Conferences/Seminars/Workshops Attended and Paper presented
- (Oct 2012): presented a paper on Digitisation and Digital Repositories: dilemmas and difficulties at 13th MANLIBNET annual conference organsied by Indian Institute of Management, Indore(IIMI) on October 11-13, 2012 at Indore.
- (Feb 2012): Participated in AIMS-ISB two-day workshop on Orgasing Learning resources in Bschool Libraries organised by Association of Indian Management Schools(AIMS), Hyderabad in association with Indian school of Business(ISB), Hyderabad during February 10-11, at ISB premises.
- (Dec 2011): presented a paper on “Technology and its Impact on Libraries” at UGC sponsored “National Conference on Managing College Libraries: Issues and Trends” organized by JSS college of Arts, science and Commerce, Mysore in association with MYLISA held on December 16-17, 2011 at JSSCASC, Mysore.
- (Feb 2011): organised a one day work shop on “Managing Digital Resources in academic Libraries” in association with Dakshina Kannada & Kodagu Library Association(R) and TAPMI on Feb 19, 2011 at TAPMI campus premises. About 60 library professionals from different colleges in Udupi and Mangalore Districts have participated in the workshop. Sri N V Sathyanrarayana, CMD of Informatics, Bangalore was Chief Guest & Keynote speaker and Dr. CP Ramasesh from Mysore University was resource person. Dr. ASV & Prof. CP were presided over inaugural and valedictory sessions respectively.
- (2010) Dr. Manjunatha K and Mr. Venkateswara Rao attended the MDP on e2.0: Unlocking the power of Knowledge Management in the smart enterprises organized by Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode during August 16-18, 2010 at Kozhikode
- (2010): Presented a paper on “A framework for Consortium of MANLIBNET Libraries” at XI MANLIBNET convention organized by Siva Sivani Institute of Management during Feb 15-17, 2010 at Secunderabad.
- (2009): submitted by paper on “LIS Research India 1980-2007: An Analysis of Doctoral Dissertations” prepared jointly with Dr. Shivalingaiah was been submitted and presented during Asia-Pacific International Conference on Library and Information Education and Practice (A-LIEP2009) to be held on March 6-9, 2009 in Tsukuba, Japan. This paper was, presented in the conference by co-author Among 10 Indian papers accepted for presentation; this paper was accepted for full paper presentation under Research category.
- (2009): Participated in one day workshop on Total Quality in Library Improvement organized by St. Agnes College, Mangalore and Dakashina Kannada Library Association (DKKLA) on March 15, 2009 at college premises in Mangalore. He coordinated the workshop as he was the current president of DKKLA.
- (2008): submitted a paper on Business Databases: A Survey of Databases Subscribed by Indian B-Schools. To Xth MANLIBNET conference organized by KIIT University, Bhubaneswar during February 22-24, 2009 at university premises Bhubeneswar.
- (2008): Coordinated International Conference on Services Management: The Institute conducted the first ‘International Conference on Services Management: Process and Technology: Key drivers of Customer focused Services Management’ on 15th-16th February 2008. Prof. Simon george was the conference director and Dr. Manjunatha coordinated the activities. The conference witnessed the active participation of about 70 academicians from various B-schools from India & abroad. Prof. Lovelock was the keynote speaker.
- (2008): presented a paper on “IT Supported Resources and services in Libraries: a Case study of TAPMI Libraries” at National Seminar on In search of Information Power-future challenges for Techno Libraries organized by NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte during September 11-12, 2008 at Nitte, Karkala, Karnataka. He also chaired a technical session in the seminar.
- (2008): presented a paper on “status of Technology in Technical and Management Libraries in Karnataka” at 9th Annual MANLIBNET Convention organized by ICSSR, New Delhi during February 4 - 6, 2008 at New Delhi.
- (2006): The paper “Impact of Technology on Library Services: A Study from Customers’ Perspectives” presented at VIII MANLIBNET Convention organised by Institute of Management, NIRMA University, Ahmedabad during Sept 18 to 20, 2006 at Ahmedabad. This paper received Best Paper Award at the conference.
- 2006): Access to Digital Information through CD-ROM Networking: An Experiment with CD Server Technology" paper presented at National seminar on Strategies a Standards for Knowledge Resource Centres organised by PSG Institute of Management, Coimbotore on January 27-28, 2006 at Coimbotore. This paper received Best Paper Award at the conference.
- (2005): Attended CALIBER 2005 (Annual conference of INFLIBNET, unit of UGC) on February 2-4, 2005 organized by INFLIBNET and Cochin University of Science and Technology at Cochin.
- (2005): Has attended a weeklong workshop on Dspace, HTML, and Mylibrary during December 27, 2004 to January 1, 2005 organized by the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai.
- (2004): Submitted a paper entitled “LIS Educator Practitioner Partnership: TAPMI's Model of Industry-institute Interface" to IATLIS (Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science) National Conference from November 18-20, 2004 at Nagpur University, Nagpur.
- (2004): Attended MDP on Digital Library programme conducted by Indian Institute of Management, Kozikode, Kerala during January 19-21, 2004. the workshop was focused on creating digital libraries using Greenstone Digital Library open source software.
- (2003): Organized National Seminar: Organised AICTE Sponsored National Seminar on "Challenges in Delivering Quality Services in Management and Technical Libraries on April 25-26, 2003 at TAPMI premises. The seminar was a great success with over 85 participants’ participation and over 25 paper presentations. The proceedings of the seminar and edited papers have been published as book by Allied Publishers Ltd., Chennai in 2004.
- (2003): Presented a paper on Information Access: Methods and Barriers at National seminar on Information access organised by Calicut University on May 25-27, 2003 at Calicut.
- (2003): Attended 48th Indian Library Association Annual Conference organised by ILA on January 23-27,2003 at NIMHANS,Bangalore,. The trip was also used to canvas on TAPMI seminar and meeting sponsors.
- (2003): Submitted a paper on “Business Research Information: A Study of Business Databases used by Management institutes” for 5th Management librarians network (MANLIBNET) conference orgamnized by malibnet at XLRI, Jamshedpur on March 6-8, 2003. The paper has been written with co-authorship of Dr. D Shivalingaiah of Managalore University. Dr. Shivalingaiah has presented the paper at the conference.
- (2003): National Seminar: Organised a national seminar on “Challenges in Delivering Quality Services in Management and Technical Libraries on April 25-26, 2003 at our institute premises.
Prior to year 2000, he organized few workshops on library automation for College Library professionals in Dakshina Kannada Dist. and Karnataka in association with Dr. T. Dayanand Pai, former librarian of KMC, Manipal.