Announcement  Seminar on “Open Access in Research Area: A Strategic Approach”  Venue: TERI Seminar Hall, IHC, Lodhi Road, New Delhi | 22 December 2015 | 2  pm onwards | Free Participation * Limited seats upto 45 only (First Come First Serve basis) ** Invited                                                                          Organizer Knowledge partner

Programme Outline 13:45 – 14:15hrs Registration and Networking 14:00 – 15:00hrs -          Welcome address: Mr Prabir Sengupta, Distinguished Fellow and Director, KM Division, TERI -          Special Address: Dr. Debashish Dutta, Scientist G and Group Coordinator DEITY* -          Inaugural Address: Dr Chandrima Shaha, Director, National Institute of Immunology -          Setting the Theme and Vote of Thanks: Dr P K Bhattacharya, Fellow and Area Convenor, LIC, TERI 15:00 – 15:30hrs Tea and Refreshments 15:30 – 16:15hrs Plenary Talk by Session Chair:  Dr Ramesh Sharma, CEMCA Dr Usha Mujoo Munshi Librarian, Indian Institute of Public Administration Dr Beth Sandore Namachchivaya Associate University Librarian for Research Associate Dean of Libraries and Professor University of Illinois Topic: "Developing services, infrastructure, and best practices to conserve and provide access to research data: challenges and opportunities" Background Open  Access  has  become  central importance to advancing the interests of  researchers,  scholars,  students,  business,  and  the  public  as well as librarians.  Increasingly, research institutions require researchers to publish articles that report research findings openly accessible in open domain. Open Access pursues to yield scholarly publishing to spread knowledge and allow that knowledge to be built upon.  Price barriers should not stop researchers from getting access to research data.  Open Access, and the open availability and search ability of scholarly research that it entails, will have a significant positive impact on everything from education to the research practice in various fields. To explore why Open Access is so important to a number of groups, TERI Library along with The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) as Knowledge Partner is organizing a half day seminar on Open Access in Research Areas: a Strategic Approach” on 22 December 2015 at  TERI Seminar Hall, IHC, Lodhi Road Why you Should Attend The Seminar will focus on:    •    Wider access to scientific publications and data    •    Open access typically focuses on access to scientific information and    •    Issues and concerns For registration please contact: Reeta Sharma Information Analyst Knowledge Management Division TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) Darbari Seth Block IHC Complex, Lodhi Road New Delhi 110 003 (India) Tel. +91 11 2468 2100, 2468 2111 (ext 2756) Fax +91 11 2468 2144, 2468 2145 E-mail reetas@teri.res.in http://www.teriin.org/events/icdl/

Announcement for ICDL 2016

ICDL 2016
Smart Future: Knowledge Trends that will change the World

14-16 December 2016, New Delhi, India


WE ARE BACK IN DECEMBER 2016…   The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) is organizing ICDL 2016 during 14-16 December 2016 at New Delhi. Theme of the conference is Smart Future: Knowledge Trends that will change the World. Our conference brings together the leading experts and digital luminaries from multiple industries to discuss the ideas and innovations that are changing the scenario.

Through leading presentations, deep dive panel sessions, workshops, special events and networking our ambition is to spread the knowledge to pioneers.Our events are truly global. Besides discussing Digital Library Perspectives, ICDL 2016 will also discuss several key areas of Smart Technologies including Big Data, Social Media and Analytics, E-learning Platforms, Knowledge Innovation, and Open Access for globalization of resources .

*Key Thematic Areas which ICDL 2016 includes (but not limited to)  *

·         Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining

·         Data and Information Visualization

·         Social Media and Mobile Computing

·         Digital Research 2.0

·         Big data and Open Data

·         Digital library future

·         Knowledge collaboration and social media

·          DL best practices

·         Sustainable business model for digital libraries

·         OER, Open Research

·         Digital Rights Management



For further Information Contact:

ICDL 2016 Secretariat

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

India Habitat Centre Complex, Lodhi Road,

New Delhi-110003, India

Tel: +91 11 24682100 or 41504900

Fax: 24682144
Email: ICDL2016@teri.res.in
Website: www.teriin.org/events/icdl

Workshop on Creative Librarian 2.0

Greetings from TERI!

This Creative Librarian Blog is an outcome of our recently held workshop on Creative Librarian 2.0: Connect, Collaborate and Share Knowledge Using Social Media Platform.

Abstract of Workshop

TERI- Library and Information Center with support of DeiTY, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and Knowledge Partner with Digital Empowerment Foundation organized the event at TERI, India Habitat Center, Lodhi Road, New Delhi. The main objective of this event was to sensitize the library and information science professionals on the usage of social media in popularization and brand building of respective libraries.

Mr Prabir Sengupta (Director KM, TERI), Dr R K Chaddha in Centre (Additional Secretary, Lok Sabha, Parliament of India), Mr Osama Manzar (Founding Director, DEF)

Group photo

The workshop programme consisted of a mix of lectures, presentations, hands-on sessions, case studies, and discussions. The sessions dwelt on topics on unleashing creativity among librarians,

-How to start with social media,

- dynamics of social media management,

- building social communities and engaging user with social media,

- managing digital presence & social media,

Apart from these several case studies where social media tools are extensively used for promotion and outreach purpose. A case study of TERI, World Bank and British Council were presented to the participants. A case based discussion was held on Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google that how they have penetrated in the social media market. 

Apart from resource persons from TERI, experts from Google India (Mr Ashwani Sharma), IIT-Delhi (Dr Arpan Kar), World Bank (Dr Sudip Mozumder ), British Council (Ms Neeti Saxena , CEMCA (Dr Ramesh Sharma), Ms Meeta Sengupta  and DEF got engaged with the participants in interactive sessions.

A three member jury was conducted, which include Ms Anupama Jauhry, Head-TERI Press, Dr PK Bhattacharya, Fellow & Area Convener TERI Library and Dr Neena Jha, Programme Director DEF, to select the most Creative Librarian Team award. Team Instagram was selected as the most Creative Librarian’s team on the basis of their performance on various practical sessions.