Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:12:09 +0530 From: Basudev Mohanty <basudev_mohanty@infosys.com> There is no reason at all to point out finger towards Vijayakumar's mail. What I think it is the decision of his Management only. Librarians should know the trick where is the present Business (as we are support/service department) & How to address it? I have seen in many cases that Librarians are not quite good enough to maintain Goodwill of their Management. I welcome Vijayakumar that he has taken the challenge and trying some innovative ways to full-fill his Management decision & if he can then he will be in goodwill of his Management. This is one of the major areas where Librarians should re-think as I have seen in the interview board for a library staff; Chief-Librarian(s) are ignored. On the other hands books can't be compared with vegetables. I do believe there is nothing like "Bad-Books". If there is a book published definitely there is some value addition to the students of concerned branch (may not be for the Researcher) in context to Vijayakumar's organization. In this context we should help-out Vijayakumar rather blaming him or his organization. I would like to suggest Vijayakumar that this is the best time to bargain for discount as he is going for block-procurement. Regards, Basudev Infosys, Bhubaneswar, Orissa -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of ++ Mukesh Anand ++ Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 1:53 PM To: Mailing List Manager; lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] 25,000 titles (books) in Enginering field Although I am a bookseller myself, I fully agree with Mr. Subbiah Arunachalam about this practice of buying books collection for library just to meet the deadlines. Book buying and development of Library Collection is a systematic and long drawn out method which should be followed scrupulously to have only relevant publications on the shelves. Mukesh Anand mukesh@monitorinfo.com