Raising the Library Man-Power

Abstract

Discusses the responsibilities, levels of training and selection for training of library professionals in the categories of leaders, senior professionals, junior professionals, and semi-professionals. Gives details of admission requirements and syllabus for the training courses for the different categories. Mentions the special factors in the training of a documentalist. Points out the defects and difficulties in the existing training programmes. Estimates the number of persons, to be trained in the next twenty years to be about 245,000.