Dear Sir/Madam, Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists (MyLISA) is the voice of the librarians and information professionals from the city of Mysore.  It is the forum which is furthering the knowledge and skills among information professionals.  MyLISA started a new initiative called ‘Orientation Program for Enthusiasts of NET/SLET’ (OPENS).  It was training cum orientation program for those who have taken the NET/SLET examinations.  The following is the brief report of OPENS. We learned that there are little more than 300 students from Mysore region who have taken SLET examination this time.  We could attract 1/5th of them here.  There were 59 participants; 28 of them were females and 31 were male.  A few participants fly every week from Bangalore for this purpose alone shows the interest of participants in MyLISA OPENS. 31 participants were from MyLISA fraternity and 28 non-MyLISA members also participated in the training.  The classes were very regularly held on afternoons of Saturdays and mornings of Sundays.  In all 37 sessions of two hours each were conducted which amounts to 74 hours of teaching and interaction.  What is very satisfying for the organisers is that they could give more than what they promised at the beginning of the program.  In fact, they envisaged just 60 hours of training; but finally ended up with 14 hours extra classes.  MyLISA is happy that it could do it.  The classes were started on September 29, 2013 and ended on December 1, 2013; in all there were 12 week end sessions along with classes on 4 public holidays. There were 66 hours of subject oriented classes and also 8 hours of paper1.  Even here MyLISA had promised only subject oriented classes. However, as the days proceeded there was an increasing pressure from the participant to have some classes for Paper 1 also.  The resource persons for Paper 1 were Sri Nischit and Sri Y. Narasimhan who despite being young were found to be on par in their teaching with most experienced resource persons.  They covered 5 units of paper 1 and provided tips for other remaining units.  MyLISA could attract a galaxy of excellent resource persons for teaching subject papers 2 and 3.   It was able to get the esteemed services of 11 resource persons for subject oriented teaching among them 4 were from outside Mysore.  Resource persons were Prof. Mallinath Kumbar, Prof. M. Chandrashekara, Prof. P.G. Tadasad, Dr. C.P. Ramasesh, Dr. K. Prakash, Dr. Ramesha, Dr. N.S. Harinarayana, Dr. Dharanikumar, Dr. Adithya Kumari H., Sri Nagaraja S. Dr. Sunil M.V., and Dr. Vasantha Raju N.  All of them are experts in their own field.  All the ten units were covered and on an average each unit got more than 6 hours for teaching and interaction.  All the resource persons introduced the basic concepts involved in the subjects that they taught highlighting the modern developments/trend.  All of them used well prepared PPTs for their presentation.  Each of the resource persons gave their own tips for solving the objective type questions. Previous years question papers were solved.  In a way all the objective papers that are available for the past ten years have been solved.  This is a great benefit for the participants. Thus the participants have had a number of tips from different resource persons. It is hoped that they find them useful in the ensuing examination. Reading resources were distributed in the form of PPTs, Weblinks, Printed Notes, etc., depending upon the convenience of the resource persons.  Interactive sessions had many questions from the participants.  This shows the quality of training programme as a whole.   One special lecture was organized during the period.  It was delivered by eighty-year old scholar librarian Sri L.J. Haravu.  The topic was “Open Access: The Philosophy and Trends”.  The lecture was in commensurate with the open access week celebrated all over the world.  MyLISA participated in its own small way in this world event.  This lecture was attended by professionals from Bangalore and Mysore. An email alert about the significance of the week was sent to all the MyLISA members. The valediction program of MyLISA OPENS was held on December 1, 2013.  Prof. Mallinath Kumbar of the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore was the guest of honour and Sri E.C. Ningaraju, Academic Council Member of University of Mysore and also the Librarian, Administrative Training Institute, Mysore was the Guest of Honour.  The President of Mahajana Educational Institute Sri R. Vasudeva Murthy presided over the function.  Dr. N.S. Harinarayana, Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, and also Secretary, MyLISA, Mysore spoke at length about the program.  Sri S. Nagaraja, Librarian, Regional Institute of Education and also the President, MyLISA was present.  Smt. M. Veena, Librarian, SBRR Mahajana’s First Grade College Mysore welcomed the gathering.   Report By: Dr. N.S. Harinarayana Secretary MyLISA, Mysore ------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N. PRO MyLISA, Mysore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.