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A good library and librarian are crucial for faculty growth livemint.com | Premchand Palety |
There are some infrastructural requirements and systems that are important in an educational institution for the growth of faculty. Library management is one of the most important of them. It has a direct bearing on the quality of research and teaching. |
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M.M.L Goyal, who retired as librarian from Management Development Institute(MDI) in Gurgaon, is one of the country’s most successful librarians. Says S. R Singhvi, a professor who worked in some top Indian B-schools: “of all the places that I worked, the MDI library under Goyal was the best. He would keep track of our research needs and constantly update us with the new reading material. He would also help us in the management development programmes (MDPs) that we regularly conducted for different companies. In order to customize training inputs for a company, we were required to familiarize ourselves with its different aspects. Goyal had developed a system in the library of classifying each physical information pertaining to different industries in newspapers, journals, magazines and different books and on request, the library would produce all classified material in one go. The faculty member then would select from his computer all the relevant material and communicate the same to the library. The library then would take out the selected material, flag it and put it for use in a researcher cabin of the library. The whole process of organizing the relevant reading material generally wouldn’t take more than 20 minutes.” |
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Systems matter: Students at the XLRI, Jamshedpur library. Library management has a direct bearing on the quality of research and teaching - how responsive a librarian is can make all the difference. Indranil Bhoumik / Mint |
Premchand Palety is director of Centre for Forecasting & Research (C-fore) in New Delhi, from where he keeps a close eye on India’s business schools. |