On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:53 AM, DINESH SIDDAIAH wrote:

Dear LIS Professionals,

Formation of LIS Leadership Forum – Suggestions, opinions sought from experts and fellow professionals

Aim:

To promote leadership qualities in budding, young LIS professionals.

Motive:

The motive of creating this leadership forum is to enhance leadership qualities in young, budding LIS professionals who are in search of platforms and make them to contribute their services to the profession and to the society to a greater extent.

Review:

Many experts in the field may contemplate that why we should need forum like this as already existing associations and endowments doing similar activities and they are working fine. But, the approach of this forum is different and it wants to address real challenges and threats currently encounter LIS profession. In western countries this profession is considered to be one among the top ten professions and it may be influence of highest literacy rate and more engaged in scientific and engineering activities. In our country our profession is in pathetic condition except few who doesn’t want to raise their voice to people suffering in different levels. Of course very few are doing well.

Objectives:

1. To enhance the leadership qualities in young and budding LIS professionals

2. To upgrade the experienced professionals towards emerging trends and technologies

3. Promoting Reading habits in Rural and backward areas

4. To empower ourselves

5. To make more effective and efficient in working

6. To build teams and enhance the team work

7. To improve communication Skills

8. To create Motivation

9. Professional enrichment

10. Exploring new avenues

Events & Activities:

1. Organizing Discussions / Interactions with experts.

2. Conducting Training Programs from top managers from management, IT and LIS.

3. Invited Lectures

4. Workshops

5. Other Innovative programs

6. Teleconferencing with the overseas experts

7. Other progressive activities

8. Arranging promotional camps in rural and backward areas

Memberships:

All the LIS professionals can become members of the leadership forum

There will not be any registration charges for the members

Registration will be done through online

Initially it will start from Bangalore and it will extend to the other areas / cities

Financial Assistance:

The forum will function through sponsorships of business organizations, institutions, professional bodies, colleges, professional friend’s assistance and other corporations.

Appeal:

Our sincere appeal to our entire professional is to contribute your knowledge, experience, expertise to this leadership forum and embrace in building our profession par with other well established profession and it is possible only with all our professional friends help and cooperation.

Kindly offer you suggestions, modifications, comments, opinions. After thorough analysis of all your views the forum will function.

Send your views to:  lislforum@gmail.com

Thanking You,

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Posted on behalf of LIS Leadership-Forum

by

Dr. Dinesh K. S.

Librarian (Sl.Gr.)

NCET, Bangalore.

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Sir/Madam, I acknowledge your budding effort, but have doubt in many direction. I have the every reason of that... I wrote about this issue many times trhough different online forum/groups and you know I am now tired enough to write again.. Firstly let me be practical, we are subscribing to a group/forum keeping its objectives in mind. But after some days what we receives? nothing special than cross posting, duplication of post, receiving irrelevant massage... By forming different groups/forum and not sticking with our aims and objectives we are exploiting our subscriber time, and nothing else.. Let me rise question about the LIS Forum itself. I am a subscriber of this forum from 2004. Previously it was ok. But now what we receives.. cross posting.. irrelevant massage.. and nothing.. rather my recent RSS subscription are keeping me abreast with the LIS and hopes to be more usefull than this forum.. But i have a relation with it, since I was a student.. Now is it not the time to redefine the aims and objectives of the "LIS Forum" itself? It post anything? Jobs.. Seminars.. topics for discussion. But do you have an idea.. our valuable time are just going to the garbage.. Why? Simple. I am already employed and don't need any job posting.. so why i will receives jobs posting again and again.. Someone is unemployed and don't need upcoming seminars or workshop posting, and don't like to attend also .. But we are giving them it free.. Not just to waste their time? Stop about it... Even some new members posting repeatedly some sites.. and the moderators are approving it.. Even though we know about that site since a long time.. Go to IASLIC group for example. We are subscribing to it, to receives updates related to IASLIC. But what we receives? We all know... I am bored actually and tired too.. There are different forum/groups related to LIS over the web, go to any one, you will practically find nothing than exploitation of the subscriber time by way of cross posting of massage, directing and posting irrelevant message. As an administrator of some site (forum/group) we are exploiting our members.. But if you really come to be a unique, with really specific aim and objectives I welcomes you.. Otherwise please don't waste our time... I am bored.. I am tired.. Thanking you Yours faithfully (Sri Badan Barman) Academic Consultant, Library & Information Science, Krishna Kanta Handique State Open University -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.