The LIS Academy (Library & Information Science Academy) is a professional Public Charitable Trust established to work for the development of the Profession and to assist Libraries with the state-of-the-art technology and Librarians with continuous skill development. The primary focus of the Academy is to provide need-based service to the different types of Libraries in the country and to work for the advancement of Library and Information Science (LIS) profession at large.

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The LIS Academy having a tagline “Learn Inspire Serve”, aims to become the best, active and dynamic professional body by supporting the professionals with the essential knowledge, skills, and values of librarianship using innovative and cutting-edge technology and by adopting best and fair practices and innovative ideas.

The mission of the LIS Academy is to spread multi-dimensional utility and overall growth of Librarianship, through education, literature, research, publications, outsource, training programs, consultation and collaboration.

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Along with the above primary objectives, LIS Academy work with the Higher Education Institutions in improving their research and publication productivity by conducting workshops and seminars to their Teachers and Research Scholars and help them in enhancing their research productivity. Accordingly, the Academy also undertakes the consultancy for preparing institutions for Accreditations like NBA, NAAC and also for NIRF.

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Following are some of the proposed activities of the Academy.

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• LIS Finishing school

• Research Support Services

• Technology Support Services

• Academic Support Services

• Consultancy Services

• Publication Programmes

• LISA Conferences

• Preparation of National Directory of LIS professionals in India

• LIS Wikipedia