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PERSPECTIVES ON
Role of the Library
in the EMERGING
Wisdom Society
Dr. Vivek Patkar
[email protected]
NACLIN 2010
Zuarinagar, Goa, June 15-18, 2010
Wisdom Society
Knowledge Society
(2000 CE -)
Information Society
(1950 CE -)
Industrial Society
(1450 CE -)
Agricultural Society
(8550 BCE -)
Mobile Society
Business Process:
• Dispersed production, storage, and
controlling units and global workforce
• Outsourcing for cost efficient operations
• Involving customer in operations
(self-service systems)
• Knowledge generation, assimilation and
coordination functions are themselves
mobile and selectively outsourced
• Mobility of information, ideas, knowledge
and experience helps the decision-making
Mobile Society (2)
Education and Training:
• Remote or e-learning where the learner,
teacher and administration are located
far apart (driven by ICT software products
like Blackboard, WebCT, and Lotus Learning
Space creating virtual learning environment)
• The EDUSAT is facilitating this process
in India
• Teleconferencing and Webinars used for
the conduct of training and mentoring
Reengineered Library Support
• Library where information is converted in
the digital form, stored in multimedia
repositories and supplied by digital means
• e-mobile library providing services on the
24/7 basis and that too in the personalised
manner (on the PDA or mobile phone)
• library becoming a learning organisation
which promotes learning at the workplace
for its staff in variety of ways
New Age Services
 Instructing ‘invisible’ library user who
remotely accesses information
 Developing best practices for the Web
and information searching to minimise
the information overload and anxiety
 Imparting information literacy covering
library literacy, media literacy,
computer literacy, internet literacy,
research literacy and critical thinking
 Promoting e-learning and e-research
Knowledge for Enablement
 Distinctiveness: knowledge makes a
difference
 Invariance: knowledge is unfailing over a
large set of conditions
 Usefulness: knowledge helps to achieve the
set goals
 Coherence: knowledge has suitable links
with the existing knowledge
 Formality: knowledge can be formally
expressed and communicated
 Conformity: knowledge is largely acceptable
across the enterprise
 Authority: knowledge is trustworthy
Knowledge Society Core
Knowledge Processing & Organisation:
• Knowledge involves action matching the
context and upheld by others
• Produces new knowledge through innovation
and its conversion into productive use
• Shift from knowledge extraction to knowledge
modelling for integrating implicit and explicit
knowledge
• Use of knowledge modelling techniques like
CommonKADS, Protégé 2000, and Unified
Modelling Language (UML) with its attendant
Object Constraint Language (OCL)
Knowledge Society & Library
• Heightened Competition
(Library support to provide knowledge edge)
• Downsizing of Organizations
(Library as an institutional memory)
• Increasing Complexities
(Records management by the library)
• Emerging New Opportunities
(Evaluation of options by the library)
Knowledge Society & Library (2)
• Professional Approach
(Supply of norms & standards by the library)
• Transparency & Accountability
(Tracking the disclosed information)
• Right to Information
(Collect, collate & present information)
• Self-Renewal
(Library upgraded to the Knowledge Centre)
Elements of Wisdom
1. Highest expression of self-development
and future consciousness
2. Cognitive process probing deeply the
information and knowledge
3. A virtue or socially valued pattern of
behaviour that is by and large welcome
4. A personal good which is desirable
state or condition of mind leading to
rewarding experience for the individual
5. Ethical values guiding the actions
Wisdom Society Features
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Local and global issues will have higher
interdependence (e.g. optimal use of natural
resources, waste disposal and environmental quality)
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Actions will utilise the latest technological
products, processed knowledge and
incorporate wider societal concerns
Every citizen will be required to act wisely
(i.e. with utmost social responsibility)
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Co-habiting with advanced multifunctional robots and nanotechnology &
bioinformatics products
Wisdom Society Features (2)
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All systems will be far more accountable
in addition to being efficient and effective
Wisdom, like knowledge, would become
an object of well defined study and
practice and treated as a manageable
resource
Openness is welcome by constantly
incorporating new ideas and innovation
Learning, experience accumulation and
wisdom development are closely linked
Learning Evolution
Socrates
Plato
(ACT)
(METHOD)
Aristotle
(LOGIC)
[shift in learning from action to method to knowledge assimilation]
[ICT can restore the lost aspects of learning]
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Facilities for universal dialogue, virtual learning, second life
enactment, scenario building, information envisioning and
options evaluation do enrich the learning
Teacher
Classical model:
W - C - T
Walk Chalk Talk
Emerging model:
W - C - T
Web Contact Team
Enabling Technologies – computer, networking,
audio/video conferencing, digital libraries,
webinars, cyberinfrastructure
Role of Teacher
• Learning facilitator
• New instruction material
designer
• Information organisor
• Developer of new evaluation
and assessment methods
• Explorer of new avenues for
knowledge applications
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Information Needs of the
Wisdom Society
• Articulated and balanced viewpoint
to guide the actions
• Material for developing deep learning
and critical thinking
• In-depth information and knowledge
with the documented experience to
help one realize his/her potential
• Leisure planning with value addition
Information Needs of the
Wisdom Society (2)
• Self-service guidance and promotion
• Unbiased and authoritative information
for building of online courts and online
dispute resolution systems
• Articulated information to promote the
customer participation in production
(Prosumer)
Books
Websites
Websites
Journals
Electronic
Resources
Balanced Information Input
Solution
Library Contribution
• Reducing information poverty
• Promoting archival intelligence to handle
primary sources of information
(extending records management techniques)
• Enhancing trust of online information and
allied systems
• Facilitating establishment of both online
and offline ‘communities of practices’
• Adoption of the ‘value sensitive design’
(VSD) approaches to introduce human
values in information system operations
LIS Preparations
Periodic research-based studies to cover:
• changing user needs,
• information seeking behaviour,
• information consolidation & interchange,
• information surfeit,
• knowledge application,
• incorporation of ethical aspects,
• machine-mediated dealings, and
• organisation of material and services to
move towards ‘ubiquitous library’
Library Upgraded
to
Wisdom Support System
to
ensure informed dialogues,
restore art with technology,
support multi-culture, and
strengthen the economic &
ecological interdependence
In the forthcoming
wisdom society too
the library would play
a pivotal role with
focused services and
broader perspective
Thank You