Dear friends, I am very happy to inform you all that Dr. Harish Chandra, Librarian, IIT Madras, Chennai, has been awarded "LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD" for his Outstanding Contributions & Services to the Library Profession by the Society for the Advancement and Library and Information Science (SALIS) during the 25th All India IASLIC Conference held at IIT Madras on 29th December 2005. The Gold Medal Award was presented by Hon'ble Chief Guest of the Valedictory Function Dr. G. Viswanathan, former Minister and Chancellor, Vellore Institute of Technology(Deemed University), Vellore. The citation was presented to Dr. Harish Chandra by Prof. S.Narayanan, Dean, Academic Reasearch & Chairman, LAC. IIT Madras. A.Hariharan __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com