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Unit 14: Library Profession

Notes
There is no significant difference in the satisfaction with the newspapers subscribed among
various groups of users; viz., faculty members and research scholars, faculty members and
postgraduates, and research scholars and postgraduates. The majority of the users (85.8%)
are satisfied with the library catalogue. There is significant difference in the satisfaction
with the library catalogue among various groups of users; viz., faculty members and
undergraduates, research scholars and undergraduates, and postgraduates and
undergraduates. In other words, undergraduates are more satisfied in this regard compared
to the faculty members, research scholars, and postgraduates.
There is no significant difference in the satisfaction with the library catalogue among
various groups of users; viz., faculty members and research scholars, faculty members and
postgraduates, and research scholars and postgraduates. More than one fourth of librarians
(27.6%) are not getting either the UGC scale of pay or State Government scale of pay. They
are getting only consolidated pay. Hence the AICTE should take necessary steps for
providing UGC/State Government scale of pay to librarians working in engineering
college libraries so that they can serve the users with more devotion.
Hence, the Government of India, State Government and AICTE should raise the quality of
education in engineering by taking appropriate measures to improve the facilities and
services in engineering college libraries.
Questions

1. Write down the case facts.
2. What do you infer from it?
Source: http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/balu-reddy.htm

14.5 Summary

A Profession, as an occupation, especially that one requiring extensive education in a
branch of science or the liberal arts; or the body of persons engaged in such an occupation.
A Professional is one who is engaged in an activity as a means of livelihood or for a gain
or pertaining to or connected with a profession.

Professionalism is the professional character, spirit or methods, the standard practices of
a professional as distinguished from an amateur.

Professionalism is in everyone but is practiced by oneself through self-improvement.
Ethics has been a subject of study and enquiry in philosophy which is as old as human
history.

Professional Ethics is the science of right conduct and character.
Professional ethics is considered as an expression of the ethos (i.e. character, spirit, culture,
practice) of an occupation.

Interest in professional, ethics has increased due to the growth of numerous occupations
and formation of new professional groups.
A profession is always held by a person, and it is generally that person’s way of generating
income.
In order to be effective, therefore, professional ethics have to be perceived at various
levels, appropriate to different cultures and situations.

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