[LIS-Forum] should lis-forum allow commercial vendors as members?

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Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 10:12:24 +0530
From: Vyasamoorthy at icicikp.com

Request to moderator of Lis-forum: If contents are OK with you, please =
permit the entire message with all forwarded messages - just this time ; =
this would give the background needed for discussion. Thanks. =
Vyasamoorthy, P

Dear All,
Please see postings of: Rajendra Babu, Maduresh Singhal, Mukesh Anand =
quoted below.

I have no dilemma on this issue. We should allow all who are likely to =
benefit librarians' community and promote (I would not say protect) our =
interests. After all we do depend upon vendors for supply of books =
periodicals & documents. What is wrong if they join and get to know our =
problems, perspectives and feelings? Things might change for the better.

There are many occasions in Lis-Forum where requests for sourcing old =
books, info on RFID, info on certain software etc came up; I have =
forwarded them individually to suitable vendors for action. Enquirers =
have benefited. If library suppliers are part of the forum they could =
respond directly to individual's requirements -- if answering via forum =
may be looked upon as 'commercial' activity.

Moreover, we, in VIC act as providers of information, literature =
searches, documents etc to our customers by procuring the same from =
other sources including libraries, commercial book sellers, publishers =
and online sources. As we act as intermediaries we have interests of =
librarians (as we are librarians) and that of vendors as we are vendors =
too.

I do not find anything bad, unwelcome, un-holy about commercial =
activities. We should shed this inhibition of allowing commercial =
fellows into our fold. Government Institutions still have this "Us" and =
"they" attitude strongly entrenched in them. This must go. However when =
one section of the society tends to unnecessarily exploit the other to =
their undue advantage then that has to be checked. This correction will =
occur automatically as and when aberrations happen.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Madhuresh [mailto:madhuresh_s at aurigene.com]
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 9:29 AM
To: Babu Rajendra; G. K. Manjunath; VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD; Prof. =
N.Laxman Rao
Subject: RE: GOC Rates for month of July' 2004


Dear Babu,

I feel that announcing the GOC rates is not a commercial activity. It is =
just information which may be useful for us.

Now regarding the question of allowing vendors to become a member of =
professional forum, I feel any one can become the member as it would be =
difficult for Moderator to find out whether a person is a vendor or not, =
however their postings can be moderated. Again, these vendors may be =
useful for supplying the information if any professional member needs =
it, e.g., if a professional want to implement RFID and s/he expressed =
her/his desire in the forum, vendor may directly contact.=20

I have seen so many mails in various forums in which professionals have =
promoted their own products specially books. I am not sure whether to =
take this as a commercial activity or to announce their professional =
growth and to make others aware about such products/books. I personally =
feel that this could also be taken as informative announcement. But I am =
interested to know the views of others regarding this.

Regards.

Madhuresh Singhal
Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road,
Bangalore 560100
Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 422
Mobile 98861 82822
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-----Original Message-----
From: Babu Rajendra [mailto:Rajendra.Babu at capco.com]=20
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 6:18 PM
To: G. K. Manjunath; Vyasamoorthy at icicikp.com; Prof. N.Laxman Rao
Cc: Madhuresh
Subject: RE: GOC Rates for month of July' 2004
Importance: High

Dear all,

I guess you remember me.=20

I am in professional dilemma after looking at Mr. Mukesh's mail. I was =
thinking whom to talk to, so I thought that all the people in the list =
are the people who have seen me except Mr. Manjunath, but any way I have =
interacted to Manjunath over e-mail. Madhuresh is my Junior in NCSI.

I feel, how feasible it is to allow vendors like Mr. Mukesh in the =
professional forum for Librarians only. I would also explain where I am =
coming from. As we professional librarians would be discussing lot of =
day-to-day issues to professional help/advise/guidance and so on =
(sometimes it might be about vendors too). I guess this is the major =
reason we have established professional forums like LISFORUM and others =
run by our own prefessionals/organizations. Such as NCSI, Dr. Laxman Rao =
(sir, pl. recall our discussions @mysore University) and others. In this =
scenario, I need your advise, would we be allowing vendors to subscribe =
to the professional forums like this or not. If YES why and on what =
grounds we should be? (since, I have also worked in Universal =
Subscripition agency/Global INformation systems technology).

Looking forward for your opinions. It's only for my personal =
clarification and not to target any one concerned.

Thanks,
Babu.

 -----Original Message-----
From: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ [mailto:mukesh at monitorinfo.com]=20
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 4:54 PM
To: ytv at godrej.com; vasu at qmedin.com; IGIDR Shyam Prasad Pujar; G. K. =
Manjunath; farooque at in.ibm.com; Bank Of Baroda Mumbai Mr. Dharmendra =
Sachan; Babu Rajendra
Cc: Vyasamoorthy at icicikp.com; smitac_in at yahoo.com; Samdarshi Pali; =
rajeshbcd at rediffmail.com; Prof. N.Laxman Rao; prakash_inp at yahoo.com; =
pharmalibrarians at yahoogroups.com; nub at iucaa.ernet.in; Nirma University =
H.Anil Kumar; Menon KPR; Madhuresh
Subject: GOC Rates for month of July' 2004

 GOC Rates for month of July' 2004
USD       : Rs. 48.10
UKP       : Rs. 88.00
EURO     : Rs. 58.30
S Fr.       : Rs. 38.60

Mukesh Anand
Director - Marketing

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