[LIS-Forum] Why Kerala Libraries Fail ?

[Rajan]

Dear Mr Swetank,

The private institutions are designed for a purpose and to serve a cause. 
but the public institutions in Kerala, as in many other states, are not 
designed systematically to achieve something. That is why same people fail 
in one and succeed in the other.Public institutions and organizations are 
nobodys control zone. You can do anything in any public institution 
normally. Well delineated do's and don'ts are less in any ordinary 
organization in the public sphere. Most of the public organizations do not 
have a set of goals, no one find the strategies or set the action points and 
never think of any kind of evaluation at all. The tenacious, committed and 
capable person having focus on work will find difficult to get along in any 
average institution in Kerala. Petty politics, caste and selfish interests 
yield better results.

In some institutions library is an appendage with no direct relevance to the 
academic activities. The overall decline in academic activities in Kerala 
where even Vice-Chancellors are decided on the basis of caste or influence, 
you cannot have good libraries.Most of the academics do not bother about 
good library services too, except when they are preparing for competitive 
examinations or theses.

Job threat and salary are not the determinant factors. Rather you may not 
get the freedom  and an enabling environment to work better in any library 
in Kerala.
A well established system can make you love your job than earlier. But we 
keep failed systems here in our libraries.Most of the appointments or 
activities in Kerala are based on petty party politics. If a good person is 
appointed, the political party based organizations will make his world 
disastrous. On the other hand most of the appointments in the top are either 
political or seniority based, both leaving no room for good work and 
designs. It seems that is why Kerala libraries fail.

Professionals Associations like Kerala Library Association,alone  can bring 
in more light to this world of utter darkness, if it has a motivation to do 
so.

Best Regards,



K Rajasekharan
Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA)
Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India


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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:22:41 +0530
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Hi,
Very valid point by Mr. Rajan. One point I fail to understand, why the same
people works more efficiently in private organization compared to government
(exceptions are always there). For them is it only Job threat or salary is
the motivation. I feel any one's love for his/her work is also important.
and if he/she don't feel it he should leave the job and go to some other job
where he feels that he is loving the work. There will be always a needy
person who will fill the gap and every thing will keep on moving.
Love for your work is very important and this will only help us to realise
the dream of being a developed country. Why in USA  on an average even a
small govt. servant is more sincere for his duty than his Indian
counterpart.  Is it only a coincidence or it has to do something with their
progress.

With best regards
Shwetank Upadhyaya 


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