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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 38 books and contributed about 98 articles

Dr. M. Koteswara Rao joined the University of Hyderabad in April 2006 as University Librarian, Indira Gandhi Memorial Library. Prior to this, Dr. Koteswara Rao worked as Deputy Librarian at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai from May 1991 to April 2006.  Prior to this he worked at the United Nations Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology, Bangalore from 1980 to 1991.  He holds a Masters degree in Zoology and a Bachelors Degree in Library Science from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam.  He is a recipient of the Associateship in Documentation and Information Science from the DRTC, ISI, Bangalore, and later a Ph.D. from the University of Madras, Chennai.  He has more than 18 journal articles/papers published in various journals and conference proceedings.  He had participated in various National and International seminars and workshops and organized several training programmes to library staff.  He visited Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and China.  He is a member of professional associations like – ILA, IASLIC, MALA, KALA & ALSD.

Dr. K. Veeranjaneyulu is the University Librarian at Acahrya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad. He has a distinguished academic career to his credit. He was a gold medallist in BLISc. from S.V. University, Tirupati. He pursued M.Com., MLISc., BGL., and Ph.D., from the same University. He also possesses PGDLAN and a Diploma in Software applications. He assumed editorial responsibility to many professional journals, and has 95 articles published to his credit. 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.