I request the moderator to kindly circulate this in Lis-Forum. It relates to a retired librarian who is making a mark, after formal retirement, putting all his skills of librarianship to serve the retirees, pensioners and senior citizens. Vyasamoorthy ====================== KLN Award The first KLN Award goes to: Dr. Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy ! Dr. Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy, a septuagenarian from Hyderabad, is a PhD in Library Science. During his pre-retirement career, he set up and ran libraries and Information centers for academic, research, and industrial organizations such as the Technical Teachers’ Training Institute, Madras, Informatics India, Bangalore, and Indian Detonators, Satyam Computers, and ICICI Knowledge Park, Hyderabad. Since retirement, Dr. Vyasamoorthy has been involved with Aging and Aged Care issues, and contributed extensively to the literature of social gerontology. He started and moderates a Yahoo group for senior citizens, SSS Global, that is currently ranked 1st in over 26,000 groups focused on seniors. Dr. Vyasamoorthy maintains multiple blogs, moderates multiple discussion groups, and edits two online dailies. He has written six e-books and numerous articles and papers. Dr. Vyasamoorthy maintains the websites for the Association of Senior Citizens of Hyderabad and All India Senior Citizens Confederation, where he also serves as an officer. Dr. Vyasamoorthy’s services to senior citizens were recognized by citation by the Government of Andhra Pradesh in 2007, and he was awarded the Silver Innings-iCONGO Karmaveer Chakra 2011 for Exceptional Work for Senior Citizens. Dr. Vyasamoorthy currently serves as President, Society for Serving Seniors, Secunderabad; President, Association of Senior Citizens, Hyderabad; Joint Secretary, Andhra Pradesh Senior Citizens Confederation; Joint Secretary. All India Senior Citizens Confederation; and Vice President, Senior Citizens Forum, Secunderabad. Dr. Vyasamoorthy has in the past served as Joint Secretary, Confederation of Cantonment Resident Welfare Associations in Secunderabad (CCRWAS) and as Vice President, Federation of Andhra Pradesh Senior Citizens Organizations. He is a member of the Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders Society of India (ARDSI), Hyderabad Deccan chapter, and the University of the Third Age (U3A India),. He also volunteers at Aasara, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s outreach effort to senior citizens. Dr. Vyasamoorthy retired around the same time as the internet was beginning to take off in the late 1990s, Google was in its infancy in a garage in California, and nobody had heard of “social media” since it had yet to take birth. Dr. Vyasamoorthy used all three, as they emerged, in effective ways to empower himself. He kept pace with technology, and through technology, with the forces changing the society around him. As an elder care activist, he used his skills, training, knowledge and expertise in technology to, in turn, disseminate to seniors, ideas, trends, and challenges that they were likely to encounter in a changing world. For his role as a social catalyst in the area of elder empowerment and elder care, we are pleased to award him the first KLN Award. June 5, 2014! http://www.kanuri.org ====================== Details about the KLN Award PRESS RELEASE! June 1, 2014 The KLN Award! We are pleased to announce the institution of the KLN Award. The KLN Award seeks to recognize individuals, social catalysts, who have advanced our understanding and awareness of issues and challenges affecting elders, thereby enhancing the dignity, care, and well-being of elders in a changing society. The KLN Award will be given up to four times a year. The awardee receives a certificate and a cheque for Rs. 200,000. The name of the first awardee will be announced on June 5, 2014, and the award presented on June 15, the United Nations’ World Elder Abuse Awareness day. You can find more information about the KLN Award and its purpose at www.kanuri.org Challa Shantha Manohar Kanur Contact: Manohar at award@kanuri.org or tweet us @KLNAward! ! ================ Dr P Vyasamoorthy President: Society for Serving Seniors 30 Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Telengana LL 040-27846631 / Mobile: 9490804278 Dr Vyasamoorthy selected for KLN Award -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.