To the Moderator : LIS FORUM Dear Sir/Madam : Please arrange to announce the following for the benefit of LIS professionals Sincerely, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 * * * * * * NEW PUBLICATION KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION, INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND OTHER ESSAYS Prof. A. Neelameghan Festschrift Edited by K.S. Raghavan and K.N. Prasad This volume, brought out in honour of Prof. A. Neelameghan, an internationally known information scientist, contains invited contributions from eminent scholars from around the world. The papers in the volume represent a cross section of the facets of Information Science, which are the active areas of research in the field. The papers are grouped into the following broad categories. Knowledge Organization Digital Libraries, Interoperability and Information Retrieval Knowledge Management in Specialized Areas Information Society, Digital Age The Person and Associated Organizations The volume contains 35 essays by 45 contributors of whom 20 are from abroad. A key feature of the volume is that the essays, particularly those on Knowledge Organization, Digital Libraries and Knowledge Management, report results of ongoing research and development work by the author(s). The book will be of a valuable resource on the frontiers of research in the above areas. Select Contents * The Facet Concept as a Universal Principle of Subdivision - Clare Beghtol * Towards a future for Knowledge Organization - Ingetraut Dahlberg * Aligning Systems of Relationships - Rebecca Green and Carol Bean * The Universal Decimal Classification : A Response to a Challenge - I. Mcllwaine * Professor Neelameghan's contribution to the advancement and Development of Classification in the context of Knowledge Organization - Nancy Williamson * Controlled Vocabularies as a Sphere of Influence - Anita S. Coleman and Paul Bracke * Terminologies, Ontologies and Information Access - Widad Mustafa El-Hadi * Facet Analysis as a Knowledge Management Tool on the Internet - Katherine LaBarre and Pauline Cochrane * Text mining in Biomedicine : Challenges and Opportunities - Padmini Srinivasan * Boundary Objects and the Digital Library - Michael Shepherd and Carolyn Watters * Interoperable Institutional Digital Repositories and their potential for Open access and Research Knowledge Management - T.B. Rajashekar * A PFT-based Approach to Make CDS/ISIS : Database OAI-Complaint - Francis Jayakanth and Lalitha Aswath * The Changing Language Technology and CDS/ISIS : UNICODE and the Emergence of OTF - K.H. Husssain and J.S. Rajeev * Information System for Knowledge Management in the Specialized Division of a Hospital - Dr. M.C. Vasudevan et al * Five Laws of Information Service and Architecting Knowledge Infrastructure for Education and Development - K.R. Srinivasan * Knowledge Workers of the New Millennium : An Instance of Interdisciplinary Exchange and Discovery - Michael Medland * A Neelameghan and UNESCO : Contributions and Remembrances - John Rose * Professional Profile of Professor A. Neelameghan - Hemalatha Iyer ISBN : 81-7000-458-6 ; Price : Rs. 1125/-; Pages : xviii + 520 pp (2 colour plates) Copies can be ordered from : ESS ESS Publications 4837/24, Ansari Road Darya Ganj NEW DELHI 110 002 Ph: 011 - 51563444 Fax: 011 - 51563334 E-mail: info@essessreference.com