Dear friends and colleagues Firstly I want to congratualate Dr. P. V. Konnur,President,Indian Academic Library Association and allthe members of IALA for their fighting.At last We have seen that an organization with spine is fighting for the right cause. My heartfelt support will be always for them.They have pointed almost all the anomalies. I just want to suppliment one thing that our leave rules must be at par with the teachers because it is absolutely injustice that we are working non-vacationally but our leaves are being treated as vacational staff.College/universities are taking the adavantage of lack of clearleave rules provided by the UGC. And one thing more the logic behind to treat us non-vacational is very weak as new age librarians need equal academic freedom like their teacher friends.We need every kind of leaves like- 1.One day off for study/research per week 2.Faculty Improvement Programme FIP) leaves for doing M.Phil/Ph.D 3.Special leave for Postdoctoral study 4.Study leave 5.Extraordinay leaves for academic purposes 6.Duty leaves for Refresher courses/Conference/seminar/workshop etc. 7.sabbatical leave -------Fixed the duty hour for librarians at par with teachers because working non-vacationally creates identity problem and leave scopes to call us non-teaching staff/ administrative staff ------Make our post vacational or any thing like teachers -----include "LIBRARIAN" in the definition of the teachers in univerity statute and in the UGC Rules -----As AIFUCTO and IALA have rightly pointed that we must be redignated as --Assistant Professor in LIS --Associate Professor in LIS --Professor in LIS The last two things(definition and redignation) can do wonder and can bring complete revolution in the quality of the service and personnel. ---Finally in HRD approval there is a gross anomaly regarding the age of superannuation of librarian from that of teachers citing very very weak reason that there is no shortage of libarian.But there is a real shortage of librarian in respect of eligibility specified by the UGC norms. So our age of superannuation must be at par with the teachers. There should not be any anomaly between us and them.UGC should stop this ongoing US and THEM culture for the sake of development pure and healthy academic ambience in the college/university.I could not understand why the UGC does treat us step-motherly when we have the same eligibility.Why do they undervalue our work from the very begining? Possibly The UGC does not want LIS service in the college/university must not be represented by the high calibre persons. Time has come when we must come together and fight for our self respect. Once again I salute the effort of IALA and wishing a grand triumph over decades long injustice and discrimination. With warm wishes and Happy New Year 2009 to you all. sabuj ---------------------------------------------- Dr. Sabuj Kumar Chaudhuri Librarian Basanti Devi College [http://www.basantidevicollege.org] (An affiliated college under University of Calcutta) 147B, Rash Behari Avenue Kolkata-700 029, West Bengal India Phone:(033)24641012 email:sabooj_c@yahoo.co.in ;sabuj_c@yahoo.co.uk ;sabujkumarchaudhuri@gmail.com website:http://www.geocities.com/sabuj_c/sabuj.html ---------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.