[LIS-Forum] LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 189, Issue 23

Koteswara Rao Mamidi mk-rao at hotmail.com
Fri Dec 21 11:51:41 IST 2018


As long as librarians and library associations keep silent, such things will continue to happen unabatedly. It is an irony that we have hundreds of library associations which are busy organising conferences but don’t have time or interest to fight against such violations. Look at Tamilnadu Library Association which went to court and ensured that the Govt. appoint only a library professional as director of public libraries. How many of our LIS associations at least attempt to do so?
Today, many libraries in universities and IITs are headed by a professor-in-charge instead of librarians. Let us frankly ask ourselves, Who is responsible for this? In my opinion the issue of INFLIBNET director also comes under public scrutiny which is lacking in our profession. 

Dr Koteswara Rao
Retd librarian
University of Hyderabad


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> On 19-Dec-2018, at 6:20 PM, Suresh Suri <suriramnagar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear professional friends,
> 
> It is too dangerous for our library community. This is not only one
> community's, even RBI also appointed non economist as a chief of RBI. Think
> if it is continues all sector's, how we will contribute to our society?
> 
> Hope this type of appointment will stop in the future.
> 
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>> Today's Topics:
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>>   1. Non-Library person appointed as the Director of INFLIBNET
>>      Centre - Library Network (Francis Jayakanth)
>>   2. Re: Non-Library person appointed as the Director of INFLIBNET
>>      Centre - Library Network (vinod mishra)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 13:43:06 +0000
>> From: Francis Jayakanth <francis at iisc.ac.in>
>> To: lis_forum <LIS-Forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>
>> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Non-Library person appointed as the Director of
>>        INFLIBNET Centre - Library Network
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>> From: Dr. A.T. Francis <francisaloor at yahoo.com>
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>> Sent: 18 December 2018 14:55
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>> Dear Library Professionals,
>> 
>> It is a very shocking news that a Non-Library person appointed as the
>> Director of INFLIBNET Centre.
>> 
>> This is a very unscientific decision to manage a Library Network by
>> non-librarian.
>> 
>> Though the essential qualification for the post is that the person from
>> relevant field, the appointed person is from Statistics, which
>> is not the relevant field.
>> 
>> It is the prime duty and responsibility of all library professionals and
>> associations to intimate the authorities the damage may create to the
>> profession and also to the academics and R&D at large by the decision.
>> 
>> How a Non-Medicine man can do treatment and surgery.  A computer man can
>> establish physical network, but can not manage knowledge and library and
>> provide knowledge services scientifically and effectively.
>> 
>> Dr. A.T. FRANCIS, MCom, MLISc, NET, PhD
>> UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN
>> Kerala Agricultural University
>> Thrissur - 680 656, India, 91-9496839409 (m)
>> francisaloor at yahoo.com
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>> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:51:24 +0530
>> From: vinod mishra <mishravk79 at gmail.com>
>> To: Francis Jayakanth <francis at iisc.ac.in>
>> Cc: lis_forum <LIS-Forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>
>> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Non-Library person appointed as the Director
>>        of INFLIBNET Centre - Library Network
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>> Dear all
>> 
>> It's much delayed because Non library professional has already joined as
>> Director of INFLIBNET. I think we should put efforts for next time so that
>> the trend started should not be continued.
>> 
>> 
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>>> On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:13 Francis Jayakanth, <francis at iisc.ac.in> wrote:
>>> 
>>> From: Dr. A.T. Francis <francisaloor at yahoo.com>
>>> 
>>> Sent: 18 December 2018 14:55
>>> 
>>> Dear Library Professionals,
>>> 
>>> It is a very shocking news that a Non-Library person appointed as the
>>> Director of INFLIBNET Centre.
>>> 
>>> This is a very unscientific decision to manage a Library Network by
>>> non-librarian.
>>> 
>>> Though the essential qualification for the post is that the person from
>>> relevant field, the appointed person is from Statistics, which
>>> is not the relevant field.
>>> 
>>> It is the prime duty and responsibility of all library professionals and
>>> associations to intimate the authorities the damage may create to the
>>> profession and also to the academics and R&D at large by the decision.
>>> 
>>> How a Non-Medicine man can do treatment and surgery.  A computer man can
>>> establish physical network, but can not manage knowledge and library and
>>> provide knowledge services scientifically and effectively.
>>> 
>>> Dr. A.T. FRANCIS, MCom, MLISc, NET, PhD
>>> UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN
>>> Kerala Agricultural University
>>> Thrissur - 680 656, India, 91-9496839409 (m)
>>> francisaloor at yahoo.com
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