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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.
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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) |
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| 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.
