Dear all, Recent few advertisements is an alarm for Not library professionals but existence of Libraries itself in future. IIIT Allahabad and IIT Kanpur appointing Assistant Registrar and Dy. Registrar in libraries and made library science related qualifications under essential or desirable. Seems the perception of libraries and librarian’s has …
Dear all, We have or had many consortium in libraries especially for periodicals procurement, but i do not understand why we do not understand the need of consortium for software management in libraries though many big government libraries are using similar software like Libsys, Koha, SOUL, Dspace, eprint, Joomla, ezproxy, …
Dear All, Degradation/De-motivation of Staff and Expecting world class Institute/Developed India?? Recent approval/orders of new recruitment rules for non-teaching staff in NIT system is very surprising, the entire recent rule indicate it has been made by those people who has no experience of such cadre or did not consulted with …
Dear All, There are two mega events going to be organized at Banaras Hindu University from 6th to 9th November, 2017. 1. First BHU LIS Alumni Meet 2. IASLIC 2017 Conference Hope many of library professionals from all India will take active part in above two mega events and establish …
Dear All Due to my curiosity to know the exact official date of birth of Dr. Ranganathan once i sent the application under RTI Act to home ministry, and surprised to know that they have no data about his DOB though he is Padma shree awardee. I feel a detail …
Dear All Previous year libraries have paid 15% tax on OIDAR (Online Information and Data Access or Retrieval Services). Now due to implementation of GST these services fall under 18% Tax slab as per my understanding and their are lot of other complexities if someone is directly procuring these services …
Abstract The current article describes the technical reason behind naming of the library and what would be the appropriate name for its identification among the Users. Author found practically lot of irregularity in assigning the name of libraries and no logic exist in assigning the name “Central Library”. Hence the …
Dear All, New calendar year has been started and i thought of doing some thing which gives more satisfaction to me and benefit to others. Therefore i wish to announce a TRAVEL GRANT in the name of my Father (Shri Harikant Mishra) and Mother (Late Smt. Durga Devi) “HARIDURGA TRAVEL …
Dear All, It gives me immense pleasure to share my knowledge in the form of two books entitled “Basics of Library automation, Koha library management software and data migration: challenges with case studies / written by Vinod Kumar Mishra” and “Electronic Resource Management in Libraries: Trends, Issues and Challenges / …
Dear All, Sometimes it is very irritating/confusing situation when we do not know the exact date of birth of any great person. We librarians used to celebrate Librarians day on 9th or 12th of August each year in honor of Dr. Ranganathan birth date but it is a very embarrassing …