Dear Forum members, Remembering pioneers and action heroes is one way to associate ourselves with the celebration and pay our respects to the owners who started the move. Leaders start the action and others will carry it forward. Rajashekhar started Lis-forum move for LIS fraternity and Francis gave backbone support to sustain the movement. Keeping the forum live for more than two decades requires lot of dedicated service and participation by individuals. No-posting or Nil-response also kills the platform. Members' active participation is one of the success factors for forum's survival over two decades. I am one of the few who joined the forum in its initial years and had opportunity to meet both Rajashekhar and Francis. I saw concerns and love of our professionals on this forum while reading their views on professional issues. Lis-forum provided freedom of expressions and Francis took lot of pain to screen some objectionable messages. Hats off to Francis for his endurance and passion for profession. We Manipal librarians had fruitful time with Francis when came to Manipal for e-prints project. Still we have our live repository on e-prints. Request to all my professional colleagues, Let us keep the forum very active with our active participation and positive to respond other colleagues' requests. Let us not pull down our profession by throwing mud or anger on individuals on this public platform. With Regards, Manjunatha --------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Manjunatha K Chief Librarian T.A. Pai Management Institute Manipal – 576 104, Karnataka, India Ph: 0820 – 2701105/ Mob: +917349255658/9972425417 Email: manjunath@tapmi.edu.in; manjunathak@gmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: LIS-Forum [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Ashok Asundi Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2019 11:13 PM To: Ananda Byrappa; Shamprasad Pujar Cc: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] 25th Year to LIS-Forum...Thank you for making it a silver jubilee Forum! Dear Dr.Anand, I say congrats humbly and was among the first few to subscribe to it, when I visited NCSI somewhere in August 95 and Dr. Rajashekar guided me to subscribe. What an agonising feeling having lost him,but the lisforum makes him alive. It has been most cordial site and many of us loved to contact in the early years but of late the use has been rather diminished, and is used just for seeking a periodical article. Only recently I am getting some important topics on Interviews of eminent LIS professionals. Such inspiring subjects be more frequent. Thanks and congrats once again. Prof. Asundi On Wednesday, 5 June, 2019, 6:45:28 pm IST, Shamprasad Pujar <pujar@igidr.ac.in> wrote: Dear Dr. Anand, LIS-Forum deserves celebrations! Hats up to the contributions of Late Dr. Rajashekar sir and his team, especially the silent worker Dr. Francis. I appreciate the support of IISc. I have immensely benefited from the discussion forum starting from my early days in the profession. I was fortunate to be associated with the Forum almost from beginning owing to some of the friends, who were working with NCSI as trainees. Over a period of time, I have seen many deliberations on various issues and also learnt about events, technologies and other announcements made by professional colleagues. I am happy that, even today, in the era of social media, the forum has kept its relevance. Congratulations to the entire team of LIS-Forum on the occasion of its silver jubilee. Regards, Dr Shamprasad M. Pujar Chief Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen Vaidya Marg, Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065, India Phone: ++91-22-2841 6528 E-mail: pujar@igidr.ac.in ============================= On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 3:34 PM Ananda Byrappa <anand.byrappa@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear LIS friends, Greetings from IISc Library team!.
It’s our pleasure to let you all know that, your lis-forum is into its Silver Jubilee Year.
As many of you are aware, LIS-forum was conceived and implemented by Late Dr. TB Rajashekar and his team at NCSI, IISc in the year 1995 with financial support from NISSAT, DSIR, Govt. of India. Entire NCSI team had worked on this to ensure its success through creation of awareness and penetration of the forum among LIS-community across the nation. The roots went so deep and became stronger as a result today we see the Forum as one of the most popular, credible and reliable text based discussion forum for the LIS community in India and the forum has many subscribers from outside India too.
Personally, I was fortunate to see the beginnings of LIS-Forum as I was a trainee at NCSI. The forum has played a key in my professional learning and growth - particularly to know accomplished professionals and their views on various topics. I always cherished reading emails from experts. I have read some experts emails multiple times...as they were informative and insightful...
Thank you for being part of the forum, choosing it as your platform for communication. You, your association with the forum and your communications on the forum made it what it is today. Entire LIS-community has benefited from it. Looking forward to your continued support to retain the Forum as a preferred communication channel.
Sustenance of LIS-forum for 25 years was not an easy task. Sad demise of Dr. TB Rajashekar and closure/merger of NCSI made it really difficult. However, Dr. Francis Jayakanth, JRD Tata Memorial Library, is the one who stood behind this and ensured that it worked for us flawlessly and made it always available for our LIS- community. He did this job even when he was on Lien for 2 years . Dr. Francis Upgraded the software recently and we are currently hosting it on a new server at the IISc. Library.
Dr. Francis, we can’t thank you enough for your professional commitment and ownership to the forum....we owe you a lot....we wish you will have courage and commitment to extend support.
In today’s social media driven world, text based discussion forums may look dry and dull. However, for serious, clean and clear communications text based forums are still preferred - world over. And LIS-forum is one of its kind. That doesn’t mean that we don’t look forward to upgrade it to next level - please share your thoughts briefly and will see if we all can work together on them.....
Best Regards, Anand.
Anand Byrappa Ph.D. Head- Office of Data and JRD Tata Memorial Library Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore 560012. INDIA. Phone: 91-80-2903 2407