Dear Sir/Madam, I just signed the petition "Prime Minister of India: Faculty Status for Academic Library Professionals in India" and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name. Our goal is to reach 50000 signatures and we need more support. *You are also requested to forward this petition to all your fellow LIS professional contacts to enable us to reach our targeted signataries for the fruitful results.* You can read more and sign the petition here: https://www.change.org/p/prime-minister-of-india-faculty- status-for-academic-library-professionals-in-india? recruiter=514118075&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium= email&utm_campaign=share_email_responsive A detailed memorandum covering all the anamolies caused to the academic library professionals can be referred at the following url: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B25j6g9EU9jIbUZMNjZPYjg4Skk Thanks! *Dr. P. V. Konnur* *Director Prasaranga,* *Adviser, VTU Consortium,* *Visvesvaraya Technological University,* *Belagavi - 590 018* Present Res: # 1075, "*Ganga Nivas*" 5th 'A' Main, Ist stage, IInd Phase, Gokul, Bangalore- 560 054 Karnataka State, (India) Mobile : 09449679737 E-Mail : pvkonnur@gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.