Dear LIS Professionals, Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) is happy to invite you to the Monthly Lecture Series. The second talk of the series has been scheduled on Tuesday 1st Mar 2011 @ 6.00pm at the following Address: Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS) # 702, 'Upstairs', 42nd Cross, III Block Rajajinagar, Bangalore - 560 010 Title: Implicit knowledge in Cartoons - A study of cartoons of famous Indian Cartoonists with particular reference to R.K.Laxman. Speaker: Prof. A Y Asundi Abstract: The content analysis of News Papers is one of the common features in mass communication channels for extracting the knowledge. They focus on news items or feature articles. But the analysis of the cartoons' implicit knowledge is uncommon. In cartoons, the caricature, the content and the context of the useful satiric knowledge is implicit and inherent. Yet it is common perception that they are for 'fun' and to 'children' only sections. In fact children are more often prevented from watching cartoons, with the fear of becoming 'cartoon addict' in early days by reading cartoon books and now watching cartoons channels on Television broadcast. But there is sufficient hidden knowledge that can be explicated and also can be creative and innovative, and need to be extracted for assimilation both by children, adults and the aged, especially the latter can guide the children to the innovative knowledge embedded in cartoons. The talk would attempt to identify the implicit knowledge of cartoons of R.K.Laxman, to surface for explicit knowledge in their socio-political and administrative and other contexts contemporarily. The talk also tries to categorise the cartoons on the basis of content and cartoonists point of views. Several cartoon examples are explicated to highlight their hidden themes. About Speaker: Dr. A Y Asundi is a post-graduate in library and information science. He has done his ADR from INSDOC (First Rank). He has done his PhD from Gulbarga University on Classification. He has over 40 years of experience as a Librarian, Scholar and Teacher of LIS in the premiere institutions, namely, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB) and Bangalore University. He served as a Professor & Chairman (Rtd.), Dept of LIS, Bangalore University & in charge of IT centre of UGC/INFLIBNET at Bangalore University. He is one of the few in the country who have digested the Classification from its core. Taught for MCA & MIEB in Bangalore and Karnataka Universities. He has guided 8 PhDs, written 5 books and >100 research papers. He was a Member of core committee of CDC of UGC for the preparation of syllabus. He is a Life member of ILA, SIS, ITALIS & Karnataka State Library Association (KALA). He has organised couple of National Conferences, that of IASLIC and ITALIS. He was rapporteur General of 48th ILA Conference held at Bangalore in 2002. Please confirm your participation. Thanks and Regards, Rajendra Babu H General Secretary Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender of this email immediately. You should not copy, use or disseminate the information contained in the email. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Capco. http://www.capco.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.