MSF, LISSAM demand recruitment of Librarians in High Schools under state government.

Imphal: Joint Students’ Co-ordination Committee has extended support to the demands raised by Library and Information Science Students’ Association regarding the raising of library standard in the state, recruitment of librarians under RMSA as well as setting up of libraries at different schools. The Committee in a release informed the current education system hardly lays any emphasis on the importance of libraries, and claimed there are no regular librarians in many colleges.

While the emergence of digital libraries has raised the level of libraries across the globe, the state has fallen far behind. In addition, the Committee called it unfortunate that the recruitment of the librarian post under RMSA was sidelined. Questioning the reason behind recruitment of several posts including office assistants and leaving out librarians in the process, the Committee also asked whether newly constructed libraries would be able to function without librarians and lab attendants.

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