Relevance and Effectiveness of LIS Training Programmes
Organised by INMAS, DRDO: A Case Study
Dr Rajeev Vij* and Sh Navin Kumar Soni**
*Joint Director & Scientist F and ** Scientist C
Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), DRDO, Delhi.
Telephone; 23985466, Fax; 23919509, Email; inmaslibrary@gmail.com
18 Oct 2012
Padma Shri Prof P Balaram
3 Oct 2012
Padma Shri Dr Srikumar Banerjee
19 Sept 2012
Padma Bhushan Mr Sam Pitroda
29 June 2012
Dr K Kasturirangan
10 July 2012
Prof S S Sritharan
24 Feb 2012
Prof. A J Meadows
28 Feb 2012
Dr. S K Jain
3rd Jan 2012
Prof. Manas K Mandal
14th Oct 2011
Rajyogini Dadi Janki ji
9th Aug 2011
Lt Gen J P Singh PVSM AVSM
18th July 2011
AVM Matheswaran AVSM VM PhD
18th May 2011
Dr. Kiran Bedi
11 May 2011
Dr W Selvamurthy
6th April 2011
Prof Anil K. Gupta, IIM Ahmedabad
28th Feb 2011
Prof Dinesh Singh
7th Jan 2011
H.H. Yog Rishi Swami Ramdev Ji
25th Nov 2010
Dr. Naresh Trehan
22nd Sept 2010
H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji
16th August 2010
Blood Donation Camp
Growth is the Key Mantra
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Training Delivers
Exceptional performance
Outstanding results
More skilled and motivated staff
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To Bridge the Gap
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Objectives of the Study
To list prominent Institutions conducting LIS training programmes
To list six library workshops/training programmes conducted by INMAS
To analysis the participants feedback after attending these courses
To identify thrust areas essential for the LIS professional in future
To find constraints encountered by LIS professionals in acquiring training
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Organising Pre-conference Tutorials by Various Agencies
NACLIN, CALIBER, PLANNER, ICDK 2011
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Indian Institute of Management (IIMs)
IIM Lucknow, ‘Quality management’, ‘Information technology
applications’, ‘Marketing’, ‘Human relations’ and ‘Effective communication’
IIM Indore organised SICI Library workshop
International workshop on Greenstone library has been regularly organised by
IIM Kozhikode at various IIMs since last five years
IIM Kozhikode, Kerala is regularly organizing workshop on
knowledge management & recently conducted a MDP
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Information Technology for Information Management
Office Automation
Bibliometric tools and techniques for measurement and evaluation of research output
Design and Development of Digital Libraries using GSDL
Library Automation and Networking
Design and Development of Digital Libraries using DSpace
ABCD - A complete solution for libraries
Library Automation using Koha
Science communication through Print Media
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Application of ICT, Webpage designing, DSpace, Resource sharing,
Information Management Technology, Indexing, Thesaurus,
Information access, Information consolidation,
Access to Social Science Information,
Marketing, Customer satisfaction,
Reprography, Conservation & preservation
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Society for Information Science (SIS)
Agricultural information management
Biomedical information management
Technical communications
Most Importantly
These training were Jointly organised with
NIC, CDRI, NCEAR, CENDIT, IMTECH, NISSAT
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 DELNET arranges tutorials, workshops, lectures, and training programmes
every year from time to time besides the National Convention on Knowledge,
Library and Information Networking (NACLIN).
 DELNET is aggressively providing Technical Support System for Koha- An
Open-Source Integrated Library System (ILS). It has in the year 2013
conducted Koha training programmes at Dhenkanal, Odisha, Noida, Central
University of Himachal Pradesh, Bangalore, Belgaum, Tiruchirappalli,
Chennai, Nagpur and Pune
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The SOUL 2.0 (Software for University Libraries) is state-of-the-art integrated library
management software designed and developed by the INFLIBNET Centre based on
requirements of colleges, universities and other academic libraries.
Till date, the Centre has conducted 108 Training Programmes on SOUL Installation
and Operations for Libraries so far.
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JNU Library
JNU Library is conducting training programmes for Training on creation of
JNU ETD Archive using DSpace, TURNITIN- software to check plagiarism,
and Presentation and Demonstration Program on EDS (EBSCO Discovery
Service) for providing single window access to all E-resources of JNU Library
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Artificial intelligence applications in LIS
Natural language processing
Digital libraries
Hypertext and multimedia application
Knowledge transactions
Koha
Newgenlib
Dspace
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Libraries of Indian Institute of Technology (IITs)
INDEST-AICTE Workshop during Annual Meets
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e-Granthalaya and NewsNIC software
ICMR-NIC Centre for Biomedical Information workshops on
Biomedical Information Retrieval and EPrints
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Training Programmes organised by
Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO)
DRDO is a network of 51 laboratories
7790 Scientists and about 27,000 Junior Staff
DRDO trains its personnel at its own training institutions in Pune and
Mussoorie and also at prestigious academic institutions
viz., IITs, IISc Bangalore etc.
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Training Programmes at
Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre (DESIDOC)

Emerging Trends and Technologies in Collection, Competencies and
Cooperation -- 29 April 2013 to 3 May 2013

Workshop on Industrial and Scientific Photography --- 12 to 14 September
2012

CEP on Information & Library Science Professionals, 30 Jan 2012 to 03 Feb
2012

CEP on E-Publishing, 14 to 18 November 2011

CEP on Multimedia Technology, 05 to 09 September 2011

CEP on Refresher Course for LIS Professionals, 21 to 25 March 2011
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Methodology
A questionnaire
Followed by observation and interview methods
Small speeches by the participants during the valedictory function,
(also gave important inputs and insight into effectiveness of workshops)
A total of 223 questionnaires were obtained from the users and were
used for analysis of data.
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Participant’s Profile
All categories participant’s profile (DRDS & DRTC) ranks of serving
LIS professionals at various DRDO laboratories were the participants.
However, for the first time, on an experimental basis, an advertisement
of a Workshop and National Library (Librarian) Day celebration (2013)
at INMAS was put on Lislink website.
Several online requests were received, and 21 participants from
non DRDO libraries came to participate in the workshop.
There was no registration fee for attending the workshop.
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Training Programmes at
Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS)
“National Training Course on Innovative E-Resources Management”
26-30 March 2012
38 participants from 17 DRDO labs/estts.
The topics covered in the course were economics of e-resource and
management, change management, IPR issues, open access resources,
e-books and their evaluation, digital preservation of e-resources,
user’s education, tips for e-resource management, etc
Faculty comprised Dr Kalpana Dasgupta, Dr SC Jindal, Dr Yogendra Singh,
Dr AL Moorthy, Shri Sukhdev Singh, Dr Usha M Munshi, Dr BB Sahoo,
Dr M Natarajan, Ms Nishy, Prof. Uma Kanjilal, Dr Ramesh Gaur,
Dr MG Sreekumar, Dr Sangeeta Kaul, and Prof. HK Kaul
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Training Programmes at
Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS)
“Workshop and National Library (Librarian) Day Celebration”
9 August 2012
18 library professionals from sister DRDO labs from Delhi
Shri Jindal and Dr Tripathi jointly launched the website of INMAS library.
They also formally inaugurated an Integrated Library System, and distributed
bar-coded membership cards to five library members.
A presentation on Making Effective Use of Electronic Publications and Databases
was made by M/s Wolter Kluwer India Pvt Ltd
To commemorate the 120 birth anniversary of Prof. SR Ranganathan, this
“Workshop and National Library (Librarian) Day Celebration” was organised
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Training Programmes at
Institute of Nuclear
Medicine
and
Allied Sciences (INMAS)
“DRDO
Libraries for
the Future:
“Emerging Trends and Technologies in
Collection, Competencies and Cooperation”
3-7 December 2012
Targeted Training Centre (TTC), Bengaluru.
The course was attended by 33 participants from 28 DRDO laboratories.
The faculty included senior LIS professionals from IIT, Chennai; TCS, Bangalore;
Indian Institute of Science; Karunya University; IIM Bangalore; NAL;
IIM Tiruchirapalli; Pondicherry University; NCSI, IISC; GE Global Research;
Raman Research Institute; IGCAR, Kalpakkam; University of Madras;
Jubilant Biosys Ltd; CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre;
Wipro Technologies; University of Mysore; IIM Kozhikode; and
Rani Channamma University, Belgavi.
This highly interactive course had team games, case studies, stories, discussions,
brainstorming sessions, video clippings, quiz, etc.
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Training Programmes at
Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS)
“Workshop and Meeting of the
DRDO E-Journals Service Monitoring Committee”
15 March 2013
attended by 30 delegates from 19 DRDO labs/estts
Four outside experts, gave informative lectures on National Knowledge
Resource Consortium (CSIR-DST); CeRA Consortium; UGC-INFONET
Consortium, and MCIT Library Consortium
Distributed a CD-ROM covering all the presentations of CEP lectures
and a reference book on the subject. Organised a small quiz & top
three scorers were awarded
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Training Programmes at
Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS)
“Advances in Digital Libraries and its Usefulness in DRDO Perspective”
8-10 July 2013 at TTC, Bangalore.
attended by 36 participants from 16 DRDO labs/estts
The course had the best faculty not only from R&D institutions,
but also from Indian Institute of Science, Indian Institute of Management,
Indian School of Business, Pondicherry University, Mysore University,
University of Madras, Infosys, Karnataka Knowledge Commission,
NAL, DRTC and Tata Consultancy Services
A&A Periodical Subscription Agency (P) Ltd. &
Springer (India) Private Limited also gave a small presentation
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Training Programmes at
Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS)
Workshop and National Library (Librarian) Day Celebration
8 Aug 2013
68 participants from DRDO & outside institutes attended
In commemoration of the 121st birth anniversary of Prof SR Ranganathan
The speakers were from JNU, Panjab University Chandigarh, IGNCA,
Ambedkar University, IEG, TERI, IGNOU, DU, Amity University, NIC and
TSCS Library, Chandigarh
Organised a small quiz & top three scorers were awarded
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Findings of the Survey
Table 1. Prior awareness regarding course contents before requesting my nomination
Average 90 % said Yes
Table 2. The course has direct relevance to my broad area of work
Average 97 % said Yes
Table 3. Subject matter & level of technical contents are appropriate for your
background and level of experience
Not Adequate
1%
Some what
Adequate
2%
Adequate
7%
More than
Adequate
90%
Table 4. Suitability of Course contents
Immediate
Application
94%
Future Application
Probable future
Application
1%
5%
Table 5. Class room & other facilities
1
2
3
1%
4
2%
5
97%
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Findings of the Survey
Table 5. The course has enhanced the preparedness for the present assignments
(1 is the lowest grade & 5 is the highest grade)
1
2
1%
3
1%
4
6%
5
92%
Table 6. The course contents as per expectations
1
2
1%
3
1%
4
3%
5
95%
2
3
1%
4
3%
5
96%
Table 7. Course duration
1
Table 8. Logistics Support (Transport & Accommodation)
Adequate
82%
More than
Adequate
12%
Not Adequate
6%
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A quiz is always organised on the last day of courses to
assess the knowledge acquired by the participants
and the top scorers are awarded with prizes.
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Training Programmes conducted by INMAS are Unique & Different
Outstanding Infrastructure
Checklist is prepared and regularly updated
Course contents is informed well in advance, to the participants
Largest numbers of courses organized in varied subject fields
No Fee from participants (It is Free)
Till date we had no dates changed (programme reschedule)
Excellent accommodation facility for outstation participants
Training is supported by State of the art computer laboratory
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Training Programmes conducted by INMAS are Unique & Different
Excellent teaching facility from all over India
Thrust is given to provide practical knowledge rather than theory
Visit to advanced facility is also included and encouraged
Extensive use of audio video presentations
Team games/exercises are also included
Hygienic in-house prepared food and menu rotation
Includes presentations by E Database Publishers/Developers/Vendors
Training courses are conducted in collaboration with other institutions
Many training courses conducted at Extension Centre at Bangalore
Active participants are awarded during valedictory function
Power point presentations made by faculty are emailed to all participants
Training is closed with on the spot feedback collection
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Suggestions for Further Improvement
Training/workshop should be based on case studies and professional problems
faced by them
Inauguration ceremony should be shortened
More time should be provide for hands-on activities, even after office hours
More time for discussions and activities
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Further Improvements….
• Facility for online registration of for training programme will be
introduced shortly
• Training Programme calendar will be uploaded on INMAS
webpage soon
• Number of lectures per day will be limited to maximum five
• The future LIS competencies required for providing better LIS
services will be in future training programmes
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Topics that are going to be Important in Future
Importance and Implementation of user Awareness Programmes
Managing Digital Content
Creation and Management of Digital Collections
Users Profile Management
Open Source Software
Intellectual Property Rights
Connecting to users and Enhancing Library services using social media
Managerial skills in ICT applications in Libraries
Virtual reference service (using instant messaging)
Leadership and soft skills
Disaster Management
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Suggestions
LIS training courses should also include a few lectures on interpersonal skills,
orientation, leadership, ethics, motivation, etc.
Annual training schedule should be prepared and uploaded on DRDO website to
enable better planning and participation by the participants
At INMAS, on the last day of all courses, a small quiz is conducted to test the
alertness of the participants during the lectures during training course/workshop.
The top three scorers were awarded. This can be practiced at other places also
The institute & library authorities need to provide necessary motivation to the
employee who upgrades their professional skills by undergoing training
Analysis of training needs for every employee should be conducted every year
This will help in planning future training programme
Number of practical/hands-on hours should be increased by augmenting
ICT infrastructure
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Suggestions
Attendance of course participants should be made mandatory during all
training programmes
The frequency of conducting such training courses by DRDO should be
increased and if possible, they should be conducted at different regions
The delivery of course material and power point presentations should be
mailed using electronic medium to the participants and also uploaded
on DRDO intranet site after completion of the training course/workshop
Efforts should be initiated to mail study material to the participants,
well before start of the training course.
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Importance of Feedback
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Last but not the least, the hospitality provided to participants at
INMAS helped us to strengthen brand INMAS
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Acknowledgments
Almighty God
My Boss
My Team
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I invite,
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