[LIS-Forum] Are we able to maintain the quality of International Conference in LIS?

[sureshn at tafe.co.in]

Most of our high profiled conferences are gauged by the venue, freebies, delegation fees, invitees (in this order) - not by the contributors/ contributions. It is the reality, which many of our organizers won't agree. Organisers credentials are on how much amount s/he can bring in as sponsorship?

As regards to adding value to CV - yes, this need to be included in your resume. If someone does it well, what's the harm in adding it to the CV.? Whatever may be the quality of the Seminar/ Conference, making it happen is in fact tedious. And unless you are a person of substance, you can't accomplish it in a satisfactory manner.

KM is an interesting area which is in vogue - people speak more and do less ... Library community, to which even I belong, should be looking for something very appropriate - besides, KM - open access software; IPR; presentation skills, softskills and things which add value to their profession and thereby the parent organisations respect the personnel in the field of Librarianship.

Regards,

Suresh D Nair
Chennai (India)


Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:57:28 +0530 (IST)
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It is good to see that a debate has been opened up on this issue, though to my mind it has been long overdue. I would, however, like to go deep and would like to understand the reason for such a spate of seminars and conferences.  There are two aspects of this issue - one is the frequency of seminars and the other is the quality of papers.

Regarding the frequency of seminar happenings I have a question. That is, by organizing seminars/conferences does one get extra points in her/his CV? If, during assessment and promotion, one can earn extra points by showing that s/he has organized a seminar/conference, then the driving force of such seminars/conferences is not entirely professional.

Regarding the quality of paper - quality of papers rises when such papers are empirical research driven. Unless theories are tested in practice, knowledge cannot expand and without such tested knowledge, most papers would look same. It need not be a research at doctoral study level. One can do small research in her/his library. Instead, most of the time, we find papers which are mini-text books - on topics such as  RFID, knowledge management. Very few try to experiment how the concept of knowledge management can be tested in libraries and the benefit out of it.

Regards,
Swati Bhattacharyya
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