[LIS-Forum] Membership Campaign of ACADEMIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (ALA)

[Dr. A.T. Francis]

Dear LIS Professionals,
 
This is an appeal to all LIS Professionals in India to enroll in the ACADEMIC
LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (ALA).  Though it was started functioning during 1996,
it has been registered as Scientific Society recently with No. TSR/TC/267/2014,
Thrissur, Kerala-680651
Library professionals with minimum BLISc can enroll as Life
Members of ALA. DLISc/CLISc holders and LIS students can also enroll as
Associate Members.  The membership fee is
Rs. 100/- for both.  Assoc. Membership
will be automatically converted to Life Membership on acquiring BLISc or
higher, without any additional fee.   
This year’s major focus of ALA is School Libraries without its
development no academic, special or public library will survive.  The use of all libraries and dignity of all
librarians are closely associated with how school libraries are maintained.

Unfortunately, most of the school libraries (other than
international / central/ Navodhaya / CBSE / ICSE / Similar schools) in Kerala
and India
in general are totally neglected.  This
situation adversely affects the reading and learning skills of the people.
Research findings revealed that people without reading habit
are more attuned to anti-social activities like, drinking, drugs, ragging,
riots etc.

Hence, it is the duty of the LIS Professionals
to do all sorts of effort to revamp our School Library System with enough
facilities and qualified Library Education Teachers.
Unity is the strength in any democratic society. Members’ enrolment
in associations, collaboration of associations and effective and targeted functioning
of them are the need of the day.     That is why we keep the membership fee to the
minimum.  So, this is a humble request to
all LIS Professionals in India to enroll in ALA.

As a
most easy way, you can remit the fee by Electronic Transfer/DD in favour of “Academic Library Association”, SBT, Ollukkara
Branch, (Branch Code: 70210)Mannuthy, Thrissur, A/c. No. 67277881745; IFS Code: SBTR0000210and send your application/details by e-mail or sms.
Remittance of fee as group is also possible.
Kindly pass this message to your professional friends to
encourage this campaign.

Mr. P.A. Pradeep (KeralaVeterinaryUniversity,
Papradeep08 at Gmail.com, Phone: 9995087645) is the General Secretary and myself
is the President of ALA.
With regards,
Dr. A.T. FRANCIS, MCom, MLISc, NET, PhD
HEAD, LIBRARY
College of Horticulture
Kerala Agricultural University
Thrissur - 680 656, India, 91-9496839409 (m)
francisaloor at yahoo.com
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