[LIS-Forum] L J Haravu passed away

Prakash K prakash.kalvira at gmail.com
Tue Mar 3 20:18:07 IST 2020


Shri L J Haravu, residing at Mysore has passed away on 2nd of night of
March 2020 with brief illness of old age issues.  He was a guiding spirit
for LIS professionals at Mysuru. He was freelance information consultant.
He was associated with Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge
Management. He was also source behind developing  NewGenLib LIS software.
He was active on Facebook, specially with witty poems.

Laksminarasimh Jayaram Haravu b.1935, has Masters degree in Mathematics and
Masters in Information Science.

Since 1964, Shri. Haravu was pioneer in designing and implementing computer
- based tools to improve information services for scientific and technical
users of libraries in India and globally. A mathematician by training,
Haravu entered the information field at the National Scientific
Documentation Centre in New Delhi. He has since collaborated in many
projects and held senior positions at the Indian Institute of Technology,
the National Small Industry Extension Training Institute(NISIET) and Bharat
Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL). He was consultant for DESIDOC, INFLIBNET,
FAO, IDRC, ILRI, etc. He served as a head of the Library and Documentation
services at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid
Tropics (ICRISAT) , Hyderabad. He has developed utilities for use with
Unesco’s Micro CDS/ISIS, Delphi-ISIS, SDI services. He was IASLIC Librarian
of the year 1994.

I met him at ICRISAT as student of BLIS in 1991, he inspired us with lot of
enthusiasm on current practices in Library Automation, Databases, Services,
Future Trends, etc. and opportunities to work in LIS field. Till last year
he was frequently visiting KSOU Library with his Engineer friend. I pray
god almighty to rest his soul in peace and give strength to bear this great
loss to his family.

Dr. K Prakash
Secretary, MyLISA

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With best regards,
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Dr. K Prakash
Librarian
Karnataka State Open University
Mukthagangotri
Mysuru – 570006

Email: prakash_k at yahoo.com | Web: http://ksoumysuru.ac.in/
<http://www.ksoumysore.edu.in/>
Tel: 0821-2510953(Dir) | EPBX: 0821-2500873, 2519952 Extn.: 530
Cell: 9448066788

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