The Department of Library and Information Science, Aligarh Muslim University celebrated Librarians' Day 2010 with various activities. Earlier, on 12th August, conducted a Debate on "conventional vs digital libraries" in which Ms Mehnas Siddiqi bagged the first prize and Mr. Muzammil Mushtaq second prize. On 13th August, LIS Quiz was conducted. Four teams namely 'Personality', 'Matter', 'Energy', 'Space' participated and the audience was named as 'time'. The Quiz was focused on Dr. SR Ranganathan, his contribution to Library Science. Team 'Personality' bagged first prize and Mr. Mohamed Musthafa acted as Quiz Master. On 14th August, Prof. PB Mangla, a student of Dr. SR Ranganathan delivered ‘Ranganathan Memorial Lecture’. Prof. Mangla stressed on the need for establishing a National Institute of Library and Information Management as an umbrella organization to coordinate various LIS research activities in the country.
Prof. Shabahat Husain, Librarian-in-charge, Maulana Azad Library presided over the function and Dr. Naushad Ali PM, Chairman, DLIS, welcomed the audience. Certificates and prizes were distributed to the winners.
Dear Dr. Mustafa
ReplyDeleteCongratulations for organising Librarians Day in very befiting manner. You have made it very interesting by organising Debate and Quize.
We had also celebrated Librarians Day in Department of Library and Information Science , Assam University, Silchar. You may see the report at my blog ( http://dlisassamuniversitysilchar.blogspot.com )
With regards
Dr. Manoj Kumar Sinha
Reader & Head
DLISc, Assam University, Silchar-788 011