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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on December 2, 2017 at 0:54

Dear Sri Munesh Kumar,

Thanks for your post and addressing certain important research topic. The terms "Emerging Areas" however has different context in different Countries. Internationally speaking, they are different from what we feel in our Country.

As I have been watching this field of Study (I mean LIS)for quite a couple of years and as a learner, I watched certain transformation in the TREND of research & Academic activities in terms of publication of articles in journals or Conferences etc. as well as Doctoral Research. There was a trend of Brain-Storming with the theories of Cataloguing & Classifications and Ranganathan's Cannons & Postulates. Then, with the advent of Computers and initiation of OPACs here and there, sudden surge of activities with AACR & MARC21/UNIMARC came into existence. As we adopted Cyber Technologies, the trend changed dramatically with technologies as the main hub of research & academic discussions while the actual mission, that is, rendering pertinent service to the users was pushed to back-seat. In our discipline, one of the fast changing discipline we work with , is Health & Medical Sciences and as such Health Sciences/Medical Librarianship. Here the Librarian gets an unique opportunity to interact with the users for "problem-solving in a real life situation". A few weeks ago, one HSLS Conference was organized and I saw its brochure & it certainly might have discussed the "Emerging Trends" in that field but as an avid reader of one of the best journals in Medical Librarianship, the Journal of Medical Librarianship, I hardly found any similarity with the articles they publish in its issues. The latest issue is that of October 2017 and if you go through the table of contents, you will understand the focus of Research in Medical Librarianship Internationally and to what extent, the Librarians work in close proximity of the patients & the Doctors. They certainly do publish articles and to what extent the articles are pertinent for the betterment of Research & Medical support service.

Sincerely,

Siddhartha s. Ray, Calcutta

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Permalink Reply by Munesh Kumar on December 3, 2017 at 17:55

Thank you for the valuable guidance, Sir, and important additions to my post. 
Yes, we must be focused on the research solving the problems. :) 

Thank You, Sir. 

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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on December 3, 2017 at 20:04

Thanks Munesh.
However, I am writing this because I need to add a correction to my earlier post!.
I erroneously written the name of the Journal. It will be "Journal of the Medical Library Association". Earlier it was "Bulletin of the Medical Library Association". It's frequency is Quarterly & it is published by the Medical Library Association of USA. Now it is a open source journal though it is published in print form. it is covered by all major Indexing, Abstracting & Citation Databases.

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray, Calcutta

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