Awards and Recognitions
(Nov 21, 2012): AIMS International (Association for Indian Management scholars) selected me for the award of AIMS international Outstanding Librarian of year 2012. the award will be given during AIMS international conference organsied by Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore on January 5-7, 2012 at Bangalore.
(Mar 21, 2012): Invited by Goa University as a resource person a three week refresher course organised by them from March 5 to 27, 2012 at University premises. The presentation was on Impact of IT on Library functions and changing need of library users.
(2012) invited by Poorna Prajna institute of Management, Udupi on January 8, 2012 for selection of librarian to their institute at Udupi. Fifteen Candidates had appeared and the interview was conducted in the presense of Admar Mutt Swamiji HH sri sri "Vishwa Priya Theertha Sreepada"
(2011) invited to present the paper on “Technology and customer expectation in academic libraries” 2011 EPS Montreal International Forum Emerging Trends in Higher Education. Nov 2011. This invitation was sent based on the paper the published in journal IILR (Elsevier) in 2009.
(2011): invited to talk on technology and its impact in libraries on Nov 16, 2011 at Upupi Citycentral library organized by Department of Public library Udupi District as part of their library week celebrations. Mr. Raghupathy Bhat, Udupi MLA Inaugurated the program, and Sri. Ambatanaya the president of Udupi District Kannada sahitya Parishat inaugurated the Book exhibition. President and other corporates of Udupi Nagarasabha, Book authors, senior citizens and children attended the program.
(2010): Invited as Reporter General for National Conference on Knowledge, Knowledge Banks and Information Networking KKBNET2010 organized by National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, Dakshina Kannada during April 8-9, 2010. He was also one of the judges for the Best Paper award during the conference.
(2010): Invited as Rapporteur General at XI MANLIBNET convention organized by Siva Sivani Institute of Management, Secunderabad during Feb 15-17, 2010 at Secunderabad
(2008) Invited as resource person for a seminar on Technology in libraries organized by NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte on October 11-12, 2008 at Nitte.
(2008) Invited as chief guest for the induction programme of Pragathi Bandhu Self-Help-Group(SHG), on November 2, 2008 at Ravindra Mantapa, MGM, Udupi. This group is moderated and controlled by Dharmasthala rural development programme
(2008) Two MPhil students have been awarded MPhil degree in Library and Information Science from Annamalai University, Directorate of Distance Education, Annmalinagar for their dissertation submitted under my supervision.
(2008) won third place in International Paper Contest organized by ASIS&T
(2003 +) Regular contributor of Subject Bibliography for Vikalpa-Journal of Decision Makers – a highly reputed refereed journal in Management published by Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. so far 19 subject bibliographies have been published in Vikalpa.
(2004 +) One of the Reviewers for the publication in Annals of Library & Information Studies- a leading cited journal in Library and Information Science field published by NISCAIR (formarly INSDOC), New Delhi.
11. (Feb13, 2007): Invited for a presentation/talk on library utilisation and resources during a workshop on Research Management organised by National Institute of Technology, Surathkal (NITK) at Surathkal.
12. (September 18-20, 2006): Received BEST PAPER Award for his 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.
13. (September 18-20, 2006): selected as rapporteur general during VIII MANLIBNET convention. Also discussed with participants regarding the formation of consortia of management libraries for effective resource sharing.
14. (March 2006): Invited by Nitte Institute of Management, Nitte for design and layout of new library building, which is under construction.
15. (Jan 2006): Received BEST PAPER Award for his paper “Access to Digital Resources through CD Networking: An Experiment with CD Server Technology” presented at PSG Institute of Management Coimbotore, on Jan 27-28,2006 at Coimbotore
16. (2005): Invited as speaker for " Professor K.S. Umapathy Endowment Lecture on Library Services" on sept.4,2005 Gokhale Institute for Public Affairs, Bangalore at Bangalore
17. (2005): Invited as member of expert committee for the selection of Librarian to Poornaprajna Institute of Management, at PPC campus on September 18, 2005. Udupi.
18. (2005): One of the evaluators BLIS exam Papers of LIS distance education program of Karnataka State Open University, Mysore.
19. (2004): Invited as resource person on December 3, 2004 for the two day workshop on digital resources and knowledge management organised by Canbank Institute of Management, Bangalore University, Bangalore. My topic was service quality in Libraries.
20. (2003) Invited by Cochin University, Cochin as the member of selection committee for career promotion of selection grade Asst. Librarians on 16th October, 2003.
21. (2003) Invited as resource person for the two day UGC sponsored workshop on Quality services in library services organised by Dept. of library and Information Science, Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram on 19th November 2003.
22. (2003) Invited by AICTE, New Delhi on October 17,2003 for project proposal on establishment of South India Libraries Network at AICTE Head quarters at New Delhi. TAPMI had submitted a research proposal to establish SILNET under AICTE sponsorship.