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Permalink Reply by Saptarshi Ghosh on February 17, 2012 at 21:55

Although you mentioned that "our LIS professionals have Degree in different sector besides Library & Information Science.(MBA,MCA,MA,M Sc.,M Com.,B Ed.,LLM/LLB, etc.)" but recent development in West Bengal is quite different. Out of ten universities, Only two universities have 2 years( Four Semester) MLIS programme along with one year BLIS programme(2 Semesters). Calcutta University is venturous enough; It already started 5 year integrated course in LIS. Input eligibility is 10+2 passed. In such case, the incumbents who will qualify this course will have knowledge of LIS(?) only. Other universities are not that much eager about such metamorphosis. Irony is, pursuance of LIS course demands a great deal of maturity while a 10+2 pass candidate hardly has that maturity. Library Science now has already been crowded with different ideas, not only LOGIC and ETHICS but also reasoning, mathematics, statistics,  operations research, Linear programming, Computing, Information theory, Cognitive Science, psychology etc. In some cases persons having pure science background considered to have edge above others while cognition. logic, ethics are more prone to humanities. It would be hard to generalize prerequisites for LIS entrance as something tacit or spark should be there to excel in LIS domain. Know ARD Prasad ? He is from philosophy and see what he did:

Vishwamithra : An Expert System for classifying documents.
2. Vyasa : An Expert System for maintaining Colon Classification scheme.
3. Panizzi : Intellegent System for automatic identification of Bibliographic data elements for the title page of documents.
4. Prometheus : An Automatic Indexing system using POPSI
5. Ida : A Retrospective conversion package for LC, OCLC, BNB and Bookfind CD-ROM Databases (in C++)
6. Manu : Thesaurus Construction Program (in PROLOG)
7. Pygmalion : To convert downloaded data from Silver Platter and DIALOG CD-ROMs to ISO 2709 format (in C)
8. Socrates : A Computer Aided Instruction Shell (in C)  

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Permalink Reply by NIRANJAN MOHAPATRA on February 17, 2012 at 22:09

nice view sir...

thanks ur reply

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Permalink Reply by 3l446rg44lpg3 on February 18, 2012 at 3:55

A course in pest and rodent control, humidity managemnt, termite and fungus treatment, clean room technologies, in my opinion, will support all the LIS professionals. 

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