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 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 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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