About SALIS

SALIS

The acronym ‘SALIS’ stands for Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science. Like-minded library professionals established SALIS as a professional association in March 2002. The primary focus was to provide need-based service to the profession and to work for the advancement of Library and Information Science (LIS). The current focus of SALIS is to ‘Reach the Unreached’ LIS professionals with rural settings in order to minimize the digital divide. It also pays attention on the working library professionals of Public Libraries, the segment which almost remains as an area of neglect.

STRUCTURE

The structure of SALIS is federal in character. There exists a central authority namely the Governing Council (GC) with elected/nominated office bearers. The GC is the apex body responsible for policy making. The role of the GC is to provide guidance and support for each chapter. Each chapter has its own office-bearers and functions under the guidance of their respective Executive Committee (EC). The EC is empowered to take decisions and is also the authority for implementation at local levels. Thus the decision making process has been decentralized. Each chapter has the freedom to organize programmes based on their local needs.

CHAPTERS

SALIS  has opened regional chapters at the following cities with the basic aim of providing services with a regional perspective as well as to meet regional aspirations of its members. It is also contemplating to open a few more regional chapters in the years to come.

• Chennai    ( 3rd March 2002)
• Thiruchirapalli (6th April 2002)
• Coimbatore (19th October 2002)
• Tirunelveli  (22nd March 2003)
• Madurai    (13th March 2004)
• New Delhi (18th June 2004)
• Vellore (7th August 2005 )
• Nagpur  (27th December 2006)
• Karaikudi (9th April 2008)
• Erode (9th March 2009)
• Puducherry ( 28th July 2013)

CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMME(CEP)

 

As envisaged in its objectives, every chapter of SALIS is periodically conducting lectures on emerging trends by inviting experts. The experts are either the practicing librarians or academicians from Library and Information Science Schools and allied fields. It also has conducted special programmes to impart softskills, which is very much essential for library professionals in the age of globalization and liberalisation. The thrust areas are Information and Communication Technology(ICT), human resource development and training with emphasis on information literacy, the ability to handle digital environment efficiently with the latest digital tools and techniques.  It also conducts Quiz programmes for library and information science students of post-graduate level.

 

COURSE CONTENT

SALIS felt the need of the hour of library professional. In consonance with one of its objectives, SALIS has formulated the course content on the following topics viz.:

• Knowledge Management
• E-publishing
• Managerial skills
• ICT, Digital tools/techniques
• Web resources
• Information Literacy
• E-resources
• Internet applications
• Technical Writing
• Meta data

• TRAINING PROGRAMMES

  SALIS offers the following services:

  • Setting up Libraries and Information Centres
  • Library Automation
  • Database Creation and Maintenance
  • Application of ICT in Libraries
  • Knowledge Management
  • Digitisation
  • Digital Library
  • Institutional Repositories
  • Web Designing
  • Library Portal
  • Customised Library and Information Services
  • Human Resource Development
  • Information Literacy Programmes
  • Community Information
  • Evaluation of Library Services
  • Training programmes on Various LIST and ICT topics

  PARTNERSHIP WITH UNESCO

  SALIS has organized a series of programmes on Information Literacy  at Chennai, Nagpur and Delhi jointly with UNESCO.

  SALIS undertaken a project on ‘Developing an E-Learning Portal for Awareness Raising on Information Literacy Competency Development Skills for Southern Asia’.
  More details of the project can be found it ‘http://salisonline.org’
  E-GROUP

  SALIS E-Group has been established it E-Group for exchange of information and ideas among the members. It is one of the active e-groups in India.

   SALIS Success Story

  Continuous need based programmes for professional development in emerging new areas and
  Professional Skill Development

  Encouraging, recognizing, felicitating and  honouring the LIS Professionals

  Exchange of knowledge, ideas and dissemination of latest information through SALIS E-group, newsletters, journals, web site and blog

  Giving various roles to deserving members on rotation such as EC/GC members in various capacities, resource persons for SALIS programmes, Editorial Advisory Board members for SALIS publications, etc

  Accountability, Transparency, integrity and honesty in all the transactions

  Passion and Commitment to work among the members

  Collective decision making process and sharing responsibility

  No special privileges to EC/GC members

  Slogans   

  SALIS Family
  Team SALIS
  To Reach the UnReached
  Innovate and Serve
  Quality
  Professionalism
  Together we can build knowledge Communities