From: Sharmila Ghosh Sent: 18 December 2018 21:51 Why jump to conclusions so soon? Why not wait and watch? Afterwards librarians can constitute a referendum and initiate the right course of action. Students from Social Sciences background are being hired by Berkeley Labs California..(US National Laboratory for research in fundamental and applied sciences) !!! Supposedly India follows the US in many ways ;) Sharmila Ghosh Consultant (Retired), Library & Information Services Mysore Karnataka 571130 (India) Mob: 9818742924tel:098187%2042924 On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 7:13 PM Francis Jayakanth mailto:francis@iisc.ac.in> wrote: From: Dr. A.T. Francis mailto:francisaloor@yahoo.com> Sent: 18 December 2018 14:55 Dear Library Professionals, It is a very shocking news that a Non-Library person appointed as the Director of INFLIBNET Centre. This is a very unscientific decision to manage a Library Network by non-librarian. Though the essential qualification for the post is that the person from relevant field, the appointed person is from Statistics, which is not the relevant field. It is the prime duty and responsibility of all library professionals and associations to intimate the authorities the damage may create to the profession and also to the academics and R&D at large by the decision. How a Non-Medicine man can do treatment and surgery. A computer man can establish physical network, but can not manage knowledge and library and provide knowledge services scientifically and effectively. Dr. A.T. FRANCIS, MCom, MLISc, NET, PhD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN Kerala Agricultural University Thrissur - 680 656, India, 91-9496839409 (m) francisaloor@yahoo.commailto:francisaloor@yahoo.com