Dear all It's much delayed because Non library professional has already joined as Director of INFLIBNET. I think we should put efforts for next time so that the trend started should not be continued. On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:13 Francis Jayakanth, wrote:

From: Dr. A.T. Francis

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.com