Good Morning,
Librarians' job profile varies a lot. Because of varied reasons, out of which advent of IT is one. As far as training and more ... is concerned, i wonder who is going to take care of this aspect of our profession. It is we who have to take care by ourselves (am i right?...may not be...
Recently i got a chance to be a part of one day seminar on OER, there i got a chance to witness to lot of scholarly talk on OER, skill library professionals need to embrace OER, types of OER, The great (i salute) NDL etc etc.. There i thought the challenges a librarian is having...
really may God save the species (Librarian) ...
thanks
with regards
Dr. N. K. DashLibrarianSilicon Institute of TechnologySilicon HillsPatiaBhubaneswar - 751024 (Odisha)Mob: 9937149973
On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 11:17 PM, vinod mishra wrote:
Dear All,
After working in many organizations i am just thinking what is the job
responsibility of a Librarian. Dr. Ranganathan has developed so many
fundamental things being a Librarian/Head/Professor which directly and
positively influence the profession but what is the job responsibility of
modern day's librarians?
What are the things they are doing for the profession and developing
fundamental things for LIS at-least for their own library?
Are they participating in technical/Professional things/process of the the
library directly?
Are they aware about library routines/technical works etc.?
Do you think librarians job is only confined to signing on the bills and
other papers which has been done by others?
I am not lucky enough so seen very few librarians who is actually directly
participating in the library housekeeping operations etc. The position is
highly paid and still looking for more pay. I have one year admin work of
library at NIT Rourkela and found this is the position which require lot of
technical, managerial, admin etc. skills because you have to guide your
entire library team and monitor their work with perfections.
The entire library services is now based on modern IT based tools and
techniques like automation, digitization, electronic resource management,
skills and tactics while dealing with publishers/vendors, modern
information management and dissemination tools etc. but i hardly found any
top management people participate in training programs for developing these
skills so how they are handling/guiding/monitoring such things in their
library? Kindly take it positive and give your view on paradigm shift in
librarians job profile and what is expected in this profession from those
top management people?
With Regards,
Vinod Kumar Mishra,
Assistant Librarian,
Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL),
NIT Rourkela,
Sundergadh-769008,
Odisha,
India.
Mob:91+9439420860
Website: http://mishravk.com/
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