9TH – 11TH DECEMBER 2019

SEMINAR HALL – IIT DELHI, INDIA

Speakers and Panelists for common sessions

Ben Vershbow

Director Community Programme ,Wikimedia Foundation

David Bainbridge

Professor of Computer Science , University of Waikato

Enno Meijers

IT Advisor , National Library of Netherlands

Gregory Cram

Attorney, The New York Public Library

Harry Willem Verwayen

Executive Director, Europeana Foundation

Jawahar C. V.

Professor, Dean (RnD) & Amazon Chair Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

Lisa Petrides

Founder and CEO of Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education(ISKME)

Mary Anderson Ochs

Director, AR Mann Library, Cornell University

Partha Pratim Das

Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur and Joint Principal Investigator, NDLI project

Parthasarathi  Mukhopadhyay

Professor Dept of Library and information Science at University of Kalyani

Paul David Clough

Professor of Search and Analytics, University of Sheffield

Prasenjit Mitra

Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, Associate Dean for Research, Pennsylvania State University

Sambit Datta

Dean International Professor of Computational Urban Science Curtin University, Perth, Australia

Santanu Chaudhury1

Santanu Chaudhury

Director, IIT Jodhpur

Sarah Kenderdine

Professor Digital Museology, EPFL, Switzerland

Sebastian Hellmann

Director, Institute for Applied Informatics, e.V.

Prabuddha Ganguli

Prabuddha Ganguli

Visiting Prof., Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, IIT Kharagpur

Liam Wyatt

Community Manager, Europeana Foundation

Muhammad Mezbah-ul-Islam

Professor, Department of Information Science and Library Management, Faculty of Arts, University of Dhaka

Parameswaran N

Advisor, MHRD

John Van Oudenaren

Global Fellow, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, and former Director, World Digital Library, Library of Congress

Session Chair

Anupam Basu

Director, NIT Durgapur

Prasenjit Mitra

Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, Associate Dean for Research, Pennsylvania State University

Ramesh Gaur

Director (Library & Information) & Head-Kalanidhi Division at IGNCA, Ministry of Culture

ARD Prasad

Ex. Prof. DRTC, Bangalore

Plaban Kumar Bhowmick

Co-PI, National Digital Library of India, IIT Kharagpur

Ravinder Kumar Chadha

Professor, LIS and Research Ex-Additional Secretary, Parliament of India, LSS, New Delhi

Partha Pratim Das

Jt.-PI, National Digital Library of India, India

David Bainbridge

Professor of Computer Science , University of Waikato

Paul David Clough

Professor of Search and Analytics, University of Sheffield

Speakers and Panelists for Break Away Session at IIT Delhi Auditorium

Invited Talk on Challenges and Approaches of Library professionals in the era of Digital Library

Session Chair

R.K. Sharma

Librarian ,United Nations Information Centre, New Delhi

Session Coordinators

Vanita Khanchandani

Assistant Librarian, IIT Delhi

Gunjan Mishra

Sr. Library Information Assistant, IIT Delhi

Speakers

Ramesh Gaur

Director (Library & Information) & Head-Kalanidhi Division at IGNCA, Ministry of Culture

K. K. Bhattacharjee

Joint Registrar at IIT Delhi

Sandeep Kumar Pathak

Deputy Librarian, IISER Bhopal

Sangeeta Kaul

Network Manager at DELNET

P.K. Jain

Librarian,Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi

Parveen Babbar

Deputy Librarian, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

Vijay Kumar Verma

Assistant Librarian, IIT Delhi

Panel Discussion

Towards a Digital Library: by the Communities and for the Communities Panellists

Moderator

T. S. Kumbar

Librarian IIT Gandhinagar (Moderator)

Panelists

B. Sutradhar

Librarian, IIT Kharagpur

C. Jayakumar

Librarian, IIT Roorkee

M. N. Jadhav

Librarian, IIT Madras

Nabi Hasan

Librarian, IIT Delhi

Bibhuti B. Sahoo

Deputy Librarian, IIT Bhubaneshwar

Anjali Bandiwadekar

Deputy Librarian, IIT Indore

Manju Naik

Chief Library Officer, IIT Bombay

Speakers and Panelists for Break Away Session at UNESCO, New Delhi

Strengthening SAARC through Digital Heritage

Keynote Speaker

Partha Pratim Das

Professor of IIT Kharagpur, India, Jt.-PI of National Digital Library of India and General Co-Chair, KEDL 2019

Session Chair

Ben Vershbow

Director, Community Programs, WikiMedia Foundation

Panel Discussion

The State-of-the-Art in Digital Heritage and its Role in Strengthening SAARC

Moderator

Ramesh C. Gaur

Member of MOW IAC and Director(L&I), IGNCA, New Delhi, India

Panelists

Md. Mizanur Rahman

Microfilm Officer, Directorate of Archives and Libraries, Bangladesh

Aminath Shiuna

Director, Digitisation and Training Section, National Library of Maldives, Maldives

Saubhagya Pradhananga

Chief, National Archives of Nepal, Nepal

Udaya Cabral

Head Conservation & Preservation Division, National Library and Documentation Service Board of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka

Partha Pratim Das

Jt.-PI, National Digital Library of India, India

Dilara Begum

Associate Professor and Chairperson of Information Studies and Library Management Department and Librarian (Acting) at East West University , Dhaka, Bangladesh