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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.
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.
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”.
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.