Our Founder gives a talk about Library and Information Sciences as a Career

Our Founder gives a talk about Library and Information Sciences as a Career

A couple of weeks back I was invited by a friend  Dr Shubhada Nagarkar to participate in an event she planned for and deliver a short talk.  Dr Shubhada is a Prof of Library and Information Sciences in the Savitribai Phule University, Pune. She planned this event to attract more students to the profession and so the talk was for Undergrad students of any discipline. The event was online and held on May 15. There were around 37 participants. There were five speakers Dr Mehtab Alam is the Head of an LIS department of AMU. He talked about the profession and…
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New Year, New Energy: Goals, Growth & Giving Back!

New Year, New Energy: Goals, Growth & Giving Back!

Another new financial year begins and we have already completed a month. This year we started off on a great note. We created a set of goals for the year 2025-26. Then, using the power of mind maps and some productivity techniques that I learnt from my mentor recently, we worked further. We split the goals month wise. We also worked out methods on tracking what we accomplished. We found that we had done pretty well for April! That felt really good and we are charged to do more next month!  In April an important development was figuring out how we could…
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Decision making / taking responsibility

Decision making / taking responsibility

The years 1990 - 1992. I was an Assistant Librarian of the Indian Institute of Geomagmetism. Fresh out of Library School. However I was not in my twenties like most of my batchmates were. I was married and had two school going children. But having got married immediately after graduation, I was still carrying the mindset of - Listen to your elders / Do not break any rules and all the generally good/ethical stuff that one is taught. However, as a "professional", one is not often taught to make decisions that may not fall under the above We had a…
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