Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 12:27:33 +0530 From: manish mankad i am completely with Vasumathi on her excellent, practial suggestion. It is usually seen that a fresh Blib person needs a large inputs from the practical way of work. However, most of the time he/she learns ( or does not !) while on the job ( which sometimes mean making mistakes and then mending them. This has a dimension of loss of productivity as well. Internship /summer placement makes such learning less burdensome and as they are time-tested, the implementation and improvements are faster and efficient. IGIDR, TIFR, TISS comes to my mind. UGC refresher course for the working librarians can have a faculty from the working professionals. may be we shd discuss this with Univ Librarians abt their experiences/feedback. I thinks it will be win-win situation, if implemented in right spirit. -Manish Mankad Information Services Ext: 208/460 Tel: 022 28276208 Hindustan Lever research Centre B.D. Sawant Marg Andheri (E), Mumbai 400099 INDIA -----Original Message----- From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:16:31 +0530 From: Vasumathi Sriganesh The theme sounds excellent, and I hope it becomes a turning point in the profession. Couple of inputs from me: (I hope I can come up with better ideas as I think) 1. Should Working Librarians from different spheres be compulsorily used as external faculty in L & IS courses.(Benefits for students as well as academic faculty to be discussed) 2. Norms and Objectives for students to do Internship / Summer or vacation training / Post qualification training (If some good & very practical norms and objectives are drawn up, then students should get some high quality training, and the libraries in which they train, should get some defined results). Vasumathi Sriganesh Director, QMed Services Pvt. Ltd. A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India Ph: 91-22-28229223 Fax: 91-22-28224358 Email: vasu@qmedin.com, Web: www.qmedin.com