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@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@gmail.com Tel: +91 (0)175 304 6179 (Work) +91 (0)175 228 2727 (Home) Fax: +91 (0)175 228 3073 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.