Urbanisation is one of the social problems in Third World countries. This is because planning and development
are lopsided; too much attention is given to the metropolitan cities where all the social amenities and job
opportunities are concentrated. Consequently, there is rural-urban drift. This naturally means that the rural
areas are comparatively neglected in terms of infrastructural development and employment opportunities. Thus,
when a university is situated in a rural environment it is like an oasis in a desert: everybody struggles to gain
employment there. There are actual cases when whole families and their appendages - husbands, wives,
children and other close and distant relatives work in the library. In a few isolated cases it cannot be helped.
Ordinarily a husband and wife who are both librarians may not wish to work in the same organisation, but if the
university library is the only library in that locality they will have no choice, unless they are prepared to maintain
two homes or the wife becomes a full-time housewife.