Dear professionals, After seeing several recent mails on LIS schools and their product capability, I feel, let us not focus on praise or abuse of any specific LIS school. Each school operates on its own strength and weakness. Parent body also contributes to such situations. We can focus our discussion on theme-based rather than any specific school-based. The school based discussions will lead to throwing mud on each other which, finds a tragic end. The current theme is how best LIS schools equip their students in compatible with current trends without loosing basic philosophy of library science. The curriculum need to be on par with current trends and at the same it needs to differentiate from other IT curriculum by its unique courses. The current trends in technology are wikis, open sources, blogs, podcasts, web classifications, digitization, webpage design and hosting, storing devices, methods of providing access to information resources, mobile technology etc... 1. How best LIS schools can deliver these know-how to prospective librarians?, 2. what are basic requirements and expertise required to impart this knowledge? 3. what government and universities should do to provide such environment/opportunity? 4. what is expected from students? What are the basic or minimum skills they should possess? 5. If UGC is insisting on uniform syllabus, how best the authorities could be convinced about incorporating latest techniques in the curriculum?, 6. The rate of obsolescence is very high in IT products and services, how best we can address this threat 7. conferences/seminars/discussions at national and regional level would bring teachers and practitioners together on one platform and participants' wholehearted participation in such discussions might bring meaningful outcomes. Proactive role by LIS associations and schools would bring fruitful results. This benefits both the parties (teachers and students) We can amend or modify the above themes with our experiences. Manjunath __________________________ Dr. Manjunatha K Librarian T.A. Pai Management Institute Manipal - 576 104 Udupi Dist., Karnataka, India. Ph: +91-0820-2573551(Off), 2575161(Res) manjunath@mail.tapmi.org manju_tapmi@yahoo.com __________________________ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.