Thanks very much Madhan.
Ronald (Roly) Keating was educated at Westminster School for boys in London, followed by Balliol College at the University of Oxford, where he read Classics. He managed several divisions of BBC, an electronic media company, for much of his professional life. And now he will be managing one of the world's largest national libraries.
Incidentally, Keating never went to a library school. Same is the case with James H Billington, the Librarian of Congress, Washington DC. He read history at Balliol College, Oxford, and Princeton University and later on taught history for many years. He wrote several books on Russian history. He had also not gone to a library school for formal training. His predecessor Daniel Boorstin was trained in Law and taught law for several years but wrote many history books and even won a Pulitzer Prize for history. He had also no formal training from a library school. In India, the qualifications and work experience prescribed for working in libraries would not have allowed Roly Keating, James Billington and Daniel Boorstin even to work in a high school or small town library.
Different culture operate differently. Some insist on formal qualifications and for others it is OK if one can deliver!
Keating's predecessor, Ms Lynne Brindley, of course, was a trained librarian. She studied librarianship at the School of Librarianship, University College London, where she was awarded the Sir John MacAlister award as the top student on her course.
Arun
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:41 PM, madhan muthu
http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=941 -- Madhan, M Manager, Library and Information Services International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Patancheru, Hyderabad India www.icrisat.org
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