Don’t Tender Librarianship: Outsourcing of Library Staff Degrades the Profession

Mohapatra, Niranjan Don’t Tender Librarianship: Outsourcing of Library Staff Degrades the Profession. Annual Issue of lisforum_orissa, 2022, vol. 16, n. 1. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]

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Librarian is a position and Librarianship is a profession, it is not a material which will be called on tender. From outsourcing of library services to outsourcing of library staff, the concepts slowly misunderstood and misguided by some non-professional administrators. Library Associations and professional’s welfare societies are not working properly as expectation. Some people have given face to the administration for tender call notice to supply of Librarians. Why Librarianship is on tender? Advantages, disadvantages of outsourcing along with the problems, solutions and recommendations has been described in this article.

Item type: Journal article (Unpaginated)
Keywords: tender, outsourcing, consultant librarianship, manpower
Subjects: L. Information technology and library technology
Depositing user: Niranjan Mohapatra
Date deposited: 04 Nov 2022 02:02
Last modified: 04 Nov 2022 02:02
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/43641

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