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Contributors
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Jay Bhatt
Jay Bhatt is the Engineering Librarian in the Scholarly Connections Department at Drexel University. In this position, he provides individual and small group consultations, research support to faculty and students, and conducts instructional sessions as requested by faculty members in Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Departments.He is passionate about raising awareness about Academic and Research Integrity, Open Access, Open Data, and Open Educational Resources in Engineering, among faculty and students.Jay is an active member of several Special Library Association Communities including Asian Chapter, Engineering, Philadelphia, and Science and Technology. He is a member of the Engineering Libraries Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).Among several awards he received are: the Engineering Librarian of the Year Award from the Engineering Division of the Special Libraries Associations and the Homer I. Bernhardt Distinguished service award from the Engineering Libraries Division of ASEE.
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Dr. Meenal Oak
Dr. Mrs. Meenal Oak is the Librarian (Associate Prof. Scale) and Coordinator of IGNOU DL Centre at Maharashtra Education Society’s IMCC, Pune India since 1996. A doctorate of LIS & a rank Holder of SP Pune University, and MES koha Project coordinator, teaches Library Science Courses as well. Instrumental in launching of the autonomous programs of LIS –SET NET Training and PGDLIMAN in 2015. She is a women chairperson of RC CASH committee, Maharashtra, India & has written 5 books and 29 papers. Completed 2 Research Projects under the University grants of SPPU, Pune as a Principal Investigator. She is a Scholarship Holder of the prestigious SLA Virtual International Conference 2020 and a “Best Teacher Award” receiver for 2 times by MES and by Rotary Club, Pune & Ajinkya D Y Patil University, Pune India also a “Best Paper Award winner” of MANLIBNET, India International Conference 2005.
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Nalini Mahajan
Nalini Mahajan is an academic librarian & Instructor, webmaster, and a former director of Marianjoy Medical Library which she managed for 32 years. Nalini has been a leader in developing and applying emerging technologies for providing timely access to high-quality, critically important information to help clinicians and consumers make informed healthcare decisions and improve patient outcomes. She is widely regarded as the go-to librarian in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
She is an international speaker, has presented papers, published articles, taught CE courses and held many leadership positions at MLA and SLA. Among her various recognitions Nalini has been a recipient of the “Winifred Sewell Prize”, “DBIO Distinguished Member Award”, “Illinois Librarian of the Year”, “COD Outstanding Faculty Award” and “MLA Scroll of Exemplary Service”.
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Dr. Ramesh Gaur
Prof. (Dr.) Ramesh C. Gaur is presently Dean(Academics) & Director (Lib. & Inf.) at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi. His past assignments includes; University Librarian, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, (TIFR), Mumbai, CRRI-CSIR, etc. A Fulbright Scholar(VT, USA), Prof. Gaur had visited 24 countries. Prof. Gaur is first Indian nominated as Member- International Advisory Committee UNESCO Memory of the World Programme and Member UNESCO Global Task Force on Indigenous Languages. He is also Member, Research Council (RC) for CSIR-NISCAIR), New Delhi, Member-NDLTD Board of Directors, Member of IFLA -PAC on Global Cultural Heritage, RSCAO, ARL, Art Libraries.