Skill Enhancement of Library Professionals and Users of Sherubtse College, Kanglung, Bhutan

Abstract

Historically the education in Bhutan was started with the early Monastic bodies. The monastic system of education has sustained the Bhutanese society in its spiritual fold for many centuries. In the monastic education system, it was practiced through informal relationship between the master and the disciples. At present there are 4971 monks have registered with the Deratshang Lhentshog (Central Monastic Body). The development of a comprehensive modern education system in Bhutan was initiated in 1961. In Bhutan there are two kinds of modern education system exits namely, Formal and Non-formal system. The education is free for all which is applicable in all type of education system in Bhutan. Sherubtse College is the apex institution of higher education for Arts and Science of the country. The total strength of the college is of more than thousand students and of more than 150 faculties. The college library has over 30,000 volumes of books and hundreds of journals, magazines and ebooks. There are two librarians and nine other staff members are working in the library. There is no Library Science programme in the country. However the staff use to attend many training programmes at regular intervals. The performance review and evaluation system is being in practice to evaluate the staff performance. In this paper we will study the skill enhancement of the staff and the patrons of Sherubtse College Library.