Dear friends, Nowadays, we notice that LIS faculty members are taking additional responsibility of heading the library also, which in my opinion is not good for our profession, and it also raises many questions. First, they should know that when there are so many university librarian's posts are vacant, and at the same time many qualified LIS professionals are not getting top jobs, how can someone do this?. Will the LIS faculty allow the librarian/Dy librarian to be the head of the department or guide students for their research? I have come across many cases of such 'isolation' of Library officers from the department although both are equally qualified in the subject domain. Second, the librarian's job is a full-time job and it is doubtful how a faculty member can devote his/her time in the library? can we say that they have enough time to spare after taking classes and guiding research? or they spend very little time in the library administration? For whatever reasons this 'encroachment' of someone Else's domain of work is not healthy; after all both the librarian and the teacher belongs to the same profession. I think even if the faculty member says 'no' to such requests for the VC, heaven will not fall on him/her but, it will enable the university administration to fill up the post soon. I do not mean to hurt anyone but, given the fact that only a very small percentage of LIS professionals engaged in teaching, we should expect that every one should have equal opportunity in our profession. Dr. M. Koteswara Rao Retd. librarian, UoH
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 22:43:33 +0530 From: khushpreet.singh@gmail.com To: LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; india-lis@infoserv.inist.fr; lisert-india@googlegroups.com Subject: [LIS-Forum] Congratulations to Dr. Jagtar Singh
Respected Sir
Hearty congratulations to Dr. Jagtar Singh, Professor, Department of Library & Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala for taking charge as head of University Library. Respected Sir, in your able guidance the university library will achieve new heights.
Regards Khushpreet Singh
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