<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param>Sukhdev Singhji's last sentence brings to my mind W.H. Auden"s famous exhortion: "Love each other or perish." By the way, you may wish to read a wonderful book titled 'Tuesdays with Morrie', by Mitch Albom. This book is a beautiful expansion of the philosophy underlying the above quote. _________________________________________________ Extract from http://www.albom.com/morrie.htm "Tuesdays With Morrie" is the heartwarming story of Albom's relationship with his college mentor, Morrie Schwartz, with whom Albom has lost touch for 16 years. Upon seeing him on the "Nightline" program - talking to Ted Koppel about what it was like to die from Lou Gehrig's disease - Albom was both horrified and ashamed. He called his old teacher, flew to Boston for a reunion, and began a series of weekly visits, rekindling their loving teacher-student relationship while tackling a larger subject in their final "class": the meaning of life. ______________________________________________________________ _____ "Tuesdays with Morrie" belongs to that category of books which fall under the heading "BOOKS THAT CHANGE LIVES". I have read parts of it; it has cathartic effect on one's psyche. It is readily available in leading bookstores all over India. Recently, a Telugu translation of it has also been published under the title "Morrie tho mangalavaralu". My favourite quote from this book: LOVE WINS. LOVE ALWAYS WINS. Happy reading! T.V. Prafulla Chandra Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:17:53 +0530 From: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param><FontFamily><param>Arial</param>Sukhdev Singh <<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param> To: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param><FontFamily><param>Arial</param>lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param> <bold></color><FontFamily><param>Arial</param>Subject: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>Re: [LIS-Forum] Why INTERNET</bold><color><param>0100,0100,0100</param><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param> <underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param><FontFamily><param>Arial</param>[ Double-click this line for list subscription options ]</underline><color><param>0100,0100,0100</param><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param> I am happy that you put the question this way and not "Why do we needLibraries, when there is Internet? But I expect most of Administratorsand policy makers will be asking this question in next four or fiveyears to come. Humans Species got differentiated from other animals when they firstmade a tool from stone - stone axe. This was the first technology thathuman species used. One species was able to adapt to changingenvironment with the better use of technologies. This species survivedin the form present day Humans. Others could not adapt to changingneeds and technologies and hence became extinct. Humans are today! - Because they could communicate their experiencesand record them on some media. Humans could utilize such recordedexperiences (knowledge) to further co-relate with their ownexperiences and experiments. This process accumulates the kn owledge ofthe mankind. One set of professionals – librarians – came forward toorganize such recorded knowledge and serve the mankind so tofacilitate its communication and preservation for future generationsof mankind. Printing Press came as a revolution in human civilization. It changedthe way recorded knowledge was produced and communicated. Librariansmodified their technologies to cope with this knowledge. ModernClassification / Cataloging Schemes were invented to cope up with thisenormous recorded knowledge. INTERNET is another revolution in human civilization. It is changingthe way the knowledge is being produced. WIKIs, Discussion E-Groups,Blogs are just the examples how community based knowledge is beinggenerated. Recorded Knowledge now exits in "Online Only" form as well."Online Only" journals are just one example how Internet is changingthe way in which knowledge is produced. Can libraries afford to ignoresuch knowledge, if not, then how can they Ignore INTERNET? It is afundamental question – let us not go into how Internet can helplibraries these days. Let us keep reminding ourselves, ONLY THOSE WHO ADOPT – SURVIVE others PARISH. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC.http://openmed.nic.in <color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param><FontFamily><param>Arial</param>> Date: 12 Nov 2005 18:28:30 -0000> From: "Mukut Sarmah"

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<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param>arset="iso-8859-1">> Hi everybody> Could you possibly tell me why INTERNET is so important for the Library and Information professionals?>> Mukut Sarmah, Librarian> Pandu College, Assam _______________________________________________ LIS- Forum mailing list LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------