Awards
Technology from SAGE Innovators Award
Runnersup award for the development of product Amazon Alexa Skill as an Artificial Intelligent (AI) Tool for Academic Library Services [Video]
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
Felicitation by NCISM, AYUSH Ministry for my contributions and collaboration with NCISM and CCRAS, June 2024 [Letter of invitation]
Empowered Committee member of UGC-CARE since 2018
Co-ordinator, Centre for Publication Ethics, SP Pune University since 2018
Acknowledgement by the Centre for Journalology, The Ottawa Hospital, Canada, in the project "One stop shop for predatory journals". 2020
Compiler of "Compendium of Research Papers" published by faculty of the 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
Special invitee by Spastic Society of India, Mumbai. Provided special guidance in the Indo-German ADAPT project. Visited on 28th November 2008 and delivered a lecture on Greenstone Digital Library software and extended help in the project.
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
Research Guide
Savitribai Phule Pune University since 2013.
SNDT University, Mumbai