Dear LIS Professionals and LIS Forum Members. You are cordially invited to the 17th Annual Lecture on Informatics: * By Dr. JAYANT HARITSA, Senior Professor, Dept. Computational & Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. * On the topic DATA SCIENCE, THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY * Date: Friday, the 11th December 2020; Time: 11AM-12.30PM. * Registration at: https://bit.ly/LTC2021PreCon3 This year’s in Annual Lecture on Informatics series is scheduled as the 3rd pre-Conclave lecture of the Library Technology Conclave (LTC2021). The Conclave theme being “eScience and Digital Libraries”, all lecture topics of this conclave will be on the scope and need for LIS professionals to focus on the data science as an extended and integral part of Library & Information Science. The research data in all domains, generated in labs and fields, form the evidential base for the published literature. Hence, preserving, protecting and linking this data with literature is a key requirement in the process of information management through institutional repositories. Prof. Haritsa's is an ACM and IEEE Fellow. He is the recipient of the prestigious Infosys Science Foundation Laureates award in Engineering and Computer Science, 2014, bestowed for recognising his pioneering work in database management systems. His work lies at the intersection of database systems and data mining, with a focus on query processing across a range of database systems. Please visit https://ltc2021.org/event/ for more details and to register. N. V. Sathyanarayana Chairman & Managing Director Informatics India Ltd., Bangalore. www.informaticsglobal.comhttp://www.informaticsglobal.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.