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CFP-Final: National Conference on Emerging Trends & Techniques for Electronic Resource Management in Libraries: Issues & Challenges on February 13-14, 2015 at Rourkela
by Bhojaraju Gunjal 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

*Call for Papers - Final : Submission date extended to January 19, 2015* *Subject: Invitation to attend National Conference on Emerging Trends & Techniques for Electronic Resource Management in Libraries:* *Issues & Challenges on February **13-14, 2015** at Rourkela* Greetings from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela, *Dear Sir/Madam/Friends,* It gives us immense pleasure to inform you that Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL) of National Institute of Technology Rourkela is organizing the “*National Conference on Emerging Trends & Techniques for Electronic Resource Management in Libraries: Issues & Challenges*” on *February **13-14, 2015* in association with SLA-Asia and SLP. This conference is the second event under the series “*Empowering Library Professionals to Empower Society (ELPES)*”. The main objectives of this conference are: - Awareness and importance of electronic resources; - Familiarization with the different ways of accessing electronic content; - Acquaint with the review activities associated with e-resources; - Examine copyright and licensing implications for scholarly communication; - An opportunity to develop ideas, strategies and policies for e-resource management (ERM); - Equip participants with skills for collection development and management of e-resources both theoretical and practical; - To discuss the issues and challenges faced during ERM cycle; - To adopt best practices for enhancing usage of e-resources. We request you and your colleagues to participate and contribute a paper for this conference. And also help us to spread this message among library & information science professionals, information scientists, knowledge managers, students & scholars. Kindly register at the earliest to avail campus accommodation as we have limited number of rooms available. For Call for papers and other details please visit: http://library.nitrkl.ac.in/events/elpes2/ and http://library-nitrkl.blogspot.in/ ***Important Dates:* *Extended date of submission of paper* *Last date of submission of paper* *January 19, 2015* *January 09, 2015* *Last date of accepted Notification* *January 25, 2015**Conference Date**February 13-14, 2015* **Looking forward to meet you at NIT Rourkela. ** *Encl: Invitation and Poster* With Best regards, Yours sincerely, *Dr.Bhojaraju Gunjal* Organizing Secretary, ELPES-2 *Connect with BPCL: Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/bpcl.nitrkl> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/BPCL_NITR> | Google+ <https://plus.google.com/u/0/114839086094720039070/> | Blog <http://library-nitrkl.blogspot.in/>** |* ************************************************************************************************************* *Dr.Bhojaraju Gunjal* * Ph.D, MLISc, PGDLAN | Endeavour Research Fellow (Victoria University, Australia)* *Head, Central Library,* ** *Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL),* ** *National Institute of Technology Rourkela,** **769008, **Odisha. INDIA. * *Tel (Off): +91 (0) 661-2462101 <%2B91%20%280%29%20661-2462101> | Cell: +91 9040511891 | E-mail: Bhojaraju.G(a)gmail.com <Bhojaraju.G(a)gmail.com> * ************************************************************************************************************* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Senior citizens set up book bank to help college students in Chennai - The Times of India
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

Very good initiative by senior citizens (read: pensioners) in Chennai. One good thing that I noticed is that student need not return the books. I spoke to Prof V Chandrashekar who is the man behind this project. He is a part of Senior Citizens Group of Basant Nagar in Chennai. This SCA has over 50 members, average age is 75+. They engage themselves in welfare activities for poor senior citizens and the needy. REcently they distributed blankets to those sleeping on pavements. They do not accept cash donations but donations in kind are welcome. About the free book bank service he comments: "Books represent Sarasawati. We should not sell Saraswati (old books must be given away and not sold to make money)". Well, I am inviting him to join sss-global so that we may hear more about their activities. =========== Senior citizens set up book bank to help college students in Chennai Divya Chandrababu,TNN | Jan 13, 2015, 09.53 PM IST CHENNAI: A group of senior citizens in Chennai have set up a book bank to help college students who are in need of textbooks but cannot afford to buy them. The Senior Citizens Group in Besant Nagar collected over 1,000 books so far. The group has appealed to individuals to donate old college textbooks and reference material. Students who are in need can show their identity cards and collect the books they want. "We will give more than one book based on their requirement. The students need not return the books," said one of the members of the group. "We also request colleges to collect as many books as they want if they want to distribute them to their students," he added. The senior citizens carry out the social work using their pensions. Interested students can contact V Chandrasekhar at 9884224480. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Senior-citizens-set-up-book… -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in the Czech Republic « Wikimedia blog
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

Comments for lis-forum & U3A subscribers: GIven below is a news item showing how a Czech project motivating senior citizens to contribute to wikipedia has been successful. This is also an example to see how libraries can help Third Age Learning / U3A. Please See link below for graphs and images that are missing in the reproduced portion. Lis-forum is text only - hence this approach. ==== Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in the Czech Republic BY VOJTĚCH DOSTÁL ON JANUARY 12TH, 2015 Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in special classes held in Prague’s Municipal Library “Senior citizens class photo” by Pavla Pelikánová, licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Logo for the “Senior Citizens Write Wikipedia” program Logo by Dominik Matus, licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0. When we announced that we were starting a Wikipedia outreach program aimed at senior citizens, the response was mixed. “Do they even know how to work with computers?” our colleagues asked. Indeed, while more than 10,000 students have participated in Wikipedia education programs worldwide in the last four years, there have only been a few small-scale senior citizen education programs. This low Wikimedia outreach towards senior citizens is bewildering. Many of them are retired and thus have more free time than their younger student counterparts. Moreover, they are often well-educated and can contribute articles on a range of topics. Most importantly, senior citizens in developed countries are increasingly computer literate. The aim of this blog post is to shed light on what may be the next big thing in the Wikimedia education movement. Challenges Although we had extensive know-how from our university education program, we realized that the senior education program could not just copy what we learned from students. First, senior citizens do not regularly visit classrooms every day, as university students do. We needed to establish partnerships with institutions that could replace the schools – municipal libraries, senior citizen learning centers and third-age universities proved to be the most valuable. Facebook ads targeted people aged 55 or older; women that were between 55 and 65 years old interacted most with these ads. Facebook graph by Vojtěch Dostál, under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Moreover, we needed to find a way to tell senior citizens about our project, so that they could take part in it. We came up with several promotional strategies: some were successful and some not-so-good. Leaflets distributed and e-mails sent out in large quantities were among the least efficient. Featuring our project in the library and senior center newsletters were key to our success. In addition, promotional talks and introductory lectures on Wikipedia to an audience of senior citizens were quite effective: crucially, these were given by professor Jan Sokol (also a Czech Wikipedian), a prominent figure who was able to attract large crowds. Age-targeted ads on Facebook were also a promising way of reaching out to senior citizens who use the Internet, and especially engaged women aged 55 to 65. Finally, we knew we needed to establish well-organized, regular courses and be as patient and helpful as possible. By designing a course curriculum with approximately 10-12 hours divided into several weekly lessons, we ensured that our participants had enough time to first understand Wikipedia, then learn to discuss and work in a sandbox — and finally edit and write articles. Inevitably, this was time-consuming for the instructor (and program leader) but it led to superior results, as described in the next section. Outcomes Three separate weekly classes were held for the senior citizens of Prague, each in a different part of the city. A total of 37 participants registered to the course extension on Czech Wikipedia (although some of them did not finish the courses). A brief visit to their user pages reveals how valuable these participants are as Wikipedians – most of them have a college education, speak various languages, and some of them are former researchers. Weekly edits by participants to articles (orange), compared to all other pages (blue). Edit graph by Vojtěch Dostál, under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Not only did they learn how Wikipedia works and how to edit it, but they already started working on it. Of 201,912 bytes added by the participants in total, 84,828 bytes were made on pages in the main namespace. Some of the participants even created their first articles – a total of 18 new articles were written. About half of the registered senior citizens still continue to edit (i.e. edited in December 2014 after their course ended at the end of October). This retention rate is superior to that of most university education programs, where success rate of new editor recruitment has been estimated as 3% for the US/Canada Education program. Future directions As a pilot, the program exceeded our expectations. We demonstrated that it is perfectly possible to run a senior citizen education program and had good results with retention. Promotion to our target group was the biggest challenge – this may get easier once word spreads to more senior citizens, as they talk to each other about this successful program. We would like to continue with these efforts and scale up the project, if we can get more funding. Our participants often want to keep meeting in real life to improve their grasp of Wikipedia. They want to practice writing articles and gradually become independent editors. Among other things, we try to help them by creating lists of articles which they can easily start or edit. By organizing similar courses in cities other than Prague, the number of participants is likely to increase. We already have interested libraries in regional towns and cities of Moravia who wish to hold lessons for their senior citizens. The “Senior Citizens Write Wikipedia” project is funded by an IEG grant and runs under the patronage of Wikimedia Czech Republic. The program leader is Vojtěch Veselý, who can be contacted on a Wikipedia discussion page or by e-mail. Vojtěch Dostál, Wikimedia Czech Republic http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/12/czech-senior-citizens-learn-to-edit/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sad Demise of V L Kalyan - KALA Should organize a Condolence Meeting immediately
by Pandurang Konnur 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Pandurang Konnur" <pvkonnur(a)gmail.com> Date: Jan 10, 2015 9:49 PM Subject: Sad Demise of V L Kalyan - KALA Should organize a Condolence Meeting immediately To: "LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in" <LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Friends, It is most shocking news to hear the sad demise of Mr.Kalyan. A Good friend for all of us and most renowned professional. His tenure in BEL and DRTC Libraries is highly remembered by his clientele. His involvement in the professional activities was experienced by most of us. He never posed as a leader any time, but loved to work as a volunteer in most of our professional activities. His tenure as a General Secretary of KALA is most memorable period in the history of KALA. What is really worrying to most of us is that, the young professionals who need to carry the flag of the profession need to show their responsibility and commitment to the profession. We know that the new generation librarians are most intelligent and knowledgable, but they need to work for uniting the professionals and project the profession to the society as an inevitable tool for the society. This role need to be played by the KALA. Now I request the KALA to organize a Condolence Meeting immediately possibly in Central College for the sad demise of Sri.Kalyan. KALA should remember the service rendered by Kalyan while he was its Secretary. Let us set a good tradition to our young Librarians and communicate them the services rendered by the senior professionals who have departed from us. Hope KALA will do this job at an earliest. Thanks, Sent from my iPad Best Regards, Dr.P V Konnur -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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MURTY'S INITIATIVE TO TAKE INDIAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE TO GLOBAL STAGE
by Ragaavendra R 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

MURTY'S INITIATIVE TO TAKE INDIAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE TO GLOBAL STAGE On Thursday, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen will be inaugurating a series of books in New Delhi which is, arguably, unlike any set of works published before. For, Sen will be launching the first five books of the Murty Classical Library of India (MCLI), set up at Harvard to publish English translations of ancient Indian classical texts, not only from Sanskrit but a host of Indian vernacular languages, from Bengali to Telugu to Hindi to Kannada. The books, five of which will be published every year for the next hundred years, will offer readers around the world and in India access to unique works that one would otherwise find difficult to find in a library, let alone a book store. For instance, among the first works being released is Therigatha, an anthology of poems in Pali written by the first Buddhist women which might well be the oldest examples of women's writing. "I started this (MCLI) four years ago, when I was in Harvard University. In Harvard, for example, if you want to learn classics, they teach you only Greek and Latin. Our question was why only these, why not old Tamil poetry or Punjabi play or Malayalam text? So, now, we're doing these translations and making them available to people in India and the US," Rohan Murty, who had donated $5.2 million along with his family to launch MCLI, had told Business Standard earlier. Murty did his PhD in computer science from Harvard University and had recently taken leave from the university to spend a year as executive assistant to his father and Infosys founder Narayana Murthy. "This is the first time this is being done with Indian texts - people are used to seeing Greek and Latin texts, now they will start seeing books in ancient Tamil, Hindi and other Indian languages," he said. Murty was clear that though there would be some works in Sanskrit the focus would be on the vernacular languages. REF LINK:http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/indian-classi… Best Regards, Raghvendra R The information contained in this electronic message and in any attachments to this message is confidential, legally privileged and intended only for use by the person or entity to which this electronic message is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please notify the sender and system manager by return email and delete the message and its attachments and also you are hereby notified that any distribution, copying, review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this electronic transmission or the information contained in it is strictly prohibited. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not represent those of the Company or bind the Company. Any commitments made over e-mail are not financially binding on the company unless accompanied or followed by a valid purchase order. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Mail Scanner, and is believed to be clean. The Company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.jubl.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Commissioning of India's first rural high-speed broadband network
by Saji S Nair 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

Dear All, India’s first hi-speed rural broadband network (national optical fibre network, NOFN) under the Digital India Programme has been commissioned in Idukki district of Kerala. Through this, Idukki with a large tribal and rural population becomes the first district in the country to have all its gram panchayats connected through NOFN. NOFN is the largest rural connectivity project of its kind in the world. It seeks to link each of the 2.5 lakh grama panchayats of India through broadband optical fibre network. It is is expected to facilitate broadband connectivity to over 600 million rural citizens of the country over its completion. It will enable the grama panchayats to have 100 Mbps of bandwidth, thereby facilitating the delivery of various e-Services and applications including e-health, e-education, e-governance and e-commerce in the future. In the first phase, NOFN shall be extended to cover 50,000 grama panchayats and the remaining 2 lakh is expected to be covered in a phased manner by 2016. Read the full story at: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/idukki-gets-first-hi… regards -- Saji S. Nair Assistant Librarian Library & Information Services Division Regional Cancer Centre Medical College Campus Trivandrum - 695011 Kerala, INDIA ----------------------------------------------------------- 91 471 2522225 (O) 91 471 2394252 (R) 09446014130 (Mob) Email: saji(a)rcctvm.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Not qualified UGC NET even after scoring Qualifying Marks
by Apurba J Majumder 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

Strange!!!! UGC NET December 2013 Qualifying Mark : 60.57 (UR) My friend scored exactly the same marks, still she is not NET Qualified in the result sheet. Roll No: 20590129 Name: Rosy Chakraborty How is it possible? What to do now? ****************************** Apurba Jyoti Majumder Assistant Librarian Rabindra Library (Central Library) Assam University. Dargakona Silchar- 781011 Cell No: 09435268733* www.aus.ac.in We care for tomorrow: Save a tree...please do not print this e-mail unless you really need. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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One day National Seminar on "Promoting the Use of Libraries in the Internet era" on 10 February 2014 at Punjabi University, Patiala.
by HPS Kalra 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

One Day National Seminar on "Promoting the Use of Libraries in the Internet era" is being organized by the Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala on 10 February 2014. Registration fees: Rs. 500/- (payable in cash on the spot) includes lunch, session tea and Certificate. Director of the Seminar: Dr. Jagtar Singh, Professor & Head, Department of Library & Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala. Tel: 0175-3046179 Sub-themes: · Internet and its use in different types of libraries and library services · Users and use of libraries in the Internet era · Information literacy and its role in promoting use of libraries · Information seeking behaviour · Virtual Reference Service a tool · Role of library and information professionals (LIPs) in the changing scenario · Competencies and skills for LIPs · Library building and new technology Call for papers: The above sub-themes are just indicative and contributions are invited on any topic related with the theme. Kindly avoid generic presentations and submit research papers, articles, case studies, best practices, review papers, and project reports and . The closing date for contributing a paper is 31 January 2015. Kindly send your brief CV along with your paper and a PPT also at the following email address: jagtardeep(a)gmail.com Plagiarism Alert: Contributors are advised to abide by strict academic ethics with respect to acknowledgment of original ideas from others. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration Form Name: Designation: Organization: Complete Address: Tel. (Off): Cell Phone: E-mail: (Signature of the Applicant) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ICSSR-NASSDOC Sponsored 3 days national Workshop on “Web Discovery Tools and Services” on 16-18 March 2015.
by Vijayakumara 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

Dear all, It's my pleasure to inform you that, in collaboration with Indian Council of Social Science Research, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, New Delhi, BIT-Mesra is conducting 3 days national workshop on “Web Discovery Tools and Services” on 16-18 March 2015. This workshop will create awareness among the participants on availability of various Web Discovery Tools and its services. The program will also focus to develop competitive skills and techniques for social scientist/ scholars/librarians on Web Discovery Tools and Services. There will be no registration fee for participants, Outstation participants will get free accommodation, no TA/DA will be provided by us, participants has to make their own arrangements. The workshop is limited to 30 participants, so we will accept the application on first cum first basis, along with the professional background. The last date to receive the filled registration form is 20th February 2015. Hereby I am enclosing workshop registration form for your needful. If you need any more information kindly contact the Workshop Director, (:0651-2276675 librarian(a)bitmesra.ac.in Thanking you__ Vijayakumar M. MSc., MCA., Ph.D., UGC-NET. Central LibraryBirla Institute of Technology, A Technical University Mesra, Ranchi- 835215, India Tel:0651-2276675 Fax:0651-2275401http://www.bitmesra.ac.in/-*- || Thank you for considering the environment before printing -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Late V.L.Kalyan - Great organiser.
by D.V. Patwardhan 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

Sorry to read that Sri V.L.Kalyan is more. He was Hon.Secretary of KALA during 1992-93 during which period I has close association with him as I was Joint Secretary. His tenure was a "golden period of KALA" as remarked by my friend Dr.K.N.Prasad, SRELS, for which I too agree with him. We were able to hold monthly lectures which served as platform for exchange of ideas/ discussions for Library professionals. There was no LIS-Forum to communicate among librarians. Hence, we fixed lectures for three consecutive months and mailED one invitation to all KALA members through snail mail.This went on for 4/5 years. Even then Librarians too were responding and attending lectures on first Tuesday of every month. Now, concept of monthly lecture is totally forgotten. National Library Week (in association with dept. of Public Libraries, Karnataka) and special lectures were held with pomp and grandeur. A stamp in the name of Dr.S.R.Ranganathan was released during a function held at G.P.O.in 1992 with former Vice-President Sri B.D.Jatti as Chief Geust. Sri V.L.Kalyanwalked to Newspapers officer offices of Deccan Herald, The Hindu,etc. to get the lecture announcement get published in "Today's egagement" section of newspapers on first Tuesdays of every month. I rarely found such a dedicated Hon.Secretary of KALA afterwards. Sri V.L.Kalyan was a librarian of par excellence and good organiser. My his soul rest in peace. d.v.patwardhansr.librarianGlobal Academy of Technology -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Call for papers in Vol 4, Issue No. 2 of 'International Journal of Information Research (ISSN: 2249-8273)'.
by Shriram Pandey 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

Dear LIS Professionals, Greetings! I am very pleased to inform all of you that with the help of our esteemed editorial board members and reviewer committee, 'International Journal of Information Research (ISSN 2249-8273)' has been released its Vol. 3, Issue 4 of 2014. I am glad to invite you to submit your article for the Vol 4, Issue No. 2 of 'International Journal of Information Research (ISSN: 2249-8273)'. The International Journal of Information Research is a peer-reviewed print as well as open access scholarly journal, and it is being published quarterly by the 'Society for Scholarly Publishing and Open Access Resources (SPOARS)'. This is a print as well as an open access journal for library, information and management (LIM) professionals. In this journal articles, reviews, proceeding papers, and news items, etc are published. SUBMISSION OF PAPER Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts by email attachment to [editorijir(a)gmail.com] or can use online platformhttp://www.spoars.org/journal/online_submission. Access full-text articles: http://www.spoars.org/journal/ Thank you. Warm regards, Prof. H. N. Prasad, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Information Research Department of Library and Information Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (U.P.) PIN -221 005 (India) Contact No. +91- 9415336709 (Mob.) Email ID: editorijir(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Workshop on Knowledge Analytics in Corporate Sector - Reminder
by mailman＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

From: Ravichandra <ikrrao(a)hotmail.com> Date: Mon 12/29/2014 10:18 AM Workshop on Knowledge Analytics in Corporate Sector (TEQIP-II/COE Sponsored), Tue, 13 January 2015 Venue: Tech Park Seminar Hall, PES Institute of Technology Who can attend? The workshop should be of interest to students, and teachers of Computer science, knowledge and Information management professionals, Faculty and students of PESIT and other engineering colleges as well as professionals from the industry. Registration is free of cost, but all participants must register online well before the event. How to register? To register for a KAnOE Workshop, please goto http://kanoe.org/workshopregistration.html and click appropriate button. Venue: Tech Park Seminar Hall, PES University, BSK 3rd Stage, Bangalore 560085. AGENDA: Tuesday, 13 January 2015 9:30 - 09:50 : Registration and Welcome 9:50 - 10:00 : Opening Remarks by Dr. I. K. Ravichandra Rao, Visiting Scientist, KAnOE 10:00 - 11:20 - Mr. N. V. Sathyanarayana, CEO and Managing Director, Informatics Ltd., Bangalore - Analytics in Information Industry 11:20 - 11:40 - Coffee break 11:40 - 1:00 - Dr. K. K. Chowdhury, Professor, SQC and OR Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore - Analytics in Industrial Quality Control 1:00 - 2:00 - Lunch 2:00 - 3:30 - Dr. J. K. Suresh, Designated Partner, KenAble Consultants, LLP., Bangalore - Analytics in Knowledge Management 3:30 - Tea For any queries, please write to ontology(a)pes.edu Director Centre for Knowledge Analytics and Ontological Engineering PES Institute of Technology Bangalore 560 085.

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Sad demise of Kalyan sir
by Ranjan Kumar Barik 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

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Invitation: Book Fair at Visva Bharati Library, Santiniketan from January 21 to 24, 2015
by Ajay Kum Sharma 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

Dear All Visva Bharati Library Network, Santiniketan is organizing a book fair at its Central Library premises from January 21 to 24, 2015 (10.00 am to 8.00 pm). All institutes and book lovers are cordially invited. More than 20 leading publishers and suppliers are participating in the book fair. -- Thanks and regards. अजय कुमार शर्मा Ajay Kumar Sharma Assistant Librarian & In-charge, Cheena Bhavana Library & Additional charge, Hindi Bhavana Library Visva Bharati, Santiniketan - 731235, Bolpur, Birbhum, West Bengal Email: ajaysharma.lib(a)visva-bharati.ac.in Mobile No.: +91 9735111064 Web: http://www.absla.org/ajay.html Web Blog: http://www.blogger.com/home?pli=1 *********************************************************** 1. Join today Digital Library Discussion Forum http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg 2. Join today LIS-Forum mailing list http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum *********************************************************** You can’t change the past but you can change the future, always remember to recycle... -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Sri V L Kalyan..
by Dr. Poornima Narayana 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

Dear Professionals It's indeed a shocking and sad news to learn about Sri Kalyan's untimely demise. Apart from being a thorough professional to the core he was a very good human being and friendly by nature. He was a very good orator too which all of us experienced at various forums and panel discussions. Me and my colleagues at CSIR NAL convey our deepest condolences to his bereaved family. May his soul rest in eternal peace. Regards Poornima Narayana -- Dr. Poornima Narayana +91-80-25086080(W) Fulbright Scholar +91-80-26682781 (R) Head, ICAST poornima.narayan(a)gmail.com National Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR-NAL) Bangalore 560017 INDIA -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Understand the QS Ranking methodology, Join the first QS event in India
by Sethi, Manik (ELS-DEL) 11 Jan '15

11 Jan '15

Dear Patron, Greetings! QS Quacquarelli Symonds ,The producer of the widely respected QS World University Rankings and QS University Rankings: Asia is organizing their first event in India "QS in Conversation 2015" QS in Conversation is a roundtable where University leaders from around the world , gather and dicuss about key trends of higher education in their specific areas of interest . This event also gives an oppurtunity to know the indepth methodology of QS ranking framework , and what are the key indicators. www.Scopus.com<http://www.Scopus.com> , World's leading abstract & Index database of Elsevier, supplies data which is used as research impact indicator in QS rankings with 20% weightage. Elsevier is the research partner of "QS in Conversation 2015", and key representatives from Elsevier shall be presenting at the event. Date - 2nd to 4th February 2015 Venue - Raddison Blu Hotel, Noida (Delhi NCR) Event Website - http://www.qsinconversation.com/india-2014/ Thanks & Regards, Manik Sethi Marketing Manager - South Asia Elsevier - Research Solutions Sales -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Change/Migrate/Implement Open Source Library Automation Software
by Vinod Kumar Mishra 11 Jan '15

11 Jan '15

Dear All, Its my pleasure to inform you that i have taken one initiative to get the information from those libraries which is not yet automated or willing to change the existing automation software to another open source library management software. The information collected will be shared among the Experts available at http://mishravk.com/experts/ so that either desired library professionals or experts available near your library can contact/visit for the above matter. Library professionals are requested to visit the below link and fill your details so that your library automation related requirements can be fulfilled by Library professionals at least/negligible cost. http://goo.gl/forms/RmPh1g6Irr Vinod Kumar Mishra Assistant Librarian NIT Rourkela -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sad news for Mr. VL Kalyan sir
by Gopi Krishnamurty 11 Jan '15

11 Jan '15

I kn Very well Mr. Dr Kalyan Sir personally. Great human and good teacher in LIS Filed . I pray God to rest his soul in peace. Gopala k City Central Library.CTA -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Library and Information Science News
by Dr. Badan Barman 11 Jan '15

11 Jan '15

Library and Information Science News Send a text message <JOIN LLINKS> to 9220092200 10/1/2014 News Government of Odisha, Department of Higher Education pleased to assign the Examination Duties & Other Assignment to Librarians. More: http://goo.gl/X3zBhi Jobs Professional Assistant, Junior Professional Assistant & Library Attendant Post in University of Hyderabad. Last Date: 30/1/2015. More: http://goo.gl/16h6ut Librarian Vacancy at Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Mumbai. Last Date: 31/1/2015. More: http://goo.gl/OtgUeO Librarian Selection Grade and Grade I (Deputation Basis) Jobs in AIIMS, Raipur, Chhattisgarh. Last Date:14/2/2015. More: http://goo.gl/er5aGJ Events 5 Days Training Workshop on Open Source Integrated Library Management Software Koha 3. Dates: 2-6/2/2015. Location: ISI Kolkata. More: http://goo.gl/h7XVHI National Conference on Contrivance of Academic Libraries in Digital Era. Dates: 6-7/2/2015. Location: Ujjain, MP. More: http://goo.gl/acKAQM National Conference on Emerging Trends & Techniques for E-Resource Management in Libraries. Dates: 13-14/2/15. Location: Rourkela. More: http://goo.gl/GWx9TW Two-day International Seminar on Changing Role of the Librarian in the Era of KM. Dates: 20-21/2/2015. Location: New Delhi. More: http://goo.gl/L24nuc National Seminar on Role of LIS Professionals in Developing Info. Literacy Skills. Dates: 19-20/3/15. Location: Alagappa University. More: http://goo.gl/whqkF1 MANLIBNET 2015. Dates: 7-9/5/2015. Location: Manipal, Karnataka. More: http://goo.gl/yQDGxT Call for Articles Journal of Information Management (JIM) invites articles for publication. Last Date: 30/1/2014. More:http://goo.gl/TbfW7R Regards, Dr. Badan Barman, Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Gauhati, Guwahati-781014, Assam, India -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sad demise of Mr. VL Kalyan
by Ishwar Goudar 11 Jan '15

11 Jan '15

Dear Professional Colleagues, A good friend of many of us Shri V.L. Kalyan passed away around 5 PM on 9th Jan 2015. It is learnt that he was admitted to Ramaiah Hospital on 8th evening probably due to heart attack. I learnt about this sad demise only around 9.15 PM, Only few friends, who learnt about this news bit early and who stayed near to his house could get the opportunity to pay last respects to the departed soul personally as the body was taken around 10 PM to a his village near Dharwad for last rites. He served as Head, Technical Information Centre at BEL, Bangaluru for long period. He was General Secretary of Karnataka State Library Association for a long period and was professionally active even after retirement by way of delivering invited lectures in Seminars/Conferences, IGNOU contact classes, etc. He was very friendly and jolly person, who contributed a lot the professional development. Let us pray the Almighty to give Strength to his family to bear the loss. Let his soul rest in peace. Regards, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. I.R.N. Goudar - Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser Bangalore University Library, Jnana Bharathi Campus BANGALORE - 560056, India - Ex. Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser, UoM, Mysore - Ex. Scientist 'G' and Head, ICAST, NAL, Bangalore - Ex. Dy Librarian, IITM, Chennai - Ex. Scientist (Information), IICT, Hyderabad - Fulbright Scholar, Univ. of Michigan and Columbia Univ, USA (1995-96) - British Council Scholar (1982-83) E-mail: goudarishwar(a)gmail.com Tel: 080-23215510 Mob: 91+9611165781 (If not reachable pl try land line) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sad demise of Dr. V L Kalyan, Former Library Head, Tic (D&E), Bharat Electronics Ltd. Bangalore
by Ravindra Mendhe 10 Jan '15

10 Jan '15

Dear Professionals I knew Dr. V.L.Kalyan, Former Head, Tic (D&E), Bharat Electronics Ltd. Bangalore, personally. He was our National conference 2014 conference chairperson and he was stay at shirpur dist Dule ( Maharashtra). He was the good adviser for new LIS Professionals. Let us we pray god to give Strength to his family to bear the loss. Let his soul rest in peace. regards Ravindra M. Mendhe Jalgaon ( Maharashtra) India ------------------------------------- I knw Dr Kalyan personally. Great human and good frnd. I pray God to rest his soul in peace. Laxman Rao ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Ishwar Goudar" <goudarishwar(a)googlemail.com> Date: Jan 10, 2015 10:41 AM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Mr. VL Kalyan To: "lis-forum" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: "francis jayakanth" <francis.jayakanth(a)iimb.ernet.in> Dear Professional Colleagues, A good friend of many of us Shri V.L. Kalyan passed away around 5 PM on 9th Jan 2015. It is learnt that he was admitted to Ramaiah Hospital on 8th evening probably due to heart attack. I learnt about this sad demise only around 9.15 PM, Only few friends, who learnt about this news bit early and who stayed near to his house could get the opportunity to pay last respects to the departed soul personally as the body was taken around 10 PM to a his village near Dharwad for last rites. He served as Head, Technical Information Centre at BEL, Bangaluru for long period. He was General Secretary of Karnataka State Library Association for a long period and was professionally active even after retirement by way of delivering invited lectures in Seminars/Conferences, IGNOU contact classes, etc. He was very friendly and jolly person, who contributed a lot the professional development. Regards, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. I.R.N. Goudar - Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser Bangalore University Library, Jnana Bharathi Campus BANGALORE - 560056, India - Ex. Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser, UoM, Mysore - Ex. Scientist 'G' and Head, ICAST, NAL, Bangalore - Ex. Dy Librarian, IITM, Chennai - Ex. Scientist (Information), IICT, Hyderabad - Fulbright Scholar, Univ. of Michigan and Columbia Univ, USA (1995-96) - British Council Scholar (1982-83) E-mail: goudarishwar(a)gmail.com Tel: 080-23215510 Mob: 91+9611165781 (If not reachable pl try land line) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Conference on "Knowledge Management in Libraries and Information Centers" (KMLIC-2015), Date: 18th – 19th March, 2015
by Dr. Muzamil Mushtaq 10 Jan '15

10 Jan '15

Department of Library and Information Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Under the UGC-Special Assistance Programme (SAP DRS-I) is going to organize a National Conference on “Knowledge Management in Libraries and Information Centers (KMLIC-2015)” on 18th – 19th March, 2015. *Introduction* Knowledge Management (KM) is an influential tool for promoting uniqueness, realizing and re-engineering the various aspects of day-to-day activities of an organization. Knowledge Management is a new research area which is developing very rapidly. In the current knowledge economy, the survival of organization depends on how good it manages the knowledge to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. Information professionals should also evolve and adopt the knowledge environment by implementing knowledge management in their field. Knowledge management represents an opportunity by entrusting new roles and responsibilities for libraries and LIS professionals. LIS professionals have to gain new skills and involve themselves effectively in knowledge management practices to become relevant to their organisations to enable them to have a competitive edge for employment to people from other industries. The ultimate purpose of KM is to increase the effectiveness and sustainability of organizations, particularly in case of libraries and information centers. Although the concept of KM originated in the business field, but in practice it has now spread to the non-profit sector as well. Libraries as non-profit making organisations, improve their communication both horizontally and vertically thus promoting a sharing culture. It is for the same implications that the conference is being organised to pool up both the knowledge and experiences of the professionals working in the areas of KM and discuss the tools of managing the assets of knowledge. The conference is enveloping mostly on the various facets of Knowledge Management and its application in Libraries and Information Centers, thrived particularly with the following objectives: - To create awareness and provide a platform for exchange of ideas concerning tacit and explicit knowledge - To share knowledge and skills among academicians/ LIS professionals/ other knowledge based professionals working in private and public sector. - To understand knowledge management tools and their usage in KM initiatives. - To provide an opportunity to share innovative ideas and plans in the areas of KM. To identify suitable initiatives in implementing KM in the library and information centers. *About AMU* Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), established in 1920, A.M.U. is one of the oldest central government funded universities in India. It was evolved out of the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College (MAO College), which was set up by the great visionary and social reformer, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan in 1877. From its very inception, it has kept its door open to the members of all communities and from all corners of the country and the world. It occupies a unique position amongst universities and institutions of higher learning in the country. The main campus of AMU is located in the city of Aligarh. Quite recently, the University has been ranked among the best educational institutions in India. According to Times Higher Education Asia Ranking 2014, AMU has ranked 3rd among all Universities in India. It Ranked 50th among top 100 institutions of higher learning in BRICS grouping-2014 and 5th in The Week-Hansa Research (Best Universities Survey) 2014. *About Department* The foundation of the Department of Library Science was laid way back in 1950-51 with the introduction of a 'Certificate Course in Library Science,' by the then University Librarian, (Late) Padmashree Prof. S. Bashiruddin, who later on introduced a full time ‘Bachelor of Library Science' course in 1958-59 with full time Lecturers for the first time in the country. Subsequently, 'Master of Library Science' was introduced in1970-71 and Ph.D in 1990-91. A special feature of the revised syllabi is the emphasis on Information Technology and hands-on training on a number of library automation software packages. A well-equipped computer lab supports the revised syllabi with Internet facility. The seminar library of the department is the first fully automated library of the university. The teachers of the department have also received training in Information Technology within the country and also abroad. Presently the department is headed by the chairman Prof. Shabahat Husain, who has been recently conferred with the Prof. S.P Narang Research Promotion Award by Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science (IATLIS). The department has had the distinction of completing a number of DST and UGC major research projects by designing and developing L.I.S. Subject Gateway (*www.lisgateway.com <http://www.lisgateway.com>*), I.T. Subject Gateway (*http://www.itsubjectgateway.info/ <http://www.itsubjectgateway.info/>)* and E-Learning portal (*http://lislearning.in/ <http://lislearning.in/>*). As a Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Prof Shabahat Husain developed ‘Social Science Cyber Library’ (*www.socsccybraryamu.ac.in <http://www.socsccybraryamu.ac.in>*), inaugurated by His Excellency Shri Pranab Mukherjee on 27.12.2013 as a part of inaugural programme of XXXVII Social Science Congress held from 27th to 31st December 2013. The Social Science Cyber Library which is first of its kind in the whole world is being used in 63 countries so far. Under the UGC’s Programme, the Department was awarded Special Assistance Programme SAP (DRS-I) in the financial year 2013-2014 for five years. The theme of the project is Knowledge Management with Prof.Shabahat Husain as its Coordinator and Dr. Naushad Ali.P.M as its Dy. Coordinator. The conference is one of the components of the project which is organised in the area of knowledge management and the strategies of organizing and capturing the knowledge in libraries and information centers. *Who should participate?* The conference would provide opportunities to meet and hear from library professionals, leaders and information scientists in all types of environments particularly from libraries and information centers, some of the categories are: - Academic fraternity in teaching, learning and research - Library and information science professionals - Information technology professionals - Research scholars and students - Information scientists - All stakeholder’s of knowledge management *Call for Papers* KMLIC-2015 welcomes submissions of research and scientific papers, case studies, working papers, etc. related to all aspects of Knowledge Management particularly based on the themes and sub themes of the conference. The paper submitted should have been neither published anywhere nor kept under consideration for publication. All papers will go through a review process and accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings/Edited Book. The papers should be submitted in soft form as an email attachment to: *kmlic.dlis(a)gmail.com <kmlic.dlis(a)gmail.com>* *Author’s Guidelines* The text of paper should be written in MS word, format with A4 size, 1.25 margins (Top, Bottom, Left & Right), 12 font size, Times New Roman, 1.5 line space. The Paper must be written in English and should not exceed 5000 words, with an abstract of 300 words. The style of formatting the article citation and references is APA Style of referencing. *Main Theme: Knowledge Management in Libraries and Information Centers* *Conference Sub-themes* *E-Learning:* - Innovative Pedagogies - Social Networking Technologies and e-learning - Learning Content and Metadata Standards - Peer to Peer Learning - E-learning and Business Models - LMS and CMS Systems - Digital Reading, Content Discovery, Content Navigation, Best Practices, etc. in e-learning. *Knowledge Management:* - KM Strategies and Implementations - Knowledge sharing and collaboration - Knowledge Management Practices - Models for Knowledge Management - Web 2.0 tools for Knowledge Management - Knowledge Management systems - Tools and Technology for Knowledge Management - Inter-organizational Knowledge Management *Open Access and Open Repositories:* - Open Access Resources and Open Access Softwares - Open Access Repositories - Issues concerning Open Access - IPR and Institutional Repositories *Issues concerning with Libraries and Information Centers:* - Innovative Library Services - Management of e-resources - Copyright - Plagiarism - Digital Rights Management - Digital Technologies and Social Media - Information Literacy *Conference Timeline* The Last Date of Submission of Abstracts: 30th January, 2015 Notification of the acceptance of Abstracts: 05th February, 2015 The Last Date of Submission of Papers: 20th February, 2015 *Conference Date: 18th – 19th March, 2015* *Registration Fees* *Category Without accommodation With accommodation* (Including breakfast and dinner) For Students and Research Scholars: Rs. 1000/- Rs. 2000/- For working Professionals: Rs. 1500/- Rs. 2500/- For Sponsored Professionals: Rs. 2500/- Rs. 3500/- The Registration Fee will include conference kit, conference proceeding, meals, refreshment, etc. Accommodation will be provided to the out station delegates in the University Guest House. The duly filled-in Registration Form along with Demand Draft (DD) in favour of *“Organizing Secretary KMLIC-2015”* payable at AMU, Aligarh, may be sent on the following address on or before 10 th March 2015. *Prof. Shabahat Husain*, Organizing Secretary, Department of Library and Information Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh - 202002. E-mail ID: *shabahat12(a)rediffmail.com <shabahat12(a)rediffmail.com>* Mobile No.: +91-9412177121 *Organizing Committee* Patron: *Lt. Gen (Retd.) Zameer Uddin Shah* (Vice Chancellor, AMU, Aligarh) Organizing Secretary: *Prof. Shabahat Husain* (Chairman, Dept. of Library and Information Science, AMU, Aligarh) Convener: *Dr. Naushad Ali P.M* (Associate Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science, AMU, Aligarh) Conference Director: *Prof. Jagtar Singh* (Head, Dept. of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University Patiala) Rapporteur General: *Dr. M. Masoom Raza * (Associate Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science, AMU, Aligarh) Committee Members: *Mr. S. Mustafa K.Q. Zaidi* (Associate Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science, AMU, Aligarh) * Dr. Sudharma Haridasan* (Associate Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science, AMU, Aligarh) *Dr. Nishat Fatima* (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science, AMU, Aligarh) *Dr. Mehtab Alam Ansari* (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science, AMU, Aligarh) *Dr. Muzamil Mushtaq* (Guest Teacher, Dept. of Library and Information Science, AMU, Aligarh) *Dr. Shazia Khan* (Guest Teacher, Dept. of Library and Information Science, AMU, Aligarh) *National Advisory Committee* Dr. Ashu Shokeen (Kurukshetra University and ILA President) Dr. B.S Nigam (MCRP Vishvavidyala, Bhopal, Noida Campus, Noida) Dr. D.V. Singh (Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra) Dr. Gayas Makhdumi (Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi) Dr. H. N. Prasad (Banaras Hindu University) Dr. I.V. Malhan (Central University of Himachal Pradesh) Dr. Jagdish Arora (Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Prof. Jagtar Singh (Punjabi University, Patiala) Prof. M.P.Satija (Guru Nanak Dev University) Prof. N. Laxman Rao (Osmania University) Prof. N.R. Satyanaraina (BBAU, Lucknow) Dr. Nabi Hasan (IIT Delhi) Prof. P.B. Mangla (Tagore National Fellow, Govt. of India, Ministry of Culture) Dr. P.R. Goswami (Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA) Dr. R. K. Chadha (Parliament Library) Dr. Ramesh Gaur (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Prof. S. R.Vara Lakshmi (Andhra University) Prof. S.M.Shafi (University of Kashmir) Prof. S.P. Singh (University of Delhi) Dr. Sangeeta Gupta (University of Jammu) Dr. Shalendra Kumar (University of Delhi) Dr. Tariq Ashraf (South Campus, University of Delhi) Prof. Wajih A. Alvi (IUST Awantipora, Kashmir) Dr. Yogendra Singh (IIT, Roorkee) *For further Queries and details please feel free to Contact:* Dr. Muzamil Mushtaq Department of Library and Information Science Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh - 202002 E-mail ID: naikoomuzamil(a)gmail.com Mobile: +91-8979249718 *Venue:* *Department of Library and Information Science* *Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P* *202002* Best _____________________________ *Dr. Muzamil Mushtaq* Department of Library and Information Science, AMU, Aligarh, U.P., India - 202002 Cell No. : +91-8979249718 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Mr. VL Kalyan- recently I met him in Mangalore
by Manjunath K 10 Jan '15

10 Jan '15

It is really a sad news. Recently, I had met him in a conference recently organized by Besant College, Mangalore. He was very active person and made his presence noticeable with his valuable remarks and advice to college librarians. Our life is a "Jatakaa Bandi", Vidhi is its "saaheba/owner" and he decides our journey. I pray for peaceful life of departed life. Personalities don't' die... they live in friends' heart and memories. We lost a good professional friend and an expert in our field. Manjunath -------------- Dr. Manjunatha K Chief Librarian T.A. Pai Management Institute| PB.No.9 Manipal - 576104, Udupi Dist., Karnataka, India Ph: 0820-2701105(Off), 2575161 (Res) e- manjunath(a)tapmi.edu.in ; manjunathak(a)gmail.com http://www.manjunathakeralapura.weebly.com ------------ -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Ishwar Goudar Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 4:13 AM To: lis-forum Cc: francis jayakanth Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Mr. VL Kalyan Dear Professional Colleagues, A good friend of many of us Shri V.L. Kalyan passed away around 5 PM on 9th Jan 2015. It is learnt that he was admitted to Ramaiah Hospital on 8th evening probably due to heart attack. I learnt about this sad demise only around 9.15 PM, Only few friends, who learnt about this news bit early and who stayed near to his house could get the opportunity to pay last respects to the departed soul personally as the body was taken around 10 PM to a his village near Dharwad for last rites. He served as Head, Technical Information Centre at BEL, Bangaluru for long period. He was General Secretary of Karnataka State Library Association for a long period and was professionally active even after retirement by way of delivering invited lectures in Seminars/Conferences, IGNOU contact classes, etc. He was very friendly and jolly person, who contributed a lot the professional development. Let us pray the Almighty to give Strength to his family to bear the loss. Let his soul rest in peace. Regards, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. I.R.N. Goudar - Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser Bangalore University Library, Jnana Bharathi Campus BANGALORE - 560056, India - Ex. Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser, UoM, Mysore - Ex. Scientist 'G' and Head, ICAST, NAL, Bangalore - Ex. Dy Librarian, IITM, Chennai - Ex. Scientist (Information), IICT, Hyderabad - Fulbright Scholar, Univ. of Michigan and Columbia Univ, USA (1995-96) - British Council Scholar (1982-83) E-mail: goudarishwar(a)gmail.com Tel: 080-23215510 Mob: 91+9611165781 (If not reachable pl try land line) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sad demise of Mr. V.L.Kalyan
by Ashok Asundi 10 Jan '15

10 Jan '15

Dear Professional friends, It is a shocking news to hear that Mr.V.L.Kalyan is no more. One of the very active professional and a very humble professional passed away on 9th Jan 2015 after a brief illness. Mr. Kalyan was very affectionate friend to not only to me and my family but as well to all professionals in the state and admired by his students in IGNOU for which he has been an academic counsellor for more than a decade. He served in various organisations like in ITC, Bharat Electronics for a very long time and after retirement he was library advisor at Indian Statistical Institute for two years. Very active in all professional conferences and seminars and has also served as a resource person for CEP. He was also Gen Secretary of KALA and actively associated with Dept. of Public Libraries. The profession is poorer by his demise and we pray almighty to his soul rest in peace and convey our heartfelt condolenses to his bereaved family. It is a bad period for the profession as we lost four veterans in the span of nearly a month. Prof. A.Y.Asundi -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sad demise to Prof V Kalyan
by Ambika M 10 Jan '15

10 Jan '15

Dear Library professionals, Morning I heard the sad news that Prof. V Kalyan is no more. We lost a very good resource person. Great loss for Library community. Let his soul rest in peace. -- Thanks and regards *Ambika M* Librarian SAMS Bangalore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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