Dear All, I would like to share the good things happening in our Dept.of Lib and Information Science, Univ. of Mysore, Mysore. I am sending this so that other Universities can also do similar things where our community students can have the oppurtunities to grow better. First thing I would like to share is about the Campus interview (No, it is not about BE but our own LIS). Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) had conducted campus interview in our Dept. and have selected two girl candidates who appeared for the written test and then faced two rounds of interviews, first round in our dept. and the second in Chennai and finally got through successfully. One student is of Master of Information Management (the first IM course in Indian Universities) and the other is MLISc. Both are lucky enough to draw 5 digit salary (just think how many of us struggled in the beginning to draw a four digit salary, that too the first digit starting only with 1or 2). My sincere thanks to our dept and also to TCS for the campus interview which is first of its kind. Apart from this one student was successful in NET last year(2004) and one student was successful this year, congrats to them and my thanks to them for making the dept proud. Also so many useful events are being conducted by MYLISA. The initiative on communication and personlity development classes is too good for the students and so many have benefitted from this too. Paper clippings competition is conducted and is very interesting one too, wherein we had to collect news about LIS and related articles (I am a proud winner(2004) but not to mention I got second, more funnily out of only 2 serious participants). I would like to point out that students get to read news papers and the same could be asked to be put in the GSDL so that a student gets the idea how to collect in GSDL. Special thanks to Shalini Mam for this. Other than this I would like to request the faculty to encourage students in writing papers for the conferences and journals and this must be made compulsary so the student gets good exposure in writing as well as to the LIS field. Thanks and regards -- --------------------------------------------------------- V. Ravi Nandhan Project Assistant National Centre for Science Info. Indian Institute of Science Bangalore - 560 012 e-mail:ravinandan@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ravinandhan@gmail.com Mobile : 94486 08533 Ph.Off.: +91 80 22933273 (Direct) +91 80 23600271-Ext.:23 & 24 ---------------------------------------------------------