Documentation Research and Training Center (DRTC): A Historical Perspective

Authors

  • M P Satija Honorary Professor, Dept. of Library & Information Science, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab 143005, India
  • Amit Tiwari Research Fellow, DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru Centre, Karnataka 560059, India
  • Mayukh Bagchi Research Fellow, DISI, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48165/

Keywords:

Deshmukh, C.D, Documentation Research and Training Centre, DRTC, Indian Statistical In stitute (ISI,), LIS Education and Research, Mahalanobis, P.C, Ranganathan, S.R

Abstract

Progress in education and research, which go hand in hand, are the two key variables to determine the societal  impact and ensure the future sustainability of an academic discipline. Since the inception of Library and Infor mation Science (LIS) as an accredited academic discipline, the Documentation Research and Training Centre  (DRTC), Bangalore, has been a major, if not sole, progenitor of almost all pedagogical and research advances in  the Indian LIS milieu. The present work, a first-of-its-kind historiography, presents a detailed multifaceted de scription of the historical origin of the DRTC. It also describes the vision, foundation and advances in LIS incu bated at DRTC, the de-facto premier information school of the Indian subcontinent. The novelty of the paper,  apart from being the first ever historical analysis of DRTC, lies in its exposition of several non-trivial trivia be hind the foundation of DRTC which can inspire futuristic educational institution building in the Indian set ting. 

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Published

2022-07-11

Issue

Vol. 42 No. 1 (2022): Library Progress(International) (Jan-Jun) 2022

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Documentation Research and Training Center (DRTC): A Historical Perspective . (2022). Library Progress (International), 42(1), 220–230. https://doi.org/10.48165/