Dear Professionals, Thank you Anand and KALA for this wonderful and educative session on Data Management Initiatives at IISc. I am sure this session has set a new trend for LIS community to adopt. Earlier LIS community in India has lead DL initiatives and I am sure if we take interest we can repeat the same in Data Management initiatives too. I only feel the absence of Late T B Rajashekar in such kind of initiatives. I am sure Anand will not only fill the gap, but will set a new trend. I request Anand to conduct series of short term courses of say 5 days initially. TBR started course on KM at NCSI. Why not you (Anand) later upgrade the course to handle all that was taught at NCSI with a new approach, state of the art needs for Research Data Management and new syllabus, etc. Regards, Dr I.R.N. Goudar "Access E-Resources for Academic and Research Excellence" *- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -* Dr. I.R.N. Goudar - Adjunct Professor, Adichunchanagiri University - Adjunct Professor, Mangalore University - Ex. Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser, Bangalore University - Ex. Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser, University of Mysore - Ex. Scientist 'G' and Head, ICAST, Nat, Aero. Labs, Bangalore - Ex. Dy Librarian, Indian Inst. of Technol. Madras, Chennai - Ex. Scientist (Information), Indian Inst. of Chem. Technol, Hyderabad - Fulbright Scholar, Univ. of Michigan and Columbia Univ, USA (1995-96) - British Council Scholar (1982-83) E-mail: goudarishwar@gmail.com Mob: 91+9611165781 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.