Envisioning Employable LIS Courses in Developing Countries for the Emerging Knowledge Society
IATLIS 2009
Papers of the XXVI National Conference
Department of Library and Information Science
University of Burdwan, Golapbag, Burdwan
25-27 November 2009
Edited by
Jagtar Singh
Trishanjit Kaur
INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Department of Library & Information Science
Punjabi University, Patiala-147002
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Punjabi University, Patiala-147002
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Contents
Preface
Greetings from Dr. Ismail Abdullahi
Contributors
Section I: Theme Paper
1. Educational Changes for Work in the Knowledge Society
Russell Bowden
Section II: LIS Education
2. Balancing the Relics and Harbingers of LIS Courses for the Emerging Job Market
Jagtar Singh and Dilara Begum
3. Higher Education in the Eleventh Five Year Plan: Some Implications for the LIS Education
M.P. Satija
4. Library and Information Science Education in India: Development, Status, Curriculum, Issues and Challenges
M. B. Konnur, N. B. Dahibhate, S. K. Patil, and V. S. Mugade
5. Exploring the Opportunities in the Emerging Information Environment for Transformation of LIS Education
I.V. Malhan
6. Selection of students to LIS education programmes in Sri Lanka and some related issues
Pradeepa Wijetunge
7. Growth and Development of Library and Information Education in Nepal
Madhusudan Karki
Section III: LIS Curricula and Job Market
8. Strategies for the employable LIS courses: Emergent issues and need for contemplation
A. Y. Asundi and C. R. Karisiddappa
9. Relevance of Existing LIS Courses to the Job-Market – What Alumni Tell Us: An experience from Shih Hsin University
Chihfeng P. Lin
10. Employable LIS Courses in Bangladesh: An Analysis of Last Twenty Year Syllabuses
M. Jakaria Rahman, Momena Khatun and Muhammad Mezbah-ul-Islam
11. Developing LIS Courses for the Emerging Job Market in Nigeria
Bappah Magaji Abubakar
12. Relevance of LIS Courses for Employability: A Study of LIS Curricula of India
R. S .R. Varalakshmi
13. Remodeling the Curricula of LIS Education in Kalyani University: An Analysis
Bidhan Ch. Biswas
14. Combining Moodle with DSpace: Designing an Architecture for LIS Courseware
Amit Kumar Das and Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay
15. An Overview of Library and Information Science Curricula in the context of the Indian Job Market
Bobby Goswami Baruah and P. Hangsing
16. Employability issues and public policy support for library and information services in private academic sector in India: observations and concerns
H. P. S. Kalra and Khushpreet Singh
17. UGC Report of CDC in Library and Information Science 2001: A Critical Review of its Relevance in Present Indian Context
Goutam Maity and Udayan Bhattacharya
18. IT components in LIS Curricula envisioning the knowledge society: An Analysis of Syllabi universities of West Bengal
Tridib Tripathi
19. Master of Library and Information Science Syllabus A Novice Way of Thinking
Geeta Gadhvi
20. Development of LIS Courses in Karnataka in the Emerging Job Market
S. Padmamma and Geetha M.
Section IV: Quality Assurance
21. Quality Faculty for Excellence in Library and Information Science Education in Pakistan
Mumtaz Ali Anwar
22. Identification of Quality Indicators for Evaluation and Accreditation of LIS Schools in India,
Amitabha Chatterjee
23. Quality Assurance in Distance Education: Some Parameters to be Used in Assessing the Quality
B.S. Biradar and Santhosh Kumar, K.T.
Section V: Knowledge Management and Learning
24. Knowledge Management: the Leading-edge of the Emerging Information Society
Jagtar Singh and N. K. Swain
25. Emerging trends in Resource-Based Students-Centered Learning in the Knowledge Society
C. Krishnamurthy and B.D. Kumbar
26. LIS Education in India: Tutoring the Tutors with Intrinsic Questions
N. K. Swain
27. M-Learning Opportunities and Challenges for the Modern Learning Scenario
Selvaraj. C
Section VI: Research and Collaboration
28. Recent Trends of Research in Library & Information Science in India and Research Agenda for the Future
Nivedita Bhattacharyya and Biplab Chakrabarti
29. Problems and Prospects of Choice Based Credit System (CBCS): A Case Study of Karnatak University, Dharwad
B.D. Kumbar and Gururaj S. Hadagali
30. Digital Learning Commons: a Proposal for Panjab University, Chandigarh.
Preeti Mahajan and Rupak Chakravarty
31. Collaboration among Library and Information Science Education Programmes in South Asia: Issues and Implications
Trishanjit Kaur and Navkiran Kaur
32. Continuing Education Programmes (CEP) for faculty improvement in the emerging Knowledge Society.
Gururaj S. Hadagali, B. D. Kumbar and M. M.
Bachalapur
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Preface
We are delighted to organize the XXVI IATLIS National Conference (IATLIS 2009) in collaboration with the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Burdwan, Golapbag, Burdwan from 25-27 November 2009. IATLIS 2009 is being organized on the theme, “Envisioning Employable LIS Courses in Developing Countries for the Emerging Knowledge Society”. The sub-themes include:
· Relevance of existing LIS courses to the job- market.
· Developing LIS courses for the emerging job market.
· Equity, diversity and expansion of LIS education.
· Choice-based credit system and internship programmes.
· Resource-based student-centered learning.
· Accreditation, quality assurance and standardization with special reference to distance education.
· Continuous Professional Education and Development for Faculty improvement.
· Physical, technological, and learning support infrastructure.
· Liaison with and feedback management from students, alumni, and employers.
· Marketing of LIS courses.
· Research agenda for future.
· International Cooperation and collaboration
· Role of stakeholders in LIS education and research.
This theme has been particularly chosen with a view to initiate discussion on the issues of relevance and quality of LIS courses being offered by the departments of Library and Information Science in developing countries in general, and in south Asian region in particular. Information and communication technology (ICT) has made a profound impact on the life and work of people. There is a shift from teaching to learning, and from face to face learning to e-learning. Similarly, today we are talking about library and information networks, digital libraries, knowledge management, change management, information literacy, open source software, etc. Unfortunately, all is not well with regard to LIS education, research and training in south Asian countries. In many of the universities, the courses are typically traditional and conservative, whereas in a few universities there is a lot of emphasis being placed on the Internet-based products and services. It is high time that the LIS education providers in this region take a balanced view of ground reality. There must be a fair balance between the traditional turf and the leading edge areas the LIS education. Library classification, cataloguing, indexing, reference service, and library management are important but there is also an urgent need for integrating the Internet-based resources and services in the LIS courses.
There has been a tremendous response to the call for papers. We have received about 75 papers, but because of financial constraints and portability of the conference volume, we have been able to include 32 papers only. Every effort has been made to ensure excellence and diversity in this volume. This time we have got six papers from Bangladesh, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Taiwan. We sincerely hope that these six papers will go a long way to inform the LIS education providers in India. These 32 papers have been organized in six sections. The first section contains the theme paper by Professor Russell Bowden (Sri Lanka), and the second section on LIS Education contains six papers. The third section entitled LIS Curricula and Job Market includes thirteen, whereas the fourth section on Quality Assurance has only three papers. Section five on Knowledge Management and Learning contains four papers and section six on Research and Collaboration includes three papers. No stone has been left unturned to make this volume a valuable addition to the existing body of professional literature. We are deeply grateful to Professor I. V. Malhan, Professor M.P. Satija, Dr. H.P.S. Kalra, Mr. Khushpreet Singh and Mr. Bhupinder Singh without whose timely help this volume would not have seen the light of the day. We are also deeply grateful to Dr. Ismail Abdullahi, Convener, IFLA LIS Education in Developing Countries Special Interest Group (SIG) and Associate Professor, North Carolina Central University, School of Library and Information Sciences, Durham, North Carolina, USA for sparing his valuable time to send us his greetings for the success of this conference. M/S Phulkian Press (Pvt.) Ltd also deserve our heartfelt thanks for publishing this volume within a short span of one week only.
Last but not the least; the editors are deeply beholden to Professor Russell Bowden who spared his valuable time and resources to contribute the theme paper for this conference. In fact he was very keen to be present at the IATLIS 2009, but could not make it because of the non-availability of visa on time. We sincerely hope that papers in this conference volume would certainly enrich and empower the LIS fraternity across globe.
Editors
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