PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT IN COLLEGE LIBRARIES

Colleges of higher education occupy an important position in the educational system. Since the establishment of UGC, while grants are made available to these colleges for purchase of information sources, furniture and construction of library buildings, the supportive staff is appointed by the concerned state government. The state governments have, however, not followed the guidelines given by UGC Library Committee in 1958, 1965 or 1979. Hence, a picture emerged that each state is having different position about staffing in college libraries. Further, this has resulted in the situation where the colleges are having spacious library buildings and good number of information sources but these are not utilized to the maximum. The ILA conferences in 1983 and 1985 also emphasized the need to modify the staffing formula but nothing has been done till date. Based on the statewide survey of colleges in Maharashtra, the present study is an attempt to solve the problem in a scientific way. Besides norms for core and additional staff, the qualifications of the library staff, cadrewise job description, and scales of pay have also been proposed. The staffing formulae in different states like Kerala, Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh, and that of UGC and AICTE have been compared with the proposed one. In short this is a unique book for management personnels, educationists and librarians of colleges of higher education.