[LIS-Forum] LIS Profession @ Crossroads

Dear Friends, I am continuously following the discussion of the tagline "Profession @ Crossroads." Postings of Dodamani, Vijesh, and Satish, I have a basic question in myself, who is responsible for this kind of treatment? We LIS Professionals want everything to be served on a Golden Plate without effort. There is a famous statement of John F. Kennedy delivered in his presidential inaugural speech after taking oath as President of America on January 20, 1961 "Ask not what your country can do for you; Ask what you can do for your country." Yes! Friends, we need to apply this statement to our Profession also. Let us retrospect ourselves, what we have done to our Profession after enjoying the plumpy Cake from the Profession? We all cry when something bad happens to the Profession, and some others sympathize with their couple of postings on the LIS Forum, and on the third day, we all forget. Friends, many of us have come to the LIS Profession accidentally. Some of us joined the Profession because we did not get seats in other desired courses or did not get jobs from the courses we had completed. So, now we should be thankful to the Profession which has given us bread without any discrimination. We blame our Associations for their inactiveness! Why? Who has made them inactive? We do not have time to repair the mistakes of our elected Associations. We are all busy with our Growth and have no time to think of the Profession. We are part of one or the other Associations. Have we any time thought of participating in the activities of the Association. Friends, Associations will be inactive only when we are not actively supporting the Associations' activities. I strongly suggest all my professional friends kindly unite together and actively participate in one or the other initiatives of the Associations and make them feel that their efforts are reaching the last professional. Lastly, PROFESSION HAS GIVEN YOU A LIFE; PLEASE NURSE IT FOR PROSPERITY OF FUTURE GENERATION OF LIBRARY PROFESSIONALS IF I HAVE HURT ANYBODY BY THIS POSTING, KINDLY FORGIVE ME Thanks & Regards, Dr. P. V. Konnur President - LIS Academy, Bangalore Former LIS Professor, Fulbright Scholar - (UIUC, USA) Adviser - VTU Consortium, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi - 590 018, Mobile : 09449679737 E-Mail : pvkonnur@gmail.com Website: www.lisacademy.org On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 9:17 PM wrote:

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1. Re: Profession @ Crossroads (vijesh p v) 2. Application Deadline for TISS- MLIS Programme Closes Soon (Anand Dodamani)

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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:12:47 +0530 From: vijesh p v To: Satish S Cc: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Profession @ Crossroads Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

Yes sir,

It is High time we noticed this kind of indifference from the government level, but unfortunately none of our organizations were strongly taken any action against it. Some of our members have a good influence on apex bodies like UGC and the higher education departments, so they can do something of their own and regain the status of LIS profession.A joint and Meaningful effort is highly needed in this regard.

*Best Regards,*

Vijesh P.V

*Librarian,*

Fr.Moses Library

Rajagiri College of Social Sciences(Autonomous), Rajagiri P.O.

Kalamassery-Kerala 683104,Phone : 0484 -2911538, Ext:579

|Mob:8289853395

Web: https://rajagiri.edu/

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 10:14 AM Satish S wrote:

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Dear Professional Friends,

Thanks to Anand Doddamani for bringing the issue to the forum. It's really hard to digest the truth of what Anand Doddamani has raised, as he said our professionals and professional forum's are in deep sleep, we are in a pathetic situation. I request the professionals who are in the higher positions in esteemed institutions and library associations please raise your voice alteast now otherwise our profession will be in deep trouble.

With regards... Satish S

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 2:03 PM Anand Dodamani wrote:

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Dear Professional Friends,

Greetings.

A recent employment notification for the post of Librarian at IIM-Amritsar at Pay Level-10 has prompted me to write this email to the forum and share some of my thoughts with you.

Don’t you think the LIS Jobs are slowly getting downgraded by the elite institutes like AIIMS, IITs, IIMs in our country? If you don’t think so, you are probably in a deep sleep.

A walk-in interview was conducted for the prestigious post of Librarian at AIIMS (!) , New Delhi; the Chief Library Officer’s post was filled in IIT- Bombay with GP 7600 (!) ; Some IIMs have recruited the Librarians on the Pay Level- 13A (!). And now, on top of it, the IIM- Amritsar has advertised the post of Librarian at Level-10 (!).

The differential treatment shown to the LIS Professionals in elite institutes and universities is not just limited to the Pay Scales but also to their working conditions. In many universities, the Library Officers are being treated as non-teaching staff in-spite of them being the Academic Staff as per the UGC Guidelines.

Is it due to the decreasing standards LIS Professionals working in different institutions? Or any systematic effort is being made by some unknown persons to degrade our profession? Whatever the reason may be, one thing is for sure…. our identity as ‘professionals’ on academic campuses is under serious threat.

Those who are already occupying the higher positions such as Chief Librarians/ University Librarians are not really bothered about it. And those who are working as Deputy Librarians are happy with what they are getting. The Assistant Librarians are busy in making their careers. The Professional Associations are engrossed in conducting workshops, seminars which they think are more important than working towards the upliftment of the status of our profession. So who will raise the voice???

We are very much aware that we are slowly losing ground to other professionals in the academic institutes but are doing nothing serious to regain our status. The situation reminds me of the words of Dale Carnegie who said, *“the trouble is not ignorance but inaction”. *

The views expressed here are my personal and belong solely to me.

Regards,

Anand Dodamani Mumbai

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*Best Regards,*

Vijesh P.V

*Librarian,*

Fr.Moses Library

Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Rajagiri P.O.

Kalamassery- 683104,Phone : 0484 -2911538, Ext:579

|Mob:8289853395

Web: https://rajagiri.edu/

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Message: 2 Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:11:42 +0530 From: Anand Dodamani To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Application Deadline for TISS- MLIS Programme Closes Soon Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

Dear All,

Greetings to you.

Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) has announced Admission to the 2021-23 batch of its regular Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) Course offered from its Mumbai Campus.

The application deadline (25th Jan 2021) is fast approaching. If you know someone who is planning to pursue the course, kindly pass this information to him/ her.

In order to know more about the course and to apply, please visit the following link: https://admissions.tiss.edu/view/10/admissions/ma-admissions/master-of-libra...

Regards,

Anand Dodamani PhD. Assistant Librarian (Selection Grade) Faculty Member- Centre for Library and Information Management Studies Council Member- Indian Library Association (2019-2022) Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) V. N. Purav Marg, Deonar, Mumbai 400 088 Phone: 022 25525274 Web Profile: https://www.tiss.edu/view/9/employee/anand-dodamani/

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