Awards, Memberships & Professional Activities
Academic achievements, professional affiliations, global engagements, and contributions to the field of Library and Information Science.
🏆 Awards / Scholarships / Recognition
- Gold Medal for securing the first rank in Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science, Awarded by Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
- Junior Research Fellow, Scholarship for pursuing doctoral studies in Library and Information Science by University Grants Commission
- Senior Research Fellow, Scholarship for pursuing doctoral studies in Library and Information Science by University Grants Commission
- Emerald Research Fund – Indian L.I.S. Category award for 2012 for the research proposal “Raising the bar for fair use access to electronic resources: Are we signing away our rights? An analysis of license agreements and its impact on the role of libraries in management education in India.”
👥 Memberships & Associations
- Member, Institute Review Board, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore since 2020 (https://www.iimb.ac.in/iimb-research/irb-committee).
- Board Member, Research, Publishing, and Ethics Course, 2022. Department of Commerce, Bangalore University
- ALA MEMBER (International) 2020-23
- Life Member, MANLIBNET, I.N.D.I.A.
- Member, Networking of libraries of higher education institutes, Karnataka Knowledge Commission in 2011. Government of Karnataka
- Member, Association of Asia Pacific Business School Librarians since June 2021-2025
- Member, Technical Advisory Committee, I.S.I. Kolkata since 2018-2023
- Member, Board of Studies, Department of Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Tumkur, Karnataka, India 2022
🌐 Service to Professional Vendors
- Invited by Cambridge University Press as a guest of honour to the C.A.L.A.B. meeting of Cambridge University Press, held at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, and speak on Innovation in Library and Information Services on 21-22 January 2018.
- Invited by Cambridge University Press to deliver a lecture on Innovation in Library and information services at New Delhi in the Cambridge Advisory Board of Librarians in South Asia on October 30, 2017, in Lemon Tree Hotel, New Delhi
- Librarian’s Advisory Board, Emerald Publishing, since 2019-2025
- Chair & Jury member, 2020 Library Innovation Award sponsored by M/s Informatics India Pvt Ltd.
- Attended the Library advisory board meeting of EBSCO on February 27, 2023, in Melbourne, Australia.
- Member, Librarian’s advisory board, South Asia, Cambridge University Press 2017-2020
- Attended Advisory Board meeting of EBSCO as an advisory board member held in Singapore during 4-7 March 2024
✈️ Travel Grants & Sponsorships
- Awarded a travel grant to attend an international conference of FORCE 11 held at Edinburgh, Scotland, during October 15-17, 2019
- Awarded Senior scholarship grants to attend the ACRL conference held in Pittsburgh from March 13-15, USA
- Selected to participate in the international library leadership program organized by the British Library, sponsored by the British Council, Libraries India, during July 3 – 11, 2024.
🎓 Conferences / Workshops / Seminars
- Future of Libraries, organized in association with Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata in February 2019
- Workshop on Linked data, infographics and semantic web as a training session to the staff of IIMB in August 2022
- Seminar on Copyright for Librarians and Educators May 2017
- One day Workshop on Library analytics and Assessment using POWER BI in August 2023
- Two-day workshop on Management of Institute’s archives in association with MILLI foundation for the team of IIMB history project August 2025