Nagappa Bakkannanavar is the Assistant General Manager and head of Information Resource Centre (IRC) of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Bengaluru. He is managing TCS libraries at Bengaluru branch and in addition, he is passionately contributing to the TCS’s CSR initiatives…
Author: Open Interview
Santosh is Moderator of Open Interview. He heads Library and Information Centre of Khandwala College (Autonomous) in Mumbai, India. He can be addressed by his name since he has an unpronounceable surname!! (santosh[@]nkc.ac.in)
Hari Krishna Maram: There is an urgent need to nurture the contemporary technological skills among the students to meet the highly-competitive industry requirements
Hari Krishna Maram, PhD is the Digital Brand Ambassador and Chairman of Vision Digital India. Maram has served many statutory, corporate, social and educational organisations on various capacities. His work in management education for over two decades has been recognized by…
Vasumathi Sriganesh: Medical professionals seem to still take literature searching and its accuracies to be a “nice to know” skill and not critical
Vasumathi Sriganesh is a librarian by training with excellent exposure to medical librarianship in her stint as Librarian at Hinduja Hospital and HELP. She is now CEO of QMed Knowledge Foundation, a successful entrepreneurial venture established by Vasumathi in 2007.…
Aardra Surendran: Today we stand tall on the work of feminist scholars who brought to light the active presence of women industrial workers
Aardra Surendran, PhD is an assistant professor at the School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Her primary areas of interest are the sociology and social history of labour. She is currently interested in contractualisation and labour…
Peter Suber: The largest obstacles to open access are unfamiliarity and misunderstanding of open access itself
Peter Suber is an internationally acclaimed expert on open access to knowledge. He is specialised in the history of western philosophy and the philosophy of law and also a non-practicing lawyer. He works for the growth of open access to research,…
Francis Jayakanth: Moderators of discussion groups have to be impartial in dealing with the members and their postings
Francis Jayakanth, Ph.D. is one of the distinguished library and information professionals known for his contributions to the open access movement. A Scientific Assistant at J. R. D. Tata Memorial Library, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, Jayakanth has been…
Aaron Tay: Librarians should not fall into the trap of just wanting to look innovative to keep up with the Joneses
Aaron Tay is Library Analytics Manager and Research Librarian at Singapore Management University. He has keen interest and curiosity in many areas of academic librarianship. His thoughts on librarianship are constantly evolving and shared on his award winning blog –…
Vibhuti Patel: If you don’t invest in your daughter then she will have a limited opportunity in the economy
Prof. Vibhuti Patel is a distinguished academician, social thinker, researcher and speaker from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She is known for her extensive research and expertise in the issues concerned with women. She has delivered talks on gender issues…
Lance Werner: Library associations need leaders with vision and the ability to inspire others effectively
Lance Werner is a President candidate (2020-21) of American Library Association (ALA), the oldest and prestigious library association in the world. Presently he is serving as Director of Kent District Library, U.S.A. He successfully fought for libraries for almost two…
Chris Cormack: Koha users and vendors are growing superfast but not its development community
Chris Cormack is the original developer of Koha, the first free library automation software. He worked for Katipo Communications Ltd. during the construction of the original release of Koha. He also played a commendable role in the Koha community, holding many…