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Permalink Reply by Dr. Tarvinder Singh Handa on June 22, 2011 at 0:11

Good initiative Dr. Gaur. I would ask my fellow professionals regarding these orders and if got the same, I,ll come back and respond you.

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Permalink Reply by Dr. Sabuj Kumar Chaudhuri on June 22, 2011 at 8:09

Congratulations. You all are going to the right direction . Only 3 things can do wonder for this profession-

1. Redesignate all academic librarians as Assistant Professors , Associate Professors and Professors.

2.'Librarian' must be included in the definition of Teachers in the respective University Statute, recommended by the UGC and complied by the State Government. Only Academic Staff as mentioned by the UGC is not enough and it cannot mitigate Century long slave like attitude towards the librarian in the colleges/universities by the most of the teachers.

3.Librarianship must be considered as teaching experience otherwise academic librarian will not able to apply for the post teachers, principal, registrar, Dean etc. These posts have become the reserved posts for teachers unofficially. This can not go on ...on...on forever. It must be stopped.

 

Finally a new Government has formed in West Bengal with a vison. We, the college librarians in West Bengal, have submitted a Memorandum to the MIC , Department of Higher Education, regarding this along with other suggestion like launching of B.Sc (Hons.) in LIS or as Pass subject in the graduate programs.

If we are able to achieve aforesaid 3 points- social acceptance will be achieved in due course of time and at the same time we have to prove our worth to the society through our active intellectual particiapation in the scholarship process of the nation.

If we find any previous orders or related document we will surely share it to you. At the same time it is very surprising that old orders/documents are not available for the librarians with the UGC .

 

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Permalink Reply by Dr Kaushik Bose on June 23, 2011 at 4:14

I think all the 3 points suggested by Dr Sabuj C is simply superb and can redefined the librarianship professions.

More to add.

1 Librarianship should not be regarded as an support system for academic systen rather than itself a sustainable discipline or better to say an agglomerated  discipline for knowledge disseminations.

2 It should have a separate deanship, not from IT or Arts

3 Now a days more and more, librarians apply their information management and research skills to arenas outside of libraries—for example, database development, reference tool development, information systems, publishing, Internet coordination, marketing, Web content management and design, and training of database users. So the status should be changed at par.

Welcome suggestions from others.

Regards

Dr Kaushik Bose

 

 

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