Within the present curriculum, there is a great scope for specialization. Suppose, a student wants to specialize in economics, then he can take the following steps:
(a) Take the paper on literature and bibliography in social sciences. As a part of his study in this paper , he can write assignment(s) related to economics as a part of internal assessment .
(b) Take the paper on research and technical libraries. As a part of his study , he can write an assignment relating to a library specializing in economics as a part of internal assessment.
(c) Do internship for atleast two month ( For one month during the course and one month after finishing the course, just before declaration of the result) in a library specializing in economics, say, Ratan Tata Library of University of Delhi. He should maintain a daily diary recording his experiences, lessons gained, suggestions, etc. At the end his internship, let him write a report and submit it to his teacher (guide) in the Department.
(d) As a part of his dissertation or report for MLISc course, let him take up a topic related to economics. It can be a users’ study of economists or some other other aspect.
The builtin assumption is that the library school should have a provision for internal assessment, whereby the marks the student obtains in internal assessment are added to his final result. Many of the library schools have provision for internal assessment. Library School at University of Delhi, has a provision of 25% marks in each paper allocated to internal assessment.
It is suggested that each student, who gets admission to MLISc must be attached to a faculty member, who will serve as his guide or mentor. He must have specialized in the same or related field. Who will help him in choosing the field of specialization and the library where he can get internship for two months. The guide will also collaborate with individual teachers, teaching the courses selected by the student to pursue his specialization. This collaboration will be necessary to decide upon the assignments to be done by the student including his dissertation/project report.
The specialization will start in the second year of two year integrated MLISc course.
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We had a heated discussion on LIS-FORUM just this week on the issue. It seems younger generation is falling in trap of POST HOC FALLACY, If they are rejected at job - then the LIS Syllabus was bad. It is hard fact there can't be hundred percent placement in the present job market. The supply exceeds the demand manifold. The competition is intense - hence "personality" factors are becoming more and more dominant in job market.
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