You are right, things are changing and changing fast.
But there is nothing new in it if we understand the Fifth Law - ( S R
Ranganathan) - "LIBRARY IS A GROWING ORGANISM".
Prof. Ranganathan could have used the term "SYSTEM" ( which sound
more appropriate to libraries ). But he deliberately used the term
"ORGANISM". He definitely meant that library is more than just a
system. Thus according to him, Library is an organic LIVING
CREATURE".
Living organism (species) undergo evolution (Darwinism) over a period
of time. So Libraries and Librarians would be evolving naturally. This
does not appear news to me.
Latest trend is Library 2.0. Try to implement these latest concepts.
You can start with your OPAC - by allowing users to "tag" (classify)
these as they wish. They may make some of these (books) as their
favorites. Allow them to develop social network among themselves
(learn why Orkut, Facebook, Del.icio.us are so popular) through
library portals.
--Sukhdev Singh.
NIC.
On Feb 20, 2008 11:48 AM, ishwar bandi
Dear Professionals, While striving hard for the better positions and looking for better earnings, are we in the verge of change in our profession?
Is any one of you ever realized or come across such situations in your career? May be many more people are experiencing as the same as we do today, we feel that we have left out of that traditional Library activities such as of meeting users demands, procuring reading materials, classifying books, so forth routine jobs.
But thinking that we may be shifted to the other side or the next step of the Librarianship ie., doing technical documentation. It includes building Online fulltext Database, extracting metadata, developing local standards for selecting, procuring, collecting, storing and retrieving the technical documents, seting Goals or Targets, facing the pressure coocker situations. To add the spice to all these activities is to utilization of Librarianship skills. At the same time we feel that, we may not be doing all that of Librarianship activities as such.
This kind of a change I have noticed in many other professions also!!!
We appreciate your comments and remarks in this regard. Thanks Ishwar Bandi
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