Capacity Building Of Human Resources: A Case Study Of Central And Private Universities Of Assam
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2018-11
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INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
Abstract
Capacity building includes skill development, enhancement of efficiency etc. to achieve the desired
organizational goals. With the advancement of technologies, it becomes very essential for the library
professionals to be up to date in their field, so that they can provide best services to their users
and can effectively cope up with the crisis and situations. Academic knowledge and competence
development should go hand in hand. Technological inventions have made it clear that if an organization
has to get success or reach its ultimate goal, it must develop or train its human resource.
Nowadays, library needs multi-skilled professionals to work efficiently in order to meet its user’s
needs. Universities are the largest academic organizations, where they have to cater a huge clientele
with varied interests; therefore, capacity building programs are very essential to enhance
theirabilities. The study mainly discusses the concept of capacity building, management level initiatives,
barriers and various challenges etc., faced by the library professionals. The paper further
gives light on capacity building initiatives taken by different central and private universities. As the
research paper is mainly a survey based study, survey based methods have been used and therefore,
both the primary and secondary data have been used to write this paper. Through the findings, it has
been found that Central Universities promotes capacity development programs very well and the
professionals are more or less satisfied, where as Private Universities have a long way to go.
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Keywords
Capacity Building, Library Staff, Central University, Private University, Human Resource, Skill Development