1Assistant Librarian and Ph.D. Scholar, DLIS, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
2Professor and Head, DLIS, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
*(Corresponding author) email id: omsays@gmail.com
It is always curious to know what attracts to the students in choosing librarianship as a career. The Library and Information Science (LIS) education are more than a century old in India. The LIS education is imparting at various levels from certificate to doctoral. Every level has different objectives and job opportunities. The study intended to know about the preferences of the students pursuing their bachelor and master degrees in LIS. A survey, using an online questionnaire on Google form application was conducted in from September to November 2018. A total of 92 specific responses from the LIS student who are pursuing their degrees. The general finding of the study shows that the majority of the students select the librarianship by choice as the first choice in regular mode of education.
LIS education, Mode of degree, BLIS, MLIS, Librarianship, LIS profession, Career, Librarian, Information professional, Professionalism
