JAMMU: The Department of Library and Information Science, University of Jammu, organised the first alumni meet.
On the occasion Mukhtar-ul-Aziz, Director, Libraries and Research was the Chief Guest. The meet was presided over by Prof. Rajender Gupta, Dean Faculty of Social Sciences; Dr. Urmil Gupta, one of the founder, faculty member of the department was the Guest of Honour. Over 100 candidates attended the meet.
Aziz enlightened the participants with his experiences in India and abroad. He also shared his valuable thoughts and need to digitalize the entire services of libraries. He also stated that role of libraries is to transform societies by providing extensive services to common man. He stressed that librarians should play a pro-active role for formation of knowledge society.
Prof. Rajender Gupta gave his valuable suggestions for the growth and development of library profession. He motivated the alumni of the department to be proactive in the profession.
Dr Urmil Gupta briefed about the history and foundation of the Department of Library and Information Science.
Prof. Sangita Gupta, Head of Department stressed upon budding professionals to explore opportunities for exposure and highlighted the achievements of the department in brief for the last ten years. She also assured full cooperation and assistance in the form of training and learning latest techniques of serving users besides ICT application to Libraries.
Vote of thanks was presented by Pramod Singh, Assistant Professor of the Department and the meet was ably conducted by Vikram Sahi, a research scholar. Others who graced the occasion includes Ram Rattan Sharma, Swaran Jamwal, Raj Rani, Vijay Gupta, P.R Vaid, M.P Raina and G.R Upadhyaye, prominent library professionals from University of Jammu.