Dear Members of LIS-Forum S R Ranganathan Memorial Lecture, instituted and organized by Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS), is an annual intellectual treat to the LIS community. This year’s SRR Memorial Lecture will be delivered by: * Dr. Pertti Vakkari, Professor Emeritus of Information Studies, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University, Finland; * On the topic: Task-based Information Searching * On 9th August 2022, which also happens to be Dr. Ranganathan’s birth date; * At the Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore. The lecture will be delivered in two parts: 4:00-5:00 PM – Lecture 1: Information  Search Patterns in Complex Tasks 5:00-5:30 PM – Coffee Break 5:30-6:30 PM – Lecture 2: Assessing Information Search by Task Outcome. 6:30-7:00 PM – High-Tea ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Pertti Vakkari’s research interests include information seeking, task-based information searching, fiction searching, and methodologies for evaluating interactive information retrieval. His work has appeared in the proceedings of numerous conferences, in edited monographs and leading journals such as Information Processing & Management and JASIST. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Documentation, and Information Processing & Management. Vakkari has been member in several program committees of conferences like ISIC, IIiX , ECIR and TPDL. He received in 2012 ASIS&T - SIGUSE Award for outstanding contributions to information behaviour. On behalf of Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, I have pleasure in inviting all the members of this forum to attend this lecture. For those in Bangalore attending this program, we are arranging transport with two pick-up and drop points closer to Metro stations. RSVP: Ms. Kavitha Kumar, Informatics. Kavitha.kumar@informaticsglobal.commailto:Kavitha.kumar@informaticsglobal.com Ph. 080-40387777; Mobile: +91-98445-23650 N. V. Sathyanarayana Trustee, SRELS | Chairman & Managing Director | Informatics India Ltd. | Bangalore 560004 |INDIA | | www.informaticsglobal.comhttp://www.informaticsglobal.com | https://LTC2022.org | -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.