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Permalink Reply by Dr. Vijay Raghav Tiwari on May 9, 2013 at 22:19

Dear Charu

I have certain points to make.

If a librarian joins on day one of the establishment of the library, he may be held responsible otherwise not.

If the library opens without his presence too, he cant be held responsible.

The SV helps in getting rid of the torn and lost books  should be made use of every year.

One should try these loop holes in this regard.

If some more suggestions are there please add .

regards

vrt

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Permalink Reply by Siddu on May 10, 2013 at 16:58

Mr. Chandru

Rules clearly stipulate the frequency of SV, which is as under-

Rule 194. Physical verification of Library books, Government of India; Ministry of Finance ;Department of Expenditure. General Financial Rules, 2005 say SV has to be done -
a)annually if a library has a collection less than or equal to 20,000
b)Once in three years if the collection is more than 20,000 and less than 50,000
c) Sample physical verification at intervals of not more than three years should be done in case of libraries having more than 50,000 volumes.

II) The existing permissible norm of loss 5 Books per 1000 Books consulted/Borrowed is already a good norm. Why do you want that to be raised to 10?.

III)Is there a specific rule which says only librarian is responsible for the loss and not the supporting staff?  If a library is functioning 18-20 hours a day, it is impossible for only librarian to be present all these hours, the loss therefore, has to be a collective responsibility.

IV) I don't agree with your suggestion of making heads of institution responsible for the loss as well.  How do you justify this? If we abdicate our responsibility of periodical SV, how are the heads answerable for this?

With the advent of technology, we have a host of gadgets to minimize the loss of books, why not make use of them?

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Permalink Reply by Manavta Jugeshh on May 10, 2013 at 20:06

Siddu Sir, 

I'm not able to understand the following theory, please elaborate- 

Supposing, my library has just 1000 books. Average consultation of all 1000 books per day is say 35. Then annually (with 280 working days presumably), overall consultation is 35*280 =9800 consultations. Then going by the rule of 5 loss per thousand books consulted - the annual permissible loss in this case is 49! [(5*9800)/1000] which is a comfortable figure to manage.

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Permalink Reply by Siddu on May 10, 2013 at 22:10

This is not a part of my reply.

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Permalink Reply by vijay choudhary on May 12, 2013 at 2:09

Hi,
Myself Vijay Choudhary. I am working as a guest faculty in Govt Degree college and I am fully agree with you only Librarians are targeted and forced to pay the loss. It is not justified. Only Librarian is not responsible for it.Many college management private and govt also made responsible only for Librarian and they dont give them salary many months,which thing is not fair.
I dont say other staff is responsible or not.... but only librarian is not responsible for it. We should think more this type problems and its solution also. Otherwise librarian (GRANTHPAL) will be Watchman(DWARPAL)

Thanks & regards

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Permalink Reply by vijay choudhary on May 12, 2013 at 2:11

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