How We can improve the status of Librarian
I have read the write-up very carefully. It is indeed important. Yes, you should start the movement and you would have my full support. Best wishes, Prof.P.B.Mangla -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Sir, Our society does not have an attractive image of librarianship and perceived the status of librarians to be low as compared to other professions. Society believes that librarians are not highly educated individuals, library work does not require higher education, librarians basically undertake routine and boring clerical works, librarians earn less, librarians’ contribution to society is very limited, and librarians possess only limited computing knowledge. It is apparent that with such a negative image of librarianship we cannot expect many outstanding individuals to join the library profession. Dr. K M Haneefa Librarian T.K.M. College of Engineering Kollam-691 005 Kerala, INDIA Phone No:+91-474-2713933 Mobile No:09895622811 Fax : +91-474-2712023 E-mail: hanee4u@gmail.com ________________________________ From: pramod mangla <manglapb@gmail.com> To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Friday, December 5, 2008 3:59:15 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] How We can improve the status of Librarian I have read the write-up very carefully. It is indeed important. Yes, you should start the movement and you would have my full support. Best wishes, Prof.P.B.Mangla -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Professional Friends, Some more things can be added to the list of the best practices to improve the present Librarian’s status. One should be ready to take more than a Librarian role in the corporate sector. Why I am raising this issue is, many corporate Libraries may be having less collection, users, activities as compare to Public or Academic Libraries. If some one expected to be paid high monitory benefits or a respect one has to play an additional role may be as a Knowledge Manager, Document Controller, Information Officer, Coordination Officer, Information Security Officer, Instructor, these are additional to a Librarian role in corporate sector. Hence many different skills and techniques may be required to added to play these additional roles. All we can say is that ‘Accept, Act & Contribute More’ is the ‘funda’ to be followed to improve our status in this modern world. Thanks & Regards ********************************** Bandi I C TATA POWER COMPANY LTD Email: bandiic@tatapower.com/ icbandi@yahoo.co.in URL: www.tatapower.com Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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Dr. K M Haneefa -
ISHAPPA BANDI -
pramod mangla