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Scope of the Seminar & Objectives

Digital information is becoming essential to almost every aspect of modern life particularly to all people working in higher education including university students, teachers and researchers.  These people require digital information and handling skills to use computers, digital information sources and the Internet for their day-to-day studies, teaching and research. In this context, academic libraries are expected to provide quality services to the users enabling them to get high quality education.  Hence, it is necessary to conduct user studies on regular basis and to get feedback from the users to evaluate the library services and to take decisions to introduce new services or improve the existing services. Librarians are supposed to conduct these studies due to developments in IT & ICTs and ongoing changes in instructional technologies used in colleges and universities in this digital era.  Hence, there is need for conducting a national seminar to discuss the information requirements of users in the digital era, need for and methods of conducting user studies, use of ICTs in delivering  cost-effective services, and overcome the problems faced by various types of Academic Libraries in conducting user studies.

Objectives

•    To provide a forum for discussion among librarians to address the various issues relating to   user studies;

•    To create awareness among librarians about the importance of user studies for getting feedback from users to improve library services;

•    To examine the problems faced while conducting user studies;

•    To prepare necessary standard tools for conducting user studies;  and

•    To create awareness among the librarians on how user studies are helpful in providing quality services to users.

Seminar Theme

Users, collection and staff are the three important components of any library.  The library is intended to provide services to meet the information requirements of the users.  The success of the library is depends upon the extent to which the library meets the requirements of the users. Users are the best judges to measure the performance of the library.

The users at present are using e-resources more than traditional information sources and their usage are going-up year by year. These electronic resources came into existence due to the advancements in the ICTs, Electronic publishing, Internet, WWW and mobile technologies.  The users are now saving a lot of time due to the availability of online databases compared to the old days when computers and many other IT tools were not available. Nowadays, the users can also access online databases remotely without coming to the library physically.

Therefore, academic libraries are forced to acquire, organize, manage and provide electronic information sources and services to their users. By conducting user studies, Librarians can understand the impact of electronic resources on teaching, learning, research and users.  Based on the results of these studies. Library services can be modified to meet the information needs of users.  By gathering information from users, their interactions with library staff,  materials and services and the context in which these materials and services are used, the librarians can take right decisions in improving their libraries.

Sub-Themes

•        Need and purpose of User Studies

•        Types of User Studies

•        Types of Users in Academic Libraries

•        University Libraries

•        College Libraries

•        Engineering College Libraries

•        Agricultural College Libraries

•        Medical College Libraries

•        Other Academic Libraries

•        Information Needs of  Various Categories of Users

•        Research Design for conducting User Studies

•        Sample Selection in conducting User Studies

•        Statistical Techniques for Data Analysis

•        Development of Instruments and Tools for asuring Use, Awareness, Satisfaction

            and IT Skills

•        Online/Mobile reading habits

•        Users of E-resources

•        Use and user studies in Digital Libraries

•        Return on Investment (ROI)

•        Measuring of Quality of Services  in libraries

•        Problems in conducting User Studies

•        Recent Trends in User Studies – India, U.S.A., and U.K.

•        Case Studies in User Studies

           Any sub-theme relevant areas to the above main themes

Submission of Papers

The seminar organizers are looking for high quality research and review papers in the areas related to user studies in academic libraries. Paper should be submitted in MS Word (.doc) format. The last date to receive full paper is on or before 31-07-2015. Papers must be submitted through email to the following email address: svuniversitylibrary@gmail.com. Notification about the acceptance of the paper will be sent by the Organizing Secretary through email.  All the papers received will be reviewed by the Experts Committee.  Selected papers approved by the Committee will be published in the seminar volume. The length of the full paper should normally be within 4000 words with 12 point Times Roman font. While writing the paper, prospective authors are encouraged to follow the APA Citation style. All papers must be in English.

Important Dates

Seminar Dates                                  : 26 - 27   August, 2015

Submission of Full Paper               : 31st July, 2015

Last Date for Registration             : 14th August, 2015

Who Should Attend ?

Librarians, Library Staff and other Library and Information Science Professionals, people working in Knowledge Industry, Government Officials, Information Management professionals, Knowledge Officers, Media Experts, Knowledge Centre Managers and Knowledge Managers.

Venue

The seminar is being organized at Sri Venkateswara University,  Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. The main attraction of Tirupati is the Sri Venkateswara Temple which is located at the hill top of the Tirumala hills. It is one of the richest temples of the world.  There are many sacred places to visit in Tirupati, viz.  Sri Padmavathi Ammavari Temple, Sri Govindrajaswamy Temple, Sri Kapileswaraswami Temple, and Sri Kodandaramaswami Temple. Other Tourist destinations around Tirupati are Chandragiri fort, Srikalahasthi, Kanipakam, Srinivasamangapuram, Horsley Hills, Kailasakona Waterfalls, Nagalapuram, Narayanavanam, etc. The weather at Tirupati during the month of August is quite pleasant.

About University

The university was established in 1954, in the world famous temple town of Tirupati on a sprawling campus of 1000 acres with a panoramic and pleasant hill view. It was established with the effort of the great visionaries late Sri Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu, the then Chief Minister of A.P. and late Shri Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy, to cater to the educational needs and aspirations of the people of Rayalaseema area. With a great wisdom, the founders of this university have rightly coined the motto “Wisdom lies in proper perspective” for it. The university has grown excellently from strength to strength over the past sixty one years, as premier institute of higher learning under the able and committed leaderships of successive Vice Chancellors. The university has four constituent colleges. The university has 58 departments, wherein 71 different PG courses and several diploma and certificate courses are being run with a total academic faculty strength of 400 and 1500 non-teaching and student strength of 5000 including research scholars.

S.V.University Library

The University Library was started in the year 1955 with a small collection of 6700 books in a portion of the University College main building.  Later, it was shifted to the present building which was inaugurated in July 1964, by the Late Dr. Sarvepalli Radha Krishnan, the then President of India.  He described it as ‘Taj Mahal of the South’. The Library building is known for its aesthetic look, functional utility and excellent design with good lighting and ventilation.

The University Library is centrally located and easily accessible to all the departments on the campus, steadily grown over the years and today it has about 3,70,500 documents.  It is the central facility for four constituent colleges of S.V.University including University College of Engineering and has about 7000 members. The Library fulfills all the information needs of its members including students, research scholars, teaching faculty, and non-teaching staff.

SV University Library is a member of the INFLIBNET Programme of UGC.  In order to provide access to full-text e-journals and databases available under the UGC-INFONET Programme, the Library has established a Digital Library in the year 2005.  The Library is an active participating member in the UGC-SHODHGANGA Project. So far it has digitized about 1000 theses and sent to INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhi Nagar for uploading into SHODHGANGA Website.  The Digital Library contains the database of all digitalized theses. In addition to the INFLIBNET membership, SV University Library also became the member of INDEST Consortium and is providing access to all online resources available under the consortia membership.

Accommodation

Accommodation will be arranged in the university and other nearby guest houses by the organizers on payment basis for which you need to reserve your accommodation with us at least 10 days before the seminar. Since it is pilgrimage place, there is lot of demand for rooms in these guesthouses. Please note that accommodation would be provided only after receipt of an advance payment. In case of last minute cancellation of accommodation or seminar registration, the amount cannot be refunded.

                Double sharing non-AC (per person)                       300/-

                Sharing Room AC (Twin Bed) ( Per person )          700/-

                Single Room AC (Per room)                                     1,200/-

All above charges are approximate and do not include applicable taxes. Please contact the Organizing Secretary of the seminar for accommodation. 

Registration Fee

All the participants are requested to register for the seminar by sending the filled-in Registration Form, along with prescribed fee on or before 14th August 2015.

Library Professionals                        : Rs.1,000/-

Research Scholars and Students     : Rs.500/-

Seminar Organizers

Organising Secretary

                 Dr.K.Surendra Babu

                 Assistant Professor and University Librarian i/c

                 S.V. University Library, Tirupati-517502

                 08772289556; 2289322

                 Cell : +017382667994

                 Email : surendrasvul@gmail.com

Chief Patron

                 Prof. W. Rajendra, Vice-Chancellor

                 Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati

Patron

                 Dr. C. K. Jayasankar, Rector, S. V. University

                 Dr. M. Devarajulu, Registrar, S. V. University

Chairman, Local Organizing Committee 

                

                 Prof. V. Pulla Reddy (Rtd.)

                        Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati  

Technical Advisory Committee

Prof. C. Arunaprasad Reddy, (Rtd.) S.V.University, Tirupati.

Prof. V. Chandrasekhar Rao, (Rtd.)  Dr.B.R.Ambedkar OU, Hyderabad.

Prof. K. Venkat Rao, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur

Prof. Sujatha, Dr.B.R.Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad.

Prof. K.Padmini, S.V.University, Tirupathi.

Prof. I.Chandraiah, S.V.University, Tirupathi.

Prof. D.Chandan, (Rtd.) S.V.University, Tirupathi

Dr. P. Divakar, (Rtd) Head, CCMB Knowledge Centre, Hyderabad

Mr. Satyannarayana, TCS, Hyderabad

Dr. G.H.S. Naidu, D.A.V.V. , Indore, M.P.

Dr. M.Doraswamy, Dravidian University, Kuppam

Dr. D.Ravindra, S.K.University, Ananthapur

Prof. K. Somasekhara Rao, Andhra University, Visakhapatanam

Dr. Thirunavakkarasu, Alagappa University, Karaikudi.

National Advisory Committee

Prof. P.B. Mangla, (Rtd.), University of Delhi, Delhi.

Dr Jagdish Arora, Director, INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhi Nagar.

Mr. Ashok Kumar, Director i/c, DESIDOC, Delhi

Dr A.L. Moorthy, former Director, DESIDOC, Delhi

Prof. C.K.Ramaiah, Dean, Pondicerry University, Puducherry.

Dr. R.K. Chadha, Joint Secretary, Parliament Library, New Delhi

Prof. A.R.D. Prasad, DRTC, Bangalore

Prof. K. S. Raghavan, (Rtd.) DRTC, Bangalore

Prof. Jagtar Singh, Panjabi University, Patiala 

Prof. A.Viswamohan, Osmania University, Hyderabad 

Prof. C. Sasikala, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam.

Prof. B.Ramesh Babu, (Rtd.), University of Madras, Chennai

Prof. K.C. Das, Utkal University, Orissa.

Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam, M.S.S.R. Foundation, Chennai

Dr. Shilender Kumar, University of Delhi, Delhi

Dr Ramesh Gaur, JNU, New Delhi

Dr. P.R. Goswami, IGNCA, Central Secretariat Library, New Delhi

Dr. M. Koteswara Rao, former Librarian, University of Hyderabad

Dr. K Sathyanarayana, (Rtd.), Dy DG, ICMR, New Delhi

Mr. Jayarajan, Former Head, British Council, New Delhi

Dr. R.K. Sharma, Librarian, UN Library, New Delhi.

Shri N.V. Satyanarayana, Informatics India, Ptv. Ltd., Bangalore

Dr. J.N. Sathpathy, President, IASLIC.

Prof. C.R. Karisiddapa, Karnatak University, Dharwad.

Prof. D. Ramesha, Bangalore University, Bangalore.

Dr. S. Srinivasa Raghavan, Bharatidasan University. Tiruchurapalli.