Library and Information Science (LIS) Education in the Country has a history of a century.  During these hundred years it saw several ups and downs and slowly emerged as one of the important professional disciplines to train the required manpower.

Several books have been published on various facets of LIS education in the Country. The present book “A Bird’s Eye-view of LIS Education, Research and Training in India” is another latest addition to existing literature on LIS education in the country.  The ten Chapters in the Book throw fairly bright light on the state of LIS education in the country.  Especially Chapter-8: Ph.D. Output in LIS Departments is the highlight of this book which provides information about the year wise award of Ph.Ds of forty LIS Departments in the Country.  Chapter-10: Future of LIS Education, Research and Training in India is another important and useful chapter presented in the book.  Rarely such information was available from already published books on LIS Education.  Concerted and sincere efforts have been made to collect as much information as possible from LIS Departments. 

It is hoped that the latest Volume on LIS Education, Research and Training in India shall meet the needs of LIS professionals, teachers and research scholars in the country and elsewhere.

Prof. A. A. N. Raju is formerly Head, Department of Library and Information Science and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Osmania University, Hyderabad.  He published seventy five research papers in English and nearly hundred articles in Telugu in LIS Professional Journals.  He is a regular contributor to Greandhalaya Sarvashwamu the first Indian Professional Journal in LIS.  He authored and also edited twenty books covering important facets of LIS such as – Library Classification (Theory and Practice), Bibliographic Organization and Control, Library Movement, Public Library Development, Pseudonymous Authors in Telugu, Documentary Heritage and Legal Deposit.

Prof. Raju has been very actively and closely associated with professional activities at the Local, State  and National levels.  He is Life Member of ILA, IASLIC, ALSD, IATLIS and APLA.  He was Vice-President of ILA (1986-87), IASLIC (1988-89 and 1992-93) and President of IATLIS (1996-98) and ALSD (1988-90).

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