The book narrates working life experience of a professional librarian. It provides a panoramic view of Indian libraries elucidating the attitude and vicissitude of bureaucracy and academics towards library development. The author argues that core competence of a librarian is ability to understand the readers and to interpret the library’s collection.

As a background the author has also narrated his fond memories of boyhood and early student life spent at Ranchi.

Contents: 1. Life at Ranchi. 2. Library Science, Libraries and Working Life (1976-2002). 3. State Bureaucracy and Library Development. 4. Epilogue; Libraries and librarianship.