[LIS-Forum] Symposium on LIS Education in India: Challenges and Opportunities

Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar vjkjk at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 31 20:40:06 IST 2011


I am happy to note that Dr. Ali has stressed the importance of national level accreditation system for LIS education in India. I really hope this will become a reality soon.

Three years ago, there was an online discussion about changing LIS education, in which I had the opportunity to raise this point (see links below). Our LIS educators, associations and librarians in India need to initiate this soon.

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/corporatelibrns/message/3020 

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/corporatelibrns/message/3077

Kind regards,

Dr. J. K. VIJAYAKUMAR, 
Sci Tech Specialist Librarian,
KAUST, Saudi Arabia


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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:35:26 -0700 (PDT)

From: zafar iqbal <zafar_lib at yahoo.com>

Dear  Colleagues/Professionals,

In order to venerate 100 years of LIS education in India, the Department 
of Library and Information Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 
organized one day Symposium on “Library and Information Science 
education in India: Challenges and Opportunities” on March 17, 2011.

The Seminar was inaugurated by the Chief Guest, Mr. H.K Chegani, Former 
Director, Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library, Patna also deliver the key 
note speech. The Chief Guest appreciated the efforts made by the 
Department holding such a wonderful symposium on suitable theme of the 
time.  He also mentioned that the curriculum should be modified in such a 
way as the students get opportunity to learn about the various aspects of 
traditional as well as modern librarianship.

President of the symposium Prof. V.K Abdul Jaleel, Registrar, Aligarh 
Muslim University appealed to the government to implement the National 
Knowledge Commission’s Report especially all those recommendations 
related to the library and information centers. Prof. Shabahat Hussain, 
Director of the symposium introduced the theme and stated that the 
libraries were existed in very old universities like Nalanda and Takshila. 
During his speech, he emphasized the need of introducing course on 
communication skills at B.L..I Sc level.



Dr. Naushad Ali. P.M, Chairman and Organizing Secretary of the symposium 
in his welcome speech proudly narrated the contribution of the department 
in LIS education in the country by introducing ‘Bachelor of Library 
Science’ in 1958-59 with full time lecturers for the first time in the 
country. He also spoke about the importance of a national level 
accreditation system for library and information science education in 
India. 

Dr. Nishat Fatima, Coordinator of the programme proposed the vote 
of thanks.

The symposium was attended by more than hundred professionals from in and 
around Aligarh. The symposium was conducted in three technical sessions 
and twenty two papers in LIS education were presented. The deliberations 
and the panel discussion ended with a few important recommendations.

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Dr. P.M Naushad Ali
Associate Professor
Dept. of Library & Information Science
Aligarh Muslim University,
Aligarh, U.P-India-202002 
pmnaushadali at yahoo.co.in
+91-9897258855
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