Friends: A function felicitating *Mr.Madhan Muthu,* Manager, Library and Information Services, at ICRISAT will be held in IIT Madras on* June 9 2014* at *11am in the Conference room on the 4th floor of the central library. *Prof. Pennathur Gautam will give away the *EPT Award* for excellence in promoting open access in the developing world to Madhan. This is the third year of the award and Madhan shares this year's award with Ms Rosemary Otando of Kenya. In the inaugural year, the award was given to another Indian, Dr Francis Jayakanth. Mr.Madhan Muthu has been championing open access of research publications for many years. He is also helping the open access programme in IIT Madras through formal interactions with Dean, Academic Research, and Dean, Academic Courses, who is the also the Dean in charge of the central library. Therefore it is my pleasure to invite you to join in the felicitation of Mr.Madhan Muthu and we hope that he would continue to offer his services to IIT Madras for completing the open access programme that has been initiated last year. *Programme schedule:* Date: 9 June 2014, Monday Time: 11am -11.45am Venue: Conference hall, 4th floor, IITM Central library Please join us for tea at 10.45am. Warm Regards Mangala Sunder Dr. Mangala Sunder Krishnan Professor Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600036 India E-mails: mangala_sunderk@yahoo.com mangal@iitm.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.