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- Title: Indian Innovative Ways are More Than Digitization: Bhodhivanam, The Library's Forest Environment.
- Author : Library Philosophy and Practice
- Release Date : January 22, 2003
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 189 KB
Description
Introduction The lesson of G. K. Chesterton's famous article, The Fallacy of Success (www.chesterton-library.net/success.txt) can be taken to heart by librarians. Chesterton pokes fun at the many books that promise a formula for "success," by which they mean "material success," which he sees as no more than greed. Librarians are participating in this fallacy by bowing before the wealthy or mighty discipline Information Technology (IT). We bow before it because of its power and its systematic nature. Borrowing the relevant elements from IT for our discipline (library science) is well and good, but there is still the opportunity and the obligation to develop this library science in an Indian way because India has a unique cultural tradition and a rich tradition of library science. In this article, I will introduce a number of concepts from Indian thought and culture, and tie them to an approach to library science that includes the idea of Bhodhivanam, a "forest environment" for the library and the reader.
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