KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN LIBRARIES

p>Dr. Piyush Kanti Mahapatra has been teaching in the Department of Library
Science, Calcutta University for more than three decades. He also long held the
tenure of Head of the Department. His book, the computer in Library Services
(1985) was a pioneering work on the subject. He has written more than a dozen of
books on Library and Information Science. Dr. Mahapatra is a member of FID and
life member of several national associations. He is associated with a number of
universities in various capacities. He was a member of the UGC Panel of Library
and Information Science as well as the UGC Committee for Curriculum Development.
He was the Chairman of the CALIBNET Standardisation Committee, set up by NISSAT.
He is the Library Secretary and member of the Calcutta, an institution of
national importance. Dr. Mahapatra atended a number of international conferences
and seminars and visited USA, UK, Canada, France, Singapore, Hong Kong,
Thailand, and presented paper in FID General Assembly.



Dr. Bhubaneswar Chakrabarti is a sector teacher in Library Science at the
University of Calcutta. He attended the British Council course on Education for
Library and Information Science held in Aberysttwyth, Wales, UK in 1981. He is
an alumnus of the State University of New York at Buffalo and worked at the OCLC
terminal for a considerable period. He has an extensive publication record,
including a number of articles, conference papers and several textbooks
published by the World press, Calcutta.