Address :

Flat 2C, Anthariksh Apartment, No. 101/5, 11 th Cross,

Malleshwaram, BANGALORE – 560 003, INDIA.

Telephone 3313116

E-Mail sridharmirle@hotmail.com ; sridharmirle@rediffmail.com

Date of Birth : February 6, 1949

Present Position : Scientist/Engineer`SG’ and Head, Library and Documentation Division

& Scale of Pay Rs. 16400-450-20000 (Since 1.7.97)

ISRO Satellite Centre, Airport Road, Vimanapura P O, BANGALORE –

560 017, INDIA.

Telephone: (091-080) 25265561 & 25084379

Fax : (091-080) 25084475 & 25263622

E-Mail : sridhar@isac.ernet.in

Educational : M.Sc. (Mathematics; Bangalore Univ., 1976)

Qualification M.Lib.Sc. (Univ. of Mysore, 1972)

M.B.A. (Bangalore Univ., 1982)

Ph.D. (LIS; Univ. of Mysore, 1988)

Positions Held : Dec. ’72 – Jan. ‘73, Asst. Librarian -Univ. of Mysore

Jan. ’73 – May ‘77, Sr. Tech. Asst. -NAL, Bangalore

May ’77 – Aug.‘78, Asst. Librarian -IIM, Bangalore

Aug.’78 – , Head, Lib. & Doc.-ISRO Satellite Center, B’lore

Academic and : 1983 – 88, Doctoral research (Univ. of Mysore)

Research 1990 – , Recognised as Research Guide for doctoral work in Library &

Information Science by Kerala Univ. & Bangalore Univ.

2001 – Member of Board of Studies for MLIS of Univ. of Mysore &

Karnataka State Open Univ (KSOU), Mysore.

2003 – External referee for doctoral thesis of SNDT Women’s

University, Mumbai.

Experience : 1990 – Counselor, course writer and evaluator for LIS courses of Indira

Gandhi National Open University & Karnataka State Open Univ.

Membership in : Life Member of (i) Society for Information Science, (ii) Indian Association

Professional of Special Libraries & Information Centres, (iii) Indian Library Association,

Bodies & (iv) Karnataka State Library Association

Specialisation : Special libraries; Library management; Library planning & budgeting;

Library automation; Information retrieval; User research; User education

Information technologies; Micrographics; Reprographics; Grey Literature,

Documentation & information services; Collection development,

management & evaluation; Service management; Marketing of Services;

. Quality in Services; Resource sharing & networking of libraries;

Bibliometrics; Content management; Digital libraries

Publications : To see the list of 57 journal articles (10 in Kannada), 22 conference papers, 19

seminar presentations, 4 books, 5 chapters in books, 2 internal reports,

13 BLIS / MLIS course materials, 3 dissertations / theses and 1 editorial

Information professionals