[IFLA-L] Webinar presented by ALA IRRT Webinar Committee-- Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) libraries consortium: a pioneering journey in cooperative acquisitions and knowledge sharing
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Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) libraries consortium:
a pioneering journey in cooperative acquisitions and knowledge sharing
Date/Time: Wednesday Oct 25th, 10 - 11 am (CT)/ 11am - 12 noon (ET)
Registration link: https://ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GE59kPnsSLaxojJXae2O8w
Description:
Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) are Central government-funded Business Schools under the Ministry of Education, Government of India. The first IIM was established in 1961 at Ahmedabad in Gujarat, followed by Calcutta in West Bengal. By 2000, there were about six in the different states of India. Currently, there are twenty-one IIMs in twenty-one states of India, and are autonomous under a 2017 Act of Parliament which designates them as institutions of national importance. In 2001, the IIMs libraries formed a consortium through a memorandum of understanding, empowering them to review and coordinate collective resource acquisitions and subscriptions in Business and Management.
This webinar aims to discuss the growth of resources within the IIM libraries over time and the expansion of its activities beyond acquisitions. Over the last seven years, we have shared best practices and policies of collection development, developed a Union catalog of print holdings to facilitate interlibrary loans, crafted a uniform license agreement for the acquisition of digital content, introduced alumni services; and, developed procedures for compliance of financial audits and analysis of usage statistics of resources. At the 2023 annual meeting, a roadmap was developed to strengthen the consortium under the “one nation, one subscription model” and to further the mission in a larger conglomerate of consortia efforts at a national and a topical level under the University Grants Commission and Ministry of Higher education.
Speaker:
K. Rama Patnaik is the Head Librarian at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Karnataka, India since 2008. She holds a Bachelor's Degree and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India. Her doctoral thesis jointly adjudicated with the University of Michigan was commended as an excellent work. She received Gold Medals for securing top rank in both the Bachelor's and Master's degree in LIS. Other awards she has received include the Emerald Research Fund (Indian LIS Category, 2012) and Best Business Librarian 2018 awarded by MANLIBNET, the Management Libraries Network. She has many publications to her credit and has presented at numerous professional events. Two major projects she has completed lately include renovating the interior of the iconic library building and developing the Union Catalogue of IIM libraries holdings.
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