Special Interest Groups
Engaging & empowering Library & Information Science professionals across Gujarat through six focused SIGs.
The rationale in creating these SIGs is to bring together Librarians of each SIG, to seek an identity for themselves. These will be extremely useful platforms to do collaborative work, to share resources and will help professionals to address & overcome their challenges. It will also help them to upgrade their skills as well as to stay motivated by accessing expertise & essential resources.
As the number of schools in Gujarat is really large, to begin with only CBSE, ICSE & IB Schools have been covered. All schools have been sorted city-wise and two representatives have been selected from each city to collect data.
There are over 1,000 colleges in Gujarat. They were sorted subject-wise (Arts, Commerce, Education & Science Colleges) and are now sorted city-wise to obtain data of colleges in each city.
There are almost 80 universities in Gujarat. These have been sorted district-wise and eight clusters of neighbouring districts have been formed to facilitate data collection.
The large number of Special Libraries in Gujarat have been sorted by subject — Management, Law, Health Science, Engineering & Technical, Design, Pharma and Social Science Libraries — and further sorted city-wise within each subject.
Besides the thousands of Public Libraries handled by the Directorate of Libraries in Gujarat, other public libraries have also been covered and sorted according to the districts in Gujarat.
A WhatsApp Group has been prepared of all LIS Teachers in Gujarat. Two meetings have been held with most faculty members present. A webinar will be conducted on Ethics in Work. Faculty members have agreed to prepare Gujarati e-content for various topics as per LIS School syllabi.