About the Department

The Department has a significant impact on the inclusive growth and development of librarianship in India and abroad. The department has completed its 25 glorious years journey in 2022. The Department has also many milestones. It is the only LIS department that offers MLISc and BLISc Program in distance mode in West Bengal. The faculty members are continuously working on updating the curriculum of the programs to meet the latest technologies and the rapid changing developments in the field of Library science. Learners can avail modern library facilities at the Central Library of the university. The department also organises Internship programs time to time.

Several eminent academicians and librarians of the conventional universities are associated with this department in the processes of curriculum development, course content development and evaluation.

Research Interest:

• All cutting edge applications of Information technologies in LIS
• Digital Libraries
• Management
• Open Access
• Classification research
• Information literacy