[LIS-Forum] UGC NET

[Vimal Kumar]

Dear Friends,
We have to seriously think about the issue raised by Ratheesh.
Librarians have no role in teaching activity in university.
From academic community's view point, university library is a place like
mere storage space of books.
In the real sense, we can't blame them. Library professionals could not
made a good image in front of academic community yet.
Library authorities do not take initiative for organize information
literacy programme and add on programmes for researchers, teachers and
students.
Such initiative can give opportunity for librarians to expose the teaching
expertise.
In my experience, most of the faculty members and research scholars are
very poor in using WWW for retrieving relevant information for their
learning purpose. Most of the teachers dont know how to move a mouse
properly !!
Library professionals has good expertise in retrieving information
from online resources. But teachers and students think that librarians are
non professionals and reluctant to approach for assistance. Once a teacher
inquired (few years back) to one of my senior colleague "You get a
promotion if you pass 10th standard examination?"

Cold war between library professionals are another curse. Fierce fight
(cold war) between  library professionals (NET holders and others) in
universities in Kerala.
Development is stopped in university libraries for many years. We can
compare situation in university libraries against "crabs in the bucket".
They think that "if I can't have it, neither can you." Competition which
prevents any from escaping and ensures their collective demise. In certain
extent such experience in university libraries prevent professionals to get
UGC pay scale and enhanced status.

I know that my answer not reached the correct explanation to Ratheesh's
question. I invite other professionals to fill the gap in my reply.

-- 
Vimal Kumar V.
Mahatma Gandhi University Library
Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560
Web: http://www.vimalkumar.org
Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in
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