About Department
ICT application in Library and Information Science, E Content Management, Digital Librarianship
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 and started 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 2000 professionals. Today, SHPT graduates serve in principal libraries and information centres in the city and the rest of the country and abroad.
Other information:
• Since 2013-2014, Online Certificate Courses in Archives Management and School and Children’s Librarianship have been introduced.
• We have a well-established Alumni Association which organizes programmes.
• 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 interactive session on Library Science Courses in Mumbai: ‘Our Students: Your Pride’
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.
Develop technologically oriented women Library and Information Science specialists who will contribute competitively in Library and Information Science Profession and knowledge society.
Contribute towards extending and enhancing the quality of Library and Information Science Education.