Sunil Mysore says...

With the surge for Accreditation, Recognitions and Ranking by institutions/organizations, the focus on faculty publication and research start gaining importance. Discussion on publishing in UGC CARE Journals, impact factor, h-index and above all plagiarism became the hot topic for talks, presentations and panel discussion.  The invitation from St. Joseph's First Grade College, Hunsur, is one in this line. St Joseph's wanted to share my views on ' Research Productivity and Institute Intellectual Output ' yesterday (June 17, 2021). Happy to see nearly 200+ audience on Zoom. Thanks to Mr Mahadev, Librarian of the invited college for much wider publicity.  Productivity in simple terms is the output produced in a given period per unit of production factors used to produce it. Research productivity is the number of publications per researcher with a distinguishing impact on the field. There are different perception and different objectives for the stakeholders in an organizat

  Enjoyed the interaction with young managers of JSS Center for Management Studies (JSS CMS) Mysore during the 'Creative Workshop using Canva' today, Wednesday, June 16, 2021.  The book by Pavan Soni (2020) on 'Design your thinking' helped a lot to link 'Creativity' to the 'Designing' of Creatives for SDMIMD. But, the book published in 1975 by Prof. A. Neelameghan on 'Presentation of Ideas in Technical Writing' gave a different perspective to the holistic understanding of 'Design Thinking'. The presentation of psychology and the thinking process in Idea Plane, Verbal Plane and Notational Plane by Prof Neelameghan is amazing. After reading the complex small book published during the last century, the current publications on 'Design thinking' became the old wine in the new bottle.  Coming to today's workshop, it was a great experience to engage the young managers for 6 hours on a hands-on session on Canva (www.canva.com), a grap

It was a refreshing session delivered today (Saturday, May 29, 2021). After a big gap spoke about ‘libraries’ moving away from regular topics - research methodology, plagiarism, reference management, searching, e-learning, etc. The word ‘emerging technologies’ used to denote the experimental stage of the technology but used as common as which is already put into action. Started the session to clarify the same with some video(s) and discussed 10 thoughts about the developments which I feel adaptable by the libraries to move ahead with National Educational Policy (NEP) 2020 and Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy 2020. The initial 5 thoughts focused on Changing Role of the Library and its Management. The thoughts are much needed to enhance the presence of the library & the librarian; and to ensure the library is associated with stakeholders of the organization & the society at large. The first five includes - Library as a social institution (as a Common Collaborative P

Happily received the mobile call from Prof. J.M. Subramanya, former Director of SDMIMD, he was so gentle, enquired about the things casually. I always admire him for his listening skills and the way he conveys the information.  After the usual talk, Prof. JMS conveyed shocking news, about the sad demise of my friend, faculty colleague and a think tank Prof. Dr K. Balakrishnan due to a heart attack yesterday in Chennai. Having known and with regular updates on FB, Dr KB, an agile personality with care to health, personality and presentation, it was shocking news to me.  Dr K. Balakrishnan, for SDMites he was KB Sir... Photo source: http://www.amity.edu/jaipur/leadership We miss you KB Sir, but your guidance, thoughts and work will be with us and SDMIMD. You have made us think differently pertaining to our institute brochure, the conduct of programs, presenting of our institute to the visitors, and, much more. Personally, you are the one who gave confidence that a libra

The changing dimensions of libraries and services have introduced different roles to the librarian. Awareness about teaching-learning process, documentation, record management, publication activity, participation in academic gatherings such as conference and seminar, and association with the academic network, has made librarians to extend their services beyond the library responsibility. Today, librarians are involved in many responsibilities to match the nomenclature to the roles they performed in an organization. And, the librarians have accepted the nomenclatures such as – Knowledge Manager, Record Manager, Head of Information Services, Information Manager, Head – Web Services, etc. – gracefully. Since libraries are the storehouse of publications, any activity pertaining to publication librarian will be the defined member in the committee. Hence, librarians own the responsibility of managing records of the Institute publications and publications by faculty/research community too.

Hi Friend,  Sometime feel, should I write (blog) or not ! But, later realize it is good to have someone who only listen and will not revert back...like...so keep blogging. It was not a good Sunday yesterday, came to know about sudden demise of our staff member - Mangalamma's husband in the morning. After paying last respect...came home...got irritated with TV shows... so, thought of sharing some thoughts shared during the book review presented to MyLISA members on Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at Mysore University Library, University of Mysore, Mysuru (Namma Mysuru)... Dell supported a lot. Like to share with you... 'Google’ has become synonymous with ‘Search Engine’ claiming 68% of stake globally in the search engine market. It is common to say ‘Google it’ if you could not recall or reply for a query raised. The inclusion of the word ‘Google’ as verb in Oxford English Dictionary demonstrates the company hold on both information. Having understood the presence of the Go