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[Subbiah Arunachalam]

Dear Nafiz and friends:

I try to answer Nafiz's questions briefly.

Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]


1. What if library and information science institutions throughout the
world follow the same standard and curriculum ?

The world of LIS education will become dull and drab! It will curb all 
growth and new ideas. Variety is the spice of life. As the great Chairman
Mao
said, let thousand flowers bloom!

2. What if every country (developed , less developed , developing )
could get the same technological facilities ?

A good thing to dream about. Such things do not happen

3. What if every people throughout the world becomes information literate ?

Some goals are Utopian. Good to hear, but do not happen! This is one of
them.

4. What if information professionals could control the world ?

Why should anyone control the world?

5. What if ISBN & ISSN could be done online and a centralized agency
control this (in cooperation with other countries still providing ISBN
& ISSN ) .
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6. What if a World Repository Center was established to collect the
publication published throughout the world and maintain a database
from which people around the world could get information regarding the
publication of his own country as well as of other countries ?

This is precisely the goal of the Open Access Archiving that is being
promoted
by Stevan Harnad, Leslie Chan and Peter Suber and several others

7. What if every publication published online in various subject could
be freely accessible for developing countries professionals ?

Projects such as the Million Books Project aim at this goal.


Nafiz Zaman Shuva
Dept. of Information Science & Library Management
University of Dhaka
Bangladesh
e-mail : nafiz_z at hotmail.com
website : www.infosciencetoday.com

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