Moving towards

excellence: transcendence
through Librarianship
Ms. Sheetal Tank
Librarian,
ATMIYA Group of Institutions

Outline
About Woman and Librarianship
An opportunity to transcend
Understanding Harmony, roles,
responsibility and values
Moving towards Excellence

About Women and

Librarianship
Feminine Profession
the feminine value - Nurture
Library as a place to see the Big
Picture
The question is - are we aware that
we are the one's who have to help
them see it holistically?
We are today living in Smart Cities,
or moving towards one soon... are we
MyPeople Smart

NURTURE

Are we making our

weaknesses louder and
strengths (technically)

Can we blame any body for that?

Even the man!
We may have slowed down a bit do
a regular homework and you can
keep up with the pace..
We need to be cautious and work
towards redefining ourselves as
better alternatives.

An opportunity to
transcend
Transcendence is possible when we
make up our mind for a long term
relationship with the organization
and to the profession
Transcendence - looking for
opportunities to grow on job; Working
in-tune with the organizational needs
and developing the skills beneficial
for the same.
Case study of Engineering Institute
Library

Jealousy
Deal with it critically - it not only
hampers the personal growth but also
the growth of the Library as an
organization
together we can do better - this
attitude not only helps the
organization be Dynamic but also
it helps the team get a sense of
belongingness to the
organization as much

Opportunities
Research Methodology Sessions
Literature search and literature
review Domain specific
Learning commons model
recognize the gaps and see if you
can fulfill them for the institute either
directly or indirectly.
Its about making space
have a high self esteem and have a
I Think I Can attitude!

Understanding Harmony,
roles, responsibility and
values

Most of women in profession not just

in Librarianship, find it difficult to
balance career and family.
This hinders their personal career
growth or leads to broken
relationships, in-turn leading to
stress and health issues

Understanding Harmony
Harmony
Harmony
Harmony
Harmony

in
in
in
in

Self
Family
Society
Nature/Existence

Course/Workshop Content: Right Understanding

2
Feelings
- Trust
- Respect
-

RIGHT
UNDERSTANDING
in the self

RELATIONSHIP
with human
beings

Understanding Harmony:
- Harmony in the Individual
- Harmony in Family
- Harmony in Society
- Harmony in Nature/Existence

PHYSICAL
FACILITY
with rest of
nature

Living in Harmony at
all 4 levels:
- Individual
- Family
- Society
- Nature/Existence

MUTUAL HAPPINESS MUTUAL PROSPERITY

Harmony
What I am

What is Naturally Acceptable to Me

Desire, Thought,
Expectation

Dialog

Natural Acceptance

Harmony
Contradiction
Relationship
Opposition

Relationship

Happiness

Unhappiness

The state or situation, in which I

live,

The state or situation, in which I

live,

if there is harmony / synergy in it,

if there is disharmony /
contradiction in it,
then it is not Naturally Acceptable
to me to be in that state / situation
To be forced to be in a state /
situation which is not Naturally
Acceptable is Unhappiness

then it is Naturally Acceptable to

me to be in that state / situation
To be in a state / situation which is
Naturally Acceptable is Happiness
To be in in a state of Harmony /
Synergy is Happiness
Happiness = Harmony

To be forced to be in a state of
Disharmony / Contradiction is
Unhappiness
Unhappiness = Disharmony

Happiness

Continuity of Happiness

The state or situation, in which I

live,
if there is harmony / synergy in it,
then it is Naturally Acceptable to
me to be in that state / situation
To be in a state / situation which is
Naturally Acceptable is Happiness
To be in a state of Harmony /
Synergy is Happiness
Happiness = Harmony

State / Situation in which I live or

Expanse of my Being:
1.As an Individual
2.As a member of a Family
3.As a member of Society
4.As an unit in Nature/Existence

Continuity of Happiness =
Harmony at all levels of my Being
i.e.
5.Harmony in the Human Being
6.Harmony in the Family
7.Harmony in the Society
8.Harmony in Nature/Existence

Human Being
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Need

Self (I)

Co-existence

Happiness (e.g. Respect)

In Time

Continuous

In Quantity

Qualitative (is Feeling)

Fulfilled By

Right Understanding &

Right Feeling

Activity

Desire, Thought,
Expectation

In Time

Continuous

Response

Knowing, Assuming,
Recognising, Fulfilling

Body

Physical Facility (e.g.

Food)
Temporary
Quantitative (Required in
Limited Quantity)

Physio-chemical Things

Eating, Walking

Temporary

Recognising, Fulfilling

Prosperity
Prosperity = Feeling of having more than required physical facility
1.Identification of required physical facility (including the required
quantity)
with right understanding
2.Ensuring availability/ production of more than required physical
facility
with right skills
A prosperous person thinks of right utilisation, nurturing the other
deprived

accumulation, exploiting
Check:
Have you recognized (made an assessment of) your physical needs?
Do you have more physical facility than your needs?
Do you have a feeling of prosperity?
continuous?
Do you think of right utilisation, nurturing others?
Or
Do you think of accumulation, exploiting others?

Harmony in the Family

1.Relationship is between one self (I1) and other self (I2)
2.There are feelings in relationship in one self (I1) for other self (I2)
3.These feelings can be recognized they are definite (9 Feelings)
4.Their fulfilment, evaluation leads to mutual happiness
Feelings in relationship:

1- Trust FOUNDATION VALUE

2- Respect
3- Affection
4- Care
5- Guidance

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Reverence
Glory
Gratitude
Love COMPLETE VALUE

Are these feelings Naturally Acceptable to You?

When you live with these feelings, does it lead to your happiness?
When you express these feelings to the other, does it lead to the
happiness of the other?

Trust
Trust is to have the clarity that the other wants to make me happy &
prosperous
If I have trust on intention, I feel related to the other. I make a program
with the other based on right evaluation of our mutual competence
In case the other is lacking in competence:

I make effort to assure the other

I make effort to improve his competence once he is assured in relationship
(and not before that)

If I lack competence, I become ready to take help from the other to

improve my competence
If I do not have trust on intention

I evaluate myself on the basis of my intention and others on the basis of

their competence (seldom evaluating my competence and others intention)
I have a feeling of opposition with the other which shows up as irritation or
anger (and it further leads to fighting, struggle and war)

Respect is Right Evaluation

Under evaluation, over evaluation or otherwise evaluation is disrespect
Differentiation is disrespect
Respect on the basis of Self(I) The other is like me. We are
complementary to each other. The only difference is in our level of
understanding (how much of our desire, thought & expectation is on
the basis of our Natural Acceptance)

If the other has more understanding & is more responsible than

me
I am committed to understand from the other
If I have more understanding & I am more responsible than the
other
I live with responsibility with the other, unconditionally,
unpeturbed by the behaviour of the other
I am committed to facilitate understanding in the other (once the
other is assured in relationship, and not before that)

Affection
The feeling of being related to the other
(acceptance of the other as ones relative, the other is like me)
One naturally feels related to the other when one has the feelings of
Trust and Respect in oneself for the other
Responsibility and commitment for mutual fulfilment
Absence of Affection = Opposition, Jealousy

Care

Guidance

Feeling of responsibility toward the

body of my relative

Feeling of responsibility toward the

self(I) of my relative

The responsibility & commitment

for nurturing and protecting the
Body of my relative

The responsibility & commitment

for ensuring Right
Understanding and Right
Feeling in the self(I) of my relative

Care & Guidance naturally follow Affection

Are you ensuring both care as well as guidance?
Or mostly focused on care?
While taking care of the body, are you also concerned about the self? Eg. While
feeding the child

Reverence
The feeling of acceptance for Excellence
Excellence
Understanding Harmony &
Living in Harmony

at all 4 levels
1.In the Self, as an Individual
2.In Family
3.In Society
Excellence and competition are not similar.
Nature/Existence
In excellence, one helps to bring the4.In
other
to his level
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In competition, he hinders the other from reaching to his level

Excellence

To Be Special

The other is like me we are

complementary

Not other me
I am different from the other

Helps the other to come to his level

Stops the other to come to his level effort to accentuate the difference, to
dominate, manipulate, exploit

Operates on the basis of his Natural

Operates on the basis of his

Acceptance (that is definite)

preconditioning (that changes)

swatantra, self driven by clarity of

driven by other on the basis of reward

human purpose

/ fear of punishment

Trust, respect... In relationship

Conditional relationship, overevaluation of self & under-evaluation

of other

Is Prosperous Rightly Utililises,

Is Deprived Hoards, Accumulates,

Shares, Nurtures

Exploits

Absolute (definite completion point)

Relative (no definite completion point)

Glory

Gratitude

Feeling for those who have made

effort for excellence

Feeling for those who have made

effort for my excellence

Verify on the basis of your natural acceptance if you want to be related

to:
None
X
The feeling of being related to none in opposition to all
One
The feeling of being related to one

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Affection
Many
The feeling of being related to many

Everyone
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Love
The feeling of being related to all

Affection The feeling of being related to the other

(acceptance of the other as ones relative)
Love The feeling of being related to all (Complete Value)

Current State Have we understood our Goal?

Human Target
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Right Understanding
& Right Feelings
In Every Individual

Prosperity

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In Every Family

Fearlessness
(Trust)

Co-Existence

In Society

In Nature/
Existence

Gross Misunderstanding
Assumptions (eg.
Money is everything)

Accumulation
By Any Means

Domination ,
Exploitation, Fear

Mastery &
Exploitation

In Every Individual

In few Individuals

In Society

Over Nature

Terrorism
War

Resource Depletion
Pollution

Madness for Consumption

Madness for Profit
Madness for Sensual Pleasure

Relationship of Mutual Fulfillment

Mutual Fulfillment =

Relatedness + Fulfillment

Pranic
Order

Plants, Trees

Physical
Order

Soil, Metal

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?

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Human
Order

Human Being

Animal
Order

Animals, Birds

Understanding Roles
Able to see our role when we start
being in harmony in our self first and
then in the process to establish the
harmony between all levels we will be
able to see our roles we can play at
each level - in profession we have
ample of opportunity to develop the
harmony in the society through
our services

Duties Vs Responsibility
Duty- assigned to us, we may do it or
we may postpone it or may not do it.
We may even not do it properly even
though we are expected to; the duty
can be replaced or done by others in
case i don't do it myself.
Responsibility -for which there no
alternative; only I have to do it and i
am only responsible for it.

Moving towards Excellence

Excellence is understanding the
harmony at all four levels and
recognizing our roles and
responsibilities accordingly and living
by that, fulfilling them with the
sense of justice and creating a
value for our own self.
Excellence Vs Competition
In excellence, one helps to bring the other
to her level and as against in competition,
she hinders the other from reaching to her

Excellence vs Special
decide whether we want to remain
special or move towards
Excellence.. as we respect people for
their efforts of Excellence; for their
participation/ contribution in our
life and not necessarily for the post,
money, looks, religion, caste, creed,
sect, belief systems, nationality nor
GENDER...

My Message
Build your value with your own
participation, understand the roles
you can play and spread your
essence of living from individual to
the entire existence through the
opportunity you have got in this
profession which has Every
possibility for our
transcendence...Live with
EXCELLENCE

Higher Goal and Important Role

We have a higher goal and an
important role in building our Next
Generation both on campus and off
campus.

Thank you..