ICSSR sponsored Nation Seminor on

“Strategies for the Development of Hyderabad Karnataka Backward Region”

March 13th & 14th , 2015

Organized by:

Department of Economics,RK Govt. First Grade College

Chittapur, Kalalburagi

Venue: R K Govt. First Grade College Chittapur

ROLE OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTERS IN HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT IN HYDERABAD KARNATAKA REGION

Mr. Prasanna Devaramatha AnilkumarResearch Scholar

Department of Library and Information ScienceGulbarga University, kalaburagi

anilmagala@gmail.com

Natural resources can be better utilized by motivated human resources only.

Human resources can be developed to an unlimited extent because every human being has endless potentials. Thus there is a need to invest time, money and effort in it to provide fruitful results.

“Each human being is born as something new, something never existed before. Each is born with the capacity to win at life. Each has his own unique potentials, capabilities and limitations.”

- Mc Gregor

Thus it is the higher responsibility for library and information centres to develop human resources to the achievement of personnel as well as organization goals and objectives especially in weaker section like our Hyderabad Karnataka region.

INTRODUCTION:

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTER: AN OVERVIEW:

A library is a treasure-house of knowledge.

A well-stocked library is an asset to the school, college, university or the neighbourhood.

A library has a librarian to guide and attend to the readers.

A library is a place where not only books but also magazines, Dictionaries, Encyclopaedias, journals and newspapers are well-stocked for the benefit of the readers.

A student or a reader can increase his knowledge of various subjects by reading in the library during his spare time. One can update one's knowledge by reading regularly in a library.

In 1970, Leonard Nadler published his book “Developing Human Resources” in which he coined the term ‘human resource development’ (HRD).

Human resource refers to the talents and energies of people that are available to an organization

Development refers to a process of active learning from experience-leading to systematic and purposeful development of the whole person, body, mind, and spirit.

HRD is the integrated use of training, organizational and career development efforts to improve individual, group, and organizational effectiveness.

HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT: AN OVERVIEW:

DEFINITIONS FOR HRD:

According to South Pacific Commission ‘human resource development is equipping people with relevant skills to have a healthy and satisfying life’.

According to Watkins, ‘human resource development is fostering long-term work related learning capacity at individual, group and organizational level’.

The American Society for Training and Development defines HRD as follows: ‘human resource development is the process of increasing the capacity of the human resource through develop ment. It is thus the process of adding value to individuals, teams or an organization as a human system’.

Work Opportunity

Development of Traits

Ability Development

Creative Motivation

Good Relation

Organisational Growth

Human Resource

Information

Objectives of HRD

HYDERABAD KARNATAKA REGION: AN OVERVIEW:

Hyderabad-Karnataka is a region located in north-east Karnataka, India. It is the Kannada speaking part of the Hyderabad State that was ruled by the Nizams of Hyderabad until 1948. After merging with the Indian union, the region was part of Hyderabad State until 1956. The Hyderabad- Karnataka region comprises Bidar, Yadgir, Raichur, Koppal, Ballary and Kalaburagi that are in the present state of Karnataka. The Hyderabad-Karnataka region is the second largest arid region in India.

Hyderabad province and its citizens became independent on 17 September 1948. This day is celebrated by the Karnataka government as the Hyderabad-Karnataka liberation day.

Hyderabad Karnataka Area Development Board (HKADB) came into existence following Karnataka Government Act 35 in 1991 for the purpose of development of HK region in all aspects.

Karnataka has performed better in gender related development and occupies seventh rank among major states. In Karnataka, HDI values are higher than GDI values in all districts. It shows that the levels of socio-economic development of women are lower than the general level all over Karnataka. It is to be noted that a higher level of economic development does not ensure higher gender-related development or human development. Districts of Malnad and coastal areas which have ranks lower in per capita income, have higher gender development / human development. The districts of Hyderabad Karnataka occupy the last positions in gender development as in the case of Human Development.(Dr.Nanjundappa's Report, Submitted by admin on Tue, 2010-09-14 15:56)

Status of HRD in HK region :

ROLE OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTERS IN HRD IN HK REGION:

Libraries are playing an important role to provide right information to right user at right time.

Libraries are having more good collection of documents which ever documents are really helpful to user to gain more knowledge within a minimum possible time.

Librarians or information scientist are to do work wholeheartedly to provide good library and information services to user in a right manner.

Impact of ICT on library and information centres is highly increasingly day by day. So Library or information centres are ready to accept new technologies to provide useful information to its users.

Library and information centres are becoming society oriented knowledge centre and also try to attract more users irrespectively.

Conduct user awareness and information literacy programmes to user to adopt and use of new technologies available in library to gain knowledge.

Libraries are collect regional archives like folk literacy, palm leaves, local newspapers, magazines, gazetteers, government notifications, agricultural related information documents, children’s special documents, women’s’ empowerment etc.

SUGGESTIONS:

CONCLUSION:

Hyderabad Karnataka region is a part of Karnataka state

with the several special natures with the great history. In this

region we found less human resource development status

because itself it is a backward region in Karnataka than all. We

need good library information centres to develop our

knowledge as well as literacy skills. So mean time library and

information centres are the integral part of society to human

resource develop and women empowerment through the

knowledge and special skills.

The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme.

- Hassanal Bolkiah

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

- Norman Cousins