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Permalink Reply by Bharat B Alasandi on January 11, 2012 at 17:46

Dear Sunil Kumar ji,

I agree with your views, somebody should come forward regarding this matter. Professionals like Dr. Manjunath sir The Librarian of IGIDR Mumbai can help in this regards. Because sir is a Master in all these new technologies. 

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Bharat B. Alasandi

bharatalasandi@gmail.com

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Permalink Reply by Dr. Badan Barman on January 11, 2012 at 18:37

I fully agree with your concept. Even certification can be extended to Open Source Software like Koha, DSpace, and such others.

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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on January 11, 2012 at 19:23

Dear Sri Sunil Kumar,

Thanks for your post. It appears like a stream of fresh air! What you have suggested is extremely important and needful. However, there should be a system of accreditation for such courses. If it happens, then streams of people will rush to undergo such trainings just like the present trend (hype) of publishing in ISBN journals and clearing the net etc. Actually, there should be a provision of Continuing Education Programmes for professional Courses like that of ours; otherwise many of the people like us who have done even advanced degrees some 25 years ago and done nothing to update our knowledge will continue to cramp the senior positions only because of lots of experience but without actually deserving them. If your proposals materialize, then we may see some new-generation people to lead from the front. However, I differ in one point from your suggestion and that is, the areas you have focused. They are restricted upon new Technologies only; but with the knowledge of new technology alone can not make a person a Complete Librarian. It needs a crystal clear knowledge of subjects and traditional activities like Classification, Cataloguing, Documentation and Reference services as well. Unfortunately, as I see, we have some extremely technologically advanced people but majority of them lacks academic flavours and insight so much required to run a Library successfully.

Siddhartha Shankar Ray

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