The West Bengal College Librarians’ Association was through established in the year 1962 by some College Librarians and University professionals of Calcutta to highlight the problems affecting the profession, the participant members perhaps could not imagine that college librarians would have to face more critical and complicated problems in near future. So, the activities of the association was almost in a dormant stage. There was no regular meetings or conference and no General Secretary and elected office bearers. Only there was convener or sometimes joint conveners were also chosen in the second half 70’s some attempts were made by a group of college librarians to fight for introduction of UGC pay scale of Rs. 550-900/- w.e.f.01.01.1973. At that time joint conveners were Late Subir Ghosh, Librarian, Dum-dum Motijhil College and Sri Maly Bhattacharyya, Librarian, Behala College of Commerce.

During 1977 the demand for introduction of UGC pays scale of Rs. 700-1600/- along with a revision if the pay scale of Rs. 550-900/- as UGC stated in its order that to suit local conditions, the state Government might introduce a higher pay scale over the above the scale of Rs. 700-1300/- in respect of four college librarians of Government College viz Presidency College Sanskrit College and B.E College Shipbur. The small tiny association led by two conveners tried to draw attention of the Government toward the disparity. In 1977 Bengal Library Association convened a meeting of the college librarians to from opinion on introduction of UGC pay scale for the non-Government college. Several senior college librarians like Late Amarendranath Bhattacharyya, librarian, Citi College, Kolkata. Late Subir Ghosh, Sri M.M.Paul and other spoke in the said convention. Just after this convention Sri Satya Sadhan Chakraborty, General Secretary, WBCUTA convened a meeting on the same issue at Vidyasagar College, Kolkata, Dr. Prabir Roy Chowdhury, General Secretary, BLA also attended the meeting. The convention was attended by a large number of college librarians and it was decided that College librarians would submit a memorandum to the then Higher Education Minister of W.B. Late Prof. Sambhu Ghosh. In September ,1977 a rally was organized at college square where leaders of WBCUTA and BLA. Time wasted on arguments and counter arguments. Later on, the procession started and reached Esplanade East where the police stopped and requested to submit memorandum to the higher Education minister by way of boarding a police van. It was seen that some WBCUTA leaders and Dr. Prabir Raychaudhuri boarded the police van and the College librarians were shouting to include also the two joint conveners viz., Late Subir Ghosh and Sri Malay Bhattacharyya. After some hesitation Sri Malay Bhattacharyya was allowed to get into the van After half an hour the College librarians found that Sri Malay Bhattacharyya was coming back alone. He reported that in front of Governor House he was directed to get down and return. The College librarians assembled them became aggrieved, then the assembly became thinner. Actually, College Librarians were disappointed.

Upto that chapter of the Association Late Dinendra Prasad Gupta, Librarians, B.K. College, Late Amarendranath Bhattacharyya, Smt. Anima Sengupta, Librarian, Netaji Nagar College, Si Satyendra Kumar Ray, Sri Somnath Raha, Sri Asit Moitra did not join the association. The joint Conveners began to communicate with Late D.P Gupta and Late Bhattacharyya to join the association formed by them. Then Late Amarendranath Bhattacharyya and Late D.P. Gupta made extensive tour in Calcutta and neighbouring districts, seeking active participation of College Librarians. To their call the College Librarians who joined the Association were Sri Madan Mohan Paul, Burdwan, Sri Dilip Kumar Roy, Midnapur, Sri Sambhu Nath Banerjee, Burdwan, Sri Sibram Majumder, Burdwan , Sri Joy Narayan Ganguly, Burdwan, Sri Dilip Kumar Roy, Midnapore, Smt. Parvati Dasgupta, Midnapore, Sri Bidyut Kumar Hazra, Panskura, Sri Nandalal Bera, Midnapore, Sri Sabita Prasad Dube, Murshidabad, Sri Santosh Kumar Chakraborty, Murshidabad, Smt. Bina Nandi, Kolkata, Smi Kabira Roy, Kolkata, Sri Amalesh Roy , Kolkata, Sri Binoy Bhushan Roy, Kolkata, Smt. Amita Sinha, N 24 PGS. Late Basanti Chowdhury, N 24 PGS ,Smt. Rajlaxmi Ghosh Bethune College , Kolkata, Sri Rabindranath Guin, Kolkata, Late Subir Mukherjee, Kolkata, Sri Ardhendu Roy Chowdhury, Kolkata, Sri Somnath Raha, Kolkata, and others. Within 6 months membership exceeded more than 100. Ultimately, they agreed and said that if association was to be formed there should be a constitution and parliament office for public relation. It was decided that Dinendra Prasad Gupta and Amarendranath Bhattacharyya would be president and general Secretary respectively. The draft constitution was framed by Sri Binoy Bhushan Mukherjee of Jogesh Chandra Chowdhury College, Kolkata and ate A.N Bhattacharya gave final shape to it. Sri Ashit Kumar Moitra of Vidyasagar College, Kolkata allowed the office bearers to use his drawing room at 24B, Bechu Chatterjee Street, Kolkata-9 for office purpose and later on, the said address was registered and it is our registered and it is our registered office till now. Thus, the Association started its royal journey.