Library & Information Professional

Education

• 2017 PhD in Library and Information Science from University of Mumbai
  

• 2004 Master of Library & Information Science (Gold Medal & University Rank) from Karnatak University, Dharwad

• 2002 Bachelor of Arts/ Karnatak Arts College, Dharwad

Others:

• 2014 ​Masters in Mass Communication and Journalism/ SMU
  

• 2010 Diploma in Management/ IGNOU
  

Experience

Current Poisition

2020+ University Librarian (Profesor Grade), Central University of Haryana

Additional responsibilities

• Ex-Officio Member, Academic Council; Court
• Director, Publication Division; Granth Academy
• Nodal Officer, NIRF (Overall); ARIIA; ShodhGanga
• Chairperson, Media and Outreach
• Coordinator, “Research and Publication Ethics” Course; “Online Course in Publishing” (in association with NBT)
• Member, Office of International Affairs; Research Promotion Board; IQAC; Task Force, NEP; Building Committee, etc.
• Former Director, IQAC; Former Head, Computer Centre
  

Past positions

• 2007-2020/ Librarian, Khandwala College (Autonomous), Mumbai
• 2005-2007/ Librarian, St. Joseph College, Virar (W), Thane

• 2005/ Library Intern, British Council Library, Mumbai
• 2004-2005/ Library and Documentation Assistant, IGIDR, Mumbai

teaching/ training

research

• Taught BLISc and MLISc Courses at affiliated Colleges of University of Mumbai.
  
• Delivered over 150+ invited lectures at various universities, colleges, B-schools, etc.

areas of interest

Scholalry communication; online search techniques; ethical conduct of research/ publication; citation indices/ metrics; synthesis matrix; predatory journals/ publishers; open access publishing; literature review techniques; reference styles/ managers; research paper writing; preparing for NAAC; Library audits/ ICT audit of the Library; best practices in libraries; training skills for librarians; library policies/ SOPs/ guidelines/ rules; reference Librarianship; reference and information services; information literacy; ​community development activities; documentation and archiving of Library records; ​web designing; bBlogging, etc.

Initiatives

Policy initiatives

Impessions about OA Policy

• This is very good news indeed. --Dr. Devika Madalli, INFLIBNET

• Huge congratulations on this wonderful work. History will remember you for this work. I am sure that its the first policy in India from any Central University. -- Sridhar Ga

• I am very happy to learn about this progress.-- Dr. Muthu Madhan, OP Jindal Global University

• It is great news! I appreciate the authorities of CUH for approving and making this a university policy. -- Dr. S M Pujar, IGIDR
  

Open Interview blog

• A wonderful set of interviews– Carl Malamud, American technologist, and author

• ​It looks good. In fact, it looks very professional. Nicely done! – Jeffrey Beall, Former Academic Librarian, University of Colorado, Denver, U.S.A.

• This is a very good initiative. –Dr I R N Goudar, NAL

• A creative idea! – Dr Sanjaya Mishra, CEMCA

• Very good initiative. – Dr Ramesh C Gaur, IGNCA

• Good work. –Dr Satish Kanamadi, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

• A very good initiative. – Dr Mayand Trivedi, Maharaja Sayajirao University

• I think it’s a good effort and I appreciate your efforts. – Dr Kumaresan Chidambaranathan, Ara Institute of Canterbury

• I am thrilled that you have taken such an initiative. Please do more! – Vasumathi Sriganesh, QMed Knowledge Foundation

• Indeed, nice initiative – Kishore Ingale, IRC, TCS ormation Resource Centre, Tata Consultancy Services, Pune (Branch)

• Open Interview sounds absolutely wonderful. – Lavanya A Shanbogue, author, TEDx speaker

• Wonderful. Great concept. – Satish Bendre, Johnson & Johnson

• I went through Open Interview’s website in detail and I loved it.– Puja Sherlekar, Fox School of Business, Temple University, U.S.A.

Courses Developed

• Vale Added Course in “Open Access Publishing” for the PG students of CUH (2023-24+)

• “Online Course in Book Publishing” Course in association with Govt. of India’s National Book Trust, New Delhi. 80 students across the country attended the Course (2021-22).

• UGC mandated two-credit compulsory Course on “Research and Publication Ethics” for over PhD students of 30+ Departments of CUH. So far completed four batches of over 600 PhD students (2020-2024+)

• Credit-based PG-Certificate Course in “Online Information Sources, Tools and Techniques’’ for PG students of Khandwala College, Mumbai (2019-20)

• Certificate Course in “Online Information Sources, Tools and Techniques” (COIST) for research scholars. Successfully completed five batches of 57 research scholars at Khandwala College, Mumbai. https://coist.weebly.com/ (2013-2017)

Invited Talks

• University of Mumbai (30+)
• Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)
• Delhi University (2)
• Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University (2)
• SNDT Women's University (2)
• Symbiosis International University, Pune
• Somaiya Vidyavihar University, Mumbai (6)
• Manipal University
• Madhurai Kamraj University (4)
• ​Dr. Harisingh Gaur University, MP (2)
• Rani Channamma University
• Vishweshwaraiah Technological University (VTU)(2)
• NIFTEM, Haryana
• YCMOU, Maharashtra
• Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak (2)
• Central University of Haryana (8)
• Central University of Jammu (2)

TCS, Bengaluru

Maharashtra State Faculty Development Academy, Pune

LNMIT, Jaipur

​IPS Academy, Indore, Madhya Pradesh (2)

Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), Mumbai

MET Institute of Management, Mumbai (2)

PVTV's Institute of Management, Mumbai

Viva Institute of Management, Virar, Thane (2

Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak (2)

SNDT College of Arts, Churchgate Mumbai

SNDT Women’s University’s PN Doshi Women’s College, Mumbai

SNDT Women’s University’s MD Shah College, Mumbai (2)

Vidya Prasarak Mandal's College, Kinhavali, Maharashtra

KR's Sree Narayana College, Valanchery, Kerala

​Patkar College, Mumbai

Joshi-Bedekar College, Thane

Garware College, Pune

Gonsalo Garcia College, Vasai (2)

Raheja College, Mumbai

National College, Mumbai

Pragati College, Dombivali

Patuck Gala College, Mumbai

Vivek College, Mumbai (2)

Valia College, Mumbai (2)

​Thakur College, Mumbai (2)

H J College, Mumbai (3)

Nirmala College, Mumbai (2)

​Clara College, Mumbai

Maharani College, Jaipur

Shailendra College, Mumbai

​Dnyanasadhana College, Thane

Tolani College, Mumbai

DTSS College of Commerce and PDT Junior College, Mumbai (3)

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar College, Mahad,-Raigad

Nagindas Khandwala College, Mumbai (7)

Mandangad Art and Commerce College, Mandangadh, Dist. Ratnagiri

Public Night College, Mumbai

Gurukul College, Ghatkopar, Mumbai

St. Joseph College, Virar (W), Thane

& many colleges/ institutes ​

• H R College, Mumbai (3)
• N M College, Mumbai
  
• Ruia College, Mumbai
  
• Birla College, Kalyan
  
• Hinduja College, Mumbai
• Ramanujan College, New Delhi
• Bhavan's College, Andheri (W), Mumbai
  
• Vivekananda Education Society's College, Mumbai
  
• Lala Lajpatrai College, Mumbai (2)
  
• Baijnath Choudhary Govt College for Women, Nangal Choudhary
  
• Gogate College, Ratnagiri
  
• Babasaheb Gawde Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai (2)
  
• N L Dalmiya Institute of Management Studies and Research
  
• Prabhat Kumar College, Contai, West Bengal (Affiliated to Vidyasagar University)
  
• Bombay Teachers' Training College, Mumbai
  
• Mihir Bhoj PG College, Greater Noida
  
• Deccan Education Society's NMITD, Mumbai
  
• SIES College, Sion, Mumbai
  
• SIES College, Nerul, Mumbai (3)
  
• SIES College of Management Studies, Mumbai (2)
  
• Pillai College, Panvel, New Mumbai
  
• St. Francis Institute of Technology, Mumbai (2)
  
• St. Andrew’s College, Mumbai
  
• Rizvi College, Mumbai (2)
  
• Fr. Agnel Engineering College, Mumbai (2)
• ​Gurukul College, Mumbai

Publications

blog articles

published on 'Impact Blog' of London School of Economics

Link to access

Selected Papers

• Shollapur, M. R., Santosh C. Hulagabali, and Shankar Reddy Kolle. "Global Research on Financial Literacy: A Bibliometric Analysis." DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology 43.3 (2023): 157-163.
• An Inferential Data Analysis on Select Parameters of Voluntary Libraries of Mumbai and Thane. IASLIC Bulletin, 65(2), 67-72, June, 2020. ISSN: 0018-8441.
• Institutional Repositories Initiated by Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management. DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology, 35(4), 287-292. ISSN: 0974-0643.
• Automation and Networking of Academic Staff Colleges: A Proposal to University Grants Commission. In University News, 52(47), 9-18. November, 2014. (ISSN: 0566-2257).
• Building National Archive of Conference Abstracts: A Pilot Study on Indian Conference-Abstracting Database (ICon-AD). In International Journal of Information Resources and Knowledge Management, Vol. 1(2), pp.108-117. 2014. (ISSN: 02347-663X).
• Understanding the Online Presence of Voluntary Libraries of Mumbai and Thane District: A Case Study. In International Trends in Library and Information Technology. Vo1 1 (2), May-Aug. 2014. pp. 30-42. (ISSN: 2349-4026)
• Use of Libqual+® Technique to Measure the Expectations and Perception among the Patrons of NKC Library: A Case Study. In Journal of Library and Information Communication Technology (2012). (ISSN: 2278-3482)

Interviews

2022 July, 18/

• Katharine Dunn, MIT: Open access is still viewed as a bold step—when it should be the norm
  

2022 April , 7

• Claire Redhead, OASPA: The argument for open access to all scholarship has never been more relevant
  

2020 December, 30

• Ganga Dakshinamurti, University of Manitoba: A true researcher has to be information literate
  

2020 December, 12

• Muthu Madan, OP Jindal University: ‘One nation one subscription’ is an elusive goal
  

2020 June, 30

• Sanjaya Mishra, Commonwealth Learning: Educational institutions need to become a producer of content and not just consumer of content
  

2020 April, 21

• Ramesh C. Gaur, IGNCA : Provide access to plagiarism detection software to researchers to use it as a research assisting tool than a fault finding tool
  

2020 March, 12

• Jake Orlowitz, Wikipedia: Wikipedia is actually driving people to scholarly literature and therefore it is a top 10 referrer to all scholarly articles online
  

2020 January, 8

• Nagappa Bakkannanavar, TCS: Contribution to society improves our work efficiency and we can contribute to the organisation better
  

2019 November, 27

• Vasumathi Sriganesh, QMed: Medical professionals seem to still take literature searching and its accuracies to be a “nice to know” skill and not critical

2019 June, 29

• Peter Suber, Harvard University: The largest obstacles to open access are unfamiliarity and misunderstanding of open access itself.
  

2019 May, 2

• Francis Jayakanth, IISc: Moderators of discussion groups have to be impartial in dealing with the members and their postings.
  

2019 February, 21

• Mehak Mirza Prabhu, Storyteller: I am no one to select my story, the story selects me.
  

2019, January 17

• Jeffrey Beall, Colorado University: South Asia has a worldwide reputation for being a center of predatory publishing.
  

List of events

• National Library Week 2023/ 20-24 Nov. 2023
• “Exhibition of School Books and Related Documents: A Journey Through Two Centuries”. In association with Azim Premji University, Bengaluru/ 19-20 Oct. 2023
• Coordinator, Research and Publication Ethics Course (Central University of Haryana)/ from 2020-21 to 2023-24
• Coordinator, Online Book Publishing Course (jointly organized by National Book Trust)/ 2021-22.
• Online Workshop on “e-Tools for Library”/ 9th August 2023
• Member, organsided team, IASLIC sponsored one-day seminar at IIT Bombay (16th Sept. 2017); seven conferences organised by Khandwala College, Mumbai ; One-week workshop on Research Methodology for PG students (11-18, June 2018).
• Rapporteur, National Conference organised by UNESCO in partnership with JNU and Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) held at JNU, New Delhi on 21st October, 2013.
• Organizing Secretary, two-day national conference on 'Open Access Movement' (12-13 Jan. 2012)
  
• Supported and organised an Internship Programme BLSIc/ MLISc student of Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mumbai, IGNOU, Central University of Haryana, etc.
  
• Organised Book Exhibitions in the international and national conferences
  
• Organised in-house book exhibitions since 2007
  
• Served as one of the members of advisory boards of many conference/seminars
  

Testimonials

Teaching

Course (COIST) designed for Researchers in 2013

• You have good presentation and teaching skills. -- Dr. R. Prabhakaran, Head, SIRC, Scientific Information Resource Centre, TIFR

• You are a good teacher. -- Dr. Siddamallaiah, Mahasarakham University, Thailand/ NIMHANS, Bangalore, India

• I am very proud to see high commitment. Great-- Dr. Chindi Vasudevappa, Vice Chancellor, NIFTEM, GoI.

• You are truly providing extremely relevant services to the teaching community. -- Dr. Shanti Suresh, SIES College, Mumbai

• I like your intellectual preparation for the presentation and fluency.-- Dr. N B Dahibhate, Former Librarian, NCL, Pune.

• This is very well designed, and I hope many will benefit from the same. - Dr. Sanjaya Mishra, CEMCA

• Good initiative. Very much useful for research scholars. - Dr. H K Kaul, DELNET, New Delhi (3rd Oct., 2013)

• Congrats. Good imitative. Keep it up. - Dr. Ramesh Gaur, IGNCA

• Great initiative. - Dr. Hirwani, CSIR, Pune

• Good to know about this Course - Dr. Shamprasad Pujar, IGIDR,

• Indeed a good course.. - Dr. J K Vijayakumar, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia

• This seems to be a good initiative. - Mr. Venkat Kesavan, The Times of India

• The course is a wonderful idea.-- Dr. Neha Chaudhari, Centre for Internet and Society

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Useful Links

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IRINS @ CUH

Instituional Repository, CUH

Contact

Santosh C. Hulagabali, PhD

University Librarian

PDU Central Library

338, Academic Block-IV

Central University of Haryana

Mahendergarh-123 031

Haryana, India

librarian@cuh.ac.in/ library@cuh.ac.in

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