International e-Conference
on
Library and Allied Subject in Network (e-LAN 2021)
1st-2 nd November, 2021
Organized by
Central Library, Banwarilal Bhalotia College , Asansol, West bengal ,India
Under the aegis of IQAC
In Collaboration with
DH-IDRP, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India
Download Brochure: e-LAN 2021
Program Schedule: e-LAN 2021
Live e-Conference : YouTube
Concept Note
“…technology alone is not enough—it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.”-Steve Jobs
Libraries are the repository of knowledge since they house the books and other knowledge resources that are available, most of which are in print form.
With the introduction of digital technology and Internet connectivity, however, the library landscape and methodologies in relation to collection and curation are rapidly changing.
With the development of techniques and technology, the digital revolution of the twentieth and twenty-first century has created new knowledge and spaces for humankind to evolve culturally.
A digital library or a source of new information can be generated by combining digital technology, Internet connectivity, and physical content. A digital library, by redifinition, is not only a special library space with a focused collection of digital objects that can include text, visual materials, audio materials, and video materials stored in electronic media formats (rather than print, microform, or other media), as well as a means of organizing, storing, and retrieving the library collection's files and media, but it is also a method of enquiring and curating knowledge body and a creative space. It enhances the scale of access to information and knowledge by bridging barriers of time and space, and affords certain tools for remote reading. It prepared the way for Digital Humanities study in the 2000s, which looked at how digital technologies were used and used in the humanities, liberal arts, social scientific scholarship, and beyond.
This branch of studies, which is sometimes referred to as "Digital Humanities," takes a critical approach to examining the role, use, application, and impact of digital tools in our daily lives, our society, economy, cultures, and governments. Following the digital turn in memory institutions, the availability of a huge corpus of cultural artefacts, as well as the creation of new forms of digital objects and embodiments, has opened up various possibilities for computational social science and humanities research, practise, and teaching. As numerous kinds of culture are mediated, produced, accessed, distributed, or consumed through digital devices and technology, the question of whether something is 'digital' or not will become more secondary. The e-Conference on the interface of librarianship and digital humanities aims to generate fresh ideas about the future of scholarship that it may influence.This interdisciplinary e-Conference will bring together important people from the Indian and international Digital Humanities and Library and Information Science communities to offer their perspectives on this e-Platform. After the conference, we'll compile these ideas into an edited version of the book.
About the institutions
Banwarilal Bhalotia College
Established in 1944, Banwarilal Bhalotia College (popularly known as B. B. College in the local fraternity), presently affiliated to Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, India, is one of the leading educational institutions in the area, providing both general and technology-based education. The college boasts of a beautiful campus, spacious classrooms, well-equipped laboratories, state-of-the-art computing facilities, well-stocked libraries and a large playground. It offers undergraduate courses in various subjects of Arts, Commerce and Science streams (both Honours and General). The three Departments of Physics, Zoology and Hindi are presently running postgraduate courses too. In keeping with the changing needs of the students, the college has introduced courses like BBA, BCA and some Departmental Training & Certificate Courses like Dry Farming, Vermi-composting, Mobile Repairing, Mushroom Cultivation, Sericulture Training, Soil-Water Analysis etc. Under the guidance of our highly dynamic Principal Dr. Amitava Basu, we are very much hopeful that B. B. College will be able to nurture generations of enthusiastic learners in the years ahead. In 2010, B. B. College was declared as a “Centre with Potential for Excellence” by UGC, a rare achievement. Subsequently, in January 2020, the college has been re-accredited (Cycle 2) by the NAAC with a grade of B+.Throughout pandemic, the college has made significant efforts to continue its academic and research activities online.Last year, we had one e-Conference and a number of other webinars at college.To keep the research activities alive, we are organising the current e-Conference with an exciting and innovative theme in keeping with that heritage.Certain sections of the Central Library have always been keen to move beyond the apparent and banal and strive for excellence in seeking and researching novel methods in keeping with the College's history.
DH-IDRP, Indian Institute of Technology
IIT Jodhpur is one of the pioneering institutes in the country currently to offer an interdisciplinary doctoral degree in Digital Humanities. The Inter Disciplinary Research Platform at IIT Jodhpur facilitates this doctoral degree programme.This doctoral programme offers unique opportunities to redraw conventional disciplinary boundaries among the humanities, the social sciences, the arts, technology and engineering, and the natural sciences. Doctoral students opting for this program are expected to contribute towards integrating disciplinary approaches of the humanities, liberal arts, social sciences, and computer technologies, with cross-disciplinary theorising and research that can be avant-garde to the field of Digital Humanities. Examples of research emphases may include (but are not limited to): Digital Cultures/ Cultural Practices – Past and Present; Digital Societies; Digital Heritage (Preservation, Conservation, Restoration, Recreation); Thematic Computation Reading of Novels; Multimodal Data Analytics; Digital Epistemologies and Methods. Doctoral research in Digital Humanities shall be premised on project-oriented knowledge production, the practical application of methods, and shall involve interdisciplinary collaboration workflows. In addition to the regular PhD stipend, an additional financial assistance for research may be facilitated on a competitive basis.
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