Dear Members, It is very sad, the unfortunate and untimely demise of Dr Veeranna Cholin, Scientist-B, INFLIBNET on Jan 12th, 2006 at Ahmedabad. He was just 37 years old. He was a wonderful person, rising star and born leader always ready to face any kind of challenges with a smile. Started his career with INFLIBNET in 1994-95 after his MLISC and one year training at NCSI, Bangalore. As I know, he worked at different sections of INFLIBNET and finally, before his demise, he was in-charge of Informatics Division and looking after UGC-Infonet consortium of e-journals. His contributions made UGC-INFONET consortium of e-journals a very successful programme of INFLIBNET. He contributed lot towards modernization of University Libraries in India under Inflibnet programme of UGC. He visited USA under Fulbright scholarship in 2005 and worked with OhioLink under the guidance of Mr Tom Sanville, Executive Director, OhioLink. He studied various consortia models of e-journals in USA and compared these with Inflibnet's UGC-Infonet consortium. It is a great loss to the profession and it is an irreplaceable loss for his family, who has left with a wife and two sons, mother, brother and sisters. As a friend, I had an opportunity to spend some time with him, know his works during his career spanning around 12 years. Regards, S.M. Pujar Asst Librarian IGIDR, Mumbai