The collection of papers in this festschrift - in honor of Professor S. Parthasarathy - presents views and comments on: the new Library of Alexandria . knowledge economy in India . the national information system in Iran . the search system of the international information system for the agricultural sciences and technology . the corporate information system in the knowledge society era . the importance of archives and archival collection development . mobile phones . Wimax . Web 2.0 . You Tube in social networking . intellectual property rights . India's Right to Information Act . human resources development . bibliometrics . biographical sketches of Professor S. Parthasarathy . multi-lingual thesauri . the Classified Catalogue Code of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan . an analytical study of the Pancharatna Kritis of Saint musician Sri Tyagaraja.