Mr. Byrappa has put up very nicely about the
problems faced by LIS departments in their pursuit for providing good training
to students. In our country, the problem is that we have a tendency not to take
up a holistic view of the entire scenario. Mr. Vasanth Raj is right that there
is no need of any special training for corporate librarianship (at least not as
part of the syllabus). A person having sufficient knowledge of IT and good
communication skills can well be fit to be a corporate librarian. The same
applies to any library now-a-days, and we should not have an image of
bespectacled dumb fellow as librarian of a public library. So the basic thing is
personality development which again depends on individual teachers. Why LIS
schools can't give stress on personality development in the way business schools
do?
Prabhash Narayana Rath, Ph. D.
Documentation
Officer
Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics
(University estd.
under section 3 of UGC Act 1956)
846 Shivajinagar
Agarkar Road
Pune
411004
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