Sixth PRC recommendatios _HRD Letter to UGC

It is very hapy to inform you all that According to Dr.P.V.Konnur (Presidet, Indian Academic Library Association (IALA) message, Ministry of HRD has given a good New year gift to the Academic community. On 31st of Disember the HRDMinitry has issued its order to the UGC for implementation of PRC Recommentions. Some of you might have already read the same. However I have located the fultext of the order on the IALA website. You may visit the same from the followin link: http://iala.org.in/subfiles/pay.pdf Friends, given to his understanding there are atleast 60% of theUniversity Library posts specially University Librarian positions are vacant in the entire country. We have seen several Universities advertising two to three times for want of suitable candidates. One best example is that Bangalore University could not recruit its Librarian post for 17 years. Though it had advertised for three to four times. Hence there may be similar examples all over the country. I request all of you to kindly send him the relevent documents likea dvertisements etc., to putforth our arguement for enhancement of the age of Superannuation of Library professionals to Sixty five as in the case of Teachers. He also request all of you to kindly give your feedback on the HRD orders immediately to them. So that, they can sumit our memorandum to the appropriate bodies in time. Follow the address for feedback: Dr.P.V.KonnurPresidet, Indian Academic Library Association (IALA)Fulbright Fellow (University of Illinois)University Librarian,Bangalore University Library,Jananabharati, Bangalore-560056Phone: 080-22961131, 23215510Website: http://library.bub.ernet.in