings/workshops of some IFLA Art Libraries & Subject Analysis and Access Sections:
more IFLA sections, SIGs and standing committees to be The theme for open session is Libraries, archives and
held before, during and after the World Library and museums in dialogue: Improving access to complementary
Information Congress: 85th IFLA General Conference and collections.
Assembly have since been announced. These are mentioned
below: IFLA Asia and Oceania Section: The theme for open session
is Libraries: Create Spaces - Inspire Dialogue - Empower
IFLA Information Literacy Section, in partnership with Community"
Library Theory and Research Section: The theme for open
session is Information Literacy in Context: Research IFLA Audio-visual and Multimedia Section, joint with
Informing Practice and Practice Informing Research. Preservation and Conservation Section and Strategic
Programme on Preservation and Conservation (PAC): The
IFLA Developing Countries Special Interest Group: The theme for open session is It's good to preserve, it's even better
theme of the satellite meeting to be held at Deutsche to share: Sound and visual cultural heritage in local
National Bibliothek - German National Library, Frankfurt, communities.
Germany, during August 22 - 23, 2019, is Data intelligence
in libraries: the actual and artificial perspectives. IFLA Education and Training Section: The theme for open
session is LIS Education - Role in Libraries - Dialogue for
IFLA Cataloguing Section: The theme for the open session Change.
is The Data Dialogue: metadata collaboration in a
changing world. IFLA Latin America and Caribbean Section: The theme for
open session is Innovating in times of change: How libraries
IFLA Statistics and Evaluation Section: The theme for the in Latin America respond to changes in education,
satellite meeting to be held on August 22, 2019, at the infrastructure, services, etc.
University of Piraeus in Piraeus, Greece, is 'More than
numbers: Implementing new assessment methods for IFLA Law Libraries Section: The theme for open session is
libraries'. Access to the Law of the Countries of the World for
Vulnerable Communities.
IFLA Government Libraries and Library and Research
Services for Parliaments: The theme for short presentation IFLA LGBTQ Users Special Interest Group: The theme for
is Libraries: dialogue for change - From gatekeeping to open session is Let's talk about change: How libraries and
advocacy. LGBTQ communities are challenging stereotypes.

IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section, joint with Big IFLA LIS Education in Developing Countries Special Interest
Data Special Interest Group: The theme for the open Group: The theme for open session is LIS Education in
session is Data challenges in libraries. Developing Countries: Challenges and Trends.

IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section joint with IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group, joint with
Rare Books and Special Collections Section and Strategic Management and Marketing Section: The theme for open
Programme on Preservation and Conservation (PAC): The session is Library love stories.
theme for open session is Forward thinking to lessen the IFLA News Media Section, joint with Digital Humanities -
effects of disasters of all types, weather and/or man-made. Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group: The theme for
IFLA Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Special open session is Success Stories and Challenges: News Media
Interest Group: The theme for open session is Let's Change Re-used in Research and by the General Public.
Now: Libraries Driving Sustainability. IFLA Rare Books & Special Collections Section: The theme
IFLA Knowledge Management Section, in cooperation with for open session is The migration of books: Cultural heritage
the Information Technology Section and the Big Data SIG: (objects) and ideas on the move.
The theme for open session is Artificial Intelligence and IFLA Reference & Information Services Section: The theme
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for open session is Debating the Impact and Reach of Conference on Open Repositories
Reference & Information Services. The 14th International Conference on Open Repositories
IFLA School Libraries Section, joint with Statistics and 'OR2019: All the User Needs' will be held during June 10 -
Evaluation Section: The theme for open session is Data and 13, 2019 in Hamburg, Germany. For details visit:
School Libraries. http://or2019.net/registration/
IFLA Science & Technology Libraries Section, joint with Conference on LIS
Reference & Information Services Section and the Audio The 2019 International Conference on Library and
Visual & Multimedia Section: The theme for open session is Information Science (ICLIS) will be held in Taipei, Taiwan,
Mo v ing b e yo n d tra d ition a l co lle ction s & se r vice s : on during July 12 - 13, 2019. The theme of the conference is
Supporting science in innovative ways. 'Linking, Informing, and Sharing'. For details visit:
IFLA Serials and other Continuing Resources Section, joint https://iclis-2019.conf.tw/site/page.aspx?Pid=901&sid=
with Committee on Standards: The theme for open session is 1271&lang=en
Standards Relating to Serials, Continuing Resources and Conference on Webometrics
Scholarly Communications.
The15 th International Conference on Webometrics,
IFLA Women, Information, & Libraries Special Interest Informetrics and Scientometrics (WIS) and 20th COLLNET
Group, in partnership with Libraries without Borders: The Meeting will be held during November 5 - 8, 2019 at Dalian,
theme for open session is Building Best Practices to serve China. For details visit: http://collnet2019.dlut.edu.cn/
Women & Girls. meeting/index_en.asp?id=2676)
Conference on Technology in Libraries International CALIBER
The Department of Library and Information Science, The 12th International CALIBER is going to be organized by
Alagappa University, is organizing an International KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, during
Conference on 'Enhancement of Technology and Innovations November 28 - 30, 2019. The theme is 'Library 2030:
in Contemporary Libraries (ICETICL - 2019)' during April Moving Towards Smart Technologies, Services and
24 - 25, 2019. For details visit: http://www.iceticl2019.in Resources'. For details visit: https://caliber.inflibnet.ac.in/
Conference on Business Information
An International Conference on 'Economics and Business MISCELLANEOUS NEWS
Information' will be held in Berlin during May 6 - 7, 2019. For
details visit: https://www.inconecss.eu/ IFLA Short Film Award
Conference on Information Literacy IFLA Section on Metropolitan Libraries has announced the
4th IFLA Metropolitan Libraries Short Film Award for
The Conference on 'Learning Information Literacy across the
2019, sponsored by the Free Library of Philadelphia and
Globe' will be held in Frankfurt, Germany, on May 10, 2019.
Pikes Peak Library District. The award is part of A Corto di
For details visit: https://informationliteracy.eu/conference/
libri, a contest for short films about libraries and librarians,
Web Conference organized by Associatione Italiana Biblioteche (AIB). The
The Web Conference 2019 (WWW 2019) will be held in San contest has three Sections (Fiction, Documentary and
Francisco, USA, during May 13 - 17, 2019. For details visit: Advertising). The IFLA Metropolitan Libraries Short Film
https://www2019.thewebconf.org/ Award is given to the best short film about public libraries in
large cities and metropolitan areas, among all the submitted
Workshop on Knowledge Graph films. Everyone, as an individual or an institution, is eligible
The First International Workshop on Knowledge Graph to apply. The winner of the IFLA Metropolitan Libraries
Technology and Applications has been co-located with Short Film Award will receive: (1) if a library, € 1,000 as a
WWW2019. It will be held on May 13, 2019. For details visit: contribution to travel expenses to the IFLA World Library
https://datainnovation.soic.indiana.edu/www2019_kgta/ind and Information Congress in Athens, Greece (August 24-30,
ex.html 2019); (2) if an individual film-maker, € 1,000 in film-
Workshop on Opening of Book making equipment. The winner will be announced and
awarded at the IFLA World Library and Information
HIRMEOS Workshop on 'Shaping new ways to open the Congress in Athens. Applications must be submitted before
book' will be held in the context of the ELPUB conference in April 28, 2019 to the following email: acortodilibri
Marseille (Palais du Pharo) on June 2, 2019. For details visit: @gmail.com. For more details visit: https://www.
https://www.hirmeos.eu/2019/03/01/shaping-new-ways-to- ifla.org/node/92057
open-the-book-a-workshop-of-the-hirmeos-project-2-june-
2019-marseille/ India Joining Open Access Initiative
The Indian government's principal science adviser says the
country is joining Plan S, a bold initiative launched last year
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by a group of European funders to ensure that, by 2020, Book Returned after 27,000 days
taxpayer-funded research results are made immediately Mora Gregg, a retired librarian in Toronto, was simply
open, according to a report by Enna Kelly on dusting a bookshelf in her one-bedroom apartment one day
sciencebusiness.net website. Krishnaswamy Vijay in January last when she happened to come upon an item she
Raghavan, a molecular biologist who has been advising had been hanging on to for a bit longer, according to a story
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government for almost a by Nora Krug in The Washington Post. Slipped behind other
year, outlined the benefits of Plan S in a series of tweets books was a lovingly worn copy of the 1929 children's book
recently. “Access, dissemination [and] use of knowledge “The Postman,” by Charlotte Kuh. Gregg's mother had
should be free; allowing all to build on research funded by the checked it out of a Silver Spring, Md., library in 1946, when
Indian government,” Vijay Raghavan wrote. His support Gregg was a toddler. Nearly 27,000 days past its due date,
gives fresh momentum to the controversial Plan S, which has Gregg, now 75, decided to return it. “I really love that book,”
received backing from the European Research Council and she said by phone. Though the words “Property of Silver
13 national funding bodies, including agencies in France, the Spring Library” are stamped on its inside cover, this “was
Netherlands and the UK. The two large philanthropic the first time it came to my consciousness that it was
funders, Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates overdue,” she said. “I never thought about it, or if I had, I
Foundation, are also on board. Others around the world are was just too busy to do anything about it.” This time she did.
considering whether to join the scheme that is simultaneously She sent the book, along with an apologetic note, back to
hailed for knocking down paywalls and criticized as an attack Silver Spring. “I was just expecting a thank-you note,”
on academic freedom. For full report visit: Gregg said. She got a lot more than that. News of the book's
https://sciencebusiness.net/news/indias-science-adviser- return travelled quickly across the Web, and Gregg has been
backs-bold-plan-tear-down-journal-paywalls fielding calls from the media since. “All I did was return an
Digital Story Books in Mother Tongue overdue book!” said Gregg, who was relieved to learn that
she was not responsible for a fine as Montgomery County
Imagine a library with books for children in languages
does not collect overdue fees on children's books. For full
ranging from Kannada, Tamil and Marathi to Marwari,
report visit: https://www.washingtonpost.com/
Siberian and Bundelkhandi. In an attempt to bring in
entertainment/books/meet-the-woman-who-took-73-years-
diversity into the reading habits of children, encourage
to-return-a-library-book--and-wasnt-fined/2019/02/
reading in their mother tongue, and aid learning in formal
1 2 / b e a f 8 3 8 c - 2 e d 6 - 11 e 9 - 8 1 3 a - 0 a b 2 f 1 7 e 3 0 5 b _
classrooms, digital 'hyperlocal libraries' are offering content
story.html?utm_term=.a1a83c5d9e87
that is free, downloadable, and reusable, according to a story
by K C Deepika published in The Hindu. One such open Draft IT Rules
source digital platform is StoryWeaver from Pratham Books Amid concerns over Central government's powers to snoop
that offers over 18 lakh reads in 148 languages. Under its into computers, the Electronics and IT Ministry has come
'Freedom to Read 2019' campaign, 11 organizations and eight out with draft IT rules focused on social media platforms,
individuals were chosen to help build hyperlocal digital according to a post by Paul in twittertitter.com website.
libraries in 30 languages, including 14 'underserved "The instances of misuse of social media by criminals and
languages' such as Korku, Marwari, Pawari and Santaki. anti-national elements have brought new challenges to the
Launch of the gateway to this material coincided with 'Law Enforcement Agencies' (LEA)," the ministry said in a
International Mother Language Day recently. Speaking to statement. "These include inducement for recruitment of
The Hindu, Suzanne Singh, Chairperson, Pratham Books terrorists, circulation of obscene content, spread of
cited a new UNESCO report on mother tongue literacy, disharmony, incitement of violence, public order, fake
which states that around 40% of the global population has no news, etc. A number of lynching incidents were reported in
access to education in a language they speak or understand, 2018 mostly alleged to be because of fake news or rumours
and the 2016 Global Education Monitoring report, which being circulated through 'WhatsApp and other Social
mentions that imposing a dominant language through a Media' sites." Accordingly, the ministry published the draft
school system in multi-ethnic societies is a 'source of rules for public consultation which mandate platforms to
grievance linked to wider issues of social and cultural publish rules, regulation and privacy policy for users to
inequality'. “In India and other parts of the world, there is a access their services. "The intermediary shall publish the
yawning gap between the language spoken at home and the rules and regulations, privacy policy and user agreement for
medium of instruction at school. This can lead to children access or usage of the intermediary's computer resource by
feeling alienated and reading at lower grade levels. This any person," the draft rules said. The rules laid out by the
disengagement with the learning process can even cause social media platforms should advise the users against
children to drop out of school altogether,” she said, adding displaying or uploading any information which is "grossly
that the digital storybooks provide a link between the harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene,
language spoken at home and the medium of instruction in pornographic, pedophilic, libelous, invasive of another's
school. For more details visit: https://www.thehindu.Com/ privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable,
news/cities/bangalore/stories-in-your-mother-tongue/ disparaging, relating or encouraging money laundering or
article26323685.ece
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gambling." Further, the rules also must forbid users from as doctors in various parts of the state, according to a story
posting content which "threatens the unity, integrity, published in The Times of India. At present, this village has
defence, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations 19 MBBS doctors, three homeo doctors, two dentists, five
with foreign states, or public order, or causes incitement to ayurveda doctors and one Siddha doctor. Over 13 youths are
the commission of any cognizable offence or prevents now studying medicine and seven students passed MBBS
investigation of any offence or is insulting any other recently. Villagers have Kavunkal Grandhashala and
nation". Any information which "threatens critical Vayanasala to thank for this wonderful change. Gopi (23)
information infrastructure" should also be advised against said, seniors and the library were her inspiration. “My
by the social media platform, it said. For full report visit: brother Arjun is doing PG in pediatrics at Thiruvanthapuram
https://www.twittertitters.com/meity-issues-draft-it-rules- Medical College. My father and mother are working in
for-social-media-messaging-platforms-up-for-public- government firms. They believe that the village library
consultation/ helped them secure a base early in life to succeed. There is
Indian Sign Language Dictionary inspiration all around us in the form of successful persons”,
she said. Assistant manager at United India Insurance
The Goa disability sector recently welcomed the Union Company in Mullackal (Alappuzha) T C Gopi said the
Ministry for Social Justice and Empowerment initiative to library became a platform for students to prepare for various
launch the 2nd Edition of Indian Sign Language (ISL) public exams by 1976. “My friends (M V Subash, V Ashokan
Dictionary, says a report by Prakash Kamat in The Hindu. and M V Suresh) and I would prepare for public exams.
The dictionary has been brought out by Indian Sign Every night, we would reach the library with small
Language Research and Training Centre (ISLRTC) under notebooks and do combined studies for PSC exams. All of us
Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities got government jobs, Ashokan retired as deputy director of
(DEPwD). At the same time, the stakeholders said that the education from Alappuzha, Subash stepped down as
dictionary needed to be distributed across at least the assistant education officer and Suresh retired from his job as
government nodal departments/agencies meant for the KSFE manager”, he said. The next generation just followed
Persons with disability (PswD), other government suit and this library paved the way for over 600 government
department offices and agencies across the country, so that employees. For full story visit: https://timesofindia.
persons with hearing and speech impairment could Indiatimes.com/city/kochi/their-library-paved-the-way-to-
communicate and get responses for their issues and success/articleshow/68605051.cms
problems when they would approach the authorities. The
first edition of the dictionary with 3000 words was launched Private Agencies to Manage Public Libraries
on March 31 last year. With the second edition, the For the first time in the state of Karnataka, the Department of
dictionary now has 6000 words under the categories of Public Libraries has decided to hand over the management of
academic, legal, medical, technical and everyday terms. public libraries to private agencies, says a report in The
The ISL Dictionary is also available on ISLRTC's YouTube Times of India. As a pilot project, the department had decided
channel. Around 1000 videos have been uploaded already. to privatize one city central library in Mysuru city and if it is a
The dictionary is intended to serve as a resource for ISL success, more libraries will be handed over to private
teachers, ISL learners, teachers of the hearing impaired, agencies. Despite the severe staff crunch, the Department of
interpreters, parents of hearing-impaired children, and Public Libraries runs 17 branch libraries, 13 service centre
researchers. Hearing-impaired persons will benefit from libraries, including libraries at Karnataka State Reserve
this dictionary since they can look up information about a Police, Central Armed Reserve Force, District Armed
particular sign and its English/Hindi equivalents. It has Reserve Force and Mysuru Central Prison, six study centres,
been prepared with the involvement of the hearing impaired E-library, children's library and mobile library in the city.
community, by giving due consideration to their Librarian, City Central Library and Deputy Director,
suggestions and understanding. The videos contain the sign, Department of Public Libraries B Manjunath said that due to
the English term for the sign and pictures where relevant. A pressure from public representatives, civic agencies
word list is also given with the English and Hindi construct library buildings. “While civic agencies have yet to
equivalents of the signs. For details visit: pay Rs. 19 crore pending dues from library cess to the
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other- department, by constructing new libraries and handing over
states/indian-sign-language-dictionary-must-be-made- buildings to the department for service has burdened staff.
liberally-available/article26391885.ece The civic agencies don't take the consent or opinion of the
A Library's Success Story department before constructing library buildings. Therefore,
it was decided to hand over the libraries to private agencies
While crime and unemployment have become rampant for management”, he said. Manjunath further said that the
among youths in the country, a small village in Alappuzha is department would provide the library building, furniture,
weaving a different kind of success story. Kavunkal, which books and other equipment and agencies would maintain the
has contributed over 600 government employees, is now library. For full report visit: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.
being called 'doctors' village' as over 30 natives are working Com/city/mysuru/private-agency-to-manage-public-
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library-in-mysuru/articles how/68348949.cms A repository of bigger size is data lake. James Dixon,

founder and Chief Technology Officer of Pentaho
SPECIAL FEATURE Corporation of USA, is credited with coining the term Data
Lake to contrast it with data mart. He describes a data mart (a
In the Era of Data Deluge subset of a data warehouse) as akin to a bottle of water…
“cleansed, packaged and structured for easy consumption”,
We are now in the age of Big Data. Data is being generated while a data lake is more like a body of water in its natural
at unprecedented rates today. Apart from traditional data state. Data flows from the streams (the source systems) to the
sources, there are numerous digital data sources like lake. Users have access to the lake to examine, take samples
Google trends, social media, data coming from satellites, or dive in. Data lake is thus a repository that allows storing of
etc. According to an IBM study, Internet of Things, all types of data - structured, semi-structured and un-
machine learning, and the digitization of health care will structured or raw data. Data lakes are designed for big data
soon be generating millions of gigabytes of data per analytics. Since big data volumes and usage keep growing
second. Self-driving cars, too, are soon expected to enter with big data that are increasing in breadth, depth and
this realm with the generation of 350 MB of data per second inclusivity, data lake sizes obviously keep growing too,
by 2020. The vast data sets that are being recorded and according to 2018 Big Data Trends and Challenges Report,
analysed on a regular basis have led to the term 'big data' sponsored by Qubole, a data activation company, and
becoming ubiquitous in recent years. But such huge prepared by Dimensional Research, an independent market
quantity of data cannot always be properly managed. When research company. A well managed data lake is known as
the amount of new data generated surpasses the limit of data reservoir, while a data lake that has becomes either
institutions to manage it, and makes it difficult to analyse it inaccessible to its intended users or remains of little value is
and deduce any useful conclusions from it, is known as called data swamp. Appropriate measures are needed to stop
data deluge. The phenomenon is also sometimes called a data lake form transforming into a data swamp.
data flood. The concept of 'data deluge' is obviously similar
to the concept of 'information explosion' or 'information In recent years, another concept has come into fore in the data
overload'. world - data ocean. A 'data ocean' is a collection of un-
modelled data from the entire business, from every possible
The huge quantity of data that are generated needs to be put area, kept in a single repository, normally in the Hadoop
in some repositories. But the repositories of this data are format. The size of a data ocean is vast, but with
not always structured and coherent. In fact, the amount of improvements in analytics technology, it is becoming ever
unknown and unused data being collected has led to the easier to “fish” for whatever data one needs from the ocean.
coining of another new term - dark data. According to the
same IBM study, 80 per cent of all data collected today is Finding required data from data lakes is not an easy job. It
'dark', that is, it is inactive and incoherent. In another study, needs specialized skill. In USA data librarians having such
International Data Corporation of USA has predicted that skill serve as data navigators or data guides to the users. In
the digital universe will expand to 44 zettabytes (or 44 India some time back an advertisement appeared for a data
trillion gigabytes) by 2020, and this poses a few critical librarian in a healthcare company in Bengaluru, in which
problems. The biggest challenge is posed by the large bachelor’s degree in medical, clinical, engineering or related
volume of unstructured data text, video, images, and audio field was mentioned as the required qualification and not any
that will not fit into the columns and rows in a relational degree in library and information science possibly because
database. Obtained in the form of MS Office documents, no LIS school presently has any specialization like data
instant messages, emails, social media posts, etc., this 'dark librarianship in its courses. Time has come to think about
data' is not only difficult to analyse, but causes storage introducing courses on data librarianship to meet the needs
problems as well. of industries, which heavily depend of data of various kinds,
and to stop infiltration of people from other disciplines into
There are several options for storing data, but all are not fit library and information profession.
to store big data. There are various types of data stores or
repositories having different storage capacities and [Sources: Naveen Joshi: Data deluge and how to avoid it,
characteristics. The data repository of smallest size is https://www.allerin.com/blog/data-deluge-and-how-to-
possibly data silo. A data silo is a repository of fixed data avoid-it; Tarun Mittal: Data deluge - the 'dark' side of big
that remains under the control of one department and is data, https://yourstory.com/2017/04/dark-side-big-data;
isolated from the rest of the organization, much like grain in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_lake; https://www.
a farm silo is closed off from outside elements. On the other informationweek.com/cloud/software-as-a-service/ibm-
hand data warehouse is a central data repository of an cognitive-colloquium-spotlights-uncovering-dark-data/d/d-
organization. It contains integrated data obtained from one id/1322647; https://wisdomschema.com/2015/12/data-
or more disparate sources. A data warehouse stores current reservoir-and-data-lakes/; https://www.globenewswire.
and historical data which are used for creating trending Com/news-release/2018/09 /11/1569178/0/en/Qubole-
reports for senior management. Announces-2018-Big-Data-Trends-and-Challenges-
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Report.html; https://www.i-scoop.eu/big-data-action-
v a l u e - c o n t e x t / d a t a - l a k e s / ; h t t p s : / / w w w. b l u e - PERSONALIA
granite.com/blog/bid/402596/top-five-differences-
between-data-lakes-and-data-warehouses; Prof. Amitabha Chatterjee, former Professor & Head,
http://www.bigcloud.io/are-you-fishing-in-big-data- Department of Library & Information Science, Jadavpur
oceans/; http://www.b-eye-network.com/blogs/vanderlans/
University, Kolkata, has been honoured with ILA-Dr. P S G
archives/2014/05/drowning_in_dat.php]
Kumar Lifetime Achievement Award, 2018. The award was
handed over to him at the inaugural function of 64th All India
NEW LIS LITERATURE Conference of Indian Library Association, held on March 14,
2019, at Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Viswavidyalaya, Indore.
[Note: Publishers of books enlisted here and/or any new A veteran teacher and writer on LIS, Prof. Chatterjee had
books in LIS may send copies of such books to the Editor,
been earlier awarded IATLIS-Motiwale Best LIS Teacher
IASLIC Bulletin, for review]
Award, 2001 of IATLIS; Prof. Prabir Roychoudhury and
Indian Smt. Amita Roychoudhury Best LIS Teacher Award, 2011 of
1. GOSWAMI (P R). Corridor of Books: Memories, Ideas IASLIC and the first Prof. Jagindar Singh Ramdev Lifetime
and Reflections of a Library Worker. 2018. Ane Books, Achievement Award, 2013, of IATLIS. He is presently the
New Delhi. Rs. 594, ISBN: 9789386761965 editor of IASLIC Newsletter.
(Narrates working life experience of a professional Shri Prosenjit Sarkar has been awarded Ph D degree by the
librarian) University of Burdwan for his thesis entitled 'Designing a
2. SINGH (Gurdev). Research Methods for Library Framework for Managing Electronic Theses and
Science Professionals. 2018. Ess Ess Publications, Dissertation in the University of Burdwan'. He pursued his
New Delhi. Rs.1500. ISBN: 9788193607435 research work under the supervision of Prof. Parthasarathi
Mukhopadhyay, Professor & Head, DLIS, Kalyani
Foreign University, Kalyani. Dr. Sarkar is at present serving as
1. AGOSTO (Denise E). Information Literacy and Superintendent (Library Services) in the Central Library of
Libraries in the Age of Fake News. 2018. Libraries the University of Burdwan. He is a life member of IASLIC.
Unlimited, Santa Barbara, California. $65.00 ISBN:
978-1440864186
(Going beyond the fake news problem, this book OBITUARY
tackles the broader issue of teaching library users of
all types how to become more critical consumers and
sharers of information) Shri Nandadulal Basak, former Associate Scientist-B
attached to Indian Statistical Institute Library, Kolkata,
2. KROSKI (Ellyssa). Escape Rooms and Other passed away on February 5, 2019. Born in 1955, he
Immersive Experiences in the Library. 2018. ALA obtained Honours Degree in Physics from University
Editions, Chicago. $57.99. ISBN: 9780838917671 of Calcutta in 1974. He passed B. Lib. Sc. examination
3. MUGRIDGE (Rebecca L). Assessment of Cataloguing from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, in First Class in
and Metadata Services. 2018. Routledge, London. $ 1977 and M Lib. Sc. examination from University of
121.74. ISBN: 9781138326651. Calcutta in 1988, in First Class standing First in order
of merit. He joined ISI library in 1977 and retired in
(Provides the reader with many examples of how 2015. He taught in Certificate course in Library
assessment practices can be applied to the work of Science of Bengal Library Association and also served
cataloguing and metadata services departments) as a Guest Teacher in Rabindra Bharati University,
4. WEBB (Katy Kavanagh). Development of Creative Kolkata, from 1991 to 2016. He produced one book and
Spaces in Academic Libraries: A Decision Maker's published many papers in professional journals. He
Guide. 2018. Chandos Publishing, Oxford. $78.95. was a life-member of IASLIC, ILA and BLA. IASLIC
deeply mourns the death of Shri Basak and conveys
ISBN: 9780081022665
heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family.
(Explores creative spaces currently offered in libraries,
with a focus on academic libraries)
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