LIS education in India: an appraisal of the parity between the syllabus and the market demands

TLDR: In this article, the authors tried to map the resources (input) used for teaching LIS by comparing syllabuses of different Universities and Institutes and assess how far these resources co-relate in imparting LIS education with the today's market demand for LIS professionals, whether there are any gaps and recommendations to fill up those gaps.

Abstract: History and development of the LIS Education in India have been traced from its early inception up to today’s scenario Towards this discussion, different modes of LIS training have been delved intonamely, regular courses offered by the universities, specialized courses by NISCAIR (INSDOC), DRTC, NCSI, etc, distance education LIS courses offered by open as well as regular universities and also the certificate course offered by BLA and some other organizations Against this proliferation, this study tried to map the resources (input) used for teaching LIS by comparing syllabuses of different Universities and Institutes and to assess how far these resources co-relate in imparting LIS education with the today’s market demand for LIS professionals, whether there are any gaps and recommendations to fill up those gaps (if any) The basic issues to be addressed in this paper are the connectivity between uniting LIS education and manpower requirements to transform India of the 21st century into a knowledge society, as envisaged by the National Knowledge Commission (NKC) set up by the Prime Minister of India in 2005 with the challenging mandate to transform India of the 21st century into a knowledge society NKC has emphasized on trying to raising standards and promoting excellence in LIS education in the light of the country’s manpower requirement