UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE

DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

MANASAGANGOTHRI

MYSORE

SEMINAR

TOPIC:- PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS –

OBJECTIVES AND FUNCTIONS,

ROLE OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS IN LIBRARY

DEVELOPMENT

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

A professional associations (also called professionalbody, professional organization, or professionalsociety) is usually a non profit organization seekingthe further a particular profession the interests ofindividual engaged in that profession, and the publicinterest.

Profession means an occupation, especially onerequiring extensive education in a branch of scienceare the liberal arts. The oxford English dictionarydefine a profession as “a vocation in which aprofessed knowledge of some departments oflearning or science is used in its application to theaffairs of others or in the practice of an art foundedopen it.”

The role of these professional associations have been variouslydefined “A group of people in a learned occupation who areentrusted with maintaining control or over sight of the leg matepractice of the occupation” also a body acting “to safe guard thepublic interest “ organization which “represent the interest of theprofessional practitioners,” and so act to maintain their ownprivileged and power full position as a control body.” This, in turn,place the burdens of enforcing a profession upon theseassociations as well.

Many professional bodies are involved in the development andmonitoring of professional educational programs and the updatingof skills and thus perform professional certification to indicate thata person process qualification. In the subject area

Some times membership of a professionalbodies is synonymous with certificationthough not always membership of aprofessional body, as a legal requirement,can him some profession from the primaryformal basis for gaining entry and setting uppractice within the profession.

Many professional bodies also out as learnedsociety for the academic disciplinesunderlining their profession

OBJECTIVES OF LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

To promote exchange of ideas on education in the library science.To promote researchi9n education in library science.To promote the publication of books and periodicals on education in library science. To hold conference, seminar and colloquia for the development and propagation of ideas on education in library science.To give consultation service on education in library science.Training and Research betterment of library personnel.Cooperation at the national and international level.Promote of studies, norms, serves and guidelines.

Providing a forum for professional and publication of material.

To encourage and promote the utilization of knowledge through the collection, organization and dissemination of in find.To develop the usefulness and efficiency of special libraries or information centers.To stimulate research in the field of information services.To promote the high professional standards.To facilitate communication among its members.

FUNCTIONS

Meetings and seminars & conferences.

Education and training.

Professional issue.

Projects.

Relations with other associations.

Publications, publishing works.

Document production and translation services.

Library legislation.

Standards in libraries.

Management of library services.

Future’s perspectives.

Progress in library science

Professional education.

Library bill or right.

Use of modern technology.

Publication of professional literature.

Library service act.

ROLE OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS IN

LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT

The main of library associations is to herald library movement in the country to spread knowledge and information, hence to fulfill this aim they interact with government from time to time using every conceivable opportunity for sound development of a library system in the country by advising representing and helping in drafting legislation, policy statement, guidelines etc.

Library associations make the people conscious towards utility of the libraries, so that the people may demand their right for assessing to public library service and may mobilize social pressure for healthy development .of library services

These associations strive for an evolution for an integrated library and information system at national level based on the national policy.

These also bring the attention of authorities to defects, distortions in the existing library infrastructure.

These also provide a common forms for library professional for exchange of their information, ideas, experience and expertise etc.

These work for betterment of salaries, grades services, conditions of library staff, and also for improving their status in the society.

These also works towards sharing of resources and quoi ding dilation of efforts among the libraries.

These also contribute towards the

development of man power for library and

information work. For which their arrange

education and training programs for library

professional.

These hold the image of library profession

high in the society and promote cooperation

among libraries and among the professional

of the libraries.