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Sad demise of our Raja...
by ts kumbar 11 Jun '05

11 Jun '05

Dear Friends, It is exactly a week back on this day ( Saturday) morning, the shocking news about the tragic death of Dr. Rajashekhar shook all of us. Many of us, who are closely known him for long and interacted with him on professional matters, find it hard to take in this news.The fact that, he is physically no more amongst us is not simply sinking in yet in our mind and heart. We have lost in him a thorough and a dedicated professional, a serious researcher, organisation builder, a teacher, a best friend and above all a good human being. It is a great loss to the profession and friends like us. He was one of those very few people, who worked tirelessly to train and prepare the young professionals with expertise in IT application to LIS. The best way to remember and respect this departed soul is to dedicate our efforts towards constantly improving our services by effectively using IT, for which he worked all through his career. Me and all my colleagues at DA-IICT, pray to God Almighty to rest his soul in peace and give a strength to the bereaved family and colleagues at NCSI. Kumbar & Colleagues Resource Centre DA-IICT Gandhinagar Dear Friends, It is exactly a week back on this day ( Saturday) morning, the shocking news about the tragic death of Dr. Rajashekhar shook all of us. Many of us, who are closely known him for long and interacted with him on professional matters, find it hard to take in this news. The fact that, he is physically no more amongst us is not simply sinking in yet in our mind and heart. We have lost in him a thorough and a dedicated professional, a serious researcher, organisation builder, a teacher, a best friend and above all a good human being. It is a great loss to the profession and friends like us. He was one of those very few people, who worked tirelessly to train and prepare the young professionals with expertise in IT application to LIS. The best way to remember and respect this departed soul is to dedicate our efforts towards constantly improving our services by effectively using IT, for which he worked all through his career. Me and all my colleagues at DA-IICT, pray to God Almighty to rest his soul in peace and give a strength to the bereaved family and colleagues at NCSI. Kumbar & Colleagues Resource Centre DA-IICT Gandhinagar

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request for article
by Yashwant G Kanade 11 Jun '05

11 Jun '05

Dear Sir/Madam, Could you kindly help me to get this article please? Johri,B.N.; Konar,R.N. 1956: Floral morphology and embryology of F.religiosa; Phytomorphology 6: 97-111 With Regards Mahua Graduate Student CES, IISc. Bangalore mahua(a)ces.iisc.ernet.in

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DR TB Rajashekhar
by anjali gulati 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

It was shocking to know the sad demise of Dr. TBR. He was my role model and was also an inspiration for several young LIS professionals. My condolences to his bereaved family members. May God rest his soul in peace. Anjali Gulati It was shocking to know the sad demise of Dr. TBR. He was my role model and was also an inspiration for several young LIS professionals. My condolences to his bereaved family members. May God rest his soul in peace. Anjali Gulati http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo…

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Heartfelt condolences to Dr. TBR
by Mailing List Manager 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 15:15:44 +0530 (IST) From: Poornima Narayan <poornima(a)css.nal.res.in> Words fail me to express my grief and sorrow at this gruesome incident. Tears stream down my face when his smiling face looms in front of me. Even in death, he looked so calm and composed. The Information Center at NAL's association with Dr. TBR and NCSI began in the mid '80's which strengthened further over the years. Dr. TBR has always been helpful and has guided us in every endeavor of ours. On the personal front, Dr. TBR's excellent letters of reference helped me in bagging the most prestigious Fulbright award. Thanks to you, Sir for this gesture. At the time of his untimely demise, Dr. TBR was the Principal Investigator for the project on 'Creation of Prototype Digital Archive of Indian Aerospace Research (P DAINER)' Project (IR) with NAL and ADE identified as test beds with me leading the project from our side. Just the previous week we had a detailed discussion regarding the same to be made available through our website. Alas, Dr. TBR is no more to see his dreams come true!! Our prayers to the Almighty to give his family courage and strength to withstand this great loss and may the GREAT SOUL REST IN ETERNAL PEACE! Poornima Narayana -- Poornima Narayana Contact: 080-25086083 (O) Dy Head, ICAST 080-26682781 (R) N.A.L E mail: poornima(a)css.nal.res.in Airport Road prn_1_in(a)yahoo.com Bangalore 560 017 Fax: 080-25268072

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homage to Departed Soul of Dr T B Rajasekhar
by Mailing List Manager 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 15:31:27 +0530 From: INSA Computer Centre <insa(a)vsnl.com> To pay homage to Departed Soul of Dr T B Rajasekhar, Society for Information Science (SIS) is arranging condolence meeting on 17th June at 5 p.m. in the DSIR Auditorium at Department of Science & Technology, Technology Bhavan, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi 110 067. You are requested to make it convenient to participate. Usha Mujoo-Munshi Ramesh Kundra

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Re: [LIS-Forum] IBM Computers to Create Virtual Brain
by Roopa E 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

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for the loss of gentle/excellent teacher
by Mailing List Manager 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Date: 9 Jun 2005 08:53:04 -0000 From: chinmaya rout <chinmaya_kumar(a)rediffmail.com> � �We are extremely shocked to know about the Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar !!!! �May the gentle and greatman soul rest in peace. Praying god to provide the full strengh to bear the loss for the library science at NCSI. We lost a thorough digital library professional and a fine gentleman/excellent teacher for ever. Chinmaya Kumar Rout Trainee ICMR Hqrs. Library Ansarinagar New Delhi\110029 ckrout(a)rediffmail.com Raj Kumar Mallik Research Asst. ICMR New Delhi-110029 rajk329(a)yahoo.co.in

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Yahoo Launches Sorting Tool For Search Results :Intent-driven Search
by Mailing List Manager 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 09:34:00 +0530 From: Rupak Chakravarty <rupak2811(a)gmail.com> *Mindset* - *Find* the results you like. - *Sort* the way you need. Yahoo Inc. has released in beta a tool that sorts search results according to whether they are commercial or more informational, such as from academic or research-oriented sources. Called Mindset, <http://mindset.research.yahoo.com/> the tool is available through the Yahoo Research Labs site Yahoo Next. <http://next.yahoo.com/> Mindset appears as a slider on the top of Yahoo search results. The midpoint of the slider is the default setting that shows the order of results matching Yahoo's normal listing. Moving the slider to the right rearranges the results so non-commercial information is listed first. Moving it to the left, and the results are re-sorted in favor of shopping results. Mindset is based on two different types of technical research, text classification and machine learning. The former refers to classifying documents automatically into different subject categories, while the latter is based on algorithms that can improve a computer's ability to perform a task the more times the machine does it. Machine learning is used in Mindset to score search results on a continuous scale ranging from "very commercial" to "very non-commercial," officials with the Sunnyvale, Calif., entertainment portal said. The new tool can be tried on Yahoo, and does not require downloading software. For more information visit : http://mindset.research.yahoo.com/faq.php -- Rupak Chakravarty Assistant Librarian Panjab University Library Chandigarh 160014 INDIA

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TBR: My Guru & Navigator!
by Venkataramana Rao D 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

An unfortunate demise of Dr. TB Rajashekar is a great loss to his family, friends, colleagues, professionals. 10 years ago I was his student and colleague too; especially I lot my Guru and Navigator. My colleagues M Phahalada Rao and Staff express their deep condolence. D. Venkataramana Rao JRC Sarma Technical Information Center Defence Electronics Research Laboratory (DLRL) DRDO, Hyderabad --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. Check it out! An unfortunate demise of Dr. TB Rajashekar is a great loss to his family, friends, colleagues, professionals. 10 years ago I was his student and colleague too; especially I lot my Guru and Navigator. My colleagues M Phahalada Rao and Staff express their deep condolence. D. Venkataramana Rao JRC Sarma Technical Information Center Defence Electronics Research Laboratory (DLRL) DRDO, Hyderabad Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=32660/*http://discover.yahoo.com/online.html Check it out!

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SHIVAGANARADHANE By Mrs.TBR
by I.R.N.Goudar 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Dr.TBR: SHIVAGANARADHAE Shivaganaradhane (9th day rites) have been arranged to pray for the soul of Late Dr. T B Rajashekar (Associate Chairman, NSCI, IISc) Date and Time: Saturday, 11 June 2005 at 11.00 am. Venue: Sri Sharanaseva Samaja, No. 94/C, 1st 'R' Block Rajajinagar (Beside Iscon Temple), Bangalore-10 Smt. Parvathi Rajashekar

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