印度图书情报学教育的发展研究及其启示

India has a long history of library and information science education, it can be divided into four phases which are early period, period of acceptance, period of growth, period of modernization. With the growth of India, the library and information science education encountered different challenges and opportunities at each phase, it had to adopt a proactive approach and bring tremendous changes to serve the needs of the changing environment. Under the new situation, the library and information science education also faces the danger that "Library Science" has been dropped from the name of the library school, the students will be in a disadvantageous position for jobs in libraries. Indian government will take it as one general education to adapt to the knowledge society. Finally, this paper discusses why the library and information science education in India can rapidly develop and its enlightenment to us.