Congratulations to LIS Forum and my best wishes for it's Golden Jubilee celebrations. On Thu, Jun 6, 2019, 05:48 wrote:

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1. Re: 25th Year to LIS-Forum...Thank you for making it a silver jubilee Forum! (Koteswara Rao Mamidi)

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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 03:37:12 +0000 From: Koteswara Rao Mamidi To: Shamprasad Pujar Cc: Ananda Byrappa , "lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in" Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] 25th Year to LIS-Forum...Thank you for making it a silver jubilee Forum! Message-ID: < MAXPR01MB284627C5E2E8E6B2AB84A80798170@MAXPR01MB2846.INDPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM

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I am delighted to know that our LISFORUM is celebrating silver jubilee. Congratulations to Dr Francis Jayakanth and his whole team who relentlessly worked for so many years to keep up the promise and vision of late Dr T B Rajashekar. I could still remember so many heated debates on various contemporary issues went on for days, until the moderator put a full stop. To many of us belonging to the second generation library professionals, lisforum was a boon for interacting with colleagues across the country. In the days of double-floppy disc PCs, CDSisis, dialup modem, single CD drives, Dialog search on a Telex machine, LISFORUM was considered a wonder. The text-based discussions always help users to improve their english and communications skills, particularly for today’s youngsters. I wish LISFORUM many more years of fruitful service.

Dr M Koteswara Rao Former librarian Univ of Hyderabad

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On 05-Jun-2019, at 6:45 PM, Shamprasad Pujar wrote:

Dear Dr. Anand,

LIS-Forum deserves celebrations! Hats up to the contributions of Late Dr. Rajashekar sir and his team, especially the silent worker Dr. Francis. I appreciate the support of IISc.

I have immensely benefited from the discussion forum starting from my early days in the profession. I was fortunate to be associated with the Forum almost from beginning owing to some of the friends, who were working with NCSI as trainees. Over a period of time, I have seen many deliberations on various issues and also learnt about events, technologies and other announcements made by professional colleagues.

I am happy that, even today, in the era of social media, the forum has kept its relevance. Congratulations to the entire team of LIS-Forum on the occasion of its silver jubilee.

Regards,

Dr Shamprasad M. Pujar Chief Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen Vaidya Marg, Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065, India

Phone: ++91-22-2841 6528 E-mail: pujar@igidr.ac.in =============================

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On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 3:34 PM Ananda Byrappa wrote:

Dear LIS friends,

Greetings from IISc Library team!.

It’s our pleasure to let you all know that, your lis-forum is into its Silver Jubilee Year.

As many of you are aware, LIS-forum was conceived and implemented by Late Dr. TB Rajashekar and his team at NCSI, IISc in the year 1995 with financial support from NISSAT, DSIR, Govt. of India. Entire NCSI team had worked on this to ensure its success through creation of awareness and penetration of the forum among LIS-community across the nation. The roots went so deep and became stronger as a result today we see the Forum as one of the most popular, credible and reliable text based discussion forum for the LIS community in India and the forum has many subscribers from outside India too.

Personally, I was fortunate to see the beginnings of LIS-Forum as I was a trainee at NCSI. The forum has played a key in my professional learning and growth - particularly to know accomplished professionals and their views on various topics. I always cherished reading emails from experts. I have read some experts emails multiple times...as they were informative and insightful...

Thank you for being part of the forum, choosing it as your platform for communication. You, your association with the forum and your communications on the forum made it what it is today. Entire LIS-community has benefited from it. Looking forward to your continued support to retain the Forum as a preferred communication channel.

Sustenance of LIS-forum for 25 years was not an easy task. Sad demise of Dr.TB Rajashekar and closure/merger of NCSI made it really difficult. However, Dr. Francis Jayakanth, JRD Tata Memorial Library, is the one who stood behind this and ensured that it worked for us flawlessly and made it always available for our LIS- community. He did this job even when he was on Lien for 2 years . Dr. Francis Upgraded the software recently and we are currently hosting it on a new server at the IISc. Library.

Dr. Francis, we can’t thank you enough for your professional commitment and ownership to the forum....we owe you a lot....we wish you will have courage and commitment to extend support.

In today’s social media driven world, text based discussion forums may look dry and dull. However, for serious, clean and clear communications text based forums are still preferred - world over. And LIS-forum is one of its kind. That doesn’t mean that we don’t look forward to upgrade it to next level - please share your thoughts briefly and will see if we all can work together on them.....

Best Regards, Anand.

Anand Byrappa Ph.D. Head- Office of Data and JRD Tata Memorial Library Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore 560012. INDIA.

Phone: 91-80-2903 2407

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