Dear Dr. D. V. Singh Sir, I totally agree with your views. There must be some logic behind every action. Be it an appointment or promotion or any other thing. There are many instances in our field where the institutes/ universities have violated the norms set for the purpose. There is no transparency in recruitments. We all raise our voice (on online forums only) against such practices when they happen and forget about them after few days. I understand that it is not possible for any one individual to continue the fight against injustice for longer period of time considering his own personal and workplace commitments. But, the professional bodies such as ILA can do it. The representatives of these bodies have volunteered themselves (while contesting elections) to work for the betterment of the profession. But, I have not seen or heard any postings/ communications from any ILA representative on this or any other subject concerning the profession. The DISCUSSIONS are good but, ONLY DISCUSSIONS are not good. Can we expect any course of action from any professional body on this front? Can these professional bodies also work for the things other than conducting conferences and seminars? The appointment of an expert from some other field to one of the top posts in LIS is not the matter of concern; the matter of concern is the diminishing image of the librarians in the society. We need to change this trend. Regards, Anand Dodamani Mumbai On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 12:01 PM <lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote:

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Librarians are very open to welcome anybody.same logic must be applied in other professions.A University Librarian is not eligible to be a professor in library science department as per UGC norms.But UGC finds Statistics professor to be Director INFLIBNET.Before we comment kindly do read advertisement published and also available on UGC website .Transparency is strength but it is none existent in this selection.

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The National Library of Medicine is one of the large library systems in the world. The current Director Patricia Flatley Brennan holds a Masters Degree in Nursing and a PhD in industrial engineering! A previous long term Director was Dr Donald Lindberg who was a doctor - an MD in Pathology, but also taught Information Sciences. Dr SRR was a pioneer - he created the library profession.

As others have said, I agree it is not the qualification alone but their contributions to such systems as a whole. I also agree that there must be transparency in selection and everyone needs to know how and why one is selected - this applies to any major position

Just my opinion. I value differences in opinions.

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