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About the Authors:

Prof. L.S. Ramaiah is one of the Senior LIS Professional in the country.  He studied at the Banarus Hindu University, Osmania University and the National Archives of India.  He was a Gold Medalist from the Osmania University. He is the best Librarian Awardee from the IASLIC and the P.S. Telugu University.  He was recipient of the Martenson Fellowship from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.  He was member of the UGC Library panel, member of the Executive Committee of the RRRLF.  He was a member of Executives of the ILA and IASLIC for one term each.  He had written and edited 35 books contributed about 95 articles.

Dr. K. Veeranjaneyulu  is the University Librarian at Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad. He has a distinguished academic career to his credit.  He was a gold medalist in BLISc. and MLISc. from S.V. University, Tirupati.  He pursued M.Com, MLISc., BGL., and Ph.D., from the same University and qualified UGC-NET during the year 1992.  He also possesses PGDLAN and a Diploma in Software applications.  He assumed editorial responsibility to many professional journals. He had written and edited more than 16 books and contributed about 100 articles. He has attended and contributed papers at many conferences and seminars.  He is a life member of ILA, IATLIS, IASLIC, AALDI, FIC, APLA and ALSD. He is presently Treasurer of “Association of Agricultural Librarians and Documentalists of India (AALDI), Chief Editor of Indian Journal of Agricultural Librarians & Information Services (IJALIS) and CCPI, e-Granth Project. He has been awarded with the “USSHLE-IJILIS-Param Bhusan Dr. B.B. Shukla Millennium Award for Excellence in Library & Information Science & International Human Understanding” for the year 2007.