Live_Now and Next: Post Covid 19 World for Digital Libraries
Channel: NPTEL - Special Lecture Series Live
Date: 14/05/2020

Link for the Presenters Slides - https://tinyurl.com/livepdfslides

Presenters 
Dr. Partha Pratim Das
Professor
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur
Dean & Director (Library & Information)
Head of the Kalanidhi Division at the IGNCA
New Delhi

Dr. Partha Pratim Das is a Professor of Department of Computer Science & Engineering and Head of Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship at IIT Kharagpur. He is also the
Joint Principal Investigator, National Digital Library of India Project of MHRD at IIT Kharagpur.
Dr. Das has over 30 years of professional experience between academia and industry.

Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur is a librarian from India. He is presently working as Dean, Director (Library & Information) and Head of the Kalanidhi Division at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi, a body under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Prof. Gaur is one of the senior-most faculty/officials in IGNCA and also officiates for Member Secretary whenever he is on tour or /and on leave. As a Dean, IGNCA he is responsible for the management and smooth running of various academic programs including  7 postgraduate diploma courses and 5 short term certificate courses in various disciplines such as cultural management, South Asian studies, Buddhism, digital library & data management, cultural informatics, conservation, folklore, tribal studies, research methodology, ethnographic documentary making, and screen writing, etc.

About the Topic: This Webinar will make an impact assessment on Covid 19 crisis in regard to preparedness of Academic Libraries in providing anytime anywhere access to digital Library and information services and resources to their clientele.  How various stakeholders of Library & Information Industry are prepared to cope up with current lockdown situation?  The stakeholders include Librarians, Library Administrators, Information Industry, Technocrats and public at large i.e. users. What are the gaps, how to fill these gaps to prepare Indian Academic and Research Libraries in designing of Digital Library of the Future?