Sunil Mysore says...

Happily received the mobile call from Prof. J.M. Subramanya, former Director of SDMIMD, he was so gentle, enquired about the things casually. I always admire him for his listening skills and the way he conveys the information.  After the usual talk, Prof. JMS conveyed shocking news, about the sad demise of my friend, faculty colleague and a think tank Prof. Dr K. Balakrishnan due to a heart attack yesterday in Chennai. Having known and with regular updates on FB, Dr KB, an agile personality with care to health, personality and presentation, it was shocking news to me.  Dr K. Balakrishnan, for SDMites he was KB Sir... Photo source: http://www.amity.edu/jaipur/leadership We miss you KB Sir, but your guidance, thoughts and work will be with us and SDMIMD. You have made us think differently pertaining to our institute brochure, the conduct of programs, presenting of our institute to the visitors, and, much more. Personally, you are the one who gave confidence that a libra

The changing dimensions of libraries and services have introduced different roles to the librarian. Awareness about teaching-learning process, documentation, record management, publication activity, participation in academic gatherings such as conference and seminar, and association with the academic network, has made librarians to extend their services beyond the library responsibility. Today, librarians are involved in many responsibilities to match the nomenclature to the roles they performed in an organization. And, the librarians have accepted the nomenclatures such as – Knowledge Manager, Record Manager, Head of Information Services, Information Manager, Head – Web Services, etc. – gracefully. Since libraries are the storehouse of publications, any activity pertaining to publication librarian will be the defined member in the committee. Hence, librarians own the responsibility of managing records of the Institute publications and publications by faculty/research community too.