*Dear Sir/Madam,* *Greetings !* *Dr. Basavaraj Shivappa Kademani *popularly known as *Dr. BSK* is one of the renowned LIS professionals and Scientific Library Administrator in India. He is known for his Excellence in Innovation, Creativity, Public Relations, Management, and User Services. Above all, he is a great human being, source of inspiration and motivator, specially, to the younger minds and professionals. He will be superannuating on 30th June 2018 after serving for more than 35 years of dedicated service as a librarian, administrator and a researcher. He devoted his entire career to the library profession and its development. After completing his academics, Dr. Kademani joined Mangalore University Library, Mangalgangothri on 7th October 1982. He joined the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad on 21st May 1984 and later joined Scientific Information Resource Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai on 26.10.1988 and presently he is serving in the centre as Scientific Officer-G and shouldering the major responsibilities in the division. He has contributed significantly to Library and Information Science, specially, in the field of Scientometrics. He has more than 130 publications in National and international Journals to his credit. As on today he has received 1735 citations to his publications and his H-index is 25. He is also a referee to many national and international professional journals. He is the recipient of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) *Fellowship in ‘Library and Scientific Documentation’ *in 1991 at the Fachinformationzentrum (FIZ), Karlsruhe, Germany and Vienna International Centre (VIC), Vienna, Austria. He is the recipient of ‘*ILA-Kaula-Best Librarian Award-2008*’, *SIS Fellowship Award-2009 *and *SATKAL National Librarian Award-2012* in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the Library and Information Science field. He was a standing Committee Member of IFLA’s (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) Science and Technology Libraries Section from India for the term 2005-2009. Dr. Kademani served Bombay Science Librarians’ Association (BOSLA) since 1988 in various capacities and presently he is the Chairman of the well known Association. BOSLA has conducted several conferences, workshops, capacity building programs and lecture series under his able leadership. One of the best ways to acknowledge the untiring and dedicated contributions of Dr. B. S. Kademani is to bring out a Festschrift volume containing scholarly writings by different eminent professionals across India in Library and Information Science and Educational Technology. The BOSLA Executive Committee has decided to release this volume in a grand felicitation ceremony to be organised in the month of June 2018. The theme of the festschrift volume has been chosen as “*Metamorphosis of Librarianship : Connecting People in Digital Environment*”. The articles can be on any of the LIS themes of your choice not limiting to scientometrics. Personal memoirs are also invited for inclusion in this volume. To make this event memorable, we request you to contribute paper on the above theme or related themes. The maximum length of the paper should be around 5000 words following the APA style for citations. The paper should be sent via e-mail (in MS-Word format) to *mallikarjun.angadi@gmail.com <mallikarjun.angadi@gmail.com>* on or before *31st March, 2018*. For more details regarding paper submission, please visit *http://bosla2013.wixsite.com/bosla <http://bosla2013.wixsite.com/bosla>* The festschrift volume will be published with *ISBN* and a *complimentary copy of the Festschrift volume *will be sent to the first author of every published article. Yours Sincerely, *Dr. Mallikarjun AngadiJoint Secretary, BOSLA* -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mallikarjun Angadi, Ph.D Chairperson Centre for Library and Information Management Studies (CLIMS) Commonwealth Fellow (University of East London, UK) Joint Secretary, Bombay Science Librarians' Association Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Deemed University) P.B.No.8313,V. N. Purav Marg, Deonar, Mumbai - 400 088 Ph : 91-22-2552 5284 (off) Fax : 91-22-2552 5050 E-mail : mallikarjun@tiss.edu URL : http://library.tiss.edu Blog : http://mallikarjunangadi.wordpress.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Mind is like parachute it works only when it's open. " -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.