Thanks, to all the concerned professionals that the term "DOOMSDAY" had evoked such huge responses. I originally coined this in my message given below. Now all of us needs to think about it seriously and chalk out the remedies. 1. I think first of all we need to debate among ourselves whether Librarianship is a Profession or not. 2. Can't we spare one or two National Level Conferences to be devoted on this issue rather then concentrating on the issues relating to use of technology...bla bla. 3. Why are the National level LIS Professional bodies are mute to such important issues. 4. Isn't it the time that we should abandon "Chalta Hei" attitude and take up these matters seriously. 5. Can any one suggest name of a Fatherly figure like Ranganathan to whom we can look up proper guidance. Thanks. With Regards Dr. Niraj Barua Message: 1 Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:00:25 +0530 From: "Niraj Barua" <nbar@iitg.ernet.in> To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] !!DOOMSDAY!!! nearing for our Profession (if we sleep now) Message-ID: <4919f7c5272688e791512349cfc7aa08.squirrel@webmail.iitg.ernet.in> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear fellow Professionals and respected one its a very sad development that the DOOMSDAY for the Library Professionals is nearing in general and in particular in our country. See the link below about vacancy for Library cum informatics Officer in a Central Govt autonomous institution. We should raise our voice unitedly against such unjustful strategies from the policy makers. Our professional qualification limits our job scope to only the Libraries, but Computer professionals have far more avenues to try for a job. Why are some of the people desperate to throttle our profession for benefit of some so called elites? Please raise your voice, share your concern otherwise the coming generation of our profession (if survives) will blame the present lot. http://www.nabi.res.in/Vacancies/Permanent/NABI3(2)2012-Rectt/DetailofAdvt.p... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Niraj Barua 9435346637(Mobile) niraj_barua@yahoo.co.in. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.