Dear Members Dr.(Mrs). Poornima Narayana , Head, ICAST Division of National Aerospace Laboratories, retired on superannuation on 31 May 2015. Dr.(Mrs). Poornima Narayana obtained her BSc (Biological sciences) Degree from Bangalore University, MLISc from Madras University and PhD in L & IS on topic ‘Problems & Perspectives in Design and Development of Institutional Repositories’ from Kuvempu University, Karnataka. Dr. Poornima, joined ICAST on 15/02/1978 and had long stint of 37+ years of professional service. She served in various capacities and finally became Head of the Information Center for Aerospace Science & Technology. Her notable contributions to ICAST are many, she was instrumental in automating NAL Library, which was one of the first libraries to be automated in India, and she took lead in creating database of entire library collection. Her other major contributions were Design and Development of Library Portal, Institutional Repository, AeroInfo Gateway, Union Catalogue, many more with recently launched automated publication archiving system ‘PRAKAS’ Dr. Poornima took up several projects sponsored by DSIR, NISSAT, AR&DB namely DALIC, ODIARE, KnowGate. She has to her credit more than 80 papers national and international which covers Book chapters, Journal Articles, Conference papers. She has delivered number of key note lectures in various National and International conferences Dr. Poornima is recipient of Fulbright Award in Information Sc & Tech in 2004, Outstanding Performance Award by CSIR-NAL in 1998-99 for the Creation of ICAST Portal & Database of Books, Reports, Standards and Patents, Awarded with Platinum plaque for contributions made towards CSIR Open Access Movement, by CSIR Central in 2011. She has been Member of several committees to name a few Permanent member of assessment/recruitment committees of DRDO labs, CFTRI, VITM, IAP and IISc, Nodal/Task Force Officer for NKRC (CSIR and DST Consortium), Member of Aerospace resource Panel (ARP) of AR&DB, Member of the CSIR-Open Access Mandate and many more. She has also contributed in various NAL activities, to name few, Member of Hindi Technical Advisory Committee, President of Kannada Samskritika Sangha, Chairman of Women’s Day Celebration Committee, Chairperson of ANSH 2015 seminar, Member of the ‘Management Council of NAL’ for the period 2012-13 In addition to all the above she has been active participant in all extracurricular activities like, sports and cultural programs and she has own several trophies Director and we, her colleagues both at ICAST and NAL wish her a happy, healthy and peaceful retired life with warm regards Shivaram BS ICAST, CSIR-NAL Kodihalli Bangaluru-560017 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.