Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:21:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Praveen Vaidya Dear All, After many days there is a good point of discussion in the forum that Mr. Arun has pointed out. It is indeed a very serious issue that he has brought out. There is a general consensus that we lack reading habits. We don't even read newspapers and Magazines to update ourselves. I ask to many of my professional colleagues about reading newspapers and most of them answered me, there is no much to read in newspapers except politics. Then, i said them to develop interest in politics, because in India as a democratic state, every policy is centered to political decisions whether it is education, foreign affairs, economics, Taxation, stock market, art, culture, science or any other subject. in such case if we even don't read newspapers what would be the result!!! It is good that Mr.Arun has suggested a list of authors who are really contributed lot and we have to refer these authors. Our universities are also trying to revamp the Syllabus but, still bigger role is expected from them to change entire system. Even knowledge commission is trying to improve the existing library system, hopefully we may see the change. Subbiah Arunachalam wrote: Friends: I am concerned about the quality of training we provide in our country to would be librarians and information scientists. [truncated]