Dear LIS-Forum Members, I am pleased to inform you all that the department of Library and Information science is organizing its Informatics Endowment Lecture Series-9 this year also. The invitation is given below with the information about previous lecture series Kindly attend in large number especially those who are doing PhD course work. Regards -Khaiser University of Mysore Department of Studies in Library and Information Science Manasagangotri, Mysore-570006 ENDOWMENT LECTURE SERIES ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES-9 on Changing Face of Research in Digital Era BY Dr.N.R. Srinivasa Raghavan Senior Vice President - Advanced Analytics Global Decision Management Citicorp Bengaluru Sri. N. V. Sathyanarayana CMD , Inforatics India Ltd. Bengaluru Will be the Guest of Honour Prof. S. N. Hegde Former Vice Chancellor University of Mysore Mysore Will Preside Your are Cordially Invited Date & Time Saturday 19th May 2012 at 11.30 AM Venue International School of Information Management Opp. Jaylaxmivilas Mansion Manasagangotri, Mysore-570006 Faculty Members & Students Prof. Khaiser Nikam Chairperson RSVP : 9845328672 Earlier Informatics Endowment Lecture Series on Digital Libraries: The Inaugural lecture on “Beyond Search Engines: Putting information back in the centre stage of information technology” was delivered by Prof. S. Sadagopan, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore on 10th November 2001. The second lecture on “Digital Library: Technology, Law, the Society and the four Cs” was delivered by Prof. N. Balakrishnan, Head, Division of Information Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on 24th October 2002. The third lecture on “Privacy - Preserving Data Mining” was delivered by Prof. Jayanth R. Haritsa, Supercomputer Education & Research Centre & Department of Computer Science & Automation Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore On 27th August 2004. The fourth lecture series on “Making Visual Media Interactive” was delivered by Dr. P. Ananda, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Lab India Private Limited, Bangalore, on 10th October 2005. The fifth lecture series on “Text mining for Knowledge Discovery from Biomedical Digital Libraries “ BY Prof. Vijay. V Raghavan, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, the Centre for Advanced Computing Studies, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA , on Thursday , 27th March 2008. The sixth lecture was by Dr.Chintan Mehtha, Director,India Incubation “Cellar”, Yahoo India ! Research & Development Bangalore on the topic ”Managing Innovations” on 6th of March 2009. The seventh lecture was by Prof.Srinivas Ramani, PhD, of International Institute of Information Technology, 26/C, Electronic City, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560 100on the topic ”Structured Information and information Technology” held on Wednesday the 10 the of Feb, 2010. The eighth ecture was by Sri. Raghavendra U. Udupa of Microsoft Research India , Bnagalore on the topic “Technology for the Multilingual World” held on April 30th 2011. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.