Dear Sir, Many thanks for your mail. I appreciate your thoughts and am of the opinion that the syllabus will make a huge difference in solving the recent problems. A strict course curriculum and evaluation will make a candidate to think which profession he/she wants to join. I have the following suggestions to make: The 12 month BLIS/MLIS course should be spread over for a period 16 months with 4 months of compulsory internship in a reputed Library. Theme-oriented assignments/project should be introduced as soon as possible. More emphasis should be given on Computer courses - Online Resources, how to create and maintain a website but not on what is 'CPU' and what is 'mouse'? The LIS correspondence courses should have a minimum 5 – 6 months compulsory class on weekends failing which student will not be able to write the examination. The correspondence course should also have theme oriented project/assignments as part of their course structure. The 2 year and 5 year MLIS programes will help in developing standard of LIS education in India. Why not have 5 year BA. LIS or BSc. LIS etc etc... equivalent to Bachelors Degree (*in 5 year law prog. it is BA LLB or BSc LLB and after that LLM*). This will help to standardize the education in LIS and have specific course structure. This will also help an individual to specialize in one subject area. Sir, *department-wise*, the Library is the only department where you have more no. of people. If you look at other departments, be it teaching or non-teaching, the no. of staff is less. Yet LIS professionals are facing difficulties in getting jobs. A slight improvement in the pattern of LIS syllabus will help a lot. With warm regards, Sree Kumar Nair, SLCU, Bangalore - 29 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.