[LIS-Forum] INFLIBNET appontment

Kailash Garg gargkc022 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 23:12:21 IST 2018


Thanks a lot for supporting my view point and best wishes for the new year
in advance

On Wed 19 Dec, 2018, 5:10 PM Shivendra <shiv.mail at gmail.com wrote:

> There is nothing wrong. The Father of Library and Information Sciences,
>  Padmashri Prof. SR Ranganthan  was a mathematician.  As read in Wikipedia,
> in 1923, the University of Madras created the post of University Librarian
> to oversee their poorly organized collection. Among the 900 applicants for
> the position, none had any formal training in librarianship, and
> Ranganathan's' handful of papers satisfied the search committee's
> requirement that the candidate should have a research background. His sole
> knowledge of librarianship came from an Encyclopædia Britannica article he
> read days before the interview. In 2008, Prof. V. G. Tableware, Professor,
> Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, for
> his appointment as Vice Chancellor of the University of Mysore, everyone
> welcomed on his appointment. So, please welcome our new director same as
> other professionals welcome us. Congratulate him, so that he can contribute
> his expertise for library professionals. We know that some of our library
> associations propagate the things.
>
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 22:11, Kailash Garg <gargkc022 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Sir,
>> Few professionals have raised the issue of appointment of a non
>> professional person as Director of INFLIBNET. Recently Dr. Sharmila Ghosh
>> has written that Berkeley Labs are appointing students from social
>> sciences
>> for their research work
>> I want to give an example from India. Professor Vishwatathan  of IISc was
>> appointed Director of INSDOC (now NISCAIR). I understand he was also a non
>> professional like the present director of INFLIBNET. I don't understand
>> why
>> this hue and cry. Judge the individual by his works he does as director.
>> Dr Kailash C Garg, Ex-Chief Scientist, CSIR-NISTADS
>> Member Editorial Board COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics, Annals of Lib
>> Inf
>> Studies,
>> Journal of Scientometric Research, Life Member Int.Soc.Scientometrics and
>> Informetrics (ISSI),
>> Academic Counsellor IGNOU
>>
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> Shivendra Singh
> PhD, MLIS
> Senior Librarian
> All India Institute of Medical Sciences
> Phulwarisarif, Patna
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