[LIS-Forum] Call for Articles/Papers for Prof. M.P. Satija's Festschrift Volume

Jagtar Singh jagtar.kindu at gmail.com
Mon Apr 7 11:32:21 IST 2008


Dear Colleagues,



We have got tremendous response to our request for articles/papers for Prof.
M.P. Satija's Festschrift Volume.  It was on select invitation only. But now
many friends have phoned me that they also want to contribute to this
project. Therefore we have decided to publish the Festschrift in two volumes
and issue a public call. Please contribute an article/paper by 15 May
2008and use the APA Style for references and bibliography. Prof.
Satija is
superanuating on 30 June 2008 and his brief CV is papsted below.



You may focus on:



Collection Development

Knowledge Organization,

Information Management

Knowledge Management

Content Management

Open Source Software

Web-based Resources and Services

Search Engines and Online Searching

Reference and Information Services

Library Consortia

Use and User Studies

Portals, Vortles and Gateways

Capacity Building

Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning

Digital Preservation,

LIS Education, Research and Training

Continuous Professional Development & Workplace Learning.



These are only indicative areas, but you are free to choose any other topic
of importance to our moorings and the cutting-edge. Please mail me
immediately if you are interested to contribute. Paper should not be more
than 10 typed pages.



Regards,



Jagtar

Email: jagtar.kindu at gmail.com



*Mohinder Partap Satija*, currently a Professor and Head of the Department
of Library and Information Science in the Guru Nanak Dev University,
Amritsar, is in the library profession for the last three decades. As an
author of more than a dozen books, about 150 papers and 200 bookreviews
and many conference papers published in India and abroad, he has
collaborated with international experts namely, Dr. John Comaromi, Editor
DDC (1979-1991), Ms Joan S. Mitichell, current editor DDC, Dr Ray Prytherch,
Editor, Harrod's Glossary and Dr. S. P. Agrawal, former Director, National
Social Science Documentation Centre, New Delhi. Some of the journals he has
been published are *Libri, International Classification*, *Knowledge
Organisation,* *Third World Libraries* (USA), *Information Management Report
*(UK), *Cataloging and Classification Quarterly* (USA), *Asian
Libraries*(Thailand), Emarld journals (UK),
*Herald of Library Science, & Journal of Information Management and
Scientometrics. *His works have been translated into Hindi, Spanish, German
and French. His major contribution lies in enriching library science
literature. Many bibliometric studies have found him a prolific author.
Having done his Ph. D. on Ranganathan studies, he has been instrumental in
interpreting and propagating Ranganathan's works and ideas to the new
generation. He has written extensively on Classification, Book Numbers,
Ranganathan Studies and Indian Library Literature. Aboard he is known for
his expertise on Colon Classification and Indian state of the art on
classification. Accordingly, he is often invited to contribute papers in
these areas for books and journals. At home, he started the trend of
commentative yet readable bookviews in the library and information science.
No wonder then he is a sought after bookviewer in the country. His textbooks
on Colon Classification and the Dewey Decimal Classification are being used
as class texts in many library schools in India. On receiving his long
article on Call Number & Book Number (Published in Encyclopedia of Library &
Information science *(Marcel Dekker, vol 45) *Prof. Allen Kent the editor
described that as a " Master piece". His various writings on the Sears List
of Subject Headings have won the commendations of its chief editor Dr.
Joseph Miller (H. W. Wilson. Co.).

He has visited Germany, France, Finland, England, Nepal, the Netherlands,
Belgium and Sri Lanka in connection with professional work. He is associated
with many library journals such as *Information Management Report* (
Bowker-Saur, UK), *Library Times International* (USA), *The Lucknow
Librarian* (India*), Library Progress* (*Int*) (India), *Ranganathan
Research Bulletin *(India) and *Knowledge Organisation* (USA/Germany). He is
the Indian Coordinator of the International Society for Knowledge
Organisation (ISKO) (USA), and member UDC Consortium. Dr. Satija is a life
member of many library and information science associations: and has
delivered lectures in many universities and has written lessons for distance
education students of IGNOU, Kurukshetra University, Kota Open University
and Aligarh Muslim University. In the summer of 1988 he worked with Dr.
Ingetraut Dahlberg in Frankfurt for three months to assist her on various
then on going projects. He served as a Visiting Fellow for three months in
Maastricht McLuhan Institute, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands in
the summer of 1999 and the visit was followed by another visit of six weeks
in May 2001. The work done there fructified in the publication of *A*
*Dictionary
of Knowledge Organization,* (Guru Nanak Dev University, 2004). In 2005 he
was invited by the University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka to serve as a Visiting
Professor. There he was instrumental in instituting library & information
science doctoral programme in the Department of Library of Information
Science which is the first ever research degree programme in the country.
There he also served as bibliography consultant to the National Library
Services Board of Sri Lanka.

  As is an advisor to the Harrod's Librarians Glossary (Gower, UK) he made
considerable input to revise entries relating to classification. He is
member advisory board of the *International Yearbook of Library and
Information Management*(Library Association Publishing, London) *and Indian
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science* (S. Chand & Co., New Delhi).
As a trustee of Professor Kaula Endowment for Library Science, he has
actively contributed for its development.
Important Publications

   1. "Book Number and Call Number" *Encyclopedia of Library &
   information science* (Marcel Dekker, 1990, Vol 45): 18-45.
   2. *Manual of Practical **Colon** Classification. **New Delhi*:
   Sterling Publisher, 1994.
   3. *S. R. Ranganathan and the Method of Science. **New Delhi**:
   Aditya, 1992.*
   4. *Dewey Decimal Classification: A Practical Guide. **Dublin** **Ohio
   *: the OCLC,

      1996 (co- author).

   1. *Sears List of Subject Headings,* New Delhi: Concept, 2000.
   2. *A Dictionary of Knowledge Organisation. **Amritsar**:* GND
   University, 2004.
   3. *DDC: History and Current Status,* New York: Academic Publishers,
   1989 (with Dr. John Comaromi).






-- 
Dr. Jagtar Singh,
Professor,
Department of Library and Information Science,
&
Dean,
Faculty of Education and Information Science
Punjabi University, Patiala
Pin - 147 002 (India)
Email: jagtar.kindu at gmail.com
Tel: +91 (0)175 304 6179 (Work)
       +91 (0)175 228 2727 (Home)
Fax: +91 (0)175 228 3073

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