Year 2008-09

Information Literacy and Access to Scholarly Information

Seminar on Information Literacy, Goalpara College, 8th August, 2008

This seminar is one of our core activities targeting the college teachers and students in higher education. This year the seminar was held at Goalpara College on 8th August 2008 which was attended by about 50 participants, most of whom are college faculty members. The seminar was inaugurated by Shri Anurag Goel, Deputy Commissioner of Goalpara District and moderated by Dr Kasim Ali Ahmed, Principal, Goalpara College.

Dr Jayanta B Sarma and Mrs. Rituparna Bhattacharyya conducted the seminar covering extensively on how to use search engine to access scholarly information available on the web, critical appraisal, and plagiarism, principle of copyright and fair use. ‘Open Access’ movement was discussed including the resources freely available in ‘public domain’. In his concluding remark Shri Anurag Goel emphasised the importance of ‘information literacy’ for the academic community to succeed in the current competitive climate and ‘knowledge society’ and appreciated the work of Prag Foundation. Principal Kasim offered the votes of thanks and distributed the certificate of participation.

List of Participants

  1. Mr Anurag Goel
  2. Dr K A Ahmed
  3. Dr A B Ahmed
  4. Mr A Hussain
  5. Dr M Ahmed
  6. Mr Gobinda Kalita
  7. Mr Bhakti Medhi
  8. Ms Manisha Bhattacharyya
  9. Mr K Goswami
  10. Mr G Talukdar
  11. Dr Salim Ahmed
  12. Mr Dhrubajyoti Das
  13. Sheikh Lutfur Rahman
  14. Ms Bandana Kalita
  15. Mr Upendra Nath Deva Sarma
  16. Mr Jugabrat Das
  17. Mr Pradip Kumar Seal
  18. Ms Aparna Choudhury
  19. Mr B Das
  20. ATM Ferhad Ali
  21. A B Sarkar
  22. Ms Dhuniya Choudhury
  23. Mrs Jyotshna Das
  24. Mr Hemanta Kumar Kalita
  25. Mr SP Deka
  26. Mr D Medhi
  27. Mr MA Barik
  28. Dr SN Sarma
  29. Prof. S Hussain
  30. Mr Phukan Mandal
  31. Mr Jayanta Kumar Bhrahma
  32. Mr Dhruba Jyoti Das
  33. Ms Janmani Hazarika
  34. Ms Shikha Basak
  35. Mr J I Majumdar
  36. Mr R Choudhury
  37. Ms Snigdha Das
  38. Mr S Islam
  39. Mr A Ali Ahmed
  40. Mr Abed Ali Ahmed
  41. Mr Golam Osmani
  42. Mr M Islam
  43. Mr Gakul Chandra Dev Goswami
  44. Mr Mantu Kumar Das
  45. Mr Dewan Mafijur Rahman
  46. Mr Nilambar Nath
  47. Mr Mazbul Haque Choudhury