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Invited Speaker, 5th Convention on Automation of Libraries in Education and Research Institutions,'CALIBER 2007 - Information and Knowledge Management in Networked World'. Presented paper titled 'Digital Libraries: The road ahead', organized by INFLIBNET, Ahmedabad, February 8-10, 2007. Download Full Paper

Invited Speaker, 2nd International Conference on Digital Libraries, 'ICDL 2006 - Digital Libraries - Information Management for Global Access'. Presented paper on 'Ontology Driven Knowledge Management Systems for Digital Libraries', organized by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, 5-8 December, 2006.Download Full Paper

Invited Panelist, the 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, November 27-30, 2006.

Participated and presented a session on "I-Schools in a Flat World" at the 2nd I-School Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, October 15-17, 2006

Participant, One Day-National Brainstorming Workshop on 'Promoting the Translation Industry' under the aegis of the National Knowledge Commission, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India, February 11, 2006

Invited Speaker, the 8th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries ICADL 2005, Bangkok, Thailand, December 12-15, 2005.

Invited Speaker, National Conference on Libraries, India International Centre, New Delhi, India, November 7-8, 2005.

Chief Guest, Inauguration of National Conference on 'Recent Trends in Information Technology based Education and Training' (RITE 2005), 10th Anniversary Celebrations, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, India October 19-20, 2005.

Invited Panelist, First "I"- Conference of the I- School Deans' Community at College Park, Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, USA, September 28-30th 2005.

Delivered the 13th Dr. S R Ranganathan Memorial Lectures, Sarada Ranganthan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore, India August 9-11, 2005.

Invited Speaker and Session Chair, International Conference on 'National Library in the Knowledge Based Society', Century Park Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand, Organized by National Library of Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand July 6-8, 2005 (Did not attend due to clash of dates).

Participant, Microsoft Academia Summit, New Delhi, India, April 4-5, 2005

Invited Speaker and Panelist, International Conference on Information Management in a Knowledge Society, organized by the Indian Association of Special Libraries & Information Centres (IASLIC), Mumbai, India February 21-25, 2005.

Invited Speaker and Panelist, Orientation Programme on 'Changing Dimensions of Library and Information Services, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, India February 23-25, 2005.

Invited Speaker, National Seminar on Access to Electronic Journals and Databases under UGC Infonet, Bangalore University, Bangalore, Organised by INFLIBNET and UGC, India November 29-30, 2004.

Invited Speaker, Asian Library and Information Conference (ALIC), Co-organized by the Thai Library Association, Asia Library News, Informedia Asia Limited, and funded by UNESCO, IFLA, Bangkok, Thailand, November 21-24, 2004.

Keynote Speaker and Facilitator, Second Session of the Asia Pacific Information Network (APIN) Conference, jointly organised by UNESCO, New Delhi and INSTIC Beijing, China, October 21-23, 2004.

Invited Speaker, Second China Digital Library Conference, Beijing, Organised by the National Library of China, Beijing, China, September 6-8, 2004.

Keynote Speaker, National Conference on Library and Information Services, 44th Annual General Meeting of the Sri Lanka Library Association, Sri Lanka, June 24-25, 2004.

Participated in the Microsoft Academia Summit, April 14-15, 2004, Bangalore, India.

Invited Speaker, Interactive Workshop on "Information Service to Social Scientists: An User Oriented Approach, on "Indian Social Science Research, NASSDOC and Vidyanidhi'' at the National Social Science Documentation Centre (NASSDOC), New Delhi, India April 2, 2004.

Invited Speaker, Conference on "Library Management in the 21st Century" on "Fostering and supporting Creativity through Digital Libraries " organized by the Ateneo De Manila University, Manila, Philippines, March 29-30, 2004.

Invited Speaker, International Conference on National Library Services (ICONLIS), 'Digital Handling of National Library Collections' on 'Fossiilising for the future: scoping the vote of National Librarian in the digital domain" Kolkatta, India, March 15-16, 2004.

Invited Speaker & Session Chair, International Conference on Digital Libraries, International Conference on Digital Libraries, ICDL 2004, New Delhi, India, February 24-27, 2004.

Invited Speaker, Database of African Theses and Dissertations (DATAD) Workshop on African Theses and Dissertations, "Vidyanidhi: A model for institutional collaboration", Organized by Association of African Studies; Accra, Ghana, Africa, Feb 19-20, 2004.

Invited Speaker, Workshop on Digital Library Development for Information Workers in South Asia, Organised by UNESCO-DSIR-CCMB, New delhi, India January 28-Feb 7, 2004

Invited Speaker, Ministry of Information Technology (MIT), Govt. of India, 2nd Asia IT Ministers Summit, on "Standardisation, Interoperability and Unicode: A Digital Library Perspective", Hyderabad, India January 12-13, 2004.

Invited Keynote Speaker, on "Challenges of developing a multi-institutional and multilingual digital Library: A case of Vidyanidhi" at the 6th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries, (ICADL 2003), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 8-11, 2003.

Invited Speaker, Congress of South-East Asian Librarian (CONSAL) XII Conference, 2003: Information Resources Empowerment: Enhancing Knowledge Heritage, on 'Copyrights and Libraries: Balancing the Rights of Stakeholders', on "Copyrights, academic research and Libraries: balancing the rights of stakeholders in the digital age", organized by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Brunei Darussalam and supported by the CONSAL Secretariat, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, October 19-23, 2003.

Invited Speaker, at Unicode International Workshop, organized by Microsoft and The Ministry of Information and Technology, New Delhi, India September 24-25, 2003.

Invited Speaker and Panelist for the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) -2003 Conference, "A multilingual multiscript database of Indian theses - Implementation of Unicode at Vidyanidhi", Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, May 20-24, 2003.

Invited talk at the Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute (IPSI), Fraunhofer, Germany on "Challenges and Opportunities of implementing Unicode to Indian languages and scripts: Vidyanidhi Digital Library Experience", IPSI, Germany, May 19, 2003.

Participated in the 2003 Planning Meeting of Council of South Asia Library Centres based at the University of Chicago, USA, Kandy, Sri Lanka, May 6-7 2003.

Panelist at a one-day workshop organised by the Indian Digital Library in Science and Technology, a consortium initiative set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, (MHRD), IIT Delhi, India March 5, 2003.

Panelist at the 48th Indian Library Association Conference (ILA) Bangalore, India on "Reengineering the LIS workforce for E-learning", January 21-23, 2003.

Invited Speaker, 48th Indian Library Association Conference (ILA) Bangalore, India on "L3 - Libraries for Lifelong Learning paradigms: Principles and Practices", January 21-23, 2003.

Session Chair and Speaker on "Multi Script Database of Indic languages: Unicode implementation at Vidyanidhi", at the 5th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2002), Singapore, December 11-14, 2002.

Presented a paper entitled "Unicode for encoding Indian Language Databases- A case study of Kannada and Hindi scripts", at Twenty-second International Unicode Conference, San Jose, California. USA, September 9- 13, 2002.

Participant, COLIS-4, The 4th International Conference on Conceptualization in Library and Information Science, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, July 20 - 24, 2002, USA.

Presented a Paper entitled "Redefining, reinventing and repositioning Professionals and digital libraries in new information landscape" at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2002), Portland, Oregon, USA, July 14-18, 2002

Invited Luncheon speaker at the NSF - DLI 2 Principal Investigators meeting held in conjunction with the ACM-IEEE Joint Conference of Digital Libraries, Portland, Oregon, USA, organized by National Science Foundation, USA, July 14-18, 2002.

Invited Speaker at the NISSAT -CBSMS Workshop on Content Organisation & Management for Library and Information Professionals (COMLIP) on April 15-19, 2002, Bangalore, India.

Invited Speaker at the Seminar on Digital Libraries, on "Digital Libraries: An Overview", Bangalore University, Bangalore, India April 8, 2002.

Invited Speaker, CALIBER 2002, INTERNET Engineering for Library and Information Centres, on "Managing digital resources in the networked environment", organised by INFLIBNET, February 14-16, 2002, Jaipur, India February 14-16, 2002.

Invited Resource Person for the Sub Regional Workshop on defining a Marketing Campaign For UNAL (UNESCO Network of Associated Libraries) on "Impact of ICTs in National Library Development in developing countries: Challenges and Opportunities", organized by UNESCO and National Library of Malaysia, Melaka, Malaysia, October 17-19, 2001.

Invited to conduct a Workshop on Metadata at the National Library of Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur, Organised by UNESCO and National Library of Malaysia, Melaka, Malaysia, October 15-16, 2001.

Invited speaker at the Ahmedabad Library Network Seminar, organized by INFLIBNET, Ahmedabad, India Delivered a lecture on "The four Cs of building Digital Libraries: Computers, Communications, Content and Communities", September 28, 2001.

Invited speaker at the Korean National Commission for UNESCO - International Symposium on "Language in Cyberspace" Seoul, Korea, on "Indian Languages: Resources and Unicode" September 26-27, 2001

Invited as a resource person to give a presentation on "Digital Librarians: Knowledge and skills" Tata Management Training Course organised by TCS, Pune, India September 23-25, 2001.

Invited Speaker and made a presentation on "Building blocks of digital libraries" at the PUNENET Seminar, organized by PUNENET, Pune, India September 23, 2001.

Resource person at the Workshop on Digital Libraries, on "Content Organisation in Digital Libraries: XML and Metadata" organised by the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, Kerala, India September 17-20,2001.

Invited to Preside over Dr. S. R. Ranganathan Memorial Lectures, in Bangalore organised by Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore, India August 9 -11, 2001.

Participated and presented a paper at the 8th ISSI Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, Sydney, Australia, July 16-20, 2001

Invited speaker at the ICLISE 2001- International Conference for LIS educators in the Asia and Pacific region, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Organised by IFLA, June 11-12, 2001.

Invited as Plenary Speaker at the ETD 2001- International Symposium of Electronic Theses and Dissertations, California Institute of Technology, USA March 21-23, 2001

Participated in the NSF-Workshop on "Expanding the IDM Research Education Community", Organised by Virginia Tech and Sponsored by NSF, October 2000.

Invited as Panelist at the 3rd International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2000), Seoul, Korea, December 6-9, 2000.

Invited as Panelist at the ASIS & T Annual Conference, Chicago, USA November 11-14, 2000.

Participated at the US-Korea Joint Workshop on Digital Libraries, San Diego, USA, Organised by Virginia Tech and San Diego USA, Super Computer Centre, Funded by NSF, August 9-10, 2000.