Dear Colleague, You have reposed confidence in my capabilities and elected me to the office of Vice- President of IASLIC, (Indian Special Library Association). I thank all of you for that, hope that I would be able to live and work up to the expectations. Every year, country celebrate birthday of Dr. S. R. Ranganathan with professional fanfare. In keeping with the heredity, JNU is organizing a daylong seminar on August 12, 2014 in collaboration with Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres ( IASLIC) & Association of Media Libraries and Archives(AMLA) with suppport from Informatics India. We all are well aware that the profession of Library science is at the crossroads. We have to march forward in the right directions. The profession is afflicted with many problems. For instance, numerous positions in Librarians, across the country remain vacant for various reasons. At times for want of suitable candidates with requisite qualifications, while at others due to indifference and reluctance of the authorities to fill them. Furthermore, there are anomalies in the status, pay structure of Library cadres across the country. A proliferation of Library Science programmes through distance mode has enhanced the supply of Library professionals. The supplies (young graduates) are not competent enough to cater to the demands and expectations of the market. In keeping with the changing times, the LIS curriculum needs to be over handed and revised Internship should be made a compulsory component of the curriculum. The recommendations of National Knowledge Commission have not been implemented. The daylong seminar will provide a forum to raise such issues and deliberate upon their tentative solutions. Much will depends upon the dynamic leadership of Library associations across the country, we all have to work unitedly in order to take our metier with evangelistic zeal, more ahead and scale heights. There is no registration fee however 200 delegates shall be accommodated on first registered and first served bases. I solicit cooperation of all my professional colleagues and request them who are at the helm of the affairs of various association to participate in the remain. It is proposed that a document shall be prepared and submitted to the new Government to approved it of the issues and challenges faced by the Library profession in India ” Ache Din Aane Wale Hain” . I invite you all to participate in above seminar. Brochure attached and registration link below https://www.signupforms.com/registrations/2367 Please feel free to forward it to all Library Professionals in India. Regards Yours sincerely (Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur) ************************************ Dr. Ramesh C Gaur PGDCA, MLISc,Ph.D. Fulbright Scholar (Virginia Tech, USA) University Librarian Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) New Meharuli Road, New Delhi - 110067 Tele +91-11-26742605, 26704551 Fax : +91-11-26741603 Email: rcgaur@mail.jnu.ac.in ;rcgaur66@gmail.com URL: www.jnu.ac.in Brief Profile: http://www.jnu.ac.in/Library/RameshCGaur.htm -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.