Dear Sir The issue is not of who but how the appointment was made and why the first round of applicants were not found suitable. On what grounds do people who have contributed and proved their competence in the profession were rejected. Why the selection criteria was diluted? It is a question of transparency in selecting the right person with relevant experience. Going by your logic all posts in future should have no eligibility criteria. If non-LIS person can head a premier LIS institution then why not say that anyone without any education also can apply. After all many school drop outs have proved to be great leaders! The question is - why not make this transparent from the beginning. Maybe we have outstanding candidates from other disciplines who may want to apply. Maybe be there are many other disciplines where people with no work in their area of expertise, are searching for leadership posts in other disciplines. We have nothing against anyone personally but it is the question of the future of this noble profession. This is an unwarranted development. Regards Anil On Sat, Dec 22, 2018, 1:11 PM Kailash Garg wrote:

Thanks a lot for supporting my view point and best wishes for the new year in advance

On Wed 19 Dec, 2018, 5:10 PM Shivendra

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There is nothing wrong. The Father of Library and Information Sciences, Padmashri Prof. SR Ranganthan was a mathematician. As read in Wikipedia, in 1923, the University of Madras created the post of University Librarian to oversee their poorly organized collection. Among the 900 applicants for the position, none had any formal training in librarianship, and Ranganathan's' handful of papers satisfied the search committee's requirement that the candidate should have a research background. His sole knowledge of librarianship came from an Encyclopædia Britannica article he read days before the interview. In 2008, Prof. V. G. Tableware, Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, for his appointment as Vice Chancellor of the University of Mysore, everyone welcomed on his appointment. So, please welcome our new director same as other professionals welcome us. Congratulate him, so that he can contribute his expertise for library professionals. We know that some of our library associations propagate the things.

On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 22:11, Kailash Garg wrote:

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Dear Sir, Few professionals have raised the issue of appointment of a non professional person as Director of INFLIBNET. Recently Dr. Sharmila Ghosh has written that Berkeley Labs are appointing students from social sciences for their research work I want to give an example from India. Professor Vishwatathan of IISc was appointed Director of INSDOC (now NISCAIR). I understand he was also a non professional like the present director of INFLIBNET. I don't understand why this hue and cry. Judge the individual by his works he does as director. Dr Kailash C Garg, Ex-Chief Scientist, CSIR-NISTADS Member Editorial Board COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics, Annals of Lib Inf Studies, Journal of Scientometric Research, Life Member Int.Soc.Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI), Academic Counsellor IGNOU

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