Indian Contributors to International & Comparative Librarianship?
Any concept has an initiator. My initiation into comparative and international librarianship is based on, first, the training of Prof. H. A. Khan, retired, Department of Library and Information Science, Mysore University, India, and second, the collaborative efforts of Prof. Donald G. Davis Jr., Emeritus Professor, University of Texas, School of Information.***
The issue I am trying to resolve, then is, who are the Indian contributors?
Any clues? We have in the past decades celebrated our national contributors, and mentors. But who are the internationally & / or globally outstanding Indian information professionals, librarians, etc.?
The question is: A future LIS historian may ask, who has contributed these?
Then, are we not responsible to identify, check citations, analyze literary and other contributions and document our movers, leaders, mentors, etc.?
To start with, I have picked some names (see the title of this Blog and the list below--none is a final list, I confess). I am aware that this is a national task. One individual's judgment will be always questionable.
My criteria to select people is those who have worked / consulted / motivated outside India, i.e., at the global level (or at least bi-nationally). These, I think are the leaders that need to be appreciated in comparative and international librarianship. Is this a valid criteria?
To start the history writing project, I following aree identified as India's contributors:
Do you know any others? Please let me know, and I will add on.
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***Incidentally, both influenced me to be a good student of library history, and I thank them for the essence of historiography I tried to spread around.
Labels: India, Reference Sources
2 Comments:
Dear Colleague,
Congrats for the new beginning.
We are publishing an international 'Journal of Information management and Scientometrics'. Hope it falls in your scope.
For details pl visit our site--www.dlisamu.org
Also, Google to retrieve details of the journal.
Sincerely
Prof Shabahat Husain
Dept. Of Library and Information Science
A.M.U.Aligarh India
You may add the name of Dr S R Ranganathan
krishan kumar
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