Dear All, At the outset & as a proud alumni of Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore (UoM), I would like to congratulate both Prof. Shalini Urs and Prof. Khaiser Nikam for being wonderful guides and also congratulate all the five proud PhD scholars Dr. Bhoj Raju; Dr. Jaykumara; Dr. Devendra; Dr. Vinod Kumar & Smt. Shanaz for their back breaking work . Both the professors who have served MyDLIS for more than 3 decades and have contributed to the LIS Intellectual out put. The PhD scholars are very fortunate to have got nicely trained under them, which is going to pay rich dividends in their career in time to come. I am saying this based on my personal experience. I think MyDLIS has created history and its an unusual scholarly event at MyDLIS in Nov' & Dec'13. Its a proud moment that out of five PhDs awarded, four students in a row are guided by Prof. Khaiser Nikam, Chairperson, Board of Studies, University of Mysore. As a PhD student of Prof. Nikam,I feel it is very hard to get her approval for the work we do, as she always insists in taking utmost care of not only the subject content but also proper English usage. Students working under her need not worry about English corrections and subject matter, which both she is a good at. She never compromises on the quality . If we look at the titles of theses and names of eminent external examiner like Prof.B S Maheshwarappa, it goes with out saying that the works are up to International Standards. Similar is the experience with Prof. Shalini Urs , who would always want us to do little more work, when ever she gave her observations at the time of Pre - theses submission colloquium. The work carried out by PhD students should be greatly useful to the society at large. It should not be confined to the departmental development and student growth. Tail Piece !!! Just now I reliably learnt that there will not be any need for library professionals to pass NET or do PhD as the UGC is going to treat them as administrators. So much for all the contributions of Dr. SR Ranganathan. We all must do some thing about it.!! Signing off !! Dinesh Dr. Dinesh K. S. Deputy Librarian, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Nangal Road, Rupnagar, Punjab - 140 001. Phone: 01881 - 242134 (O) 9779747902 (M) On Tuesday, December 24, 2013 8:52 PM, "mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in" < mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: From: "bhakthavathsala H M" Date: Tue, December 24, 2013 4:17 pm Congratulations to the Five Some MyDLIS PhD scholars! It was celebrations time at the Department of Library and Information Science (MyDLIS), University of Mysore, Mysore, when four PhD scholars appeared for the defense of their theses one after the other on a same day ie: 26 Nov'2013 and another one on 23rd of December 2013. Totally five PhD are awarded in a span of almost a month (from 26/11/13 to 23/12/2013) which is unusual at MyDLIS. The 2013 year end, lucky five are: 1. Dr.Devendra (Guide: Prof. Khaiser Nikam) 2. Dr.Jaykumara (Guide: Prof. Khaiser Nikam) 3. Dr. Vinod Kumar B L (Guide: Prof. Khaiser Nikam) 4. Smt Shanaz Kademzadeh (Guide: Prof. Khaiser Nikam) & 5. Dr. Bhojaraju Gunjal (Guide: Prof. Shalini R Urs): Dr. Devendra worked on " Attitudes of Law Library Users towards the use of OPAC and Web OPAC in South India: A Study" Dr. Jaykumara worked on " Attitudes of Young Adults towards Public Library Services in Karnataka: A Study” Dr.Vinod Kumar B L worked on "Design and Development of Information Support System for Yogic Sciences with emphasis on Knowledge Organization" Dr. Bhojaraju Gunjal worked on "Knowledge Organization Systems In Digital Libraries: A Case of ETDs " Smt. Shanaz Kademzadeh worked on " Collection Development in Scientific and Research Institute Libraries in Iran: A Study" The presentations were scholarly and the new MLISc seminar hall was full with all the Faculty Members, Students, Research Scholars and invitees. Nearly 100 people attended the Internal Open Viva Voce. In general there was good interaction. The candidates answered questions satisfactorily. The issues raised in the course of interaction will go a long way in further improving the existing work of the scholars and act as tips to those who are going to complete their PhD work shortly. The external examiners were Prof. B S Maheshwarappa; Prof.B D Kumbar; Prof.NeelaDeshpande; Prof. Md. Shafi, Prof. D K Gupta. Prof. D Chandran and Prof.V T Kamble. All of them did a splendid job by critically evaluating the work and appreciating the strengths of the theses. Tailpiece !! For the healthy competitors it was an inspiring moment and for the envious it was the story of “Grapes are Sour" and for the Cynic it was time to" grouse and grumble" The Report is approved by the Board of Studies Chairman (Prof. Khaiser Nikam) and is prepared purely for academic purpose. Prof. Nikam may be contacted on : khaiser.nikam6@gmail.com & 9845328672 -- Regards, Bhakthavathsala H. M. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.