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…
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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…
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…
Sanjaya Mishra: Educational institutions need to become a producer of content and not just consumer of content
Sanjaya Mishra is one of the leading scholars in open, distance and online Learning. He is Education Specialist at Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in Canada. He has served Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), UNESCO, Paris and IGNOU’s Regional…
Jake Orlowitz: Wikipedia is actually driving people to scholarly literature and therefore it is a top 10 referrer to all scholarly articles online
Jake Orlowitz is a Wikipedian, blogger, entrepreneur, writer, speaker and an institution builder. He is the founder of The Wikipedia Library of Wikimedia Foundation which provides library and reference services to the editors and readers of Wikipedia. He recently left…
Shalini Urs: The emergent field of information science continues to search for identity and a suitable paradigm
Professor Shalini Urs is a celebrated academician, information scientist, institution builder and a sought after speaker. She has served as a faculty of the University of Mysore for 42 years. A Fulbright scholar and a visiting professor at Virginia Tech,…
Nagappa Bakkannanavar: Contribution to society improves our work efficiency and we can contribute to the organisation better
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…
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.…