Sri. K. M. Govi the Scholar Saint who made unique contribution to Knowledge Management in Indian languages passed away in December 3, 2013. Let us pay our homage to the great soul. K M Govi was born in 1930 at Tellycherry, Kannur District of Kerala. He was educated at BEMP High School, and Brennen College, Tellycherry and after his studies joined administrative service at Madras Government Secretariat. He was a regular visitor of Madras University Library during his service there, which influenced him to leave his job for taking up librarianship as his profession. Within a year he joined Madras University for its post Graduate Diploma in Library Science one of the earliest professional course on the subject initiated by Dr. S. R. Ranganathan in India. He successfully completed the Course in 1952. He joined Malabar Library authority in the same year. Under his initiative the Malabar Library Network was implemented and he managed its affairs up to 1956. Later he joined National Library Calcutta from where he retired in 1987. During his service there he complied and edited the volumes of Indian National Bibliography (Malayalam). He spent his later years at Korapram House in Chettamkunnu, a suburban village of Tellycherry; leading a saintly life devoted to updating Malayala Granthasooji, guiding the development of Malayala Granthavivaram and inspiring professionals who understood him and sought advice. During his last days he was highly worried about the degradation of quality and sincerity in the profession; and politics especially in Kerala and avoided participating in the professional and public functions which dealt things superfluously on things. He lived according to his words and was bold enough to say what he felt about things. His views expressed in the lead article published in Mathrubhumi http://www.mathrubhumi.com/story.php?id=411478can serve as the most important guide for the academic administrators and government in developing higher education and research systems for regional studies. But could mold some of the best professionals from Kerala like Dr. R. Raman Nair, K. H. Hussain etc who considered him as a model and contributed immensely to the development of the knowledge management scenario in the country. Dr. Nair introducing one of Sri. Govi’s books has stated that his decision to select Library and Information Service profession was influenced by Govi’s book ‘Library Science’ he read during his college days, which was the first scientific treatise in Malayalam on the subject. The books by K M Govi include Library Science, Catalogue Nirmanam, Nammude Reference Sahithyam, Nirupana Sooji, Pusthakavum Vayanayum, Public Library, Adhi Mudranam Bharathathilum Malaylathilum, Malayala Granthasooji, Indian Literature in English: A Bibliography, Library and Information Science. He has complied the National Bibliography of Indian Literature (1954-2000) for Sahithya Akademi, New Delhi He has also written two biographical works on Mutthu Swami Deekshithar and Syama Shasthri. He has written numerous articles in English and Malayalam in newspapers, popular journals and magazines and his memories and comments on the great men he met at Calcutta serialized recently in a popular magazine. The contributions of Sri. K.M Govi for documenting our literary heritage has no parallel in any Indian language. His ‘Malayala Granthasoochi’ published by Sahithya Akademi in print, which runs into more than ten volumes, and 10000 pages is a monumental documentation of the books published in Malayalam up to 2000. It is the result of his devotion and untiring effort through almost forty years. In no other Indian language such an initiative has been ever undertaken or completed. Even institutions spending crores of rupees with assistance from many experts spanning over decades could never successfully accomplish such a work in India. This great man in his saintly secluded life devoted days and nights for watching new Malayalam publications and documenting them. The profession has never given him the deserving recognition for his work. Malayala Grantha Vivaram http://www.malayalagrandham.com/ a project intended to make available through web reliable bibliographic information on all Malayalam books published in Kerala and elsewhere has its inspiration from the Malayalam Granthasooji in print envisaged and implemented by K M Govi. Later K M Govi agreed to guide the project also. Inspired by Malayalam Granthasooji and Granthavivaram, members of the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing http://wiki.smc.org.in/have taken up a project to establish an online Open Access Index named Malayala Grandham with support from Google. Govi met he life companion Mrs Pushpaveni at the National Library. She retired as Chief Information Officer. She was a post graduate in Tamil and has translated Vaikkam Muhammed Bhashir’s novel ‘Balyakalasaki’ into Tamil. They have two children Sri. Goutham working in Delhi and Smt Amritha working in London. Considering his contributions for bibliographic control which is crucial for research in history, culture, language and literature of South India Centre for South Indian Studies presented him with the South Indian Studies Award 2010. Kerala Sahithya Akademi honored him with the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013. Sri. Govi' demise is a great loss to the profession and we request our professionals to take him as a model sustain their moral and motivation. Sivankutty for KLA -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.