Friends, What does an award-winning librarian do at work? Here is a well-written account of a day in the life of an Indian digital librarian whom all of us in this Forum know. The feelings this 'one-day' story will evoke are very different from the feelings evoked by Alexandr Solzhenytsin's novel *One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich*, the story of a Soviet Union soldier who, on return from German captivity, was accused of being a spy. Karthik Ramaswamy's account of Dr Francis Jeyakanth, who soldiers on with his multiple responsibilities, would make all of us happy and proud. One of us, an Indian LIS professional has done so well, achieved so much, and done all that quietly, despite being in a junior position for most of his career. I am an accidental information professional. I was not trained in LIS or computer science. When I went to New Delhi to work in science publishing in my early twenties, honestly I didn't expect it would change my life. I am a small town guy and Delhi gave me a myriad of opportunities. My job was in science publishing; my office used to receive many overseas journals (which even large academic libraries might not have received then because of the foreign exchange crunch) on exchange for our journals. And INSDOC was housed in the same premises and they were building the National Science Library. I was in the midst of books, journals and trained librarians and trainees learning information science. The transition from a not-so promising chemist into information science newbie occurred without my knowing it. After a few months of living in a mess (where two or three people would share a 10' x10' room), I was welcomed into a bachelors' pad (a 2BHK flat + *barsati*) where already five young men were living along with their cook). Those were amazing guys, from different walks of life, very well informed, ever ready for a discussion or an outing. Probably I learnt more in their company than in many years of formal schooling. After all, it is not for nothing, they say, 'tell me who your friends are, I will tell you who you are.' It was in Delhi I met some of India's best LIS folks - Professors S Parthasarathy and T N Rajan (both of INSDOC), and some very good librarians -V Sarangan (CSIR) J S Raju, P Jeyarajan (both of the British Council Library). I also met a manager of a large publishing-cum-bookselling firm, P Sankaranarayaan (who was my classmate in my first year at college), and his firm's commissioning editor Mr Rajeshwar Rao Abburi. I also had some students in my class at INSDOC (where I taught one course for eight years), who were more knowledgeable than I was. Then on relocating to Bangalore, I came to know the work of Ratnakar, ARD Prasad and N V Sathyanarayana. I have been watching Dr Jeyakanth ever since I spent three months at NCSI as a visiting scholar in the mid-1990s. I must say I was impressed by his work and his work ethic. I would not hesitate adding him to the list of names I have mentioned. You may read the article in *Connect:* https://connect.iisc.ac.in/2023/09/the-digital-librarian/ Happy reading. And a hat tip to Karthik. Best wishes. Subbiah Arunachalam -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.