“With the advent of the new media, e-learning tools, libraries and librarians need to assume a new role not only learning how to learn for themselves but also make others learn how to learn, how to unlearn and also relearn,” C.R. Karisiddappa, Professor Emeritus of Karnatak University Dharwad, has said.
He was delivering the keynote address at the sixth KSCLA international conference on ‘Paradigms of digital library, e-resources, open access and information and media literacy’ organised by Karnataka College Libararians’ Association (KSCLA), Bengaluru, in association with KLE Technological University here on Friday.
He said there was a paradigm shift from standalone libraries to library and information networks, from printed publications to digital documents and from ownership to access and the shift was due to the advent of the Internet.
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UNESCO had been promoting media and information literacy to empower people with competencies for surviving and thriving in the highly complex world.
“The National Mission on Education paved way for National Science Digital Library, Open Source Courseware Animation Repository, National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning, Virtual Academy for Semi Arid Tropics and other initiatives. But despite the efforts the trend is that users are moving away from libraries ,” he said.