CELEBRATION OF LIBRARIAN'S DAY 2020

 NATIONAL LIBRARY CELEBRATES LIBRARIAN'S DAY 2020

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NATIONAL LIBRARY CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY 2020 THROUGH ONLINE YOGA WORKSHOP

National Library celebrated International Yoga Day 2020 though a Online Yoga Workshop in collaboration with Heartfullness. Ms.E.Gajalakshmi, ALIO introduced the Organisation and  explained about the programme. Dr.K.K.Kochukoshy,OSD, National Library delivered a welcome address. Dr.Partha Sarathi Das, ALIO administrator of the GotoMeeting app hosted the whole program. The program was also attended by the Officers and Staff Members of the Library. The online demonstration of yogic postures was followed by a lively interaction of the participants with the resource persons. Around 50 participants attended in the said Workshop.Mr.Akhlaque Ahmad, ALIO delivered vote of thanks.

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Webinar on "The Evidence of Sangam Tamil Corpus of Literature in Tracking the Post-Indus Legacies"under Ek Bharath Shreshta Bharat Program

Webinar on "The Evidence of Sangam Tamil Corpus of Literature in Tracking the Post-Indus Legacies"under Ek Bharath Shreshta Bharat Program

  NATIONAL LIBRARY OF INDIA ORGANIZED  WEBINAR ON TAMIL SANGAM LITERATURE

National Library of India organized a Webinar on "The Evidence of Sangam Tamil Corpus of Literature in Tracking the Post-Indus Legacies" on June 27, 2020 at 4.00 to 5:30 PM through  through video conferencing mode. Dr. R.Balakrishnan, IAS (Retd.), Indus Researcher delivered a lecture on the said topic. Dr. Balakrishnan discussed about place names in ancient Tamil Sangam literature are associated with surnames and reflects the history and culture of TamilNadu. Ms.E.Gajalakshmi, ALIO introduced the speaker and  explained about the programme. Dr.K.K.Kochukoshy,OSD, National Library delivered a welcome address.The program was also attended by the Officers and National Library Interns. The deliberation was followed by a lively interaction of the participants with the resource person. The Around 100 participants from different parts in India participated in the said webinar.Dr.Partha Sarathi Das, ALIO administrator of the GotoMeeting app hosted the whole program and delivered the Vote of Thanks.

About the Speaker

Dr.R.Balakrishnan was born in the village Natham near Madurai in Tamilnadu. He had his graduation and Post Graduation in Tamil Literature. He is a Former Civil servant, Poet, Writer and Researcher. He served as an IAS officer in Odisha Cadre and retired in 2018 after 34 years of his service. At present he is the Chief Advisor, Office of the Chief Minister, Government of Odisha. He is an Indologist and has been working in this field for the last 30 years. He was awarded Doctor of Letters (Honoris causa) by Periyar Maniammai Deemed to be University, Thanjavur for his contribution in the field of Indology and particularly his work on Indus Valley Civilization. He is the Honorary Consultant of Indus Research Centre, Chennai founded by Iravatham Mahadevan. His publications are Anbulla Amma (1991), Siragukkul Vaanam (2012), Nattukural (2016), Irandam Sutru (2018), Kunrena Nimirndhu Nill (2018), Panmaya Kalvan (2018) and Journey of Civilization: from Indus to Vaigai (2019) which attracted wide attention across the globe in this year. He is a lyricist and his album inspired by “Thirukkural” is a huge success.

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Webinar on "Developments with Optical Character Recognition for Printed Bangla at the British Library"

Webinar on "Developments with Optical Character Recognition for Printed Bangla at the British Library"

  NATIONAL LIBRARY OF INDIA ORGANIZED  WEBINAR ON OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION

National Library of India organized a Webinar on "Developments with Optical Character Recognition for Printed Bangla at the British Library" on July 9, 2020 at 4.00 to 5:30 PM through video conferencing mode.Mr.Tom Derrick, Digital Curator,Two Centuries of Indian Print British Library, London delivered a lecture on the said topic. He discussed about the development of OCR for Bengali language and also for some of the Indian languages. Ms.E.Gajalakshmi, ALIO introduced the speaker and  explained about the programme. Shri P.L.Sahu, Director General, National Library delivered the welcome address.  Dr.K.K.Kochukoshy,OSD also briefed the audience about the program. Dr.Partha Sarathi Das, ALIO administrator of the GotoMeeting app hosted the whole program. The deliberation was followed by a lively interaction of the participants with the resource person. The Around 150 participants from different parts in India were participated in the said webinar.Mr.Akhlaque Ahmad, ALIO delivered vote of thanks.

About the Speaker:

Tom is a member of the Two Centuries of Indian Print project that will digitise and make available rare Indian books held at the British Library, London. He is interested in the creation of datasets through exploring OCR technologies and supporting researchers applying digital research methods to the collection.Prior to joining the British Library, Tom gained several years of experience across editorial development, production and marketing functions for an academic publisher of digital learning resources, collaborating with an international array of libraries to digitise their collections.

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Celebration of Sankalparva

 NATIONAL LIBRARY CELEBRATES SANKALPPARVA

National Libary of India participated on the #Sankalp Parva campaign of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, from June 28, 2020 to July 12, 2020. During this period, National Library has conducted plantation program of trees as recommended by the Ministry of Culture. Basically the plants which had been identified by our Hon’ble Prime Minister. These trees are:

(i)   “Barga (ii) “Awla”(iii)  “Pepal”(iv)  “Ashok” (v)   “Bel” 

During the periods 28^th June 28, 2020 to July 12, 2020 under #SankalpParv campaign of Ministry of Culture, the National Library officials have planted trees. For detailed report, Click Here.
In this occasion, many creatives are also designed for Social Media. Click Here for Creatives.
Video Presentation of the Salkalparva

 

A Creative for the #SankalpParva

       

Live Broadcast of the Webinar on"The Evidence of Sangam Tamil Corpus of Literature in Tracking the Post-Indus Legacies"

Webinar on "An Integrated approach to Disaster Management of Library Collections"

  NATIONAL LIBRARY OF INDIA ORGANIZED  WEBINAR ON DISASTER MANAGEMENT

National Library of India today(30.4.2020) organized the Second Webinar on "An Integrated approach to Disaster Management of Library Collections Digital and Physical" at 4.30 to 6 PM through  through video conferencing mode.Ms Heather Brown, Assistant Director, ARTLAB, Australia delivered a lecture on the said topic. She discussed on how to prepare a model disaster management plan for libraries both in Physical and Digital. As well as she shared the practices followed in ARTLAB, Australia. Ms.E.Gajalakshmi, ALIO introduced the speaker and  explained about the programme. Dr.K.K.Kochukoshy,OSD, National Library delivered a welcome address. Dr.Partha Sarathi Das, ALIO administrator of the GotoMeeting app hosted the whole program. The program was also attended by Shri Md.Usman Ghani, ALIO, Urdu Division, National Library Interns. The deliberation was followed by a lively interaction of the participants with the resource person. The Around 150 participants from different parts in India were participated in the said webinar.Mr.Akhlaque Ahmad, ALIO delivered vote of thanks.

About the Speaker:

Ms.Heather Brown is an Assistant Director at Artlab, Australia, one of  Australia's leading conservation organizations.She also has a part time academic role lecturing to library and archive students in the field of preservation.This role is in association with the State Library of South Australia which is an industry partner with the University in delivering the Library and the Information program.Heather is currently completing her PhD on the topic of preservation management.She was recently awarded an Australian Library and Information association Research grant to assist with the research project.Part of her research focuses on the strategy of disaster preparedness- the topic of today's lecture.

Report of the Online Creative Writing Workshop

National Library organizes three Day Workshop-series on Story Writing, Cli-Fi (Climate Change Stories) and Pandemics for School Children during the Lock down Period

The National Library of India invited novelist, climate fiction author, activist and columnist Rajat Chaudhuri to present a three-day online workshop on short story writing, climate change fiction (cli-fi) and the linkages between disease outbreaks and human action through unsustainable development. Close to thirty students of classes VI, VII and VIII from more than ten schools attended the online sessions presented by Rajat Chaudhuri over three days (21, 26 and 28 April, 2020). The participants were widely spread right from Guwahati in the north-east, Vijaywada in the South, Poona in the West and many from Kolkata in the east.  

The first day’s programme was inaugurated by Dr K.K.Kochukoshy, OSD, National Library who welcomed the participants and dwelt upon the importance of telling stories. Ms Gajalakshmi E., ALIO, National Library introduced the Resource Person and also compered the program. The entire program was administered through Videoconferencing Mode by GoToMeeting App by Dr Partha Sarathi Das, ALIO, National Library.

The workshops were highly interactive where the Chaudhuri introduced the learners to the elements of short story writing like character, setting, plot, dialogue, scenes and more. He provided several examples from well known stories of Chekov, Hemingway, Flannery O’Connor and others and gave the students tasks to write short stories of their own during the three days of the workshop. All students participated enthusiastically in writing their own stories and many were offered the opportunity to read these out aloud following which Chaudhuri offered suggestions to each for further improvement. The National Library has decided to put up the best three stories on their blog.

The climate workshop took off with Rajat introducing the students to the basic science behind climate change and its wide variety of ill effects from sea level rise to migration and disease. Combining his own experience as climate activist with engaging videos about the phenomenon, slide presentations and readings from climate change novels, Chaudhuri drove home the message that both producers and consumers have to change their ways if we want a better future for the planet. As future decision-makers and responsible citizens the students were told time and again to spread awareness about the dangers of climate change through stories they write, through music and through lobbying, advocacy and awareness activities at all levels right from home to street and up to the corridors of power.

Through a slide presentation, movie clips and readings from climate change novels of Amitav Ghosh (Gun Island), The Road (Cormac McCarthy) and his own eco-disaster cli-fi novel (The Butterfly Effect) Chaudhuri portrayed how climate change stories (cli-fi) can are written, why they are important, what makes them challenging to write and why they have a certain advantage in communicating the message of climate change compared to bare scientific facts and reports which they can complement. The students enjoyed these sessions asking several questions and sharing their ideas and also taking on the task of writing another climate change story which they will submit later.

The third day’s session made the important and topical connection between unsustainable development and the spread of zoonotic diseases (that are transmitted from animals to human) like the current coronavirus epidemic. With a simple and visually enriched slide presentation Chaudhuri demonstrated with examples from movies and science how human actions like logging, road building, mining, growing urbanisation, industrial farming and agriculture (monoculture) can among other things result in loss of biodiversity and bring animal-borne viruses (like coronavirus, Ebola virus, MERS virus etc) in close proximity to humans. He also touched upon the various theories behind the present outbreak including wet-markets and laboratory redesigning of viruses finally stressing on the fact that humans are largely responsible for whatever is happening around us and that unsustainable development and growth cannot go on if we want to decrease the probability of similar outbreaks of zoonotic diseases. In this context he also mentioned how climate change has a role to play in the increasing number of outbreaks of dengue and its possible connection with the coronavirus pandemic. Finally introducing the concept of OneHealth, also part of the policy of the biodiversity mission of the Indian government, Chaudhuri stressed on the importance of a holistic approach to human health, animal health, and the environment as the road ahead for a healthy future.

The workshops ended with Dr Kochukoshy, OSD, National Library, thanking Rajat Chaudhuri for the workshop series while interacting with the students and mentioning that the importance of these topics warrants that such events be held more regularly.  

About the Resource Person

Rajat Chaudhuri has published six books in two languages including fiction, translation and edited works. He edited `The Best Asian Speculative Fiction' and is one of the editors of a forthcoming Asia-Pacific solarpunk anthology. Chaudhuri’s climate change novel sci-fi novel `The Butterfly Effect' is listed as one of `Fifty Must-Read Eco-disasters in Fiction’ by Book Riot (US). He has won a number of writing fellowships and international residency awards including Charles Wallace Fellowship (UK), Hawthornden Fellowship (Scotland, UK), Ministry of Culture, Korea (ARKO)-INKO residency award (South Korea), Villa Sarkia residency award (Finland, invited 2020) and Sangam House residency, India.  Chaudhuri has given book readings and spoken about climate change, better futures, storytelling and allied issues at the Museum of Science Fiction, Washington, George Washington university, Hong Kong, University of Science and Technology, Sahitya Akademi, Delhi, Dongguk University, Seoul, Chichester Univeristy, UK and several other places.  Follow him on Twitter @rajatchaudhuri

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NATIONAL LIBRARY ORGANIZES WEBINAR SERIES FOR THE INTERNS

National Library organized a series for Webinar to train and educate the Interns during lock down period working in various Divisions of National Library. The following are the details:

Sl. No.	Topic	Name of the Resource Persons	Target Groups	Date and Time
1.	Global Knowledge Management	Dr..Ajit Kumar Library & Information Officer, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library	National Library Interns & Professional Staffs Members of NMML and National Library	24.04.2020 3:00-4:00PM(IST)
2.	Employable Skills for LIS Students	Dr. K. Elavazhagan Librarian & Chief Knowledge Officer Indian Institute of Management TiruchirappalliI e-mail : ela@iimtrichy.ac.in	Participation for only National Library Interns	25.04.2020 10:30-11:30 AM(IST)
3.	Management of Libraries: a Practical Approach	Sh Kumar Sanjay Chief Librarian cum Documentaion Officer, Niti Ayog	Participation for only National Library Interns	26.04.2020 3:00-4:00PM(IST)

National Library of India  organized the first Webinar on  “GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT” by Dr. Ajit Kumar, Library & Information Officer, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India from New Delhi on April 24, 2020

On 24.04.2020, all the 23 Interns participated along with the Officers and staff members of Nehru Memorial Museum & Library participated in the Webinar. The deliberation was followed by a lively interaction of the participants with the resource person.

On 25.04.2020 and 26.04.2020, all the 23 Interns participated in the Webinar. The deliberations were followed by a lively interaction of the participants with the resource person. 

In all the above programs, Dr.K.K.Kochukoshy, Officer-on-Special Duty delivered the welcome address. Ms E.Gajalakshmi, ALIO compered the entire program. She introduced the resource persons and introduced the concept of the webinar.The vote of thanks was delivered by Shri Akhlaque Ahmad. All the Webinars were coordinated and administered through GoToMeeting App by Dr. Partha Sarathi Das, ALIO and Convenor of the Internship Program.

The virtual program was conducted through Videoconferencing through GoToMeeting Application. The entire virtual program is conceptualised, designed and digitally managed exclusively by the In-house team of National Library of India for the first time in history of the National Library as one of the step to reach out the citizens of this country during the lockdown period.

The presentation and video of the webinar can be access through the link given at the end of the post.

About the Resource Persons

Dr. Ajit Kumar is presently the Library & Information Officer and Head of the Library, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India. He has more than two decades of professional experience. He is an author of 3 books and more than research 40 papers.He is also a good administrator, shouldering responsibilities of various additional responsibilities in administration. Dr. Kumar received SRFLIS World Library Leaders Promising Professional Award 2017 for his services and expertise in the field of Library and Information Science.

Dr. K. Elavazhagan is the Librarian of Indian Institute of Management, Tiruchirappalli since 2011, formerly Head of the Library, Goethe-Institut German Library from 2009 - 2011 and Assistant Librarian, British Council Library from 1989. He was awarded with many awards like Dr. Harish Chandra Sushila Chandra National Best Librarian of 2017 by the Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science in 2018, Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam Best Librarian Award Noolagam Pesukiratu in association with Kalam Sinthanai Peravai in 2016 and 50 Most Influential Knowledge Management Professionals Global Knowledge Management Congress in 2015. He was also the Member of Doctoral Committee in 2015, and subject expert in the Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology, Dept. of Higher Education, MHRD Govt. of India. He has seven publications on credit.

Sh Kumar Sanjay is working as Chief Librarian-cum-Documentation Officer in the Library and Documentation Centre of NITI Ayog since 2011. Shri Kumar has over twenty years of experience in various Institutions and Government Organizations. He was a Member of Committees constituted by different Government Institution for categorization of their Libraries. He is also the member of course coordinator Committee constituted by CBSE for curriculum design of Library & Information Science for Classes XI & XII in the vocational courses. He is the President of Central Government Library Association, Delhi Branch.

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