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Dear Sir/Madam,
The contents of Library Science courses in India are not sufficient now, need to be updated by accommodating the management, leadership, negotiation skills, professional communication, team leading, strategic management, followed by adequate size of contents of ICT, S/W testing, data analysis etc. Being a Library Science professional, I have been observing and serving the needs of academicians by proving them information asked by them. I realize that the traditional content of Library Science in India are good as per the requirement of a decade back but it needs updates with above skills.
Recently, I had attended the meeting of NIT Library Consortium at NIT Kurukshetra. Where we had gone through many product demonstration and presentation by different well known publishers in Science and Technology domain. I found that above skills are highly needed for the coming library professionals and we (existing professional) should do exercise on the above topics to meet the requirement of time and profession.
What is your opinion please share with us...
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Of course, it should be. You are right. You see the syllabus of International School of Information Management (ISIM) providing M.Tech in Information Systems and Management 2 Years, Full Time, Post Graduate Degree.
SYLLABUS
Semester 1
Statistics & Data Analysis
Information Economics
Theories of Information
Information Organization
Foundation of Software systems
Theoretical Foundation of Computing
Semester 2
Taxonomies, Ontologies and Semantic Web
Content Management and Electronic Publishing
Information Systems Design and Development
Internet Technologies
Semester 3
Data Mining and Data Warehousing
Information Retrieval Systems
Human Computer Interactions
Program Management & Management Strategies
Electives
651 Bio Informatics
652 Geo Informatics
654 Information assurance and security
655 Natural Language processing
656 Multimedia content management
Semester 4
IPR and Cyber laws
Electives
Any two of the following:
657 Information Industry and Entrepreneurship
653 Health Informatics
659 Entreprise Content Management
661 Pattern recognition and image processing
662 Computer Graphics
663 Text Mining
664 Cultural Informatics
668 Multilingual Information Management
665 eGovernance
666 E-Learning
658 Knowledge Management
667 Financial Information System
Major Project
Apart from this, it also provides PGDIM, BTech, and PhD in Information System Management.
Thank You Sir
...for sharing the syllabus, it is quite comprehensive and complementary to my forum post. But we would like to know that what is the minimum qualification for M.Tech in Information Systems and Management 2 Years, Full Time, Post Graduate Degree?
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M.Tech in Information Systems and Management 2 Years, Full Time, Post Graduate Degree Affiliated to University of Mysore (Indian University)
Eligibility:
GATE
Admission Procedure:
Being it is the MTech Course eligibility is like this, but if it will be the MS course then the 3 years undergraduate program will be sufficient.
...it seems that this scheme is applicable only for engineering domain people. Above syllabus is not accommodating the Library Science, other knowledge and skills needed for the managing a library. It is good for business companies, those are selling the information products. The purpose of asking for the minimum qualification, just to get the connective links where we could connect the our service industry. Library Science is a service oriented filed/sector, professional has be equipped with the knowledge of library science, management and technology.
Thanking you.
This Discussion i have presented in the MANLIBNET Inter National Conference 2013 at Ahmedabad.
Librarian role should be multi subjects.Hence along with regular main subjects.Editing, Translation, computer applications as on date,
General Information about all the subjects.Latest technologies which need to be utilized by Library.
Library should function as knowledge house.
Thank You Ma'am,
for sharing your views and introduction of your work. Ma'am if you could share your work/published at MALIBNET with us, we could also get some useful thought. I have given my email id : munesh09@gmail.com, I promise to follow the rules of copyright in each manners.
Thanking You...
Dear Sri Munesh Kumar,
Thank you for addressing an extremely important issue through your post.
It is a fact that with the demand of the age, syllabus of LIS needs to be suitably updated because it is after all a professional course involving practical works in real life situation.
I have been working on it for last couple of months and felt that since the students passing out with professional qualifications are mainly go either to teaching profession or to work in Libraries (majority of qualified professionals) course should be designed in a way which are suitable for both of the two groups. Accordingly, it should have two parts consisting of: (A) some compulsory subjects and (B) some optional subjects. Never-the-less, since the professionals (majority group) work in diverse areas (Public Libraries, Research Institutes, Schools, Colleges, Archives, Higher Academic Institutions etc, Industries, where the demands of expertise are quite varied, courses are supposed to accommodate all such issues. In our days, we had 4 types of special papers in Master's course (Academic Libraries, Archive & Manuscript Libraries, Public Libraries & Research Libraries). Needless to say that in those days there were no such applications of IT & cyber technologies, the diversity of technology applications were sort of quite limited.
I have gone through the post of Dr. Naik and realized that my thoughts were not unfounded. The course should be a blend of modules consisting of "Librarianship" "Information Science" & "IT"as I personally feel.
Since my education is limited, I can not (& should not) suggest/recommend the modules and pedagogic activities but as I personally feel that the teachers should have some exposures in professional services so that they can have sort of better ideas about the real life situations in the workplace. That's all!
Sincerely,
Siddhartha S. Ray, Calcutta
Thank you very much Sir.
Your points are professionally and morally supporting to mine. Your experiences are cite-able for us. Sir, the points which you have mentioned in last paragraph are quite reasonable. We need to communicate with UGC for updating the syllabus according to the the current need. Sir, your works, views and efforts of mine (whatever, in any size) towards up-gradation of syllabus may bring some changes in education of LIS. On behalf of LIS Links Community you may proceed for the same (its my request).
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Thank you very Ma'am for your motivating remark for me as well as a key policy input for the forum.
We are facing lots of problem due to the lack of comprehensive syllabus. Our respected teachers have taught us and have given us a sound understanding on subjects, which is helping us in each section of work. But due to the changes in requirements, we need to read more and more. I have included extra-reading in my routine to meet the requirements. If the syllabus will accomplish the updates, then coming batch will not face the difficulties like we face.
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You can also refer the syllabus of other universities lik BIT Mesra, BITS Pilani, WBUT. All are providing MSc in Information Science.
Please See the BIT Mesra Syllabus
M.Sc. Information Science
(Course structure and Syllabus – 2011 onwards)
Course Code Course Credit (L-T- P)
Semester – I
SIS 1201 Foundation of Information Science
SIS 1203 Fuzzy Logic & Neural Networks Applications
SIS 1205 C Programming and Data Structure
SIS 1207 Knowledge Organization, Information Processing & Retrieval
MSH 1119 Industrial Psychology
SIS 1204 Lab on MATLAB
SIS 1206 Lab on C
Semester – II
SIS 2201 Internet and Web Technology
SIS 2203 Data Base Management System
SIS 2205 Data Communication and Networks
MSH 1153 Cyber Laws
Elective – I
SIS 2202 Lab on Internet and Web Technology
SIS 2204 Lab on DBMS
Semester – III
SIS 3201 Digital Library and Multimedia
SIS 3203 Management Information System
SIS 3205 Research Methods & Quantitative Techniques
Elective – II
Advance Science paper
SIS 3202 Lab on Digital Library
SIS 3204 Lab on Multimedia
Semester – IV
SIS 4201 Project
List of Electives
Elective – I
SIS 2207 Information Psychology & Architecture
SIS 2209 Information Representation and Repackaging
Elective – II
SIS 3207 Scientometrics
SIS 3209 Economics of Information Products and Marketing
Thank You Sir for giving your valuable time for discussion and sharing useful information.
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