Educational Qualification:

Computer Proficiency: A.D.C.S.S.A.A. [Advanced Diploma in Computer Software and System Analysis and Applications]

Specialties:

•  Acquisition
•  Indexing, Abstracting 
• Classifying print/non-print material 
• Cataloguing AACR2,CC,CCF 
• Reference and Referral Services 
• C,C++,Oracle,HTML,MS-Office,Star Office,Lotus 123 
• Dos, Unix, Linux 
• Library s/ws : Libsys,Slim,Koha,Easylib,Libsuit,Autolib, ABCD etc 
• Digital library s/ws : Dspace, Greenstone

Areas of Interest : Reference Service, Documentation, Indexing, Web Searching and Knowledge Management, Library software        

Projects handled  :  

 Coordination of Sponsored R&D Projects  :

Production of Electronic-Tutorials on the ABCD –Open Source Library software for the DOC

 BIBLAS-Project of UNESCO, USA and BIREME, Belgium-2009

Working Experience  :

Present Job Responsibilities – 

 Overall administration of Library,

 Library Automation,

 Reference and Referral Service

 Information Literacy and Library orientation,

 Collection and e-resources development,

 Library Website, Blog Designing and updating, 

 Set up E-library and e resources subscription,

 Digitization of library resources,

 Conducting Library related events namely book review clubs, competitions, workshops, Guest lectures, Book exhibitions to enrich reading habits amongst the students.

 Celebrating birth and death anniversaries of Eminent Indian Leaders & Social Reformers

 Display of books and other library resources on days of importance and about eminent personalities

 Preparing subject bibliographies

 Instrumental in organizing audio-visual events, screening of films and documentaries in order to encourage use of ICT in education

 Subject Alerts, current updates of library and in education field through email via Google group,

 Publishing Library E-Newsletter “ Granthavedh”,

 Creating awareness about e-resources among students,

 Knowledge management: Capture, organize, and storage of Institutional knowledge both explicit and implicit for future reference.

 Promoting research activity and motivate teachers  for publishing articles by disseminating information about International, national and state level workshops, seminars, conferences

 Creating Institutional Repository 

 Started new innovative services, participated in other academic and extracurricular activities of the College.

 Encouraging library staff to participate in various college level activities, identifying their training needs, thus helping library human resources to upgrade their knowledge and skill set

To publish articles in the LIS profession and conduct, attend national, International conferences

Activities and Societies:

                                     ·          Indian Library Association – Life member 

·           Pune University library and Information Science Alumni Association - Life member 

·          Chinmaya Mission, Pune(Spiritual Organization) – Member 

·          Pune University Teachers Association – Member 

·          Lis_ forum, Librariansworld.com & 

·          other online LIs communities- Member like

·         o American Library Association

·         o Automated Media n Publicity Web-Desk

·         o Digital Libraries

·         o IFLA

·         o  information Security Community

·         o Internet Librarian International

·         o Knowledge gateway for LIS Professionals

·         o LIBEReurope

·         o LIBTECH

·         o METADATA MANAGEMENT

·         o Special Libraries Association

·         o Science Librarians

International Training

Completed the International Training on Scientific and Technological Information Management in Universities and Libraries

organized by Brussels University and Belgium Government from October to December 2008.

Refresher and Orientation Program :

• Attended a Orientation programme from 31-03-2003 to 26-04-2003 at Academic Staff College, University of Pune. 

• Attended a Refresher course 31-03-2004 to 20-04-2004 at Department of Lib and Info Science, University of Pune

           organized by Academic Staff College, University of Pune.

Seminars and Workshops Attended:

•  Annual Seminar on “Information Literacy: new learning culture during 4-5 Feb 2006 organized by PULISAA.

·         Attended two days workshop on “Searching the Internet” conducted by PULISAA on August 11-12, 2007 at Jayakar

       Library, University of Pune

·         Participated in the one day district level seminar on “Problems of College Libraries organized by C.T.Bora College,

      Shirur, Pune on 15th December 2007

·          Attended “Author, Publisher and Librarians Meet 2008 : Challenges in Information,  Communication in Digital Era”

       organized by The National Library, Kolkata and National Institute of Virology, Pune on 19th January 2008 

Resource Person :

1.National Workshop on Integrated Library Automation Software ABCD at BIMTECH Greater Noida. 26-29 May 2011.

2. Workshop on ABCD:open source library automation and digital library software at Bioinformatics Centre,

University of Pune in collaboration with PULISAA on 31st May 2011.

Published transcriptions (English-Marathi) : 9 articles

• June, July, August, September, October,November, December,January 2006 Issues of

 Chinmaya Jagruti Monthly magazine of Chinmaya Mission, Pune (Spiritual Organisation)

• Editor of “GranthVedh” a library newsletter Released at the hands of Padmashree D.Y.Patil,

Hon Governor, Tripura and Dr. R.K.Shevgaonkar, Hon. Vice Chancellor, University of Pune on

the occassion of inauguration of our renovated library on 2nd August 2011

http://www.moderncollegegk.org/Granthvedhfinaltoprint.pdf

http://www.moderncollegegk.org/GranthVedh_Issue_2.pdf

• Editor of "Aakansha" College Magazine 2011-12

Articles:

1. Stimulate 8 Group,Vrije University, Brussels The Web of Science and Google Scholar: non-Western Countries occuring in the byline versus country top level domain queries. International Society for Scientometrics and Infometrics (ISSI) Newsletter, 5(1) available at http://eprints.rclis.org/15606/
2. Ronald Rossuoe and Stimulate 8 group. On the relation between the WoS impact factor,  the Eigenfactor, the SCImago Journal Rank, the Article influence Score and the journal h-index paper presented during a conference held at Nanjing University on 24-25 April 2009 and published in Conference Proceedings and available at http://eprints.rclis.org/bitstream/10760/13304/1/Rousseau_Nanjing_conference_contribution.pdf
3. Egbert De Smet and Sangeeta N Dhamdhere. ABCD : an open source automation tool for libraries.Pearl : A Journal of Library and Information Science, Hyderabad, ISSN: 0973-7081, Online ISSN: 0975-6922, Vol No. IV, Issue No. IV,December 2010 
4. Sangeeta N. Dhamdhere. FOSS for Indian Libraries.Journal of the Young Librarian Association, ISSN: 0975-4857,  Vol. 3, 2010, pg. 50-55.
5. Nandakumar B Dahibhate, Sangeeta N Dhamdhere and Manjiri A Karambelkar. Future of Academic Libraries in ICT Era .Proceedings of UGC Sponsored National Level Seminar on Impact of Information Technology on College Libraries 14th and 15th October 2011, ISBN: 978-93-81546-21-5, pg.90-93
6. Dhamdhere, Sangeeta Namdev. (2011). ABCD, an open source software for modern libraries. Chinese Librarianship: an International Electronic Journal, 32. available at  http://www.white-clouds.com/iclc/cliej/cl32dhamdhere.pdf
7. Sangeeta N Dhamdhere. ABCD:New Foss for Library Automation and Digital Library . Paper presented at National Conference on "Digital Library Management and Challenges"(NCDLMC-2011).Asian Books Private Limited. New Delhi.2011, ISBN: 978-81-8412-102-5. Pg.192-202.
8. Dhamdhere, Sangeeta Namdev. NECESSITY OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND SHARING IN EDUCATIONAL INDUSTRY. ISST Journal of Advances in Librarianship [IJALIB] ISSN : 0976-9021.July-Dec 2011. Vol.1.Issue.2. 
9. Prashant Phugnar, Sangeeta Dhamdhere and Nandkumar B Dahibhate. Institutional Repository (IR): Need for Knowledge Preservation and resource sharing paper accepted at 57th All India Library Conference of Indian Library Association on “Knowledge Society: Innovations in Librarianship (ILAKSIL 2012) at Mangalore
10. Sangeeta N Dhamdhere. Paper entitled “ Academic Libraries 2020” accepted at National level Seminar on “ ICT Development and its Impact on Libraries” at Annasaheb Magar Mahavidyalaya, Hadapsar, Pune on 27th‐28th January 2012
11. Sangeeta N Dhamdhere, Nandakumar B Dahibhate,  Manjiri A Karambelkar  and Prashant Phugnar. Paper entitled "Application of Web 2.0 tools for scholarly communication and libraries" accepted at  National seminar on Innovative challenges in Information Services: Changing paradigm for Sustenance of Library & Information Centers in Digital Era organized by Department of Library & Information Science, University of Jammu, Jammu on March 01-02, 2012

12.  Sangeeta N Dhamdhere. Library website: A mirror of the library paper accepted at 57th 

    All India Library Conference of Indian Library Association on “Knowledge Society: 

    Innovations in Librarianship(ILAKSIL 2012) at Mangalore  

13.  Dhavale, Giridhar, Dhamdhere, Sangeeta, Karambalekar, Manjiri and Dahibhate, 

    Nandakumar. "Collection Development and Management Policies" has been selected 

    in our National Seminar "Challenges in Library Management System" from 24 – 25 

    February, 2012 at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Library (IACS), 

    Jadavpur, Kolkata

14. Dhamdhere, Sangeeta N; Karambalekar, Manjiri and Dahibhate, Nandakumar. Paper 

    entitled “Impact of E-publishing on Academic Libraries” accepted at International 

    Conference on Electronic Publications” February 29^th to March 2012, Pondicherry.

15. Ajit Sonawane, Sangeeta Dhamdhere, Manjiri Karambelkar and Nandakumar Dahibhate. Paper entitled "Cloud Based Architecture for Collaborative E-Publication 

    accepted at International 

    Conference on Electronic Publications” February 29^th to March 2012, Pondicherry.

16. Sangeeta N Dhamdhere and Nandakumar B Dahibhate. Knowledge Management Model 

    (KMM) for an Academic Institute Paper presented at INTERNATIONAL 

    CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND RESOURCE SHARING, WALJAT 

    COLLEGE OF APPLIED SCIENCES, OMAN, MUSCAT on 27-28th February 2012 
17.  Manjiri Karambelkar ,  Sangeeeta Dhamdhere ,  Prashant L. Phugnar , N B Dahibhate. Paper entitled "  E-learning: Future trends and Challenges to Academic Libraries " accepted at 2nd International Conference on e-Learning and Knowledge Management Technology ( ICEKMT'12 ) (http://www.iisrc.org/ijitcs/Manjiri+Karambelkar.php ) Hotel Corus, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia   on April  16  - 17 , 2012. Published in  International Journal of Information Technology & Computer Science ( IJITCS ) Vol 2.  ISSN (Online ) : 2091 - 1610 | Pages : 59 - 67 | Publication Date : March / April 2012  and available at  http://www.iisrc.org/ijitcs/Manjiri%20Karambelkar.pdf
18. Sangeeta Namdev Dhamdhere. Paper entitled "E-resource management using OSS: a case study” accepted at  National Conference on “Trends in Developing and Managing e-Resources in Libraries (TDMeRL-2012)”, by Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belgaum, Karnataka in association with AKELPA on 25^th & 26^th May, 2012.

Future Plans: Pursue PhD, Publish research papers and learn new things in the field.

 Yours truly,

Sangeeta N Dhamdhere