Dear Sir/Madam, This post is in continuation with the ongoing discussion on The Wiley Library Awards. Wiley India is a major publishing house having decades of experience of doing business in publishing industry. It is a private player and we have to see this initiative as another means of expanding their business in India. India and other Asian countries have become major business destinations for US and other European big business houses including for private players involved in publishing books and scholarly publications. So they look for expanding their business interest in third world countries through various means, for instance organizing group meeting in well-known tourist destinations, offering freebies and providing financial assistance for organizing various events and also bringing newsletter and magazines to attract clients. This Wiley Award is also such an event to expand their business. To expand their business they have to have huge corpse of data about financial conditions of the libraries to plan and make their future strategies. So it is up to the participating libraries to decide whether they should participate in this kind of events which is organized by a private publishing house which has business interest. To your post the Wiley Marketing Team has replied on 11 Oct 2017 through the LIS forum. The question is: how these independent jury members are selected and whom they represent? Again we have our own rights to participate or not participate, same also to the Wiley, as an independent private publishing house they have their rights to organize this kind of event or not, to expand their business interest. Views are personal------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N.Mysore