The Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS) organised a special programme on the occasion of ‘library Day’. The birth anniversary of Father of library science SR Rangarajan is celebrated as the library Day.
Commemorating the day, Sangrahalaya organised a colloquium on ‘Social Media: Challenges for library Professionals’.
In this colloquium experts of library Science from Bhopal participated. The programme was inaugurated by Vice Chancellor Makhanlal Chaturvedi Journalism University Chief Guest Prof BK Kuthiayala.During his speech Kuthiayala said that the social media is playing vital role in these days.
It is the human nature that he tries to share information with the society and the social media is a result of sharing information.
The colloquium was chaired by Director, IGRMS, Prof. Sarit Kumar Chaudhuri. While addressing the public, Prof. Chaudhuri said that the changes are facing by library is because of information exchange. He also added that the IGRMS library is one of the best libraries in Bhopal.
In the second session a large number of library and social media experts expressed their views regarding best use of social media in increasing readers of library.
library Science experts PK Tripathi, Arti, SS Kushwaha, GN Vyas, Mohd. Rehan, Ravindra Gupta and other experts from various institutions of Bhopal participated in the colloquium.
The experts shared the requirement and usage of social media in their institutions as per the demand of the subject.
The introduction of the programme was given by Sudhir Shrivastava, Asstt. library & Information Officer and the programme was coordinated by library and Information Assistant Mohd. Rehan while the vote of thanks was proposed by library and Information Assistant Ravindra Gupta.