Specialization: Community Information Services, Bibliometrics, LIS Education, Library Management, Collection Development

Contact information:

(a) Residential Address: ADITI APARTMENT, 466, Garfa Main Road, Jadavpur, Kolkata-700075

(b) E-mail: bcliscu@gmail.com

(c) Mobile No: 9830504380

Academic qualifications:

Position held / holding:

a) Position held:

i) Member of Senate 1993-2007 (2 terms)

ii) Member of Syndicate 2003-2009 (2 terms)

iii) Member BOS, NBU

iv) Member, Research Advisory Committee, RBU

v) Coordinator, 5 Year Integrated MLIS, CU vi) Editor, CUJIS

vii) Member, Editorial Board, Calcutta Review

b) Position holding:

i) Joint Coordinator, Centre for Studies in Book Publishing

ii) Member Advisory Committee, CIIL

iii) Member Space Committee, CU

iv) Coordinator, M.Phil in LIS, CU

v) Member BOS, VU

vi) Member, Ph.D Committee, VU

vii) Member BOS, NSOU

viii) Library Secretary, The Asiatic Society, Kolkata

Research interests:

• Community Information Services
• Bibliometrics
• LIS Education
• Library Management
• Collection Development

Research guidance:

• Number of researchers awarded M.Phil degrees: 39
• Number of researchers awarded Ph.D theses: 23
• Number of researchers pursuing Ph.D degrees: 09

Projects:

(a) Completed projects: A Major Research Project on Information Need of Dhibar Community of Gosaba Block in the District of 24 PGS (South) under UPE Scheme of the UGC.

(b) Current projects: Nil

Select list of publications:

Books/Book Chapters

• Preservation and restoration of library materials: types and techniques (with Abira Chakrabarti). 2011. Progressive Publishers.
• A practical guide to 22nd edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification (with Arabinda Maity). 2011. Progressive Publishers.
• An introduction to library management (with Ashis Biswas and Sabahat Nausheen). 2011. Progressive Publishers.
• Tathya utsa o parisheba (with Dipak Kumar Kundu). 2012. Pragatisil Prakashak.
• Library and Society : an introduction with N. Bhattacharya

Research Papers:

• Information Sources in Humanities and their Bibliographical Control. (with Tridib Chatterjee). 2002-2003.Librarian.9& 10; 58-68.
• Educational Information Need of Solapith (Malakar) Community at Bankapasi village in Burdwan District of West Bengal and the role of Gram Panchayat. (with MLIS students). 2003. Conference Proceedings of the XXIV IASLIC Conference, Dehradun, pp. 335-344. 4
• Information Support for Rural development through Local History Collection. (with Tridib Chatterjee).2004.Seminar Proceedings of the 21st Seminar of IASLIC, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
• The Social Science Research Centres and Libraries in India at a Glimpse. (with Tridib Chatterjee).2004-05.Librarian.11 & 12;14-30. '
• Concepts of Community Information Service in the West and in India. In S.K.Sen and others ed. Politics Culture and Society – Collection of Essays in Memory of S M Ganguly.2005.New Age.Kolkata.pp. 279-291.