About

About — LIS Aspirants
About LIS Aspirants

A free knowledge platform
for library professionals worldwide

LIS Aspirants is a free, curated knowledge platform for library and information science professionals, students, and educators — in India and worldwide.

The resources LIS professionals actually need are scattered across dozens of websites, portals, and mailing lists. This platform brings the best of them into one well-organised, freely accessible space — no login, no paywall, no noise.


What you will find here

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News & Updates
Live-updated LIS news from LISNews, ALA, IFLA, CILIP, Choice360, and INFLIBNET. Indian news via All India Radio and BBC. Includes a Live Radio tab powered by Radio Garden — 40,000+ stations from 190+ countries, directly in your browser.
LIS LinksALAIFLAINFLIBNETAIRRadio Garden
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Career Alerts
A curated directory of the most reliable LIS job alert websites in India — LIS Links, Bibliophile Virtual Library, LIS World, LIS Portal, LIS News, and Gyanmala Library. Includes application tips, a step-by-step guide, and advice on joining Telegram and WhatsApp channels for real-time vacancy alerts.
Job alertsApplication tipsTelegram & WhatsApp
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LIS Reading
A curated reading space with a live Word of the Day from Merriam-Webster and a daily poem from the Academy of American Poets (Poets.org). For LIS professionals who believe that broad reading, language awareness, and literary appreciation are part of what makes a great librarian.
Word of the DayPoem a DayMerriam-WebsterPoets.org
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LIS Skill Development
Practical skill-building tools for modern librarians — typing practice via Typing.com, TypingClub, and TypeLit.io; coding fundamentals via Codecademy and W3Schools. Supports the digital and technical skills increasingly expected of information professionals.
Typing.comTypingClubCodecademyW3Schools
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LIS Education & Pedagogy
Resources for LIS educators and students covering teaching methodologies, instructional design, and pedagogy in library and information science — for those who teach as well as those who learn.
Teaching methodsInstructional designLIS pedagogy
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LIS Podcast
A curated collection of podcasts for library and information science professionals — conversations, interviews, and ideas from across the global LIS community, for listening on the go.
Global LIS voicesInterviewsProfessional insight
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Blog
Original posts on practical LIS topics — installing open source tools like DSpace, virtual library tours, curated resources, and reflections on library practice. Written for professionals who keep learning beyond the classroom.
How-tosOpen sourceLibrary techReflections
Our belief
Great librarians never stop learning

The modern information professional is expected to go far beyond cataloguing and classification. They are educators, digital navigators, research guides, and cultural custodians. That kind of professional is built through continuous reading, curiosity, and community.

LIS Aspirants stands on the conviction that all of this learning should be freely accessible, well-organised, and genuinely useful. If this platform saves you one hour of searching, or introduces you to one resource you did not know existed, it has done its job.