Awards-recognitions

Awards

First class first in M. Lib. I. Sc, 1995. Honored by the Mayor of Pune Municipal Corporation for being top listed in M. Lib. I. Sc. examination, conducted by the University of Pune on 26th January 1996.
Award of US $100 for free search of Databases received during the quiz contest on "Dialog commands" during the training course on "Dialog Updates", organized Informatics India Bangalore and Knight-Rider Information Services and Data Star, USA, Oct.1996.
Honored during the Pune-net Meet on 29th October 1996 for the consultancy and help to PuneNet project.

Recognition

Empower Committee member of UGC-CARE since 2018
Co-ordinator, Centre for Publication Ethics, SP Pune University
Acknowledgement by the Centre for Journalology, The Ottawa Hospital, Canada, in project "One stop shop for predatory journals".
Compiler of "Compendium of Research Papers" published by faculty of University of pune on 10th February 2009.
Co-corodinator of the project “Pune University Digital Library” which is a International collaborative project with Carnegie Mellon University (http://www.ulib.org) USA and Indian Institute of Science (http://144.16.85.66), Bangalore.
Organising committee member of one day workshop organized by Special Library Association, USA on 8th February 2008 on “librarianship 2.0 : current trends in connecting people to information” organized by MCCIA, Pune.
South Asian Advisory Committee Member for Greenstone Digital Library Software (2007 onwards)
Secretary of Pune University Library and Information Science Alumni Association (Pulisaa) 2008 onwards and Joint secretary for the period 2005-2008.
Board of Studies member of SSC/HSC since 2003 -2008

International Grants

Recipient of Young Teacher Travel grant from Savitirbai Phule Pune University in 2014 to participate in the 12th Annual Library Leadership Institute, Library Leadership in the Asia Pacific Century, Shanghai, 16-20 May 2014
Recipient of IFLA Stiching Foundation grant to participate in forthcoming IFLA conference in Singapore during 17-23 August 2013.
Recipient of the travel grant from National Science Foundation for CHI 2009 conference to participate and present paper during the pre conference workshop at Boston, USA on April 4, 2009.
Recipient of Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) scholarship to Participate in International Species Bank workshop in March 2005, Amtserdam, Netherlands.
Recipient of the Ford Foundation Grant June 2004 to participate in two key digital library conferences in USA.
Receipient of travel grant by OCLC, USA to participate in Dublin Core Conference, 2001, Japan.
Fulbright Fellowship, 1998-99, Urbana-Champaign, USA

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