Libraries and Information Centres as Profit Making Institutions

Dr. S. Seetharama is currently on the Faculty of the Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Bangalore, of the Indian Statistiacal Institute (ISI), Calcutta. After completing M. Sc in Zoology from Madras University, he joined in 1964 the course leading to the Associateship in Documentation and Information Science of DRTC. In the year 1984, he obtained the Ph. D. degree from Karnataka University, Dharwad. After working as an Information Scientist from 1964 to 1970 at the Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Science, New Delhi, he joined DRTC in 1971. Since then he is involved in teaching the subjects --Information Transfer and Dissemination, Planning and Management of Information Centres and Systems, Information Systems and Programmes and Industrial Information Systems and Services. In 1981, he worked as Gesellschaft fur Indexing and Klassifikation system mbH, Frankfurt as a Collaborator on the project "International Classification and Indexing Bibliography 1950-1982". In 1983, he participated as an expert at the Third Meeting of the UNISIST Working Group on Information Consolidation held at Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia. He is a consultant to scientific and industrial establishment and has designed and developed plans for information system and services. He is the Project Leader, National Information Transfer Centre, ISORID Programme. He has vast experience in research in the field of Library and Information Science and has several research papers and a book entitled 'Guidelines for Planning of Libraries and Information Centres' to his credit.