Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Fw: [LIS-Forum] The Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program



 
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Subject: [LIS-Forum] The Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program
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Date: Sunday, 1 February, 2009, 11:03 AM

The Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program

 

Respected Friends,

 

Greetings for the day,

 

OCLC has invited the application from young Library and Information Science professionals from developing countries, for The Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program for the session 2010. This programme in the form of continuing education have jointly organised by IFLA and OCLC and sponsored by American Theological Library Association.

This is a five week programme where five librarians, including a theological librarian gets opportunity to meet with leading information practitioners, visit libraries and explore topics including information technologies, library operations and management and global cooperative librarianship.

The Fellows visit selected North American and European libraries, cultural heritage institutions and library organizations. The Fellows also observe OCLC's governance structure in action, gaining insight into issues affecting the global library cooperative.

Dates to be remember:-

Application deadline

06 March 2009

Selection

April - July 2009

Award announcement

August 2009

Program dates

April - May 2010 (exact dates to be determined)

 

 The detail information regarding this golden opportunity like Application Form and related guidelines can be accessed at following link:-

http://www.oclc.org/americalatina/en/community/careerdevelopment/fellows/default.htm

 

 

Regards,

Miss Charu Mathur

Delhi.
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Fw: [LIS-Forum] How to start a basic library ?



 
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Subject: [LIS-Forum] How to start a basic library ?
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Date: Friday, 30 January, 2009, 3:15 PM

Dear All,  The Unesco document "Libraries for all : how to start a basic library", brought to our notice by Dr Indira,  is an excellent practical guide to be taught in our library schools in the beginning so as to give the students  a holistic overview of the tasks ahead in the  library profession.  The list of options in decision-making, the practical hints on whereabouts and the logical sequencing of the sub topics make this document a good entry point for a new student of Library Science.  Regards,  K Rajasekharan  ------------------------------ Original Message: Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:39:25 +0530 From: "Indira" <indk68@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Budgeting in Library Dear Mrs. Sheethal, UNESCO Publication "Libraries for all: how to start and run a basic library" written by Laura Wendell, the founder of the World Library Partnership, is a practical guide to establish and manage a library. available in English, French and Spanish in HTML and PDF formats. This resource guide is designed and developed for people with little or no training in librarianship and contains practical, step-by-step instructions for creating and managing a successful library. Here is the URL: http://www.unesco.org/webworld/highlights/library_run_020299.html Line-item Budgeting is discussed in P15-21. I feel we should include this in the Reading Lists of BLISC and MLISC programs. Hope this manual will be useful in our day-to-day practices. Dr Indira -------------------------------------------------     --  This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.  _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum 


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Fw: 20090203 - A reflection by Rajashekhar Devarai on Arun Maira's paper "global meltdown"

 



February 3rd 2009

 

A reflection of a Librarian on "A matter of trust/Arun Maira.-Times of India – February 2, 2009, page 16(centre page).

 

This educative centre page article by Management consultant Arun is educative and sensitizing.  It is specially useful to commoners and non-finance-non economists to grasp a minimum of understanding about concepts like : recession, global meltdown, global slowdown, global meltdown etc. The much valued freedom that the business need, the extent of accountability and responsibility that is required of them towards government and society are well brought out in the paper.

 

A reasonable and significant ethical level of conduct on the part of businessmen; transparency and required flexibility of rules and guidelines on the part of Government and a trust and belief of people towards both Government and Business work towards building  sound global economies.  As brought very well by Arun business which always wanted less and less interference by government, now wants their unquestioned and unlimited support both in terms of finance and moral backing.  It is true, these troubled times need fundamental changes in the ways governments function, in the way businesses function and in the way people empower and trust governments and business.  Are we all to move forward towards a disciplined flexibility and a reasonable balancer between freedom and equity.

 

What do we think about this as librarians? Directly or indirectly, to a more or less extent we too are business, a different servicing business.  Apart from asking more and more in terms of salaries and perks and of course budgets; we need to learn the economics of financing of the libraries, our duties and accountability towards all stake holders , I mean the institution we serve and the government and people at large.

 

As librarians let us learn more and more lessons of being sensitive, responsible and accountability and lateral thinking, at these troubled and hopeless times.  Shall we pledge to be out of the box, shall we restart ourselves to prove our social relevance and indispensability.  We have come of age.  Let us re-affirm ourselves, and continue our age old affinity with knowledge and its power.

 

Rajashekhar Devarai

Librarian

lotus5673@yahoo.co.in

blog : http://indialibrarian-intl.blogspot.com

 
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