Felicitation Function Call for papers for the
Festschrift in honour of Dr.A.Hariharan & Dr.S.Surianarayanan
Venue : Bishop
Heber College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli – 620 017
Date : 26th
September, 2015 (Saturday)
Time : 02.30 P.M.
Felicitation Programme
Dr.A.Hariharan and Dr.S.Surianarayanan have enormously
contributed to the LIS profession by
establishing Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science
(SALIS). Dr.A.Hariharan, Head, Knowledge Resource Division, CSIR, SERC, Chennai and the Founder President of SALIS,
will be superannuated in October 2015. Dr.S.Surianarayanan, Selection Grade
Librarian, Sri Paramakalyani College, Alwarkurichi and Former President of
SALIS was superannuated in May 2013. In this connection, a felicitation
programme has been planned to felicitate both of them at Bishop Heber College,
Trichy on Saturday, 26th September, 2015 for their dedicated and meritorious services to the
LIS professionals.
Dr.A.Hariharan
Dr.A.Hariharan
was born in Poigai Village, Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu on 14th August 1956. He holds Associateship in
Information Science (AIS) awarded by CSIR, New Delhi and secured first rank. He
was awarded Ph.D. in LIS by Annamalai University in 2009. He is currently
working as Head, Knowledge Resource Division at CSIR-Structural Engineering
Research Centre, Chennai since 1993. He is the Task Force Committee member and
Nodal Officer for the projects of NKRC and KNOWGATE (CSIR). Previously, he
worked in INSDOC (New Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai) and Ministry of Home
Affairs, Chennai. He is the ‘Founder
President’ of Society for the Advancement of Library and Information
Science (SALIS). With his initiatives, SALIS chapters have been established at
various places in India, to cater to the needs of LIS community. He has
organized more than 100 conferences, seminars, workshops, etc. on various
emerging topics of LIS and delivered lectures through SALIS. He was the Project
Co-ordinator for the creation of ‘e-Learning Portal’ for ‘Information Literacy
Competency Skills for South Asia' developed by SALIS and funded by UNESCO. He
is the ‘Managing Editor’ of SALIS Journals. He has visited many countries including
Germany and USA. He has contributed a lot for the automation of Public and
Academic Libraries in Tamilnadu. Tamilnadu. He
trained a large number of LIS Professionals. His present mission is to promote ‘Reading
Habit’among the children through ‘Vasippom Nesippom’- a mass movement of SALIS, Digital SALIS – a
digitizing all SALIS activities and to establish
‘Public-Private Libraries’.
Dr.S.Surianarayanan
Dr.S.Surianarayanan was born in Elathur
Village, Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu on 20th May, 1955. He worked as a ‘College Librarian’ in Sri
Paramakalyani College (SPC), Alwarkurichi, Tirunelveli District from 1979 and completed his service in May 2013. He introduced
many innovative library services like overnight issue, Free online registration
for competitive examinations and TNPSC exams, email, university question paper
service, readers forum, etc. for the stakeholders of the institution. He was
awarded Ph.D. in LIS by Annamalai University. He is an recognized Research Guide
for M.Phil. and Ph.D. in various universities in Tamil Nadu. He has organized
many seminars / workshops on LIS. He has served as Chairman / Resource person
in various conferences / seminars. He has published more than 50 research papers
in journals / conferences. He is an editor of a few LIS journals. He served as
the Senate Member of MS University during January 2007 to December 2010. He is
the recipient of ‘AutoLib Tamilnadu Best Librarian Award’ for the year 2009 from SALIS and ‘Tamilnadu
Best Librarian Award’ for the year 2010 from TLA. He is currently serving
as the Coordinator of different academic activities such as the Coordinator of
IGNOU special study centre 2535-D, Coordinator of Alagappa university Learning
Centre, Admin incharge of Amar Institute of Rehabilitation Sciences and
Principal of Sri Sathiya Sayee Institute of Computer Education and Training at
Amar Seva Sangam, Ayikudy, Tenkasi. He is a good orator in Tamil and has published
a few books.
Festschrift Volume
As a token of our goodwill and gesture to
Dr.A.Hariharan (Dr.AH) and Dr.S.Surianarayanan(Dr.SS), LIS professionals, teachers, students, scholars,
friends, colleagues and well wishers are keen to bring out a ‘Festschrift Volume’
to be released at the felicitation function. The main theme of the volume is “Library and
Information Services: Growing with Technology”. It covers all the
major components which are instrumental in the development of library and
information services.
Sub-themes
- Library Automation
- ICT, Web, E-Learning and Library Services
- Information Literacy
- Library Management and Marketing
- Library Resource Sharing and Networking
- Library User Studies
- Other related technologies for LIS services
Submission of Papers
On behalf of the organizing committee, we request LIS professionals, teachers
and scholars to submit original and unpublished papers on the above themes for the publication in the festschrift
volume with ISBN. Papers will be accepted only after the critical review by
the editorial committee. Only accepted papers will be included in the
festschrift volume. Papers should be submitted as an e-mail attachment to harisuri2015@gmail.com on or before 15th August 2015. Please mention in the
subject line of the e-mail: “Submission of Paper for Dr.AH and Dr.SS
Festschrift Volume”.
Guidelines for Paper Submission
File format: MS Word, Abstract: not exceeding 200 words, keywords:
atleast 3, Pages not more than 6 pages, Font: Times New Roman, Font size: 12, Line
Space: 1.5, reference: APA style.
Souvenir
LIS professionals are also requested to send their
poems on Dr.AH and Dr.SS and personal memories (half/quarter page write-up) for
inclusion in the souvenir to be released with personal profile and photographs
of Dr.AH and Dr.SS and messages from eminent personalities, etc…
Contact Details
Further
details related to submission of papers, advertisements in the souvenir and
sponsorship, etc. can be had from,
Organising Secretary,
Dr.A.Hariharan and Dr.S.Surianarayanan Felicitation
Committee
Mobile : 94448
85083, 99942 50222
