Sonali Patankar: There is an urgent need for comprehensive online safety education and parental guidance

Sonali Patankar is the Founder of ‘Responsible Netism’- an initiative aimed at promoting cyber wellness and responsible online behaviour among children and adults. She holds a degree in Social Work from Nirmala Niketan College of Social Work, Mumbai and a Diploma…

Jeannette Lebrón Ramos: Puerto Rican Information professionals need to strongly advocate for libraries in their community spaces

Jeannette Lebrón Ramos talks with Santosh C. Hulagabali on the issues and challenges concerning the public and academic libraries of Puerto Rico, a Caribbean island and an unincorporated territory of the United States with official Commonwealth status. She currently serves as…

Chao Tayiana Maina: The success of African Digital Heritage is a result of innovative, insightful and holistic approach

Chao Tayiana Maina, a Kenyan historian and digital humanities scholar, talks with Santosh C. Hulagabali on her tryst with sustaining cultural heritage using digital technologies and making the African Digital Heritage a successful initiative. Chao is working at the intersection of…

R David Lankes: Mission of libraries has to be improving society through facilitating knowledge creation in communities

R. David Lankes talks with Santosh C. Hulagabali on the recent developments concerning libraries, librarianship and AI technology. Lankes is the Virginia and Charles Bowden Professor of Librarianship at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Information. He is…

Katharine Dunn: Open access is still viewed as a bold step—when it should be the norm

Katharine Dunn is Scholarly Communications Librarian at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the premiere educational institute in the world. She works with Scholarly Communications and Collections Strategy department (SCCS) that aims to transform scholarly communications for the digital age with innovative and…

Claire Redhead: The argument for open access to all scholarship has never been more relevant

Claire Redhead is one of the leading international open access advocators. She is heading Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) as its Executive Director. Prior to this, she was a Membership and Communications Manager at OASPA and worked for over…

Giridhar Kunkur: If there is a paradise on earth, it’s my library

Giridhar Kunkur is one of the esteemed library professionals known widely for his innovative library services for the user community. Having rich experience of working with the premier organizations such as American Center, The Times of India, British Council Libraries, QMed…

Loida Garcia-Febo: High possibilities for librarians to collaborate globally to positively impact humans and nature

Loida Garcia-Febo is a celebrated international library consultant. She was the President of American Library Association (ALA 2018-19), Chair of ALA 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Task Force, Chair of ALA Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship, and she…

Ganga Dakshinamurti: A true researcher has to be information literate

Ganga Dakshinamurti* practiced innovative services in the Canadian academic libraries much before the advent of technology. With over fifty years’ dedicated service in the library profession in Canada, she has worked in different segments of academic librarianship from college to…