Dear Professionals, Over the years MyLISA has emerged as the voice of the library and information professionals in Mysore - the city of palaces. MyLISA is extending its helping hands to the local libraries and LIS professionals in the matters and issues concerning them. MyLISA is viewed as a forum which furthers the knowledge and skills in library and information field. It is extremely joyous to announce that the training programme - MyLISA OPENS (Orientation Programme for Enthusiasts in NET/SLET exam) has achieved its goal. The programme trained the aspirants of NET/SLET exams to take up the competition with confidence and achieve the success. The program was conducted between September 2013 to December 2013. The exams for the NET and Karnataka SLET were held on 29th and 8th December 2013 respectively. The results of both of these programmes were announced recently. 22 (39.28%) out of 56 participants of the training programme have been qualified in the NET/Karnataka SLET exam, which is no way a small achievement considering the pass percentage of previous years from Mysore. Two participants from MyLISA group have qualified in the NET exam - a national level test conducted by UGC. MyLISA heartily congratulates those participants who have qualified in these exams. The details of those who have qualified are available in the website http://mylisamysore.weebly.com. Smt. M. Veena of Mahajana's College, who attended the training programme, scored the highest marks and shared the first place with another girl in the Karnataka SLET examination. MyLISA congratulates Smt. Veena for her achievement. The training programme was attended by 56 participants. A few participants from Bangalore traveled every week for attending this purpose alone. The classes were very regularly held on Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings for more than two months. In all 37 sessions of 2.5 hours each were conducted. In other words, 74 hours of fruitful teaching/training and interaction was arranged. In all there were 12 week-end sessions and 4 public-holiday sessions. In all there were 66 hours of subject oriented classes (Paper 2 and 3) and also 8 hours of paper 1. Initially, MyLISA had promised to conduct only subject oriented classes and to exclude paper 1 from its classes for two reasons. Firstly, the subjects in Paper 1 are not our forte or falls within the domain of activities of MyLISA; secondly a lot of training programmes were available elsewhere in the city at various places for paper 1. However, as the days proceeded there was an increased pressure from the participants to have some sessions for Paper 1 also. Fortunately we could get for resource persons for Paper 1 viz., Sri Nischit and Sri Y. Narasimhan who despite being young were on par in their teaching with most experienced resource persons. MyLISA could muster a galaxy of excellent resource persons for teaching subject papers 2 and 3. In all there were 11 resource persons for subject oriented teaching among them 4 were from other places other than from city of 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. Sampath Kumar, Dr. Adithya Kumari H., Dr. Dharani Kumar, Sri Nagaraja S. Dr. Sunil M.V., and Dr. Vasantha Raju N. They were drawn from Department of Studies in Library and Information Science and also Mysore University Library from University of Mysore, Karnataka State Open University, Regional Institute of Education, SDM/IMD, Bangalore University, Karnataka State Women's University - Bijapur, Tumkur University, Kuvempu University and First Grade College, Periyapatna. MyLISA would acknowledge the excellent work done by each one of them and convey its gratitude to them. The resource persons introduced the basic concepts involved in the subjects that they taught highlighting the modern developments/trends. They used well prepared PPTs for their presentation. Each one of them gave their own tips for solving the objective type questions which proved vital for students. Thus the participants have had a number of tips from different resource persons. All most all previous years question papers were solved. The objective papers that were available for the past ten years were solved with the proper explanation to the answers. This was a great benefit for the participants. Reading resources were distributed in the form of PPTs, Weblinks, Printed Notes, etc. Interactive sessions with many questions asked by the participants was an indicator of the quality of discussions held in the class room. As a matter of fact, the resource persons continued informally even after the formal sessions to guide the participants regarding some of the aspects that were not clear to them. They helped outside the class sessions also. All these factors have contributed the success of MyLISA that we are enjoying today. MyLISA once again congratulates the successful candidates. MyLISA wishes everyone good luck. [image: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gif] -- N.S. Harinarayana Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006 Off. Ph: (0821) 2419393 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.