Dear Nafiz and friends: I try to answer Nafiz's questions briefly. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] 1. What if library and information science institutions throughout the world follow the same standard and curriculum ? The world of LIS education will become dull and drab! It will curb all growth and new ideas. Variety is the spice of life. As the great Chairman Mao said, let thousand flowers bloom! 2. What if every country (developed , less developed , developing ) could get the same technological facilities ? A good thing to dream about. Such things do not happen 3. What if every people throughout the world becomes information literate ? Some goals are Utopian. Good to hear, but do not happen! This is one of them. 4. What if information professionals could control the world ? Why should anyone control the world? 5. What if ISBN & ISSN could be done online and a centralized agency control this (in cooperation with other countries still providing ISBN & ISSN ) . ---- 6. What if a World Repository Center was established to collect the publication published throughout the world and maintain a database from which people around the world could get information regarding the publication of his own country as well as of other countries ? This is precisely the goal of the Open Access Archiving that is being promoted by Stevan Harnad, Leslie Chan and Peter Suber and several others 7. What if every publication published online in various subject could be freely accessible for developing countries professionals ? Projects such as the Million Books Project aim at this goal. Nafiz Zaman Shuva Dept. of Information Science & Library Management University of Dhaka Bangladesh e-mail : nafiz_z@hotmail.com website : www.infosciencetoday.com _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail _______________________________________________ Sigiii-l mailing list Sigiii-l@asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigiii-l RE: [Sigiii-l] plaza Dear Nafiz and friends: I try to answer Nafiz's questions briefly. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] 1. What if library and information science institutions throughout the world follow the same standard and curriculum ? The world of LIS education will become dull and drab! It will curb all growth and new ideas. Variety is the spice of life. As the great Chairman Mao said, let thousand flowers bloom! 2. What if every country (developed , less developed , developing ) could get the same technological facilities ? A good thing to dream about. Such things do not happen 3. What if every people throughout the world becomes information literate ? Some goals are Utopian. Good to hear, but do not happen! This is one of them. 4. What if information professionals could control the world ? Why should anyone control the world? 5. What if ISBN & ISSN could be done online and a centralized agency control this (in cooperation with other countries still providing ISBN & ISSN ) .                  ---- 6. What if a World Repository Center was established to collect the publication published throughout the world and maintain a database from which people around the world could get information regarding the publication of his own country as well as of other countries ? This is precisely the goal of the Open Access Archiving that is being promoted by Stevan Harnad, Leslie Chan and Peter Suber and several others 7. What if every publication published online in various subject could be freely accessible for developing countries professionals ? Projects such as the Million Books Project aim at this goal. Nafiz Zaman Shuva Dept. of Information Science & Library Management University of Dhaka Bangladesh e-mail : nafiz_z@hotmail.com website : www.infosciencetoday.com _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE*  http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail _______________________________________________ Sigiii-l mailing list Sigiii-l@asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigiii-l http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigiii-l