Continuing education programmes of Library & Information Science (LIS) professionals in the Universities of West Bengal (India) with special reference to the University of Calcutta

Dasgupta, Arjun; Satpathi, Jatindra Nath

dc.contributor.author	Dasgupta, Arjun
dc.contributor.author	Satpathi, Jatindra Nath
dc.contributor.editor	Khoo, C.	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Singh, D.	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Chaudhry, A.S.	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2007-05-24T00:00:01Z
dc.date.available	2010-06-18T23:37:06Z
dc.date.issued	2006	en_US
dc.date.submitted	2007-05-24	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Continuing education programmes of Library & Information Science (LIS) professionals in the Universities of West Bengal (India) with special reference to the University of Calcutta 2006, :239-246	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105941
dc.description.abstract	The paper starts with the need of Continuing Education for the LIS professionals in this modern era of information and technology. It narrates the activities of Continuing Education and Professional Development (CEPD) in different developed and developing countries of the world. It enumerates the role of various associations and institutions of India such as ILA, IASLIC, BLA IIMs, ICSSR, AIIMS, which are actively connected with programmes of continuing education. The authors highlight some of the universities and academic institutions of our country which have centres and departments of continu-ing education & critically analyze the work and activities of eight universities of West Bengal based on survey work. The paper suggests some measures to improve the existing conditions and status of con-tinuing education programmes for the university-library professionals of West Bengal.
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University	en_US
dc.subject	continuing education	en_US
dc.subject	India	en_US
dc.subject	Academic Libraries	en_US
dc.subject	Training	en_US
dc.title	Continuing education programmes of Library & Information Science (LIS) professionals in the Universities of West Bengal (India) with special reference to the University of Calcutta	en_US
dc.type	Conference Paper	en_US
refterms.dateFOA	2018-06-17T11:23:10Z
html.description.abstract	The paper starts with the need of Continuing Education for the LIS professionals in this modern era of information and technology. It narrates the activities of Continuing Education and Professional Development (CEPD) in different developed and developing countries of the world. It enumerates the role of various associations and institutions of India such as ILA, IASLIC, BLA IIMs, ICSSR, AIIMS, which are actively connected with programmes of continuing education. The authors highlight some of the universities and academic institutions of our country which have centres and departments of continu-ing education & critically analyze the work and activities of eight universities of West Bengal based on survey work. The paper suggests some measures to improve the existing conditions and status of con-tinuing education programmes for the university-library professionals of West Bengal.