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Focus areas
E Content Management, Digital Librarianship
Highlights:
A pioneering tradition has characterised the School ever since its founding in
1961 as a constituent unit of the SNDT Women’s University. The School began by
offering a Post-Graduate Diploma programme in Librarianship. Over the years, the
School has evolved programmes which reflect the changing context of the
profession, the increasing application of modern technology to well established
information handling techniques. By offering a course in digital Librarianship,
it is responding to the expanding opportunities of the job market.
Throughout its existence, the School has enjoyed a leadership role in the
development of librarianship as a professional field. It has trained over 1,200
professionals. Today, SHPT graduates serve in principal libraries and
information centres in the city and the rest of the country.
Other information:
• We have a well-established Alumni Association with 200
members.
• We offer internship awards for working in the library
• Campus Interviews are conducted for the placement of
the students
• In 2010-11, the school celebrated its golden jubilee and
organized various programmes like ‘Open House’(Past
Students’ meet, NList Awareness Programme for
Librarians, ‘Infonet user awareness programme’for the
faculty and seminar on ‘Open Archives and Institutional
Repositories’ The jubilee ended with an interactivew
session on Library Science Courses in Mumbai: ‘Our
Students: Your Pride’
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Our Goals
The overall goal of the School is to make the maximum possible contribution
towards extending and enhancing the quality of library and information services
to society. The specific goals of the School are to:
• Educate library and information specialists who can
respond to the changing information needs of society.
• Provide a progressive, dedicated, innovative faculty and
staff who understand and respond to the immediate and
long-range needs of their students, the profession, and
society.
• Provide strong, flexible academic programmes through
which students develop proficiencies and abilities
essential for present and future leadership in library and
information science.
• Contribute, through research and publication by both
faculty and students to the continuous critical assessment
and expansion of the body of knowledge underlying
library and information science.
• Establish and maintain a suitable environment and
appropriate resources to facilitate learning.
• Provide leadership within the profession in defining the
role of the profession, the interrelationships between the
University and the practicing professional.
• Satisfy the needs of librarians to continue their education,
by providing a wide variety of courses designed to
refresh and update their knowledge and skills.
Our Mission
Develop technologically oriented women Library and Information Science
specialists who will contribute competitively in Library and Information Science
Profession and knowledge society.
Our Motto
Contribute towards extending and enhancing the quality of Library and
Information Science Education.
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022-2207 2792/022-2203 1879 ext. 263/274 |
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shptsndt@gmail.com
SHPT School of Library Science,
SNDT Women’s University,
1, Nathibai Thackersey Road,
New Marine Lines,
Mumbai 400 020
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Head of Department
Prof. S. C. Powdwal
Courses
• Ph.D. in Library & Information Science
• Master of Library & Information Science
(M.L.I.Sc)
• Bachelor of Library & Information Science
(B.L.I.Sc.)
Teaching Faculty
• Prof. S. C. Powdwal
• Ms. Parul Zaveri (Associate Professor)
• Ms. Jyoti Bhabal (Assistant Professor)
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Dr. Sarika Sawant (Assistant Professor)
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