New Anticipations of Users from Library and Changing Functions of Librarians Reveals the Need of Curriculum Development of Library and Information Science Courses
Author : Meena Pramod Dongare
This is time to study from home and teach from home. Library should keep working and social distancing at a time to face the pandemic or any crisis.
This crisis put light on the truth that Library adorned with ICT tools and Librarian working smartly will only survive and able to give remote services to the end users. Traditional Libraries without ICT tools and internet have limited services to provide and it degrades the value of library services. These libraries can’t reach to users, when users are not able to approach library. Now this is era that users are not bonded to come to Library but Libraries have responsibility, duty to reach to student to fulfill its needs of information at advanced level. Librarian should be educated with theoretical and practical knowledge required to give advance remote services to users. For this either curriculum of course should be developed or eligibility criteria for Librarian should be changed. Syllabus of LIS should enrich with technology/ICT tool with theoretical and practical knowledge.
Keywords - Pandemic, Crisis, ICT, Remote, Services, Advanced, Curriculum.
DOI : 10.26761/IJRLS.6.2.2020.1359 DOI URL: https://doi.org/10.26761/ijrls.6.2.2020.1359
Cite This Article As: Dongare, M.P. (2020). New Anticipations of Users from Library and Changing Functions of Librarians Reveals the Need of Curriculum Development of Library and Information Science Courses. International Journal of Research in Library Science (IJRLS), 6(2) 206-208. www.ijrls.in
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Publication Date : 18 October 2020 Hits : 169