Country:   India

Qualification: B Sc (Mathematics), M Lib I Sc, Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application

Designation: Scientific & Technical Officer – I

Institution: INFLIBNET (Information & Library Network) Centre, UGC, P.B. No. 4116, Navarangpura, Ahmedabad, India

Professional Experience: 1. INFLIBNET Centre, UGC, Ahmedabad (Current as Scientific & Technical Officer – I)

2. Govt. Simga College, Simga (Raipur), Chhattisgarh as an Ad-hoc Librarian

• • 3. Govt High School, Ganjar, (Mahasamund), Chhattisgarh as a Science Teacher

Language Known: Chhattisgarhi, Hindi, English

Area of Interest: Bibliographic Database, Bibliographic Standards,

• • Library Automation, Library Networking, Internet

    Cataloguing, Library Software

E-mail: rkjack@yahoo.com

URL Address: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in (Office)

Telephone No: 91-79-26873805 (R), 26304695, 26469002, 26308528 (O)
Fax: 91-79-26300990, 26307816

Fax: 91-079-6300990

Professional Associations: 1. Member – Literari Club – Emerald

Conference/Workshops/Trainings Attended:

1. Attended 44^th ILA conference held at Osmania University, Hyderabad on 1999.

2. Attended Convention on Automation of Libraries in Education and Research Institutes (CALIBER – 2000) held at University of Madras, Chennai, India during February 16-18, 2002

3. Attended 8^th CDS/ISIS User Group Meet held at ATIRA, Ahmedabad on December, 2000

4. Attended one week Workshop on Digital Libraries held at Mysore University, Mysore collaboration with USEFI, New Delhi and DRTC, Bangalore on February, 2001.

5. Attended four days DELNET-NIC Training Programmes for Library and Information Science Professionals held at NIC Campus, New Delhi on September, 2001

6. Attended Workshops on English Language and Communication Skills/Personality Development held at INFLIBNET Centre on 18^th – 19^th and 20^th – 22^nd December, 2001 respectively

Lectures:

1. Had given lecture on Information Technology Application in the field of Library to Gujarat BTI Librarians on the occasion of Talim Sivir at Dec, 1998.

2. Had given lecture on Creation and Maintenance of Union Database of All India Radio Library on the occasion of AIR Refresher course held at INFLIBNET Centre on 7^th to 12^th January 2002

3. Had given lecture on CDS/ISIS to Centre for Environment  Education (CEE), Ahmedabad

4. Had given lecture cum demonstration of SOUL software at Gujarat Vidyapeeth, Ahmedabad during November 2000 on the occasion of Refresher Course.

5. Had given lecture cum demonstration of SOUL Software at Ramnarayan Ruia College, Mumbai on occasion of one-month workshop in 2002.

6. Conducted IRTPLA (INFLIBNET Regional Training Programme on Library Automation) at Calcutta University, Kolkatta, Utkal University, Bhubneswar and University of Patna, Patna during 2001 and 2002.

7. Worked on so many workshops and training programs organised by INFLIBNET on Bibliographic Databases, Library Automation, Networking and Bibliographic Standards as a faculty

Visited Universities/Institutes/Colleges:

Visited following universities and institutions as a resource person of INFLIBNET Centre for conducting training programmes as well as for solving problems related to the automation of their library.

1. Assam:

• Assam University, Silchar

2. Orissa:

• Sambalpur University,

Sambalpur

• Utkal University, Bhubneswar

3. West Bengal:

• University of Calcutta, Kolkata
• Vidya Sagar University, Midnapore

4. New Delhi:

• Jawahar Lal Nehru University,

New Delhi

• Developing Library Network (DELNET), New Delhi

5. Hariyana:

• Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra

6. Panjab:

• Panjab University,

Chandigarh

7. Maharashtra:

• International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai
• University of Bombay, Mumbai
• SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai
• Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune
• University of Pune,

Pune

• Bharati Vidyapeeth, Pune
• Tata Insitute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai
• Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune
• Centre for Development and Advance Computing (C-DAC), Pune
• National Centre for Software Technology (NCST), Mumbai
• Ramnarayan Ruai College, Dadar, Mumbai
• Peerbai Shah College, Mumbai

8. Gujarat:

• S P University,

Anand

• Gujarat Vidyapeeth, Ahmedabad
• Gujarat University, Ahmedabad
• Gujarat Ayurved University, Jamnagar
• Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad
• Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Ahmedabad
• Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad
• ATIRA, Ahmedabad
• Ahmedabad Library Network (ADINET), Ahmedabad

9. Madhya Pradesh:

• Dr. Harisingh Gour University, Sagar
• Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur

10. Andhra Pradesh:

• Osmania University, Hyderabad
• Hyderabad University, Hyderabad
• Jawahar Lal Nehru Technological University,

Hyderabad

• NTR University of Health Science, Vijayawada

11. Karnataka:

• University of Mysore, Mysore
• Bangalore University, Bangalore
• Documentation Research Training Centre (DRTC), Bangalore
• National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Bangalore

Publications:

International Level:

• CCF and INFLIBNET Standard Metadata to Dublin Core Crosswalk.

Rajesh Chandrakar. Being published in Vol. 5 No. 3 of Journal of Internet cataloguing published by Howarth Information Press, Binghamton, NY.

• Mapping CCF to MARC21

: an experimental approach. Rajesh Chandrakar. Classification and Cataloguing Quarterly. Binghamton, NY : Howarth Information Press, 2001, Vol 33, No. 1. P. 33-50. http://www.haworthpressinc.com/store/TOC/J104v33n01_TOC.pdf

• Indian Multilingual Bibliographic Database Problem

: an overview. Rajesh Chandrakar and T A V Murthy. Twentieth first International Unicode Conference, held at Dublin, Ireland on May 14 – May 17, 2002 organized by Unicode, Inc/Global Information Service, Inc, USA. http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc21/a338.html

• Indian Multi-Script Bibliographic Database: an Indian perspective.

Rajesh Chandrakar. Online Information Review. West Yorkshire, England: MCB University Press, 2002, Vol. 26, No. 4. P. 246-251. http://lucia.emeraldinsight.com/vl=23189559/cl=37/nw=1/rpsv/~1184/v26n4/s2/p246

National Level:

• Subject headings – problem and solutions: proposal for an INFLIBNET database.

Rajesh Chandrakar. Edited by S L Sardana. 44^th ILA conference held at Osmania University Hyderabad with collaboration P S Telugu University Hyederabad, 1998.

• Databases, types and its role in information dissemination.

Rajesh Chandrakar and K Prakash. In Library, Information Science and Society : (Essay in the memory of Late Dr. A Tejomurty). Edited By Surendra Singh and Sonal Singh. New Delhi: Ess Ess Publication, 2002. 381p. ISBN 81-7000-306-7. http://www.vedamsbooks.com/no22246.htm

• Conversion of Bibliographic Data from CCF to UNIMARC and MARC21 Format

. Rajesh Chandrakar. Information Studies. Chennai : Ranganathan Centre for Information Studies, Jul-Oct 2001. Vol. 7 No 3-4. P. 167-178.

• Library Member Code System in SOUL Circulation Module.

Rajesh Chandrakar and Yatrik Patel. INFLIBNET Newsletter. Ahmedabad : INFLIBNET Centre, January – March, 2002. Vol. 8 No. 1. p 14-18.

• INFLIBNET (Information and Library Network) Centre: Bridging the Digital Divide in Indian Academic Libraries.

Rajesh Chandrakar, Prem Chand and T A V Murthy. Accepted for the Publication and Presentation in NACLIN –2002 at Kochi.

Monographs:

• SOUL Guidelines for Data Capturing (Books): a user manual.

Designed and Prepared by Rajesh Chandrakar. Ahmedabad: INFLIBNET Centre, 2000.

• SOUL Guidelines for Data Capturing: a user’s guide 2001.

Designed and Prepared by Rajesh Chandrakar. Ahmedabad : INFLIBNET Centre, 2001. 108p

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