Dear Sir: Congratulations. thank you for your great leadership in mentoring me and other colleagues in Library profession. We pray to God to give you more strength to be more actively take the Open Access advocacy movement all over India. thank you once again to Team IITM I feel bad, that I couldn't be present in this program. Regards Siva Library Officer ICRISAT On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 6:45 PM, naglaxman naglaxman@gmail.com [NMLIS] < NMLIS@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" Date: Jun 5, 2014 6:25 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Fwd: Invitation to felicitation function for Mr.Madhan Muthu on 9 June 2014 at 11am To: "LIS-Forum" , "oadl" < oadl@yahoogroups.com>

Friends:

A function felicitating *Mr.Madhan Muthu,* Manager, Library and Information Services, at ICRISAT will be held in IIT Madras on* June 9 2014* at *11am in the Conference room on the 4th floor of the central library. *Prof. Pennathur Gautam will give away the *EPT Award* for excellence in promoting open access in the developing world to Madhan.

This is the third year of the award and Madhan shares this year's award with Ms Rosemary Otando of Kenya. In the inaugural year, the award was given to another Indian, Dr Francis Jayakanth.

Mr.Madhan Muthu has been championing open access of research publications for many years. He is also helping the open access programme in IIT Madras through formal interactions with Dean, Academic Research, and Dean, Academic Courses, who is the also the Dean in charge of the central library.

Therefore it is my pleasure to invite you to join in the felicitation of Mr.Madhan Muthu and we hope that he would continue to offer his services to IIT Madras for completing the open access programme that has been initiated last year.

*Programme schedule:*

Date: 9 June 2014, Monday

Time: 11am -11.45am

Venue: Conference hall, 4th floor, IITM Central library

Please join us for tea at 10.45am.

Warm Regards

Mangala Sunder

Dr. Mangala Sunder Krishnan Professor Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600036 India

E-mails: mangala_sunderk@yahoo.com mangal@iitm.ac.in

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