This is really very sad state of affairs that professional associations are run like this in our country. No matter, whatever personal differences or liking/disliking may be but to deny membership in a professional platform can't be said a healthy practice. Professionals may give their reactions but actually the response must come from MLAI office bearers only how do they justify their act. Fortunately/unfortunately I am not a medical library professsional but I keep a keen interest in all types of libraries and their developments. Jitender Sharma Librarian & Marketing Manager - JMC NIILM Centre for Management Studies B-II/66, MCIE, Mathura Road Badarpur New Delhi - 110044 Tel: 91-011-29891529/39 Ext. 221, 29893143 (Dir.), 9899695953 (Mob) Fax: 91-011-29894212 E-mail: jitendersharmaji@yahoo.com, jsharma@niilm.com -----Original Message----- From: "Sukhdev Singh" <esukhdev@gmail.com> To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, medlib@yahoogroups.com, avani_shah@hotmail.com, rajkumar196@yahoo.co.in, shashikp@hotmail.com Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:23:12 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] MLAI Membership Denied - What to do?
Dear Friends,
Most of my professional colleagues are member of Medical Library Association of India (MLAI). I also take pride to have one of my colleague as its Executive Member.
Few months back, I applied for MLAI Membership in their prescribed form along with required fee.
Today, I am shocked to see my cheque returned back along with that of my other colleague. He had also applied for the membership separately long back. (This means, they know who we are?!!). What is killing me is that no reason has been given in rejecting my application. Infact there is not even single line of information attached with the cheques. There appears a definite method in this madness. My qualifications and nature of work is similar to those of my other colleagues. If they can be members than why can't I?
What should I do in this situation?
Please, Don't just press delete. REACT.
Sukhdev Singh, Indian Medlars Centre, http://indmed.nic.in _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum