Dear Prof. Khaiser Jahan Begam,
The question that you have raised about the grouping of our decipline (LIS)
in a university set up is quite interesting.
Also, the fact that the library professionals who are known primarily for
their organising skills, are still struggling to classify their own subject
(LIS) in the universe of knowledge, is equally interesting.
As we all know, the LIS is a multidisciplinary subject that derives
theories, concepts, methods and tools from various other disciplines to
organise the knowledge properly.
We extensively use the 'technology' to make our work of organising the
knowlege systematically and to provide an easy and quick access to it for
the benefit of our users. But, the extensive use of technology cannot be a
ground to place the LIS under the ' Faculty of Technology'.
We always use scientific methods to study the information needs of our
users and adopt scientific approach to organise and manage the collection
of information resources. But this will not support our decision to place
the LIS under the ' Faculty of Science'.
The ultimate aim of our profession is to provide right information to the
right person at the right time in order to help him contribute to the
development of the society. Hence, the only 'right' place to categorise the
LIS would be the 'Faculty of Social Sciences' . A majority of the
universities have already done this.
These are my personal views.
Anand Dodamani
TISS, Mumbai
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From: Mohan Hr *Interesting Reads – 2019-02-01* *Contents* *Articles* - Why You Need an IT Certification
- Utilizing The Productivity Improvement Plan: 7 Rules To Never Forget
- 10 of The Most Widely Believed Myths in Psychology
- Modern technology is akin to the metaphysics of Vedanta
- What is digital health? Everything you need to know about the future
of healthcare
- A Visual Summary: 32 Learning Theories Every Teacher Should Know
- Here's how global tech giants are tackling 'fake news' ahead of
elections in the world's largest democracy
- Dissecting Front-end Job Titles
- Looking Back at Google’s Research Efforts in 2018
- Gender Equality in the Digital Economy
- Bonus: Aerial Shots of the World's Greatest Destinations, Like You've
Never Seen Them Before *Events / Announcements* - SETS, IEEE CS, CSI, ISACA: "National Workshop on Hardware Security" at
Chennai 26th Feb 2019
- SPIN: Workshop on CMMI V2.0 on 2nd Mar 2019 at Chennai
- NPTEL started translating the English language transcripts of video
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