Dear professionals Should the department of library & information science of the Indian universities be included in the science faculty? Recently the UGC team for the XIth plan visited our departments on 23rd September 2008. We are using the 18th edition of the DDC for classification practice, which are outdated now. We requested them to sanction money for procuring 25 sets of DDC sets. They are not convinced that these are laboratory equipments for us. They said that they are unable to sanction that huge amount of money ( Rs. 2, 50,000 ) for the books. But the question is whether the DDC sets are considered as books in LIS profession. As like the science laboratory practical Equipments to us the DDC, UDC and the Sears List of subject headings are laboratory tool to us. The science departments are getting lots of money for laboratory equipments. As we are under the Arts faculty we are deprive of our basic need. Another thing is that, the UGC team can't recognize that 1:1 computer lab is necessary for LIS department. They said that most of the time the PC is lying idle or using Internet only. Perhaps they don't know that for a modern library automation and library software is so much important. For information retrieval in online environment, Internet and PC are an integral part. So, We call upon all the library professionals, teachers, research scholars, and students to step forward to make a revolution to include LIS departments in Science faculty or as a separate entity in all the universities in India for the sake of the development of the profession. Earlier we had a great discussion about the *monster.com* advertisement. This is also a burning and humiliating section for us. Please come forward. -- Dipen Deka (SRF) & Apurba Jyoti Majumder (JRF) Department of Library & Information Science Arts Block, Gauhati University Guwahati-781014 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.