Dear LIS forum members With due respect to Rajasekharan sir, let me air my view regarding the part-time PhD Registration. It is not justifiable to deny an aspirant his desire to do research due to the reason that he is working. It is to be considered positive that a person is working and studying. All persons may not be fortunate enough to complete their studies in a stretch due to their circumstance in their life. So naturally they have to depend upon part-time study. There are examples of eminent personalities who were not fortunate in life to pursue regular study , later chose part-time education and succeeded in life. In the age of open access and open education why should the democratic right of a person to gain knowledge be denied. So the decision of the University in denying the urge of knowledge seekers is deplorable. The argument against part time research put forward by Rajasekaran sir is the lack of commitment from the part of working librarians who pursue PhD. This is a positive view in library user's perspective, but there should be professional development for librarians. If we think like that we don't even get time to check the daily mails in "LIS-FORUM". I admit that a library professional should be committed to his profession and service minded. It is easy to find committed and dynamic librarians pursuing their PhD without affecting their duty towards the parent body and clients. Those who are ambitions will try to acquire heights in life by acquiring more qualifications; in my experience they will surely show this attitude to their library also. Nowadays the upcoming library professionals are very keen in satisfying the clients. Another point you have mentioned is also not acceptable. Pursuing PhD and presenting paper are two different things. Some posts demand PhD in the discipline, in that case a professional with only published papers cannot attain the post. Another point is that preparing a quality paper is not an easy task. If a librarian is concentrating more on presenting papers, there is a chance of his being lethargic in his duties. Then what is the standing of the argument? As you know, in layman's view the courses like MLIsc, BLISc, CLISc etc are "librarian course". I think that may the psychological reason behind the additional PG craze of librarians.In the light of the "monster" advt controversy let the working professionals also be allowed to pursue their research passion and enlighten our profession. Apologies to the users in my library for taking their time to prepare this mail. Regards Nikhil Eyeroor Chief Librarian P.A.Aziz College of Engineering and Technology Green Hills, Karakulam, Trivandrum Mob: 09447515691 On 7/15/08, Mailing List Admin wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:03:31 +0530 From: Sriram V

Dear Fellow Professionals and teachers,

With all due respect to Rajasekharan Sir, i beg to differ.

If someone enhances their qualification it is generally good for the organisation where he/she is employed. That is the major reason why world over employers encourage staff to undertake studies.

Doing part time studies arise out of necessity. People opt for part time course because you have to take care of a family as well as you really wish to enhance your knowledge. You have to work had for a full time course. For part time course you are expected to work even harder. If the employer and the guide are completely satisfied i believe there is no reason why someone hoping to gain knowledge should be prevented from that.

Perhaps we should gather the opinion of employers and teachers regarding this.

Regards

V Sriram Technical Services Executive LibSys Corporation Mob: +91 9447251892

On 7/14/08, Rajan wrote:

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Dear All,

It seems to me that the University of Kerala has taken a right decision not to allow working librarians to do part time research for obtaining PhD. If any librarian is interested, he can do research without any registration and publish his findings in research journals, without affecting his job. When a person is employed as a librarian, he should do justice to his job for which he is employed. If he can do doctoral research alongwith his job, there will be compromise either in his job or in his studies, both of which are not good at all.

Regards,

K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India ------------------------------

Message: 2 Dear LIS Forum Members Considering the dynamic and educative role of librarians, especially those who are working, carreer advancement and further learning is an essential factor. In this context many Universities in India is encouraging the working professionals either directly or indirectly for further learning. However, it is sad that the University of Kerala by its order No.Ac.E1.B/2007 dated 5/10/2007 restricted the opportunity for Part Time PhD registration only for the Teachers.Till then, there were opportunites for registration, and all on a sudden the University took such a drastic step.As a result of this, the working people have to either take leave for doing PhD (Full time Research) or not doing PhD at all. I hope that all librarian fraternity take up this issue seriously and comment on this so that the higher up can come to know of it and change for the better.

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