EBSCO Acknowledges WeSchool’s commitment to knowledge enhancement through technology innovation
Mumbai, India, May 26, 2014 –
The Learning Resource Centre (Library) of Prin. L. N. Welingkar
Institute of Management Development & Research (WeSchool) is awarded
the ‘Customer Success Award’ for best practice through technology
innovation by EBSCO in appreciation of demonstrated efforts to share
successful initiatives with the community. EBSCO’s customer success
program identifies and felicitates various accomplishments in areas such
as technology innovation, teacher collaboration, marketing initiatives,
community outreach, and fundraising by its customers.
EBSCO
Information Services provides research solutions comprised of research
databases, e-books and e-journals to support the information and
collection development needs of libraries and other institutions and to
maximize the search experience for researchers and other end users in
the community.
To
accommodate its nearly two thousand tech-savvy, knowledge-hungry
students and faculty, WeSchool’s LRC has subscribed to many databases
including EBSCO’s Business Source and Complete
that covers collections from renowned institutions such as Harvard
Business School which have proved to be one of the best resources to
assist students and professors with their research as it collates data
from across the world in a structured manner thus enhancing the quality
of their study.
With
a strong strategy built around a clear value proposition of satisfying
the needs of the digital-savvy users’ ever-increasing demands, Mr.
Giridhar Kunkur, Head of Learning Resource Centre at WeSchool along
with the Library team took several initiatives, one of them being the
establishment of ‘infoWE’, an interactive library portal which
helps access various global databases, journals and eBooks. This was
followed by the development and circulation of a monthly bulletin
‘infoCapsule’, across several verticals to keep the students and faculty
apprised of the wealth of relevant global content that adds value to
the classroom teaching-learning. Each bulletin focuses on a specific
topic and contains links to relevant articles, news and videos that are
in sync with the ongoing syllabus in the classroom. The implementation
several such initiatives has not only led to a substantial increase in
the number of students accessing these databases but also improved their
understanding about their field of interest,
its application and assimilation.
To spread the message to other educational institutes in the community, WeSchool had the privilege of initiating and hosting ‘Library Strategic Directions: Meeting the needs of 21st Century Scholar’, a
workshop jointly organized by University of Mumbai and Harvard Business
School. The workshop conducted by Ms. Melissa Shaffer, Director, Baker
Library 3.0 Strategy and Infrastructure, HBS who spearheaded the
strategic planning and infrastructure development to position Baker as a
leading 21st century
Knowledge & Learning Resource Center, outlined the need to design
the strategy to reach out and create an action plan to make the
library’s role more meaningful to bring excellence to the institutions.
Commenting
on the recent honor bestowed by EBSCO, Prof. Dr. Uday Salunkhe, Group
Director, WeSchool said “Our aim is to create an information repository
thus giving our students access to all type of information anytime and
anywhere which will help them in knowledge enhancement by getting
exposure to worldwide database. We are constantly striving to offer the
best facilities to our students with our main focus being on research
and innovation. We are elated that EBSCO has chosen us for this honor
and we look forward to our continuous association with them to turn
WeSchool’s LRC into a global hub of knowledge”.
About WeSchool
Established
in 1977, Prin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development
& Research (WeSchool) features among the premier Business Schools in
India. Run by charitable Trust S.P. Mandali, Pune, all across the state
of Maharashtra, WeSchool is ranked 15th out of 150 institutes in India
as per the Annual Times B-School 2014 survey. The same survey has also
ranked WeSchool as 7th best institute in the West zone and among the top
10 institutes recognized for providing exposure to latest developments
in the corporate sector & management practices, quality of
internships and emphasis laid on personality development.
WeSchool’s
goal is to use the power of the amalgamation of design and management
thinking and truly redesign the way education can make a meaningful
difference to students, corporate and society that is visible through
actions and outcome.
About EBSCO Information Services
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is the leading provider of resources for libraries including EBSCONET, EBSCO’s total e-resource management system, and EBSCOhost,
the world's premier for-fee online research service, including
full-text databases, subject indexes, point-of-care medical reference,
historical digital archives and e-books. EBSCO provides more than 375
research databases and nearly 600,000 e-books plus subscription
management services for more than 360,000 unique titles including more
than 57,000 online titles. Through a library of tens of thousands of
full-text journals and magazines from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves
the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public
Library, Corporate, Government, etc.)
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