Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 12:27:33 +0530
From: manish mankad
i am completely with Vasumathi on her excellent, practial suggestion.
It is usually seen that a fresh Blib person needs a large inputs from the
practical way of work. However, most of the time he/she learns ( or does not !)
while on the job ( which sometimes mean making mistakes and then mending them.
This has a dimension of loss of productivity as well.
Internship /summer placement makes such learning less burdensome and as they
are time-tested, the implementation and improvements are faster and efficient.
IGIDR, TIFR, TISS comes to my mind.
UGC refresher course for the working librarians can have a faculty from the
working professionals. may be we shd discuss this with Univ Librarians abt
their experiences/feedback.
I thinks it will be win-win situation, if implemented in right spirit.
-Manish Mankad
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Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:16:31 +0530
From: Vasumathi Sriganesh
The theme sounds excellent, and I hope it becomes a turning point in
the profession.
Couple of inputs from me: (I hope I can come up with better ideas as I
think)
1. Should Working Librarians from different spheres be compulsorily
used as external faculty in L & IS courses.(Benefits for students as
well as academic faculty to be discussed)
2. Norms and Objectives for students to do Internship / Summer or
vacation training / Post qualification training (If some good & very
practical norms and objectives are drawn up, then students should get
some high quality training, and the libraries in which they train,
should get some defined results).
Vasumathi Sriganesh
Director, QMed Services Pvt. Ltd.
A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road
Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India
Ph: 91-22-28229223 Fax: 91-22-28224358
Email: vasu@qmedin.com, Web: www.qmedin.com
