Dear Professionals,
Librarianship is fundamentally a service profession, we serve large
organisations, which deals with versatile subject, from Basic Social
science subjects to Specific Science and education subjects. For eg, R&D's
libraries requires Library professional who has good knowledge in Chemistry
or Physics or Biology etc. And Law institutions require person with Law
knowledge and the same is the case with Management, Corporate (finance) and
Software organisations, So every one wants specialised library professional.
I would like call discussion on adding a specialisation subject in 3rd and
4th sem of MLISc course, let the specialisation be elective(student choose
subject of intrest). Subject in 3rd sem should contain study about sources
available on Subject for example Law : Journals(both print and Electroinc
their publisher, cost, ways of subscribing and Unsubscribing), Books (
famous authors in Law with details of contact).Internet Information(both
free and paid), Reference Sources in law, ( encyclopedia, dictionaries,
directories, manuals, year books, etc), Institutions offering courses on
law(with admission dates fees etc), Associations(full details, objective,
mission, activities, publications etc), organisations etc.
And in 4th sem students should study the basic's or core topics in subject.
I can understand non of the Library teachers can teach these specialized
subject's, but they can request person who is eligible to teach or request
Reseach student in subject to engage, since we have different departments on
various subject's in universities, i hope its possible.Since many of Library
and Information students are from BA background, it opens opportunity to
them to join institutions in their field of intrest. At this point of time,
I would like share my experiance, when I attended interview in *aurigene:
Dicovery technologies, *Yes i was all most selected, after testing my
communication, Library : skills, techniques and behaviour but after that
they gone through my resume and asked me are you not a BSc student. I said
no, i am Management student(BBM)... they started to test my Chemistry
skills, since i have studied Chemistry in My 9th and 10th(CBSE Syllabus) i
was in a position to answer few questions, but they asked me to draw the
stracture of Benzim, i was stuck up. That costed me very good job. They
asked their requirements because their database is such that we have to draw
structure's of chemicals and search information but we are not prepared.
By this way I belive, we can adopt to change and fulfill needs of market. I
have to make it cristal clear that specialization should be added to present
subjects in syllabus but not substituting one, because librarian needs to
have knowledge in all subjects, if he has to serve academic and public
sector.
Hence i feel, your present pattern of education is outdate and targeted
particualarly towards later sector then earlier mentioned sectors.
Hope for good discussion with problems(for and agnist) and solutions.
Thanks and Regards
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RAJESH ALDARTHI
LIBRARIAN (Jain Institute of vocational and Advanced Studies)
#127/3, Bull Tempel Road,
Chamarajpet, Bangalore-560096
Email: deepakdeepa89(a)gmail.com
Phone: 9886268857
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