Building Rapport Between Disaster Management and LIS Curriculum: A Study

Vikas Singh, Archana Shukla

Abstract


The present paper seeks to contribute some insights into whether disaster management (DM) as ‘course content’ could be integrated into Library and Information Science (LIS discipline. The text is primarily built upon a review of literature which is conceivable for both DM and LIS at some extent. The paper also aims to identify and discuss two areas and their inevitability for one another. Further, the paper analyses the present status of Central Universities of Northern-India where found that a number of LIS programs have incorporated disaster related ‘course content’ or at least a part of it. The present study emphasizes for incorporating of ‘disaster management’ content in the syllabus, on the other hand, study also found that a number of LIS programs have incorporated more disasters related topics in course offerings of the program themselves.


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