Dear all, Happy to share the interview post of Dr. Francis Jayakanth on his 23-year long stint as Moderator of LIS-Forum. As LIS-Forum is completing 25 years this year, Open Interview tributes this interview to the Forum. The objective of the interview was to honour the efforts and contributions of Dr.Francis Jayakanth and also to know what it takes to be the Moderator of LIS-Forum for more than two decades. In this interview, Dr. Francis Jayakanth has shared the details on how he began his journey as Moderator; whom he credits the success of the Forum to; how he devotes his time to manage the Forum; the technology and the processes involved in the management of the Forum; other LIS groups that he follows; the experts he loves to follow; the tips he gives to the readers and moderators of different LIS groups; and many more are worth knowing. Kindly visit the following link and share your valuable comments. "Moderators of discussion groups have to be impartial in dealing with the members and their postings": Francis Jayakanth https://openinterview.org/2019/05/02/francis-jayakanth-moderators-of-discuss... Best regards, -- *Santosh C. Hulagabali https://santoshch.weebly.com/PhD* Moderator, Open Interview https://openinterview.org/ Librarian Nagindas Khandwala College* (Autonomous) Malad (W), Mumbai-400 064, India Tel: +91-22-2808 5424, Extn.No.335/336, Fax: 2865 0461 http://nkc.ac.in/ http://www.nkc.ac.in/ | https://coist.weebly.com/ **Affiliated to University of Mumbai | **Reaccredited 'A' Grade by NAAC | ISO 9001:2015* .................................................................................................................................... DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) & may contain confidential & privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail & discard all copies of the original message.