Need for Finishing Schools
There is a need for finishing schools that turn out employable librarians. The idea is to give grooming to products turned out by library schools so that they can be turned into a persons ready to work on the professional jobs. Such a programme may last for two months, immediately after they have taken their final MLISc examination and also submitted their dissertation/project report. The obectives of the programme are:
(i) to inculcate work culture ( he gains finer points regarding work culture, how carry out the job as a professional, how to be disciplined, reaching office in time, not to abstain from duty without proper permission etc)
(ii)to develop communication and behavioural skills( how to develop personality and traits required for developing social interaction, to idea being to develop leadership qualities) especially as a team worker.
(iii) to develop technical analytical skills by working on a project
(iv) to learn the technical skills on the job , learning by doing
There programme may consist of lectures, seminars, workshops and hands –on experience.
There are large number of such programmes that are being run successfully. One such programme is the Executive Finishing School,
Managed byGloria Starr, the leading expert.( http://www.gloriastarr.com/executive-finishing-school.htm) These can give us ideas and information about how finishing schools for librarians can be designed and operated.
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It is an excellent idea particularly in view of the commnets made by employers on the products of LIS schools. The learners in the schools are groomed in the theoretical and practical aspects of the different subjects.Once they are in their jobs, they have to be knowing more things related to the behavioural and ethical aspects .They need to be prepared to adapt and adjustin the entirely different envirionment in the job. It needs to be debated how far this finishing school has to be different from the internship?
A 'finishing school' is an institutional arrangement, similar to instututions that groom people for competions, like IAS, miss india competition, etc. it does not take the place of internship. A library school can start such a programme , or a university library can take up such a programme. Krishan Kumar
Does this means the library school need to be supplemented with another agency that offers orientation to real life / workplace?
Wonder if there are any British or Australian agencies that offer this stepping stool?
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