Country: India

Date of Birth : 5th Jan. 1965

Designation and Address : Scientist -C, INFLIBNET Centre, P.B.No-4116, Navrangpura

Ahmedabad-380009, Gujarat, India

E-mail : premchand@inflibnet.ac.in, premc@mailcity.com

Web site: www.angelfire.com/va/premch/

http://www.inflibnet.ac.in

Language Known:

Speak only : English , Hindi ,Tibetan, Punjabi

Read only : English, Hindi

Hobby : Trekking

Educational Qualification:

Master of Library and Information Science , Master of Arts (Political Science)

Phd. Registered

Working Experience: Since 20th Sep, 1996- till date. Following is the d tails:

Designation Institution Pay Scale (in Rs.) Period

Lib. & Inf. Asstt.. LBSNAA,Mussoorie 1400-2600 12-9-90 to 26-4-1996

Sr.Lib. & Inf. Asstt. LBSNAA,Mussoorie 1640-2900 26-4-96 to 24-12-96

Scientist-B INFLIBNET Centre,

Ahmedabad 8000-13500 26-12-96 –13-01-2000

Scientist-C INFLIBNET Centre, 10000-13500 13-01-2000 –Till date

Ahmedabad

Areas of Interest

Database development, Library Consortia, Inter Library Loan, Library Software, Library Automation , Library Networking

Article Published

· Kumbar, T S and Prem Chand Online access to Union Databases developed at INFLIBNET. Thirty-second IASLIC, Information Management in Context of fast Emerging Information Society. Agra, 1999 pp-65-72

· Prem Chand and Shiv Pal Singh Kushwa , Standards for library and Information Science community. Dr. Tejomurty Fascript Vol. Edited by Sonal Singh. Riwa, 2000.

Sonia Dube, Prem Chand, Shivpal Singh Khushwah , Niyati Oza Content Management of Web Enabled Experts Database in the field of Science and Technology, CALIBER- 2002 held at Rajasthan University , Jaipur.

· Chandrakar, Rajesh , Prem Chand and T A V Murthy Digital Divide in Indian Academic Libraries, NACLIN 2002.

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