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This blog is created to raise awareness about the importance and value of libraries among the people of our country, special importance is given to exhibit contribution of health science librarians in health and social care within institutions and in nation building.
The health science librarians provide information resources to support health care. They encourage widespread use of health information among doctors, medical students, nurses, physiotherapists, dietitians, social workers and researchers.
The technological advancement has enabled libraries to move beyond the four walls of a building, as a result, we, the librarians strive to meet the health information needs of a larger community and try to amend health information delivery at every region, so that people live better, healthier, happier and more productive lives.

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Thursday, August 13, 2020

National Librarians Day

 Dr. S.R Ranganathan (1892-1972) is a father of Library Science whose birthday that falls on August 12 is celebrated as Librarians Day in the country. His brief biography is available at Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organisation for those interested in learning more about him.

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Excel & Tableau softwares help to transform data into powerful visualisation forms for its better understanding. Learn more about them  at BrightTalk

Friday, April 10, 2020

I learnt about yet another text mining tool- Distant Reader. This tool empower researchers to use and understand large amount of textual information residing in scholarly journals or the complete works of a given author and much more.  Further details are available at its site HERE.

There is Voyant Tools as well that provide almost a similar service. It offers an open-source, web based application for performing text analysis. This is for interpretation of texts and corpus supporting scholars in digital humanities. Read more on its site HERE

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Need to keep pace with the analytic tools just like-understanding webometrics and sentiment analysis based tools. Found an interesting paper..A history of webometrics by Mike Thelwall

Came across this link and to learn about sentiment analysis here

Found an interesting blog Sustaining the knowledge commons