This is really great Dr.Ananad. I have personally benefited immensely from Lis Forum then as a LIS student and continue to benefit as a practitioner and teacher even after more than two decades. What a remarkable space for all of us this has become !!!! I have seen many new things come and go. But LisForum has stood with our profession like a rock, year after year. It takes more than just infrastructure to sustain a service of this magnitude. Dr.T B Rajashekhar and Dr.Francis will be remembered forever for their commitment and dedication in nurturing LisForum. My heartfelt gratitude to all of you at NCSI- JRD Tata Memorial Library for keeping LisForum alive. Best, Satish Kanamadi Librarian Tata Institute of Social Sciences V N Purav Marg Mumbai - 400088 On 3.6.2019 12:30, Ananda Byrappa wrote:
Dear LIS friends,
Greetings from IISc Library team!.
It’s our pleasure to let you all know that, your lis-forum is into its Silver Jubilee Year.
As many of you are aware, LIS-forum was conceived and implemented by Late Dr. TB Rajashekar and his team at NCSI, IISc in the year 1995 with financial support from NISSAT, DSIR, Govt. of India. Entire NCSI team had worked on this to ensure its success through creation of awareness and penetration of the forum among LIS-community across the nation. The roots went so deep and became stronger as a result today we see the Forum as one of the most popular, credible and reliable text based discussion forum for the LIS community in India and the forum has many subscribers from outside India too.
Personally, I was fortunate to see the beginnings of LIS-Forum as I was a trainee at NCSI. The forum has played a key in my professional learning and growth - particularly to know accomplished professionals and their views on various topics. I always cherished reading emails from experts. I have read some experts emails multiple times...as they were informative and insightful...
Thank you for being part of the forum, choosing it as your platform for communication. You, your association with the forum and your communications on the forum made it what it is today. Entire LIS-community has benefited from it. Looking forward to your continued support to retain the Forum as a preferred communication channel.
Sustenance of LIS-forum for 25 years was not an easy task. Sad demise of Dr.TB Rajashekar and closure/merger of NCSI made it really difficult. However, Dr. Francis Jayakanth, JRD Tata Memorial Library, is the one who stood behind this and ensured that it worked for us flawlessly and made it always available for our LIS- community. He did this job even when he was on Lien for 2 years . Dr. Francis Upgraded the software recently and we are currently hosting it on a new server at the IISc. Library.
Dr. Francis, we can’t thank you enough for your professional commitment and ownership to the forum....we owe you a lot....we wish you will have courage and commitment to extend support.
In today’s social media driven world, text based discussion forums may look dry and dull. However, for serious, clean and clear communications text based forums are still preferred - world over. And LIS-forum is one of its kind. That doesn’t mean that we don’t look forward to upgrade it to next level - please share your thoughts briefly and will see if we all can work together on them.....
Best Regards, Anand.
Anand Byrappa Ph.D. Head- Office of Data and JRD Tata Memorial Library Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore 560012. INDIA.
Phone: 91-80-2903 2407