From: K.S. Raghavan Sent: 20 December 2023 18:42 The Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Lectures (2023) will be jointly hosted by the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment and the Department of Library & Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore, India. This year’s lectures will be delivered by Dr. Claudio Gnoli of the University of Pavia, Italy on 4th January 2024 on Classification in the wider philosophical perspective of informational ontology 1st lecture from 11 am – 12.15 pm (India Time) 2nd lecture from 1.30 – 2.45 pm (India Time). There will be a brief Q & A session after the 2nd lecture. The lectures will be delivered online and the link to attend the lectures will be notified via LIS Forum by Dr. Chandrashekhara, Professor & Chairman, Dept. of Studies in LIS, University of Mysore once the arrangements are in place. About Dr. Gnoli: Dr. Gnoli works in the Science & Technology Library, University of Pavia, Italy. He is an internationally known scholar and researcher in the area of Knowledge Organization and is an editor of the International Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization He has published a large number of research papers in the area of knowledge organization. He has also designed and taught courses on - Knowledge organization from Dewey to the Semantic Web - Facet analysis - Subject indexing in online catalogues and directories He has been a reviewer for several top ranking journals in LIS including Journal of Documentation, JASIST, Knowledge Organization, Journal of Knowledge Management, Journal of Information Science, to mention a few. He is also on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Information & Knowledge. He has been a member of the Advisory Board of UDC and has served as its associate editor from 2010-2019. Dr. Gnoli has also been a vice-president of ISKO and has been Programme Chair of ISKO International Biennial conferences (2008-2010). I have pleasure in inviting all to attend the lectures ALL ARE WELCOME Sincerely K. S. RAGHAVAN Member-Secretary, Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science K. S. Raghavan Dean (Academic) (Retd.) University of Madras Professor (Retd.) DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute Visiting Scientist (Retd.), Centre for Knowledge Analytics & Ontological Engineering, PES University, Bangalore Visiting Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2015) Visiting Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2003) Senior Fulbright Scholar, University of California at Los Angeles, USA (1987) Member-Secretary, Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science Editor, Journal of Information & Knowledge