Dear Professional colleagues, Mr. Chikkamallaiah has contributed a lot for professional ndevelopment and served academic community in Management very efficiently by making all possible resources available both in print and e-form and also providing quality information services. Under his guidance many fresh LIS graduates developed professional skills and serving different organisations including IT industries. He has been in our (NAL) committees both for assessment for promotion and fresh appointments. My colleagues when they see him in the committee feel that they will definitely get promotion. This is sort of professional love and encouragement he has nusrished. I was seriously thinking that he too would get two years extension as there is provision at IIMs. But IIMB has failed in his case, definitely resulting in loss to the institute. Mr Chikkamallaiah has been very popular among LIS professionals especially Bangaloreans. As others have mentioned he nusrished MANLIBNET in a big way. He has been earning lot of external cash flow for IIMB by providing services to corporate and otherv sectors. It was pleasure in seeing him in beautiful stone building of IIMB. I learnt about his retirement just two hours back. I hope professional associations and corporate sector will make use of his rich experience unless he has his own post superannuation plans. Let us wish him and his family good health and active life ahead. Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Sci F & Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.