Appendix - I
Visits and Details
1.London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library
Ms. Caroline
Lloyd, Head of the Library & Archives Service and my
supervisor for this revered commonwealth fellowship has given me a warm welcome
to London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library on 9th January, 2012. The
library was my tenable for the fellowship.
She has also given me an excellent
introductory tour of the entire LSHTM Library includes exciting inheritable reading
section, journals section,
archives
section,
circulation
section
and
each and every working
station in the library in
addition
to
the
staff
introductory.
Mr. David Archer gave me an overview of Reader Services and Safety
measures for the users in the LSHTM. Mr. Chris Manning has given me an
introduction about networking systems and desktop services of the library.
Ms.
Hannah Wood overviewed me on information services of library.
2.University Library, University of East London:
I have attend a conference entitled ‘Going it alone: innovations in information
literacy’ organized by University of East London on 13th January, 2012.
This
conference intended on Info skills as
identifying,
finding,
evaluating and
referencing information.
After the conference I met Ms.
Gurdish Sandhu, Associate Director,
Library and Learning Services, University of East London. The meeting was very
potential because the discussions were relating to pros and cons of open source and
preparatory software, digital resources using in UEL and ICT applications in libraries
in India and UK.
The visit to the library of University of East London is an excellent experience
for me because the self - circulation system and different study zones are attracted
my mind. The building is just panoramic and maintaining the shelves with lights is a
new to me. I also observed the systems and services of library including a course is
organized by library that European Computer Driving License (ECDL).
3.Royal Free Hospital Medical Library
I visited Royal Free Hospital Medical Library of University College of London
on 23th January, 2012. This library is offering services to NHS Trust staff in addition
to the UCL users and Royal Free Hospital staff.
The key point of all the library
services is the training programme. The library is providing different information
literacy training programmes to their users like articles search through PubMed and
commercial databases, organizing and citing references through Reference Manager
and EndNote, critical appraisal of a systematic review, information resources to
support evidence-based practice, etc.
These trainings will empower the user
information literacy skills and they can manage their information better in their
practices.
4.British
School
Library
of
of
London
Economics
and
Political Science:
I visited a biggest library
which I have ever seen that the
Library
of
London
School
of
Economics and Political Science
(also called British Library of London School of Economics and Political Science) is a
school of the University of London on 3rd February, 2012. Really, it’s a fantastic and
huge library with so many books, so many
computers, and good reading space with
ample light. The library is providing many
information literacy and Lib 2.0 services to
the
students,
research
scholars and
faculty in their respective subjects.
Dr. Jane Secker, Copyright and Digital Literacy Advisor hosted me to visit
London School of Economic and Political Science. She is also editor of Journal of
Information Literacy, Library Review and Programme.
I learnt many learning
technology services and tools which they are providing to the LSE as Moodle for
VLE, digital Copyrights, use of multimedia, instant voting for feedback instead of
taking a paper feedback, etc. I got an opportunity to attend a lunch time seminar on
”use of iPods and tablets in education” by Jane. After that, Maria Bell hosted me to
visit the LSE Library.
5.Hendon Library, Middlesex
University:
Ms. Jo Wilson hosted
me to visit the Hendon Library
of Middlesex University on 10th
February, 2012.
began
with
The visit
a
quick
presentation of university library sources and services. She has taken me a tour to
shown the library with other commonwealth fellows Dr.Sanjay, Dr.Manju,
Ms.Sangeetha and Mr.Phillip and explained about various library sections and its
works. After the library tour, I met
Dr. Alan Hopkinson, Technical Manager,
Learning Resources, Middlesex University, who hosted the majority of the Indian
Librarians for the prestigious Commonwealth Fellowship.
6.Archway Healthcare Library
On the same day, I visited the Archway Healthcare Library of Middlesex University
with another commonwealth fellow Ms.Sangeetha. Fortunately, Alan came with us.
Mr.Richard Peacock, Lead Clinical Librarian hosted us and he explained the sources
and services of the HealthCare library.
In addition, he explained about the
importance of systematic reviews, critical appraisal of reviews and review of
literature. His experience and knowledge is enormous in critical appraisal.
7.The School of Pharmacy
Library
I was hosted by Mrs.
Michelle Wake, Librarian of
The School of Pharmacy to
visit
the
library
on
13th
February, 2012. The day was begun with a briefing of library collection and its
services. I was attend two training sessions at the school, one was on Power Point
training with Ph.D. students and other one on Information Gathering lecture
undergraduate students. I got a chance to observe the kindle for e-books.
8.British Library for Development Studies, Brighton
I visited British Library for Development Studies of IDS (Institute of
Development Studies, UK) at Brighton on 14th February, 2012. Ms. Steph Watson
hosted me with another Commonwealth Fellow Mr. Gracian Chimwaza from South
Africa.
She had prepared a schedule for the day with meetings.
Ms.Rachel
Playforth explained me about repository works and document delivery services at
BLDS to their users including Lower Middle Income Countries in Saharan Africa.
Mr.Ian Budden and Ms. Karen Butcher briefed me about article indexing, metadata
exchange programmes with other
libraries
and
very
interesting
publications exchange
programme
with other institutions in the world.
Mr. Nason, System Administrator
explained about ICT applications to
the library. I also met Mrs. Louise McGrath, Knowledge Services who is doing a
Nutrition Project with my institute in India and discussed the work progress.
I delivered a lecture at lunch time seminar on “Public Health Information in
India”. The participants interestingly asked me on the health information availability
in India and its usage, government support to the procurement of sources,
publisher’s perspectives to provide information to the country.
9.King’s Fund Library
I visited the King’s Fund Library on 20th of February, 2012 , is a unique source
of information on health and social care policy, which is offered free of charge to
managers and leaders in health and social care and to anyone else working in, or
interested in, these areas.
I also, joined as a library friend (they called library
member as a friend) to the Fund.
The library staff explained about their database, which is based on KOHA
Library Management Software. The very important thing is that they embedded wiki
in their search module for basic information.
10.Library, University of Bedfordshire
I was hosted by Peter Godwin, Academic Liaison Librarian of University of
Bedfordshire,
Febuary, 2012.
Luton
on
21st
It was a very
fruitful meet to Peter to learn
about web 2.0 applications to
library services. He is an expert
in the field and he wrote two
books on the same field.
He explained about RSS feeds, social book marking,
podcasting, blogs and the importance to integrate to the library website.
He has
taken me to library tour on that day.
11.David Wilson Library, University of Leicester
I had been to David Wilson Library of University of Leicester at Leicester with
Shane Godbolt, Director of Partnerships of Health Information and Gracian who is a
Commonwealth fellow from South Africa as me on 26th February, 2012. The library
building is beautifully architectured, recently renovated, centrally located to the
university
and
also
different
awards
grabbed
from
the
different
institutes like 2012 SCONUL Library
Design Award, 2009 RIBA Award, etc.
The library divided into different zone
according to users’ needs like express
zone for short loans, exam papers and
dissertations,
special
zone
for
postgraduate students, etc.
I found one of the finest and greatest things of the library is that the
employability and personal skills development programme, in addition to the routine
library works.
The library is providing year wise skills programme with
documentation including CV preparation and interview skills.
12.Thompson Library, Staffordshire University
Dr. Geoff Walton, Librarian I/C for Thompson Library hosted us (Shane,
Gracian and me) to visit the Library of
Staffordshire University on 27th February,
2012.
Mr.
Paul
Johnson,
Information
Landscape Librarian has explained about the
different modules and its functions of KOHA –
an
open
source
Library
Management
Software. It is very useful to me because we are using the same software in my
institute for catalouging and OPAC. Once I will return to India I have to implement
the remaining modules of the software as circulation, serials control, etc.
The library introduced Summon federated search service (a single search) for
all library resources including books, e-books, e-journals and digitized full text
collection.
The library is providing live help (chat online) service during staffed
hours and also providing the 24 hours help to their students.
13.Pilkington Library, University of Loughborough
Shane Godbold, Gracian and I visited the Pilkington Library, University Library
of Loughborough University
at Leicestershire on 28th
February.
Dr.Graham
Walton, Head of Planning
and Resources hosted us
for the day.
Firstly, he
described about one interesting topic that Branding of library and library services
includes Space management in libraries, marketing of library and its services, and
secondly we had a good discussion on Open Access and its business models and its
future perspective. Ruth Stubbing, Head of Academic Services explained about
Information Literacy programmes for different levels users which are based on The
SCONUL Seven Pillars. Also, we discussed with institutional repository team and
interestingly we found that the university authorities declared a policy that all the
university publications should be available at their University repository and copyright
issues has to be take care by the authors.
It is a positive movement in the Open
Access module. We have to wait and see what will happen in the future.
After lunch, we visited the School of Information Science.
Dr. Graham
Matthews, Professor and Dr. Mark Hepworth, Reader of the school were explained
about school activities and projects relating to health.
All discussions had with the above professionals are very useful to me to
introduce at my institute like how to market library services, how to establish
institutional repository and SCONUL module in information literacy programme.
14.ScHARR Library, University of Sheffield
Gracian, Shane and I visited the School of Health and Related Research
(ScHARR) at University of Sheffield on 29th February, 2012. Mr. Andrew Booth,
Reader in Evidence Based Information and Director of Information hosted us. He is
very good in Library and Information field and he contributed many books and
articles to the profession. He has given a new paradigm to the profession and he
started new courses in public health field with the mixture of health information at
ScHARR like Evidence Based Health Information, Public Health Informatics, etc. He
explained about ScHARR and its activities with NHS of UK and Involvement in
Supporting Evidence Based Practice at morning session. Ms. Anna Cantrell briefed
about
Research
Funding
Services to institute and
Mrs. Claire described about
Teaching Critical Appraisal
and its methods.
Mrs.
Helen Buckley briefed about
Public Health Collaborating
Centre Searching Support
to NHS and ScHARR projects at University. At last Andrew summed up the entire
day activities and he has given his book entitled ‘Exploiting Knowledge in health
services’ to me as a gift. I am very thankful to him and he also inspired me a lot
because of his works and commitment to the professional development.
15. Library, Indian High Commission
I have visited the Indian High Commission Library with one of my
commonwealth
fellow
colleague
from Indian namely Neeraj, which
was
hosted
by
Sanjat
Kumar
Bihani, Attache (Press, Information
& Library) on 9th March, 2012. In
that library we met Mrs.Maureen
Travs, 90, a legend of library
because since from the inception of the library she has been working. It was a great
experience to me to meet her. The library is different from other libraries because
the library is having books only about India, books on India and Indian people,
culture, etc.
16.University of Highlands and Islands Libraries, Scotland (Inverness College
library, Highlands Health Library, Highland Theological College Library)
Dr. Gillian Anderson, University Librarian hosted me to visit the University of
Highland and Islands (UHI) libraries of Scotland on 12th March, 2012. It’s a three
days programme to UHI because the university spreads in different islands in
Scotland. Gillian illuminated about University libraries and its maintenance through
Google maps because the centers are in different islands across the Scotland. Carol
Hart, Learning Centre Manager of Inverness College of UHI hosted me the library.
She introduced about her library its services to the students. Mr. Michele explained
about
some
web
2.0
tools
to
library
services.
Gillian and I met with Dr. Ian Leslie, Dean of Health Faculty at UHI at
Inverness on 13th March, 2012. We had a chat about our institute and its activities
and he also explained about his institute. After that, I visited the Highland Health
Sciences Library and I observed the services to its users both on campus and off
campus. This is useful to my library services because my home institute is also
conducting distance education programmes.
I had a chance to visit School of Oral Health Science, part of UHI at
Inverness. The school’s innovative work leads the way in UHI’s distributed teaching
and learning, through the use of ‘blended learning’ which enables students to link up
from Inverness, and its different campus at the Isle of Lewis, Dumfries and Galloway.
The teaching embraces the blended methods of synchronized online tutorials,
clinical skills training by video conferencing and face to face clinical teaching in
primary dental care units in the patient treatment areas at each centre. I observed
the practical treatments at dental laboratory and Video Conference classes at
Inverness campus.
I met Dr. Gaener Rodge, Director of Centre for Rural Health at UHI and we
discussed about rural health projects in different areas like health economics, health
services, etc.
We also discussed about possibilities regarding any collaboration
projects with my institute particularly in rural India.
At afternoon, Gillian and I drove to Dingwall and I met with Elizabeth Mchugh,
Electronic Resources Librarian of UHI and we discussed about how they are
procuring e-resources, management of e-resources and usage of e-resources at
different 13 campuses of UHI. They are using ‘Millennium’ software for their Library
Management and ‘Research Pro’ multi search engine for their entire e-sources in the
university. I also visited the Highland Theological College Library at Dingwall on the
same day. This library particularly meant for religious literature on Christianity.
17.Lews Castle College, Stornoway
I visited Lews Castle College of UHI at Stornoway, Scotland with Gillian on
14th February, 2012. It’s a one of the islands campus of UHI and it’s a wonderful
experience in my life to visit to island. First, I met Prof. Frank Rennie, Head of
Research and Post Graduate Development and he explained about how they are
conducting classes at a time for all different center’s students (because most of
campuses scattered at different islands and remote villages), how the students
approach faculty at different times, and some ongoing projects. Interestingly, they
are conducting classes through video conference, web conference, sometimes
interaction on Skype, chat over net, doubt clearance over phone, and rarely face to
face.
This shows the dedication of the faculty and their commitment to the
profession.
Also, I found that the University’s
main object is that they are encouraging
the rural people to stay in their home
place and continue their studies without
coming to the urban areas.
The
university is protecting the culture and
traditional values of the nation. It is very
useful idea to India because most of the
Indian people living in rural areas.
Dr. Rachel Tearse, Donald Macdonald and Dr. Michael M. Smith described
about their courses and also they requested me to explain about public health
course, which are conducting at my institute. They expressed their interest to see
my institute course curriculum and I have provided the curriculum for their reference.
Dr. Dave Matheson, Director of Academic Affairs enquired about my institute
and conveyed his best wishes to my trip.
Ms. Caroline Brick, College Librarian and I discussed about library services,
information literacy programmes and how they are providing services to the distance
learners. Surprisingly, sometimes they are sending books by post, in addition to the
online services to remote island students. Now they are planning to provide online
information literacy skills to the students and faculty.
I met John Alexander Smith, Acting Head of Integrated Technologies and he
explained about web 2.0 apps to the library services and course works, particularly
which are available on open source like MIT course material, Open coursewear
Consortium, Lynda.com for training material in technology, caliber, Mobie, elgg, etc.
These are very useful to me to implement at my institute.
That was an unforgettable day in my life to visit the Lews Castle College of
UHI, Stornoway, Scotland.
18.Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
The visit to the Bodleian Libraries of University of Oxford is a wonderful
experience in my fellowship, because as a Librarian it’s a prestige for me to see the
one of the world historical libraries
on 19th March, 2012. I have had a
tour to the Bodleian Library with
Historic Venues (Maggie, University
tour guide has taken me to tour) in
the library. Mrs. Angela Carritt, User
Education
about
Coordinator
their
information
explained
literacy
programmes which they are offering to the students and faculty at 33 Bodleian
Libraries in different subjects. Mrs. Sally Rumsey, Digital Collections Development
Manager briefed about their institutional repository through Fedora software in the
university.
Ms. Alison Prince, Web Manager described the web pages development
for different libraries of Bodleian and web 2/social media applications to their library
web pages like Twitter, Facebook, Library thing, Delicious which ever they prepare to
integrate in their library services. All these web 2.0 applications have to apply in my
institute
to
give
better
services
to
my
users.
19.Wellcome Trust Library
It was a fruitful visit to Wellcome Trust Library on 20 th March, 2012. Dr.
Simon Chaplin, Head of Wellcome Library hosted the visit.
The library is unique in
its collection relating to history of medicine and its role in society, past and present.
The library has extraordinary collection of materials in various formats like paintings,
prints and drawings, rare books like books printed before 1501, manuscripts, palm
leaves, images, audio-video collection, etc.
Some materials we can find in this
library only which are relating medical history. It’s an excellent collection of different
material related medical history. It’s a very useful resource center to the researches.
I have also taken library membership in the library, because it’s very useful to my
researchers and students at
my institute.
And also, my
institute is having a strong
bond
with
Wellcome
Trust
because the Trust is one of the
funders
of
my
institute.
Dr.Simon and I had a healthy
discussion about my institute and any provisions for library projects relating health
information in India.
The library staff given me a picture about how they are collecting the
collection and rare collection, and how they are preserving, digitizing the materials
for public access. It was a good chance to visit and watch the rare books and
materials in the Wellcome Library.
20.British Library, London
I had been to British Library on 22nd and 23rd of March 2012. I was hosted by
Mr. Hedley Sutton, Manager, Asian & African Studies Section for both days. He has
taken a tour to whole library and
he explained about each and
every floor and reading rooms in
the library.
Mr. Paul briefed
about the Science Section and
user services and organization
of materials in the section. He
showed some available public
health resources in the library.
Nalini Persad, Curator, South Indian Languages told about the procurement process
and catalouging about South Indian materials for the library. I found the post-1858
records of East India through Dr. Antonia Moon, Senior Archivist, India Office
Records and she also shown the recently published book which is relating to index of
archives of health records (post-1858), etc. of India. Sita Gunasingham, Reading
Room Manager, Asian and African Studies have taken a tour to the very old records
of India which are before independence of India.
Apparently, I can say British
Library is the one the treasure houses of knowledge in the world.
21.Cambridge
Medicine
and
University
Library,
Sciences
Library,
Cambridge University
Last
programme
visit
was
in
my
to
fellowship
Cambridge
University on 26th March, 2012. I have
been hosted by Peter Morgan Head of Medical and Science Libraries. He has taken
me to main library of University and he explained about library and its importance in
the UK and we had a chat with Elin Stangeland, Cambridge Repository Manager
about university repository system and
methods. It was very interesting me to
implement in my institute because I
am also using same software i.e.
DSpace in my institute.
In the
university they are collecting different
material
like
reports,
conference
papers, technical reports, research data, multi-media files, images and source code
in addition to the research publications to put in the repository. Again Peter had
taken a tour to medical library at Addenbrookes and he briefed about his library and
its services to the users. Mrs. Isla Kuhn, Reader service Librarian of Medical Library
summarized about information literacy programmes of library, some medical
databases like Trim, etc. and web 2.0 applications to library services.