Dear Friends, We have to seriously think about the issue raised by Ratheesh. Librarians have no role in teaching activity in university. From academic community's view point, university library is a place like mere storage space of books. In the real sense, we can't blame them. Library professionals could not made a good image in front of academic community yet. Library authorities do not take initiative for organize information literacy programme and add on programmes for researchers, teachers and students. Such initiative can give opportunity for librarians to expose the teaching expertise. In my experience, most of the faculty members and research scholars are very poor in using WWW for retrieving relevant information for their learning purpose. Most of the teachers dont know how to move a mouse properly !! Library professionals has good expertise in retrieving information from online resources. But teachers and students think that librarians are non professionals and reluctant to approach for assistance. Once a teacher inquired (few years back) to one of my senior colleague "You get a promotion if you pass 10th standard examination?" Cold war between library professionals are another curse. Fierce fight (cold war) between library professionals (NET holders and others) in universities in Kerala. Development is stopped in university libraries for many years. We can compare situation in university libraries against "crabs in the bucket". They think that "if I can't have it, neither can you." Competition which prevents any from escaping and ensures their collective demise. In certain extent such experience in university libraries prevent professionals to get UGC pay scale and enhanced status. I know that my answer not reached the correct explanation to Ratheesh's question. I invite other professionals to fill the gap in my reply. -- Vimal Kumar V. Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.org Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.