Librarians' Day 2009

August 2009 is just eleven months away (time flies, isn't it) and we need to start thinking about the "Theme" of seminar. What would be an Ideal Theme?
Quite obviously, the first thing that comes to our mind is, any latest topic or issue(s) in the field of library and information science.

Things are changing so fast that catching them is becoming really tough, for example, we have just started learning about Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 is knocking the door (Thanks, Ms. Shweta for sharing the information). The library professionals working in Special/Research libraries having good IT infrastructure and facilities are privileged to take maximum benefits of the changing scenarios. But is the case same for other libraries? What about the professionals working in colleges, schools or even universities? Are they equally aware of the technological changes and their implications? OR is there a Librarian Divide that exists. Remember, those who were present during Librarians' Day 2008, Ms. Renuka Dave in her concluding remarks said, "In a family if someone is having Pizza, he/she should also prepare Khichdi-Kadi (traditional Gujarati food) for those who, for some reason or other can not have Pizzas" (this is transliterated from Gujarati). Hope the sense is transmitted to all of us.

So, what do we do, that is a BIG question. If we have a Topic which is of interest to the "privileged" professionals, may not be even understood by the "not so privileged" professionals, and a Topic which is understood and of concern to the "not so privileged" professionals, would be insipid for the "privileged" professionals.

We must strike a balance to see that both groups of the professionals are equally interested and contribute to the seminar and the audience seats are full to capacity till the end of the day, a big challenge.

Another big challenge is to reduce the gap between two groups in the profession.

All library professionals are requested to put their thoughts/views and suggest some topics for Librarians' Day 2009.

Together we will Grow, and Change the way World look at us