Profile Management Systems for Researchers and Academicians

P.Padma  (Ph.D.) is currently  working  as Assistant  Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India. She has more than 30 years of professional experience. Under her supervision so far 12 scholars have been awarded Ph.D. and 23 scholars have been awarded M.Phil. She has  to her credit, more than 70 research papers published in national and international peer-reviewed journals, 90 papers in  conference proceedings and more than 100 book chapters in edited books. She has delivered numerous invited lectures; served as a Chairperson of the department, Ph.D. Doctoral Committee Member, BOS member, Question paper setter of various universities and colleges. She has been a reviewer of a peer reviewed journal since 2018 and a member of Expert committee of TNPSC & Kerala PSC. She visited Sri Lanka and Malaysia to present papers in international conferences. Her areas of interest include user studies, scientometrics and open source technologies.

 K.Ramasamy (Ph.D.) is presently working as Librarian at M.V. Muthiah Government Arts College for Women, Dindigul, Tamilnadu, India. He secured three gold medals in B.Com. and secured second rank in the university in both BLISs and MLISc. He cleared SLET once, JRF twice and UGC-NET six times and has 25 years of professional experience. He has published 94 papers in national and international conferences/seminars & 89 articles in national and international peer reviewed journals. He has Contributed 102 book chapters in edited books, delivered 145 face-to-face invited talks & 98 online video lectures and has also published 8 books in LIS. He has attended 24 Seminars/ workshops & 150 online academic programmes and has received ‘Best Librarian Award’ 2019-2020 from SBVS, Maharashtra ; ‘Edge India Award for Excellence in Research’ in 2020, ‘National Best Librarian Award’ 2021 from MALA and ‘Outstanding Service Award 2022’ from MALA, SALIS– Dr.R.Srinivasan Memorial National Special Appreciation and Meritorious Service Award (Research in LIS) 2019. He has been the  Associate editor of 3 conference volumes & editor of 6 edited books, Associate Editor of 3 journals and has also served as seminar director, co-organizing secretary, chairperson and Rapporteur General of various conferences / seminars. He has won 7 best paper awards in conferences and is also a recipient of Minor Research Project grant of Rs.1 lakh from TANSCHE. He has written course materials for LIS Programme of National Open University, Sri Lanka and has organized one international seminar, one TANSCHE sponsored national seminar, 4 state level seminars, 4 national level webinars, one ICSSR sponsored national webinar & one international virtual conference. He served as DC Committee Member, Board of Studies Members, Question paper setter and Visiting faculty in LIS; Academic Counsellor of IGNOU and TNOU. His areas of interests include User Studies, Scientometrics, Institutional Repository, School Libraries, Open Source Softwares & Statistical Packages.