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Permalink Reply by Lakhmi Chand Goyal on May 31, 2012 at 6:58

you need a LIS Qualification for the working as librarian 

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Permalink Reply by Langmuanjohn Tonsing on May 31, 2012 at 17:03

You need personnel contacts with the school authority to become a private sector librarian, not LIS qualification. School and colleges use to hire persons without LIS qualification and when there is an inspection going to happen, the school and college hire a person with LIS qualification just for 1 week to 1month and pay them up.

And the sad news is due to unemployment of LIS qualified personnel, people does the job even with very less payment.

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Permalink Reply by N K MANOJ on May 31, 2012 at 17:08

This is not a single example, in fact one state university VC who appointed  5-6 librarian in different colleges under that university.their candidate without any exam.Collect huged money from applicants and recruited. After one month he retired. What anyone can do?

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Permalink Reply by Divya on May 31, 2012 at 17:51

Many colleges in our state having persons who are having only BA or MA degree and are working as librarians from 10 years or more than that.

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Permalink Reply by SHIROMANI BAJAJ on May 31, 2012 at 18:13

yes, it is true in other than private sector also. I am Library Incharge for the last 6 years, I didn't knew ABC of library science when I was given this charge.I was simply BA.  I learned it while doing working and all the routine working in Libsys software for my own interest. Now I have done BLIS course for my own purpose. Even in that course I didn't find anything which I can further apply in my library.

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ScholarPermalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on May 31, 2012 at 20:50

This is neither new and nor uncommon. As I heard (I have not checked personally hence I can not confirm authenticity of the news) that a couple of years ago in a Film and Television Institute funded by none other than Central Government, one non-professional person was made in-charge of Library.

In many universities even in Central Universities, professors are made in-Charge of Libraries years after years!. I wonder what will happen if a University Librarian is made In-charge of an University Department. Whether other academic staff will accept it.

Siddhartha s. Ray, Calcutta

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Permalink Reply by SATYA NAND PANDEY on May 31, 2012 at 22:47

yes I agree but it happens only when those institutions don't want to pay like a professional

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Permalink Reply by Rajnish on June 2, 2012 at 0:17

Thank you for giving me nice response,

I know that you know very well about this bad profession, many times I thought, If I did ITI, MLT or any other normal course when I could earn more than 15000/- Rs. It is very bad that anyone can be a Librarian without qualification. Why we do BLIS or MLIS. UGC/Universities should close to teach this course.

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