Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Reading with difference


Reading with difference
Reading continues to be a part & amp; partial of habit of individuals in the modern knowledge society. Just like other seekers of knowledge librarians do read. Reading for the sake of reading
does not normally lead to value addition nor understanding the article we read. The book one reads should be related to one's background, understanding & relevance because according to law of conservation Knowledge neither gets destroyed nor can it be created. Then only what we read gets internalized. When we (librarians) read, we read as a reader only. We need to read browse &  access as librarians. The moment we wear the cap of a librarian what we read becomes more situational & more understandable, as all our works directly or indirectly are related to knowledge organization, knowledge storage and  knowledge retrieval/Dissemination. It is but obvious that we should keep our interest alive to know a more &  more about knowledge, its evolution, history &  eminence.We got down to right this words after reading a write up on "Throwing Light on Knowledge "By G.S. Tripathi…….Speaking tree: Times of India:08/05/2010. Librarians should not miss to read such educative & thought provoking write ups. The high light of the write up should be of interest to every one, librarians too : 1.Knowledge is continuous, 2. Knowledge liberates the mind, 3. Knowledge of the ultimate enables eternal liberation 4; Knowledge is transcendental perception.  5. According to Ralf W. Emerson" A man should learn to detect & watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within". The Ideas of Prof.G.S.Tripathy is so close and relevant  to our literature on knowledge organization. We must really keep learning more & more about knowledge organization from scholars like G.S.Tripathy because Knowledge is power.



Kalyani Panigrahy
Jr.Librarian

Rajasekhar Devarai
Chief Librarian

Sunday, May 9, 2010

bibliometrics and bio-bibliometrics

Neilson expansion in India Librarians can't overlook

The CEO of Neilson a Global market research giant is around in India talking to Individuals & Business Groups. Interestingly Neilson's Globally successful tools: Buzzmetrics & Neurofocus obviously come closer to what few librarians are engaged in what are known as Bibliometrics, Bio Bibliometrics, Scientometric, & Webometrics. The tools/techniques may not sound similar but should be of much interest to librarians engaged in productivity, growth & measurement studies. Curious? Be generous to be curous to look at works and writings  of  V.L Kalyane, Kademani Basavaraj with regard to scientometrics & informetrics. If you are in still gripped by what I am talking about read news clipping titled Nielson bets big & bold on Desi Mart(Times Of India:07/05/2010). Have a good day.

Rajasekhar Devarai (Lotus5673@yahoo.co.in)

Kalyani Panigrahi (4Kalyani.mita@gmail.com)



 
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Librarians Thank Swati Deshpande

Social networking is order of the day,of course true only for the networked world. Swati Deshpande 's article (times of India, 27/04/2010)is an eye opener for worried parents about their kids.Of course there are many problems about kids getting online on social networking sites as kids really either don't know about privacy settings or they don't just bother.
Now as librarians where are we? all said & done virtual world has become more real than the real world.Social Networking opens whole lot of options for our professional development . Go to any networking sites like orkut, face book,........you tube,twitter will find librarians. Now it is much easier & convenient to get in touch with any librarian from anywhere in the world through social networks: Let us explore possibilities of encasing on this wonderful world of networking .Let us talk about it .Let us cope up with the ever changing world.

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Monday, May 3, 2010

Fw: ASTROS PICS



 
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I Am Sure Librarians are Basically Innovators

Hope every librarian agrees with this. Those of the librarian who donot agree to what I say have some serious problem. This need agree to introspect themselves. Here we are ...we welcome to get in touch with you even if we have not innovated or we have not recorded our innovations...lets not bother...we can inspired by keeping in touch with the so called innovators. Incidentally some get highlighted in media.We are sure librarians in general are upto date ,current & well informed.We are quite awares of e-kindle,the e-book reader introduced by Amazon.com...we are really not sure of the cost kepted Rs 18000.Here we have Mr.Vishal Mehta a technocrat from Ahmedabad introducing a new e-book costing Rs.9999. Its an innovation of an indian, the product is cheaper , it can hold 500 books & we can access books in indian regional languages also . Cheer up, Be informed know more about this product  & very wonderful indian innovator. to know more about this innovator & innovation read Page No 68 of India Today, April 26, 2010. A write up by Mr.Udaya Mahurkar.
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Monday, April 5, 2010

Fw: Does India need a nationwide library movement to reap the benefit of having a youthful population?



 
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Librarians continue to be scholars... for good indeed!

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Sunday, April 4, 2010

How about having a personal librarian?

How about having a personal librarian?

Kalpana Sharma tracks some unusual careers that are finding takers in India too!........  What about personal librarians....... every one has a need of that kind... but no body as on date has realised that need. Who will bell the cat?.... May be personal librarians emerge by themselves and then find their so called clients.. or as librarians dont think out of the box mmmay be be it is the client who will in some way or other find thier personal librarians ... may be people are already having their personal librarians .. may be they have not yet defined it... may be it is done ona a very informal way.... but. It is not a bad idea both for people as well as Librarians. For the librarians it is a next nevel of professionalism. Librarian friends what do you say?

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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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Monday, February 1, 2010

Fw: New comment on "Does Librarianship qualify itself to be called a 'fullfledged profession'?"



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  • qualify itself to be called a 'fullfledged profession'?"
Rajashekhar:

I am not apprehensive about the profession, I am merely

pointing out an irony.
I do agree with you fully that the library is a living organism as

Ranganathan points out. I would also point out that librarianship

requires a graduate degree with a Masters or PhD from an

accredited university and that the degree can be transfered to

many fields. If this does not place it in a professional column,

I am not sure what would satisfy the professiologists and would

have to admit I am not concerned with what they call us as long

as we know what we are and how to do our job on a multitude

of levels in almost all disciplines.
I think on some level where a nurse must know everything

about nursing and a lawyer everything about their area

of law, their profession is based upon cubby holing their tasks.

That this is what they do and this is what they do only.

They are experts in their chosen filed.
"What do you do?" "I am an engineer studying chemistry".

"Oh, so you are a chemical engineer?"
In the case of a librarian, they may not be a chemical

engineer, but should be able to find the information

an engineer, lawyer, nurse, needs even if they

had not studied the field. Librarians are all over the

place on any given day and can not be easily cubby

holed into knowing only one area alone. This may throw

some people into not knowing what a librarian does

because they are not easily cubby holed. Even

if one is an art librarian, and a professor is an expert

on Modernism, the art librarian must know how to

find proper information on all areas of art. Our profession is to

utilize and assess information beyond a patron's niche.
In the end, the format and delivery may change, but the

necessity to organize and retrieve proper information remains

the staple of librarianship. So I am optimistic of the future.
This is an interesting conversation.
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Librarianship as a profession

Dear Prof.Lloyd Wedes,




The first thing.........there was no such word as Professiology some time
ago. Second.........professiologists consist of sociologists, Social Scientists, economists,scientists,philosophers.....others and ofcourse librarians
as well. Accept Sociologists and few other social scientists......
.other scholars seldom get to study professions.........but they
engage mainly to study their own occupation and profession....
...as real stake holders. Librarians do double up as professiologists...
....and thier impressions on this topic and thier research findings ....
..are antogonistic. They dont tally. When librarians lecture in thier
associations......they fully endorse their occupation as a profession..
.....but in practice........and at personal/professional level..
....they endorse that theirs is not yet a full fledged profession.



There are few librarians who happen to be sociologists as
well. They are the real insiders....who can try to come closer to reality.........based on research. Fortunately or unfortunately......the scholars and Social scienitsts......
who represent society and people at large are sociologists.
........ and no others have neither interest not concern for such subjects.



I still remember my invited lecture at Hyderabad....
...on the topic of "Librarianship as profession". I was
literally stopped at every senetence by the socalled senior
LIS professionals. They contented that this topic is to be
addressed by some old retired librarians........presidents
of LIbrary associans........not a librarian who is junior.
My only fault was that........I was objective and was
basing my lecture.......on the resutls of studies......both by
librarians and sociologists...........



I can very well understand your feelings and apprehensions....
....I am not attesting the credentials of the methodologies
of professiologies.........but the fact is that they are studies
available. We are changing.........we are emerging.......
we are in right track...........we will ba a fullfledged profession.....
...sooner but not later. That is indeed a coveted title for us.....
..that brings us the much desired status......recoginition ...
... and indispensibility.



Shall we resolve to look at the researches done in this regard.........



best wishes



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Friday, January 29, 2010

Librarianship as a profession. Source : LinkedIn

 

 

I have not regarded librarianship to be anything but a

profession, so this is new to me. It does have its odd

knacks and differs from country to country, so clue me

 in here like a reference interview.
Aside from what the authors say, what particularly do you

find in librarianship that prevents it from being a profession?

Would like to hear viewpoints.

Lloyd Wedes

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Dear Prof.Lloyd Wedes,


It is my previlege to be interacting with you on this crucial

topic of profession and professionalism. As you would be

well aware, sociologists, anthropologists ... and now

emerging group of scholars known as professiologists ...

have engaged themselves in the study of jobs, occupations,

careers and professions. Incidentally I happen to be a

student of Sociology.....and hence keep my

interest alive

for years on this topic. A couple of my papers are

published in this regard. They are only review

papers and not based on my individual research as such.


To get back to the question in hand ..... here are

my view points...observations :


-The status of our profession does not vary very

much across countries/nations.


-Aside from what the authors say, what particularly

do I find in librarianship that prevents it from being a

profession? I dont have a point of view as such on this

aspect. I am only reflecting on the results of such

studies by eminent researchers like : Goode and Hatt,

Talcott Parsons, Lancaster, P.K.Jaiswal, H.R.Chopra etc.

And I think I do trust and believe the results of these studies.

They all unanimously seem to agree that ... the history

of LIS as a profession is short compared to established

professions like Law, Medicine, Ministry.
Professiologists consider LIS to be an emerging profession.

Our works are still not being treated as indispensible by others.

We have low status and prestige in society. We are not engaged

in any life saving ... and crucial avocations.

Our identity as Librarians is still not established far

and wide. There are alwlays people who will ask......

who are these librarians........what do

you do as a

librarian... issue and return books......keep books

neatly on the racks. Our knowledge base is not still

established and accepted as worth while either by

sicentists.......social scientists. I once again make

it clear........these are not my personal opinions

and viewpoints. These are the points that I have

 gathered from the research on this topic.


-I am not sure if I have answered your

question..... the question is not so simple ...

 as you can understand. The topic is quite debatable......

and controversial as such not only for librarians.........

.but all jobs and careers and vocations......who aspire for

the status of a full fledged profession.


Thank you professor.
Regards

Rajashekhar Devarai
Chief Librarian
Asian School of Business Management,

Bhubaneswar, India
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

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