Dear all,
The emphasis on the importance of
communication skill for librarians is very welcome. It is a fact that one can
deny on his/her own peril. But many librarians are still in the old mold. They
are scared of communicating with teachers and scholars. They will talk long
hours about rubbish. But feel tongue tied to enquire and inform. The reason lies
in a disconnect with what is going on in the scholarly world. They will hardly
work to refine search methodologies. What is required from teaching schools is
better skill development in communication and a bit of psychological training
as well as to develop empathy with the users.
Regards
TANWIR
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Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008
7:06 PM
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Subject: [LIS-Forum] Occupational
English Language and Communication
Dear Professionals,
The Friday Talk series began with warm invocation by
Pushpa of MLISc around 3.30pm. Dr. Khaiser Nikam Chairperson of Library
and Information Science gave a welcome to the guest and all, along with an
introduction of Dr. Benjamin Sukumaran IOLS Career Empowerment and Development
Kuvempunagar,
Lecture Report:- ' Communication is life' 'Life without communication
is tragedy'. With this great thought the lecture began by Dr. Benjamin
Sukumaran. Benjamin explained how important communication is in
life. And to communicate better one should have awareness of cross
cultural, if not it would be a barrier for communication.
"Communication is a process of response to a stimuli on the flat form of
culture. " For communication Physical i.e. the Sound body is important
secondly the expression and Thirdly acceptation. If intake is good means
outtake will be good. There is stimuli everywhere but one should
response. Every one's will power is some where one should realize and the
will power should realize and the will power should not wasted in judging,
but by learning, by understanding etc. EQ matters everywhere. And
with an example of, A rich boy and poor boy who were his student 3-4
years ago and their problem and success story of them to Librarians
communication is first because they are people to solve or to give the solution
and not creating problem by more communication. He must be good at English
because Librarians First nature is Enquiry, Second nature is confirmation
and Third is Service. Librarians will be there until education is and
Books are Source of Information, Travelling is Confirmation. "Fishes
in River never get Thirsty". Thus one should identify his strength
and weakness in communication and there by to overcome from it reading,
learning and better hard work.
The session ended with vote of thanks by Hydar
Ali.
--
Shivakumar H.R.
II year MLISc
Manasagangothri
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