I have some different opinion regarding this. I am not fully convinced with the following "No good candidate is ever entering any school". By the by "What is the definition of Good Candidate?" If we think that those who are getting chance in Medical and Engineering are only good student, I think then we are somewhere wrong. I have done my B. Lib. Sc. from Jadavpur University. I know most of the University in Bengal is taking candidate who are first class in BA or B. Sc. level. I my batch there were at least 10 first class first. Yes it may be right that some of the Universities are not looking Library and Information Science as a professional course. The professionalism in syllabus is more and more important. Yes we are not able to put our subject as a techincal one. Still lots of people having the idea that Library Science is a subject of Art field. This is not their problem. I think this is our problems. We library professional are not able to establish our own root. A total infrastructural problem is also there. I know there are so many public libraries running in a club. So the people over that public library is thinking that the librarian (A B. Lib Sc. Degree holder which in Bengal you get after passing first class in BA/BSc/Bcom) village is a worker of that club. Here, is the problems. I think we are lacking our Library professional movements. Some where, may be in the outlook of Govt we do have a problems. Let us bond ourselves to have a systematic and it may a political movement. Regards, Pradip Das ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mailing List Admin" To: Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 3:29 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS

Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:13:00 -0700 (PDT) From: amudhavalli alagusundaram

I do agree with the views of Ms. Vasumathi. she has always been concerned over this. No good candidate is ever entering any school, barring a very very few. It is very sad. I raise this issue in every platform. LIS Schools alone are not to be blamed. As she says it is a circle. LIS is the last resort or a refugee camp for many entrants. Added to this alarming situation, are those Distance Education programmes going haywire.

We have from this acadmiec year made soft skills as compulsory module for all . And our DEPT has signed MOU with a commercial firm to include soft skills course (4 credits) for our students and all others in the campus.

let us see if there can be any progress. amudha

Vasumathi Sriganesh wrote,

You have really touched a very deep chord. We can no longer reject the truth that we are faced with - however bitter it is. I know I have talked about all these things to many people on one or more of these lists and definitely with the individuals cc-ed on this list. I am also aware that there are a handful of excellent dedicated librarians in India - but the number is dwindling alarmingly.Also - they are buried deep in their institutions and do not spread their wings across - mostly because they not permitted to. I am praying hard that the National Knowledge Commission's findings and reports may do some resurrection for the profession.

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