"What are you up to?"
LIS Links
First and Largest Academic Social Network of LIS Professionals in India
LIS Links Becoming More Social
Birthdays
Latest Activity
National Conference on “Intelligent and Smart Digital Library (ISDL-2026)” at IIT Kharagpur at IIT Kharagpur
December 21, 2026 at 9am to December 22, 2026 at 6pm
7th National Conference on Management of Modern Libraries (NACML– 2027) on “Contemporary Approaches to Libraries: Emerging Technologies, Services, and Skills at Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, Karnataka
January 29, 2027 at 10am to January 30, 2027 at 5pm
One-Day National Seminar on Artificial Intelligence and Academic Libraries: Issues and Opportunities in the 21st Century at kongu arts and science college
October 28, 2026 from 9:30am to 4:30pm
IASLIC 31st National Seminar 2026 on Adaptive Libraries: Resilience and Innovation at Bansuri Guru Auditorium, Institute of Technical Education & Research, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
December 28, 2026 to December 30, 2026
Two-Day Online National Workshop on Library Automation Using Koha at Cooch Behar, West Bengal
October 2, 2026 at 11am to October 3, 2026 at 5pm
Two-Day Online National Workshop on "Library Automation Using Koha" at Online
October 2, 2026 at 11am to October 3, 2026 at 5pm
"Dear All Librarian,
PFA
Call for Book Chapters/Research Papers for Edited Book To be Published with ISBN under IIP International Publi"
"What are you upCall for Chapters
Transforming Libraries in the Age of AI: Towards a Smarter
Knowledge Ecosystem to?"
IALA - Request for UGC orders related to Pay Revision from first PRC till date
Dear Academic Librarian friends,
Lastly let us all thank Prof.Talawar for having given us a leadership in fighting for our status.
Indian Academic Library Association lead a deligation under the leadership of Prof.V.G.Talawar, Vice Chancellor, University of Mysore, Mysore recently to UGC and had a detailed discussion with the Chairman, Secretary and Joint Secretary UGC regarding the Complete parity of status of Teachers to Academic Librarians. The discussion was very encouraging and the Chairman assured us to submit a revised and short memorandum with historical background of the granting of status in all pay review committees. They assured us thet the same will be recommend to the MHRD for further considerations. We there and then itself prepared another memorandum sitting in Delhi University Library and submitted the same next day to UGC. I happend to meet Mr.Dogra, Joint Secretary, UGC a couple of days back in University of Mysore during his visit to Mysore University and learnt that, they need to know with the substantiated justification with the previous orders of UGC in different PRCs over the peiod of time. He said they do not have the old records with the UGC.
Hence, I request all the academic Librarians to help us to prepare a memorandum with the justification that the parity was given in earlier PRCs and denied in the last and the current PRCs. Kindly get us the copies of the relevant orders of UGC if you have any, to enable us to get the issue resolved by UGC and MHRD.
Views: 390
Replies to This Forum
-
Permalink Reply by Dr. Tarvinder Singh Handa on
-
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.
-
Permalink Reply by Dr. Sabuj Kumar Chaudhuri on
-
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 .
-
Permalink Reply by Dr Kaushik Bose on
-
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
© 2026 Created by Dr. Badan Barman.
Powered by
