Employment Chronology/Expereince & Outstanding Contributions (Selected)  


S.No. Organisation Designation Pay Band/ Scale/AGP Duration
1. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) Librarian (& Head) Pay Level 14 27.04.2018 To Date
2. Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh University Librarian Pay Level 14 01.04.2016 26.04.2018
3. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Deputy Librarian   (Higher Grade/PB-4) PB-4-37400-67000 AGP- 9000 16.01.2011 31.03.2016
4. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Deputy Librarian PB-3-15600-39100 AGP- 8000 01.12.2009 15.01.2011
5. CSK Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University, Palampur-H.P. Deputy Librarian PB-3-15600-39100 AGP-8000 16.01.2008 30.11.2009
6. CSK Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University, Palampur- (H.P.)

Assistant Librarian  

(Sr. Scale)		 PB-3-15600-39100 AGP-7000 16.01.2003 15.01.2008
7. CSK Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University, Palampur- (H.P.) Assistant Librarian 8000-13500 16.01.1997 15.01.2003
8. Crescent School, New Delhi Librarian 1200-2040 09.05.1995 15.01.1997
9. Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA), Indian Oil Corporation, DESIDOC (through outsourcing agency - Info-Resources Management Services), Delhi Professional Assistant Variable Pay 21.12.1994 08.05.1995

Teaching

  1. Coordiantor & Faculty for NPTEL Course on Science Communication: Research Productivity and Data Analytics using Open Source Software, under the Ministry of Education, Govt. of India (with colleague Dr. Mohit Garg)(2024 onwards).
  2. Moderator/Host/Facilitator & Faculty for the Free MOOCs Certificate Course, "Focus on Open Science Delhi - Creating a Research Culture for the 21st Century", with University College London and SKS Germany (2025 onwards).
  3. Coordiantor & Faculty for the Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching (ARPIT)/Online MOOCs in Library and Information Sciences, Emerging Trends and Technologies in Library and Information Services (ETTLIS) under the Ministry of Education, Govt. of India (2029-21).
  4. Visiting Faculty for the Post Graduate Diploma in Digital Library and Data Management (PGDDLDM), Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi (2018-).
  5. Visiting Faculty for the Masters in Library and Information Science course for the paper Information and Communication Technology (ICT): Applications in Library & Information Science, Jamia Millia Islamia Central University, New Delhi (2018-23).

Teaching of Bachelor of Library and Information Science (BLIS)

  1. Taught the paper Communication Skills and Library Automation as Academic Counsellor to BLIS students of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi (2015-16).

Post Graduate Teaching/Faculty Experience - 13 Years

Served as a Regular Post Graduate Faculty at CSK Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University, Palampur, 1997-2009 and taught, "Literature and Technical Writing" (1+0), to Post Graduate students (M.Sc., M.V.Sc. and Ph.D.). First time introduced the teaching in online interactive mode in the university. Also taught undergraduate students, a compulsory paper of Library .

Outstanding Recognitions/Achievements/Implementations, etc. (Selected)

  1. ERASMUS-European Union's HAPPY Project Bhutan , Served as Invited Esteemed Resource Person and taught at Royal University of Bhutan, January 4-11, 2025
  2. Moderator/Host/Facilitator for the Free MOOCs Certificate Course, "Focus on Open Science Delhi - Creating a Research Culture for the 21st Century", with University College London and SKS Germany (2025 onwards).
  3. Rose L. Vormelker Award 2024, SLA Annual Conferene , University of Pittsburgh, USA.
  4. Only Foreign Expert Librarian, invited to Library Fair 2024 Japan to serve as Speaker and to visit Libraries, November 5-8, 2024 at Yokohama/Tokyo, Japan
  5. SLA Asia Librarian Excellence Award 2024 , SLA Annual Conference, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, USA.
  6. Elsevier Library Stellar Club Membership Award Certificate 2023, on successfully completing Scopus certification program.
  7. Outstanding Academic Librarian Award 2023, conferred on the occasion of National Librarians Day 2023, 13th August 2023, Social Development Federation, India
  8. SALIS - Dr. Harish Chandra-Sushila Chandra National Best Librarian Award, conferred on 14th October 2022, at KSR College of Technology, Tiruchengodu (TN)
  9. SLA Fellow 2022 (SLA-USA). Admitted to the 2022 Class of SLA Fellows, conferred on August 1, 2022, during the SLA Annual Conference, Charlotte, USA (FSLA)
  10. SLA Engineering Librarian of the Year Award 2021 from Special Libraries Association (SLA-USA)
  11. SLA Presidential Citation 2021 from Special Libraries Association (SLA-USA)
  12. SLA Overall Best Poster Award Winner at SLA 2020 Annual Conference.
  13. Exchange Visit to University College London for exploring mutual collaboration/exchange in the institutional interest in the area of Open Science, Digital Delivery, Estate Development and Strategic Planning during 15-17 January 2020.
  14. 2024 President, Engineering Community, Special Libraries Association (USA).
  15. 2022 President, Academic & Education Community, Special Libraries Association (USA).
  16. 2020 President, Asian Chapter, Special Libraries Association (USA).
  17. Facilitated the access to the E-Resources by establishing Remote Web Server using Shibboleth in collaboration with INFLIBNET Gandhinagar https://idp.iitd.ac.in
  18. Certificate of Recognition of Excellence from Taylor & Francis. January 15, 2021, for support during pandemic in Online Education.
  19. Certificate of Recognition-Top 50 Eminent Librarians of India 2020, The Academic Council of uLektz.
  20. Ranked 1 in Leaderboard Ranking, SLA Annual Conference 2020 as the most active participant of the SLA Annual Virtual Conference 2020.
  21. Migration of the all the Library Services to Cloud: ILMS, IR and other Servers to the Cloud Baadal (2020).
  22. As Organizing Chair - KEDL 2019, successfully organized one of India's biggest Library and Information Science Events: NDLI-UNESCO International Symposium on Knowledge Engineering for Digital Library Design 2019 (KEDL 2019) at IIT Delhi during 9 to 11 December 2019
  23. Library App Launched 2019.
  24. Winner of Royal Society of Chemistry's Librarians' Choice Appreciation Award for Dynamic Librarian (Biennial) 2019, August 23, 2019
  25. SLA Bonnie Hilditch International Librarian Award 2018 USA, for significant (professional) contributions by Special Libraries Association USA (SLA), presented during its Annual Conference, June 9-13, 2018, Baltimore, USA.
  26. Coordinator/PI- Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching 2019 (ARPIT)/Online MOOCs in Library and Information Sciences on Emerging Trends and Technologies in Library and Information Services (ETTLIS), under Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India
  27. SLP-SLA Asian Fellow Award 2019, Society for Library Professionals (SLP)-Special Libraries Association (SLA), USA Award presented during its biennial Sixth International Conference of Asian Special Libraries (ICoASL 2019) during February 14-16, 2019, New Delhi.
  28. Appreciation E-Mail from Director, IIT Delhi April 10, 2019.
  29. IIT Delhi Faculty Profiling System Implementation and New Interface of Institutional Repository
  30. Established "Library Museum" of Manuscripts and Artefacts, inaugurated on 12th Feb. 2017 by Dr. Frank F. Islam, former advisor to US President, Mr. Barack Obama (appreciated worldwide).
  31. Led the Innovative Initiative River Ganga Repository Project, 17th May 2016 to 2018.
  32. Best Paper Presentation Award 2012,International Conference on Knowledge Management & Resource Sharing (ICKMARS-2012), Waljat College of Applied Sciences & BIT at Muscat, Oman, February 28-29, 2012.
  33. Successfully implemented three World Bank funded Library related Projects.
  34. ISO 9001:2000/2008 Implementation at the University Library, CSK H.P. Agriculture University, Palampur (HP), 2006-2009.