About

About The University:

Dravidian University which is an Inter-State Institution was established in 1997 at Kuppam through an Act of Andhra Pradesh Assembly on a sprawling campus of 1091 acres.  The  basic aim of the University is to promote Dravidian Languages which is considered to be a tool for the National Integration and for achieving mutual understanding between people speaking different languages in matters related to the cultural heritage, varied life styles and evolving trends among Dravidians, spread over the Southern region of India.  The University may be compared to an umbrella or to a big tree where in all 27 Dravidian Languages have come under one roof.  The Dravidian Languages family is the second  largest in India and their culture is highly regarded for their unique ethno-cultural attributes.

Kuppam is a tri-junction for the States of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Tamilnadu (8 km from Tamilnadu and 4 km from Karnataka).  The University campus-Srinivasavanam has a landscape of serene, peaceful, pollution-free and aesthetically appealing ambience.  The main attraction of Kuppam is the Lord Kotilingeshwara Temple situated in Kammasandra Village in Kolar district,  Karnataka State at a distance of  33 kms from Kuppam.  The temple is about 6 km from Kolar Gold Fields also known as KGF.  The presiding deity of this temple is Lord Kotilingeshwara.  This place has the distinction of having the biggest Shivalinga in the World.

About The Library:

The Dravidian University Central Library, also known as Bishop Caldwell Dravidian  e-Resources Centre, is housed in’ Narayanaguru Bhavan’ which  provides every conceivable form of information services to cater to the academic needs of students, scholars and faculty members.  The Library has a large collection of 75,150 thousand volumes, in various subjects, very useful to all users in general and for the researchers of the Dravidian Languages in particular.  In addition to book collection, the library concentrates on subscribing to reputed journals and learned periodicals, which are very useful for research in Dravidian Studies.  It aims to achieve a robust process-driven system through acquisition, organization and dissemination of latest library materials and providing information resources to the users from its rich and diverse collections, thereby helping in the development of a highly motivated, knowledgeable, skilled academia.

About The Conference:

Scholarly communication is an age old activity practiced by the scholarly community to disseminate their research findings, innovations, etc to the peers and all others who are interested in learning, research and development.  It is a crucial component of research.  and the scientific way of scholarly communication began since 1665 when the first two journals, viz., Philosohical Transactions of Royal Society, London and the Journal Des Scavens, Paris were published. It is the process of academics, scholars and researchers to share and publish their research findings and to make them available to a wider society. It includes how the scholarly writings are created, disseminated, evaluated for quality and preserved for the future. Tremendous strides have been made  during the last three centuries in scholarly communication to disseminate the scholarly content with quality and speed. In the present  globalised digital era, characterized by the  proliferation of digital communication methods, and impacted by the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), scholarly communication has become an area of great interest not only to LIS Professionals but to the  scientific communities, all over the world.

The dynamics of information, ICTs, and electronic information resources  are making fundamental changes in the societies across the world in Information Access, Organization, Preservation and Delivery, especially since the last quarter of the 20^th    century.  This necessitated for developing an Information  Literate Society -- a learning society and a knowledge society. Library and Information Centres (LICs) being the prime sources of information, and information providers to the society at large, are under compulsion not only to manage with the ever expanding growth of electronic information resources  and databases, but also to impart  Information Literacy to the academic community and to the society as a whole. As it is well known, the Information Literate Society is the society equipped with the skills to deal with the issues of identifying information, its authenticity, accuracy, ethics, reliability and applicability to the needs of the society. In this context of need for  producing quality and scholarly communication, it is expected that a scholarly exchanging / sharing knowledge shall take place during the two days of the National Seminar on the new practices, methods, and models of communication of scholarly information.