Dear Dr Francis Thank you for voicing out thoughts that were exactly mine too. I too agree that it is wonderful when some librarians learn enough technology to be as good as programmers, but it is unrealistic to expect all to do so. I believe that each one of us should learn enough to be great users of technology and of course keep updating ourselves. Some librarians completely become "technology librarians" and I am fortunate to have one such colleague in QMed too. But the rest of us are great technology users. Together we form a good team Our work should be more focused on delivering great library / information services and teaching to our users and patrons. If all of us become technology people, it will become - to give a crazy analogy - a wonderful cook, being busy doing all the cooking during his/her daughter's wedding, instead of outsourcing it to a professional chef. We all must constantly learn from each other. And then do what we are best at. Collectively we can do a lot. And for this - the world also has to accommodate commercial vendors. As long as commercial vendors are rendering honest / good and useful work / products - we have to respect their presence and involve them The best government doctors for instance cannot give their service without medicines from commercial pharmaceutical companies Regards Vasumathi Sriganesh QMed Knowledge Foundation (Trust - Reg No: E-24663) A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099 Tel: 91-22-40054474 Mob: +919867292230 Web: www.qmed.org.in <http://www.qmedkf.org.in/> www.indianmedicalsites.in On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Dr Francis Jayakanth < francis.jayakanth@iimb.ernet.in> wrote:
Dear All, Mr. Nikesh has summed up the ongoing discussion on the above subject, quite aptly. .....
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