Dear Ramesh, This is commendable. I do hope other Universities take note of this and organise such fruitful activity which benefit fresh graduates. Regards. Jayadev On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 11:47:04 +0530, Dr. Ramesh B wrote:

Dear Jayadev,

In response to your comment in the list form I would like to bring to your kind notice that the Department of Information Science, University of Madras is conducting campus interviews for fresh graduates and at the same time we are giving ideas who to face the interview and writing a resume. Very recently we had conducted such interviews in our department, there are three candidates have qualified in this process.

This is for your kind information.

With good regards,

Ramesh

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From: Jayadev P Hiremath >Reply-To: Jayadev P Hiremath >To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Communication and presentation skills are not Englishlanguage centric, Classification and cataloguing......... >Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 12:02:49 +0300 > >Hi, > >Lot's of initiatives by Mysore University L & IS Department and others >too. Though commendable, I am still unable to digest

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competencies in Communication and Presentation skills. PowerPoint >will certainly come in handy !! > >Mysore University is in Karnataka and the regional language is >Kannada. There is a vast amount of Knowledge available in the regional >language, thousands of books are published every year in Kannada. All >the public and academic libraries in Karnataka, stock Kannada books. >Old Kannada manuscripts are a source of history. Technical

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University L & IS is doing for the language of the land. > >Taking pride in

**********------------------- Dr. RAMESH LECTURER, DEPT. OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS, CHENNAI - 600 005. PHONE: 044 - 28442376 (R) 044 - 25368778 Extn. 278 044 - 25385078 E-mail: bramesha@hotmail.com bramesha@rediffmail.com the fact that >everything is terribly English centric. To begin with ...Communication >skills and Presentation skills can be put into action in any language. >You do not need mastery in English language to show off your processing >of these books is hampered due to lack of in-depth Kannada language >skills of L & IS professionals . I would like to know what Mysore producing Library Science graduates with all the >English language, Communication, Presentation and IT skills and all >the soft skiils sounds fantastic But does anybody think of the >regional languages or the National language ? Doesn't Mysore >University have to bother about this. > >Majority of the LIS teachers in India are fully concentrating on >imparting knowledge directly relevant to L & IS sphere and they are >the ones who need to be appreciated. English language, communication >and presentation skills and other soft skills are secondary and need >not be taught in a PG Course devoted to a specialized field. This >would not only lead to diversion of limited resources but also affect >the students who have just two years to learn about library and >information science, gain a solid foundation and build their whole >career upon it. > >All the softskills required for survival in the big bad world of >WORKING can be picked up over a period of time or instantly from >Training shops. > >With high unemployment rates there is no possiblity of Campus >interviews or Job fairs during LIS Conferences. An essential skill >for a freshly minted LIS graduate would be...... how to write a >resume, how to hunt for a job and how to face an interview ? Does any >LIS Department in India teach this ? >

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Classification, Cataloguing and Indexing of Books : In India we keep reinventing the wheel. The same monograph is classified, catalogued >and indexed in thousands libraries by thousands of professionals. It's >high time this duplication of work comes to an end. The time, money >and resources consumed by this task is phenomenal and can be put to >better use in serving the customers. With the advent of library >automation and internet penetration we can easily download the >bibliographical details of monographs inclusive of call numbers and >keywords from various WebPACs and integrate them into individual >library's databases, may be after incorporating certain local >variations. We are in the twenty first century and the days or >original cataloging at individual library level are over, especially >with respect to titles published in English. Copy cataloging should be >embraced whole heartedly. > >With regards. > >Jayadev P Hiremath _______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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