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Activities
of SIS
Since
1981, the society has been regularly organising annual conventions and
conferences with a view to bring together professionals from various sub
disciplines of information science on a common platform so that they could
share their views, experiences and achievements to enrich their knowledge and
enhance their professional competence.
First
national convention and conference of the society was held in 1981 at Regional
Research Laboratory, Hyderabad. The discussions and presentations of papers were
held under three sessions.
i)
Information : A Vital Resource in National Building
ii)
Mapping of contours of Information Science
iii)
Trends in Information Analysis.
The
topics for subsequent annual conferences were;
a)
Design and Development of
Distributed Data Banks;
b)
Adopting Information Technology for Socio-economic Developments;
c)
Need for National Information Policy;
d)
Use of Microprocessors in Information Analysis and Library Applications;
e)
Online Information Processing through Mini-and-Micro Computers;
f)
Scientific Communication, Bibliometrics / Informetrics;
g)
Information as an essential input for Transformation of Society
h)
S &T Information Management in India;
i)
Current Trends in Information Technology; its impact on
Information Science
in India
j)
Perspective of Multimedia Information Services in India; and
k)
Consortia
Approach for Content Sharing Among Libraries (SIS-2002)
One
of the ambitions of the Society is to serve as a forum where the information
handlers and the information users could sit together and discuss the type, the
quality, nature and extent of information service required in the present day
nation building. With these motives the Society has been organizing various
refresher courses, skill development programmes and professional advancement
seminars for the benefit of practicing library and information professionals on
various aspects of information practicing library and information professionals
on various aspects of information
activities. Some of the areas where the Society has conducted workshops and
courses are:
·
Computer Application for Bibliographical Control of Information (1978)
·
Use of Word Processor (1983, 1984)
·
Information Technology (1983)
·
Reprographic Technology and
Services (1984, 1985)
·
Computer Programming: Basic (1985)
·
Agricultural Information Management (1988)
·
Biomedical Information Management (1988)
·
Technical Communications
Some
of these courses and workshops were organized in collaboration with government
agencies and research laboratories, namely, NIC, CDRI, NCEAR,
CENDIT, IMTECH, NISSAT. Etc.
Visualising the importance of
‘Information’ in development a rapid growth of ‘Information
Technology’ MAIT (Manufacturers Association for Information Technology) was formed by the
Society in 1983.
The Society for
Information Science for the first time organized a Training Programme on
Internet : Services, Resources and Web Page Creation in collaboration with
Central Library, IIT Delhi from 28-30th. June, 1999 at IIT Delhi. The
training programme was designed to train the librarians and information
specialists, not only in the art of searching Internet for useful electronic
resources, but also to design their own web pages including useful links to
resources available on the web for their respective libraries. The programme
attracted about 30 participants from all over Delhi.
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