Dear Rajasekhar, I appreciate your analysis about people working in different atmospheres with different motives. Well said about politicising the jobs and it is not only in Kerala but every state is facing the same problem. Even the employers are playing the same political game with employees. I don't know why so much discrimination among the same people working for the same organization. That is why people tend to leave one organization and joining the other thereby leaving remark to that organization as to why so many employs are leaving within short period. Is is mismanagement or lacking good atmosphere??? Regards, Valentina. Librarian. ----- Original Message ----- From: Rajan <rajankila@hotmail.com> To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:00:16 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Why Kerala Libraries Fail ? Dear Mr Swetank, The private institutions are designed for a purpose and to serve a cause. but the public institutions in Kerala, as in many other states, are not designed systematically to achieve something. That is why same people fail in one and succeed in the other.Public institutions and organizations are nobodys control zone. You can do anything in any public institution normally. Well delineated do's and don'ts are less in any ordinary organization in the public sphere. Most of the public organizations do not have a set of goals, no one find the strategies or set the action points and never think of any kind of evaluation at all. The tenacious, committed and capable person having focus on work will find difficult to get along in any average institution in Kerala. Petty politics, caste and selfish interests yield better results. In some institutions library is an appendage with no direct relevance to the academic activities. The overall decline in academic activities in Kerala where even Vice-Chancellors are decided on the basis of caste or influence, you cannot have good libraries.Most of the academics do not bother about good library services too, except when they are preparing for competitive examinations or theses. Job threat and salary are not the determinant factors. Rather you may not get the freedom and an enabling environment to work better in any library in Kerala. A well established system can make you love your job than earlier. But we keep failed systems here in our libraries.Most of the appointments or activities in Kerala are based on petty party politics. If a good person is appointed, the political party based organizations will make his world disastrous. On the other hand most of the appointments in the top are either political or seniority based, both leaving no room for good work and designs. It seems that is why Kerala libraries fail. Professionals Associations like Kerala Library Association,alone can bring in more light to this world of utter darkness, if it has a motivation to do so. Best Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India ------------------------------ Original Message: 3 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:22:41 +0530 From: "info" <info@deekshasystems.com> Message-ID: PHEJKJBICLJKBEPALLHHCEGICCAA.info@deekshasystems.com Hi, Very valid point by Mr. Rajan. One point I fail to understand, why the same people works more efficiently in private organization compared to government (exceptions are always there). For them is it only Job threat or salary is the motivation. I feel any one's love for his/her work is also important. and if he/she don't feel it he should leave the job and go to some other job where he feels that he is loving the work. There will be always a needy person who will fill the gap and every thing will keep on moving. Love for your work is very important and this will only help us to realise the dream of being a developed country. Why in USA on an average even a small govt. servant is more sincere for his duty than his Indian counterpart. Is it only a coincidence or it has to do something with their progress. With best regards Shwetank Upadhyaya -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.