Muthu Madhan is a long-time crusader for open access (OA) to scholarly literature in India. He has been promoting OA through interoperable institutional repositories – the green route for OA. He has spoken about the importance of OA in different…
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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.…
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…
Amrut Deshmukh: It’s not important what you have. It’s important what you do with what you have
Amrut Deshmukh is known for reviving the reading habit through book summaries. Every week he reads a bestselling book and prepares a twenty minute book summary of it. He also records the summaries in his own voice and shares through…
Mehak Mirza Prabhu: I am no one to select my story, the story selects me
Mehak Mirza Prabhu is a Mumbai based storyteller, full-time writer, voice-over artist, performer, mentor, blogger, scriptwriter and social enthusiast. She creates fictional stories in multiple languages. She also runs an online story telling school, ‘Jhumritaliaya’. She has a huge fan following…
Marshall Breeding: Artificial intelligence has made only a few inroads into the library sector
Marshall Breeding: Artificial intelligence has made only a few inroads into the library sector