Our Background
How We Got Here
In order to cope with the emergent professional manpower requirements for various kinds and levels of libraries and information centres, Rabindra Bharati University, under the leadership of Prof. Ramaranjan Mukherjee, the then Vice-chancellor established the Department of Library and Information Science at Jorasanko Campus. Initially, it was started as an evening course in the year 1985 as the first professional Post Graduate degree course in Library and Information Science (i.e. BLibISc). It is under the Post Graduate Faculty of Arts. The Department has introduced M.Lib.I.Sc. programme in the year 2007. Till 2021 end 17 Research Scholars Awarded Ph.D. from this Department. The Department is publishing RBU Journal of Library & Information Science- a UGC Care Listed Scholarly Journal since last 23 years.
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