Dear Dr Mallikarjun Angadi I am sincerely happy to get this update from your message / mail. I still recall the warmth and hospitality extended by Prof Koganuramath and his team in the 2008 Conference at TISS, Mumbai, when some of us (authors/presenters) arrived from variable locations at an unfriendly hour and there was some confusion with regard to allotment of accommodation. After my presentation, I enjoyed the technical discussions with him and though brief, I could get an impression about his dedication to our profession. I am happy about the decision to bring out a Festschrift volume in his honour - I offer my regards for Professor. I would also like to know the dates and venue of the felicitation ceremony to be held, as you have mentioned in the later part of your mail. If possible, I wish to attend the same. Best regards *Sharmila Ghosh* Consultant (Retired), Library & Information Services MD-17, Mendelevium RareEarth Yelwala KRS Road, Mysore Karnataka 571130 (India) Mob: 9818742924 <098187%2042924> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 12:33 PM, Dr. Mallikarjun Angadi < mallikarjun.angadi@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Moderator,
Kindly share the below announcement among the members of the discussion forum.
*Festschrift Volume in Honour of * Pr of. Muttayya M. Koganuramath*
*Prof. Muttayya M. Koganuramth* is one of the renowned LIS professionals and a great teacher Librarian in India. He is known for his Excellence in Innovation, Creativity, Public Relations, Management, and User Services. Above all, he is a great human being, the source of inspiration and motivator, specially to the younger minds and professionals. He superannuated on 31st May 2018 as Dean and Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar after serving for more than 35 years of dedicated service as a librarian, administrator and a great teacher. He devoted his entire career to the library profession and its development.
*Prof. Muttayya M. Koganuramth* was born on 1st June, 1953 in Ichhangi village in Savanur Taluk, Haveri District, Karnataka State. He obtained his Master of Library and Information Science in 1984 from Karnatak University, Dharwad with First Rank and Gold Medal and was awarded prestigious TCTP Fellowship to pursue MSc in Information Management at Sheffield University, England. He completed his PhD in 1995 from Karnataka University, Dharwad.
He worked at premier universities like National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and provided a dynamic leadership to these libraries. He was instrumental in setting up of cyber libraries in both Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi which have become model for others to follow. He was the architect of establishing LIS department at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar which started offering PG Diploma in Digital Library and Information Management programme, M.Lib.I.Sc. and Ph.D programmes in Library and Information Science.
One of the best ways to acknowledge the untiring and dedicated contributions of *Prof. Muttayya M. Koganuramth* is to bring out a Festschrift volume containing scholarly writings by different eminent professionals across India in Library and Information Science. We have decided to release the volume in a grand felicitation ceremony to be organised in the month of August 2018 during the celebration of Dr. S. R. Ranganathan’s birth anniversary. The theme of the festschrift volume has been chosen as “*Trends, Challenges and Opportunities for LIS Education* <https://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/articles/trends- challenges-and-opportunities-lis-education-interview-carol-tenopir>* and Practice*”. The articles can be on any of the LIS themes of your choice.* Personal memoirs are also invited for inclusion in this volume.* To make this event memorable, we request you to contribute a paper on the above theme or related themes. The maximum length of the paper should be around 5000 words following the APA style for citations. The paper should be sent via e-mail (in MS-Word format) to mallikarjun.angadi@gmail.com on or before 20th July, 2018.
The festschrift volume will be published with *ISBN* and a *complimentary copy of the Festschrift volume *will be sent to the first author of every published article.
Editorial Team:
Dr. Suresh Jange, Gulbarga University, Kalaburagi.
Dr. Mallikarjun Angadi, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal
Dr. M. Vijay Kumar, Central University of Rajasthan, Bandar Sindri
Dr. K. B. Agadi, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar
Dr. Rishi Tiwari, BIMTECH, Greater Noida (NCR) Dr. Rakesh Kumar, All India Radio, New Delhi
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