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Permalink Reply by Abilash Achuthan on May 20, 2014 at 20:18

Hope you will find the below link useful

All lis books

http://www.vedamsbooks.com/library.htm#

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Permalink Reply by krishna roshan on May 20, 2014 at 23:09

thank you

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Permalink Reply by P.Ramu on May 21, 2014 at 20:57

Dear Mr,Abilash.

                        Thank you so much for your audio notes of Library science.  It is fantastic job for the

NET/SET candidates.  Please do more services like this.

                      With kind regards

                        P.Ramu

                        Librarian

                        Muthayammal Engineering College

                        Rasipuram

                        Tamilnadu 637 408

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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on May 23, 2014 at 0:14

Dear Ms. Jugeshh,

Thanks for your post and for addressing an issue which, as I presume, will attract serious attention of many CBSE School authorities.

Regarding the issue of introducing LIS in XI.XII, as I presume, the board already have a syllabus. I am going to discuss what I should have done, had I been a Librarian in a CBSE School!

I should take the following steps:

(However, at the very onset I should mention that you have asked for good books for interview purpose I could not understand what interview you have referred to here. For selection of Students or for selection of potential teachers?)

1. Go through the syllabus to see what it contains. I should further explore syllabi of certificate Courses in Library Science conducted by various organizations. (In West Bengal, for example, the Bengal Library Association has been successfully conducting the course for last several decades!) As you might be knowing, the minimum qualification for admission to the course is H.S that is Class XII  in 10+2 system.

Here I need to explain certain issues relating to the viability of introduction of the Course itself:

The Certificate Course is a Six Month full time Class based course while the CBSE course is an elective course of Two Years tenure (XI & XII) as such, it can be presumed that quantiatively both the course contents will be sort of same with certain difference in contents as the purpose of the two courses are not the same..

2. The philosophy of the CBSE course is to initiate creation of  a pool of new gen LIS Professional while the practical purpose of conducting the Certificate Course is to impart training to work as junior staff in libraries. in this sense, the CBSE course should be initiated with sort of creation & manifestation of subjects. Libraries as Knowledge resources, Characteristics of print and e-materials,  History of written materials & their forms, then organization of Knowledge & information etc. Next is initiation of the theory of Librarianship and arrangement of documents, the technical parts of Cataloguing and Classification and the philosophy behind them. Then Introduction of Computer, internet and Metadata

Again, coming back to the context of "my job as Librarian"

Check the Syllabus. and explore & identify sources/resources relating to pertinent portions of the syllabus. For instance, in case formation of subjects is included into the syllabus, I have to identify books & or other reading materials pertaining to the topic and especially for those which are easily understandable by people of Class XI &XII.

This aspect is, as you can understand, is quite important & critical.

I must add here that I have seen the link sent by Sri Abilash Achuthan. The list is extremely impressive and Sri Achuthan's endeavour is quite commendable.

But quite naturally, from the titles it is not possible to understand about the standard of the discourses; I mean to say whether they are understandable by students of Class XI & XII. So as per need I have to tailor-made the materials for the students. This is what we usually call Repackaging of Information. As I understand, since the CBSE is introducing the courses, there should be suitable books at least by the NCERT. Adhering to such books and the syllabus, I have  to devise some indigenous reading materials if need be.

To sum up, this is what I should have done in case I had been the Librarian.

I hope I could explain the issue.

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray, Calcutta

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Permalink Reply by Manavta Jugeshh on May 29, 2014 at 15:35

Dear Mr.Ray,

Thank you so much Sir,

Sorry for late reply.

Manavta Jugeshh

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