Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 22:43:32 +0800 (SGT) From: Singh Dr. Dewendra Kumar <dksingh5@yahoo.com> Dr. T. D. Tilwani, an accomplished library professional with background in Mathematics and proficiency in foreign languages of French and German, retired as Head, Department of Library and Information Science (LIS), UCSSH, Mohan Lal Sukhadia University, Udaipur (Rajasthan) after a long academic career. Dr Tilwani is known for his outstanding performance as a teacher and significant contributions in the field of Library and Information Science. His research interest included Knowledge Management, Application of IT in Library and Information Centres, Digitization of Library Resources, Information Seeking Patterns and their Models, Marketing of Information, Information Processing and its Management, E-resources, Digital Libraries, Library software, Library resource sharing, etc., having authored two books apart from dozens of research papers published in reputed journals. He is also an active participant in conferences organized to deliberate on Library and Information Science. For development of library profession he participated as life member of professional bodies such as ILA, IASLIC, RLA, etc., and also felicitated by the Deputy State Minister of Education, Government of Rajasthan for his excellent work in the profession of LIS. In order to pay our tribute to Dr T. D. Tilwani we have thought it would be right and rational to bring out a Volume in his honour comprising articles related to our field and related disciplines along with memoirs and personal experiences about him. We, therefore, earnestly appeal to you to contribute a paper on topic among the following: Collection Development and Management Trends in Library Classification/Cataloguing Library Automation Preservation and Conservation Information Storage and Retrieval Digital Libraries Information Literacy e-resources IPR and Libraries Open Access LIS Education in India � Please send your paper preferably through e-mail to tdt.fests@gmail.com. Your contribution must reach us by 30 November, 2013. � With best regards Dr. S. D. Vyas Ex-Librarian, Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Rajasthan