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 confidenc...

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. ...

Hi Friend,  Sometime feel, should I write (blog) or not ! But, later realize it is good to have someone who only listen and will not revert back...like...so keep blogging. It was not a good Sunday yesterday, came to know about sudden demise of our staff member - Mangalamma's husband in the morning. After paying last respect...came home...got irritated with TV shows... so, thought of sharing some thoughts shared during the book review presented to MyLISA members on Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at Mysore University Library, University of Mysore, Mysuru (Namma Mysuru)... Dell supported a lot. Like to share with you... 'Google’ has become synonymous with ‘Search Engine’ claiming 68% of stake globally in the search engine market. It is common to say ‘Google it’ if you could not recall or reply for a query raised. The inclusion of the word ‘Google’ as verb in Oxford English Dictionary demonstrates the company hold on both information. Having understood the presence of the Go...

Yesterday happens to be a 'Weebly day'. After my office hours almost 4 hours spent on Weebly designing and updating the Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (MyLISA) website. I enjoyed it :) Many thanks to Weebly for offering such rich tools which has made designing and having webpresence is a jokers job. I am using Weebly from past 7 years but experiencing after a gap of 3 years really made to explore more. Indeed really a useful service. MyLISA website has been update, Friends u can access the same @ URL http://mylisamysore.weebly.com/. The newsletter and membership forms are also shared on the website. I am sharing in this post also. MyLISA Newsletters Newsletter No.1 - May 2002 Newsletter No.2-3 - May 2004 Newsletter No.4 - July 2005 Newsletter No.5 - May 2006 Membership Form - Portable Document Format (PDF ) | Microsoft Format (DOC) Once again thanks Weebly :)

Hello Friends, After a longtime I thought of add something my blog. When started blogging, I made my mind to place information about my academic activities like article presentations at conference, seminar, invited talks, journal papers, etc., to share my personal opinions which I cannot do in academic publications. Today, a bright Sunny Sunday made me to restart bogging with the conference paper. I was at ShravanaBelagola - the Jain Kashi in Karnataka, where 57 feet Bhagawan Bahubali stands symbolically to the testimony for legendary mental strength of Tyaga (renunciation) and the soft tender message of Ahimsa (non violence). Yes, the place has a vibration which provokes anyone on his/her Duty, Devotion and Dedication. Sorry, I moving some where, carried away by the facial expressions of 57 feet ತ್ಯಾಗಮೂರ್ತಿ. I had been to KALA conference on "Library and Development: Present and Future" scheduled between June 7 and 9, 2012. It is good KALA has planned to hold the confer...

Planned to present the paper "Collaborative effort in B-School Information Literacy Program: A case study of SDMIMD, Mysore" authored with Prof. Kumbar and Dr. Hari at Conference on IL organized by Tumkur University. Here is the abstract of the paper - The availability of information resources for the course curriculum in different pockets – online journal, financial database, open repositories, e-learning portal, library collection, etc. – has made the courses in b-school incomplete without teaching the students how to be an effective information manager. The process of teaching effective information management makes the student ‘information literate’. This study discusses the importance of collaborative effort of the faculty community and the librarian of a b-school in Information Literacy Program (ILP) of the institute. Further, the paper discusses on embedding the ILP in the course outlines of b-school curriculum. The authors opine that this collaborative effort will incr...

I had been to workshop on "Academic Qualities and Problems of Librarians" on invitation by Mr. Kadadevaramutt, the president of Karnataka College Librarians Association on Feb 26, 2011. Mr. Kadadevaramutt asked me to speak on the online resources, use of digital libraries, institutional repositories, etc., As per his request I had mapped the thoughts, but suddenly I remembered the words of my friend AT (Ayesha Taranum, I used to call her AT) - first understand the audience and their state - I switched off my thoughts which already mapped. I started thinking about the workshop theme. I felt the theme is very good (whoever may have selected), but, is it making the audience to think and debate on is the point. I consulted 8 college librarians of Government First Grade Colleges, I am sorry to say they could not able clearly say What is Academic Qualities? and if u ask them about the problems they will give a huge list, which is very difficult to consider them as the problems per...