Dear All, The role, status and prestige (but not necessarily pay) of librarians may go high , if they equip themselves with skills in e-learning technologies so as to grab the emerging opportunities under National Mission on Education through ICT. The Mission, which will begin immediately, may offer sufficient opportunities to the librarians having good exposure to e-learning technologies. The Mission purports to promote content generation, computers and connectivity in 18,000 government / private colleges and 419 universities. The mission proposes to focus on Wiki technologies for content generation. Content Managements Systems like Drupal, E Course Servers like Moodle, Digital Libraries like Greenstone etc will have due role in its activities. So the Librarians, who have good knowledge on those technologies, can play a key role in the digital technology based e-learning initiatives under the Mission. Regards, K Rajasekharan -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.