Dear Proessional Colleagues, IALA WISHES YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPROUS NEW YEAR - 2009 I am vry hapyto inform you all that Ministry of HRD has given a good New year gift to the Academic community. On 31st of Disember the HRD Minitry has issued its order to the UGC for implementation of PRC Recommentions. Some of you might have already read the same. Howeer I have located the fultext of the order on the IALA website. You may visit the same from the followin link: http://iala.org.in/subfiles/pay.pdf You mayrecall that the IALA has submitted its memorandum to the ministry of HRD to setright the anomolies in the UGC PRC recommedations. We are verymuch thakfulto the MHRD for having addressed some of our griviences. However, still some moreneed to be adressed. IALA is preparing another memoradum ve oon and sent to MHRD and UGC. A deligation of IALA ll be vsiting Delhi to discuss with HRD ministry and UGC Chairman during the last week of January 09. Further, the HRD letter regding Age of Retirement states that, "Where as the enhancement of the age of Superannuation for teachers engaged in class room teaching is intended to attract eligible persons to acareer in teaching and to meet the shortage of teachers by retaining teachers in service for a longer period, and whereas there is no shortage in the catagories of Librarians and Directors of Physical Education, the increase in the age of retirement from the present 62 years shall not be available to the catagories of Librarians and Directors of Physical Education." Friends, given to my understanding there are atleast 60% of the University Library posts specially University Librarian positions are vacant in the entire country. We have seen several Universities advertising two to three times for want of suitable candidates. One best example is that Bangalore University could not recruit its Librarian post for 17 years. Though it had advertised for three to four times. Hence there may be similar examples all over the country. I request all of you to kindly send me the relevent documents like advertisements etc., to putforth our arguement for enhancement of the age of Superannuation of Library professionals to Sixty five as in the case of Teachers. I also request all of you to kindly give your feedback on the HRD orders immediately to us. So that, we can sumit our memorandum to the appropriate bodies in time. Thanks, - Dr.P.V.Konnur Presidet, Indian Academic Library Association (IALA) Fulbright Fellow (University of Illinois) University Librarian, Bangalore University Library, Jananabharati, Bangalore-560056 Phone: 080-22961131, 23215510 Website: http://library.bub.ernet.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.