Dear All, The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Govt of India, has been offering 40 Vocational Courses in different sectors at Senior Secondary Level and 4 vocational courses at Secondary level. A student can choose to avail competency based skill learning along with general education in order to enhance the skills in the chosen field. The vocational education envisions imparting the procedural knowledge and skills to the students that will enable students to excel and emerge successful in real life situation of both work and life. It works towards imparting an education that is holistic, meaningful and skill oriented which instils among the youth a sense of usefulness and responsibility. (source: http://www.cbseacademic.in/web_material/Circulars/2013/7_Vocational.pdf) As per the new circular No. Acad-07/2013, dated 17 Jan. 2013, and other related documents, the Vocational Course which was earlier named as "Library Management" has been now redesigned as "Library and Information Resource Management" (LIRM). The affiliated schools can choose and offer one or more of these competency based courses in Senior Secondary level (Class XI and XII) from the academic session 2013-14. You may download the details regarding LIRM Course from the following links. The Scheme of studies: http://www.cbseacademic.in/web_material/Circulars/2013/7_Vocational/Scheme%2... Syllabus: http://cbseacademic.in/web_material/Curriculum/Vocational/2012/voc_lirm.pdf Paper 1. Library, Information & Society Paper 2. Information Storage and Retrieval Paper 3. Library systems and Resource Management Paper 4. Library Classification and Cataloguing Teacher's Qualifications: Bachelors in Library Science and One year's experience in a library. http://cbseacademic.in/web_material/Circulars/2013/7_Vocational/Teacher%E2%8... I believe, this initiative from CBSE is worth mentioning and like to congratulate all those professionals who worked for it. Thanks and regards S.L.Faisal General Secretary Kerala Library Association <http://www.keralalibraryassociation.org%20>(KLA) Moderator, KV Librarians' Network <http://kvlibrarians.grou.ps/> & Librarian Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pattom <http://librarykvpattom.wordpress.com> Thiruvananthapuram-695 004 Kerala, India Ph.09447699724 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.