Library Training in Chennai, India, Oct. 21
This post is from Thana, an Iraqi colleague who has shared in several training programs run by Simmons. She is currently in Chennai (formerly called Madras), India on a six-week training program. She writes:
The training program seems to start today. Everyone was in class at 9:30 am. Dr Ravnchandran told us yesterday to prepare something about our country – its culture, education, and anything we can say about our countries, so I did and so did my colleagues in the training group. We enjoyed the time listening to each other.
Then we spent one and a half hours at lunch, and then back for a lecture by Dr. A. Amudhavalli, a professor & head of the Madras University Library & Info. Science Department.
The lecture was about library science in India ….and also about what librarians do to serve users.
I enjoyed this lecture a lot, and I said inside now the program starts to be useful for me. I loved her way in teaching and her way to feel the feed back from others. At the end of her lecture, everyone clapped for her and I told her she is an excellent teacher.
We will meet her again when all the group will visit the Lib. & Info. Sci. Department next Friday. I asked her to prepare something for me so that I have an idea about curricula in India.
At the end of her lecture I loved the statement she said: be proud of yourself that you work as a librarian, if you do not respect your work how can the others?
Till next diary ….. accept my regards,
Thana
I want you to know the countries where all of us come from, so I have made a list. The training group now is:
1 from Lesotho
1 from Nigeria
1 from Mauritius
1 from Fijian Island
2 from Uzbekistan
1 from Afghanistan
2 from Zambia
6 from Myanmar
2 from Uganda
1 from Sudan
2 from Uganda
2 from Palestine
1 from Ethiopia
