Dear All the Parochial (Narrow-minded/Close minded/unsophisticated) Careerist aspirant Librarians,

Unsophisticated underpositioned who are aspiring for their increments and promotions and the word "underemployed librarians" also denote that "Undeserved"

I do not know how Mr. rajashekharan has raised to the position he holds and what INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SCHOOL he has been produced from. But to my knowledge most of the contemporary Librarians have joined their services either after their Masters Degree level and some of them like me have joined at a lower cadre in Libraries and did their Basic degrees and Professional degrees during their service. (I agree that some of the open universities have spoiled the quality of LIS education, but not IGNOU).

I am an example for that, I joined as an Attender in Department of Public Libraries in Karnataka and raised step by step by acquiring degrees (Evening Cources) and professional course by deputation to a regular course and completed Part time PhD in Library Public Relations. Entire country has seen my expertice and initiatives done in Goa University and Bangalore University as University Librarian. I was also selected by the Fulbright Foundation as a Scholar in the year 2002-03 If (Dr?)Mr. Rajashekharan wants to challenge my knowledge content, I am ready.

My another question to Mr. Rajashekharan is that: Are these so called standard Universities which are helping for advancing fronteres of knowledge have done away with part time research in all the subjects or only for Library Science?

If an Assistant Registrar or any non teaching employee of these standard Universities desires to register for his doctorate degree in Social Science subjects, is he permitted to do or not?

Mr. Rajashekharan, using standard English Language will not elevate a Librarians to a higher standards. He need to serve people with dedication and gain their confidence. This work can be done by any parochial careeristic aspirant and under-employed librarians. If you want to witness this kind of service, please visit my Library during your visit to Bangalore on 19^th of July 08.

Mr. Rajashekharan, I suggest you to kindly stop giving such provocative statements on the discussion forums and waste our time in responding to them.

I hope my other parochial careeristic Librarian friends will advise him and mr/mrs Pune Das.

On 7/16/08, Rajan <rajankila@hotmail.com> wrote:

Dear All,

It seems that the library careerists masquerading as professionals, may not
be able to appreciate the pre-eminence of the decisions of a few
universities like Kerala University & JNU which dispensed with part time
research of working librarians. Standard Universities institute research to
serve the public purposes of advancing the frontiers of knowledge rather
than to address the parochial careeristic aspiration of a few under-employed
librarians to gain a couple of increments or a shortened tenure of career
advancement.

There exist innumerable universities which would send a doctorate degree for
a payment of a fee and submission of any typed rubbish in the form of a
thesis. Such degrees will be enough for anyone to get a higher job, if he is
ready to invest some sort of 'political capital' into his career desires. So
kindly let some other universities like JNU to have provision for some sort
of qualitative kind of research, by committed fulltime researchers leading
to
the growth of professional body of knowledge in librarianship, as a measure
to ensure plurality of options.

If the thinking about upliftment of library profession revolves round
gaining increments, obtaining promotions or supremacy of designation, the
library fraternity cannot grow above the level of a clerk, a store keeper or
at the most a technician. That would not be good for improving the
professional image of librarians in general which is at the low ebb right
now.

Best Regards,

K Rajasekharan
Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA)
Thrissur

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From: Puna Das <puna_05@yahoo.co.in>
Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Part Time Research

Dear Colleagues

India?s one of the top universities Jawaharlal Nehru University is followed
the same rule, i.e., direct PhD enrolment is allowed to full-time
researchers only. A world-class thesis is produced there in JNU only because
of this rule. I welcome the decision of University of Kerala. Other
universities should also follow the same and raise the university research
standards in India. UGC, AICTE, CSIR, ICMR and other apex bodies should
revise their rules on study leaves and should allow working library
professionals to avail this facility.

With Best Wishes

Anup

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