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Permalink Reply by M. Koteswara Rao on December 21, 2016 at 18:18

What you say is well and good. Do you know that there is acute shortage of graduates or postgraduates with LIS qualifications? CSIR recruits people only with this background. Today many LIS professionals come from arts, humanities & social sciences. How can CSIR grow?

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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on January 6, 2017 at 22:59

Dear Dr. Rao,

Thanks for your post. However, with the advent of computers in LIS profession, there is a marked shrinkage of employment of LIS professionals in R & D Organizations. I can tell about the institutes under CSIR & ICMR in Calcutta as my knowledge goes, there are at least Eight LIS professionals less in three institutes in 2016 in comparison to what was there in 1886. Earlier in CSIR institutes LIS peoples were recruited in Scientific posts but as those old "Library/Information Scientists" retired, their posts were transferred to other departments.As I understand both the roles and the importance of LIS professionals are diminished in the National Research Laboratories. Never-the-less, there are instances where Librarians without Basic Science (Pure/Life Science) background are recruited in CSIR Laboratories. The situation prevailing in other Scientific Research establishments are even worse!! There is no suitable career advancement schemes and promising Library professionals are switching over to Degree Colleges (under UGC) because of better financial and career prospects.

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray, Calcutta

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Permalink Reply by Raajasekhar on January 8, 2017 at 20:47

respected sir,

what you said may be correct that the most of the lis professionals are social sciences back ground. the reason behind the same is 1. it is being an arts course 2. in most of the universities the course is offering through distance mode where, the people thinks it is easy to study social science coursed in distance mode so they are selecting the lis courses. even though the lis professionals are from social science background they are working better in management of libraries. but the r&d labs are not recognizing the same and they are thinking that the SS back grounded lis professionals are not suitable for their labs. so the jobs are becoming vacant and not filling out. i request all r&d labs to fill out the posts.

i thank Siddhartha Shankar Ray sir for his valuable post.

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