Testimonials (informal)
1. Teaching
2. Course for research scholars (COIST)
3. Open Interview
4. Research Projects
1. Teaching
- Your presentation was good and in my observation you have good presentation and teaching skills. -- Dr. R. Prabhakaran, Head, SIRC, Scientific Information Resource Centre, TIFR
- Your presentation was very good..your career looks bright ... your preparation of presentation was also good..You are a good teacher. -- Dr. Siddamallaiah, Ex-Visiting Professor, Mahasarakham University, Thailand, Ex-Principal Librarian and Information Officer, NIMHANS, Bangalore, India
- Thank you for the very enlightening session. Highly appreciate your simplicity and fluency with which you put across some vital aspects of open resources.You are truly providing extremely relevant services to the teaching community. -- Dr. Shanti Suresh, Head, Dept.. of Commerce, SIES College, Mumbai
- Your session was most appreciated by all our faculties and they all are very happy for the presentations you have shared with us. --Ms. Sucheta Pawar, Faculty, PTVA's Institute of Management, Mumbai
- Our PhD students loved your session. Hope to have more sessions. -- Dr. Pooja Ramachandani, Principal (I/C), HR College, Mumbai.
- Thank you for enlightening all of us and sharing information on online search engines useful for research and teaching purpose . It was indeed a pleasure interacting with you -- Dr. Vijeta Shetty, Principal, Vivek College, Mumbai
- I like your intellectual preparation for the presentation and fluency. Excellent and continue this. -- Dr. N B Dahibhate, Former Librarian, National Chemical Laboratories, Pune.
- Thoroughly enjoyed your session. You are really best at what you do. --Ms. Jinal Shah, Assistant Professor, NMIMS, Mumbai
- We all enjoyed your talk and the way you conveyed the message was excellent. I and our Principal have received lot of compliments for bringing you to the College. Supplemented with documents, evidences and case studies are beautiful way of your narration style. After a long time I could able to hear the wonderful invited talk. -- Mr. Ramesh Paloti, Librarian, Bhavan's College, Mumbai
- Everyone was happy to gain so much relevant information. I must add, it was definitely a bonus to associate with someone who is humble and down to earth, also noted by our faculty (you proved that a librarian can speak with authority) -- Mrs. Neelima Balu, Librarian, SIES College, Nerul, Mumbai
- Its indeed our honor to have you amidst us and discuss the work which you have developed with such enthusiasm and meticulousness over the years. --Dr. Pallavi Mhatre, MET, Mumbai
- It was indeed a very informational presentation.We are motivated and hope to use the information gained that day to the fullest. --Dr. Anubhuti Singh, SIES College, Mumbai
- Words fail me to express my appreciation for your session. We all will be always thankful to you for being unselfishly let your 8 yrs of knowledge mould in one seminar which was worth attending. We will try our best not only to use these strategies for our own research work but also open it to out to all our colleagues. --Ms. Hetal Sampat, PhD research student, NMIMS, Mumbai
- Thank you very much for your excellent presentation made by you in our college. You have indepth knowledge in what you presented. --Dr. Nandini Katti, KES College, Mumbai
- We need to thank you for sharing with us your valuable experience and knowledge. It was a wonderful session. --Dr. Sharmila Ghuge, SVKM's Jitendra Chauhan College of Law, Mumbai
- Your lecture was totally brainstorming, which after a long time, we could feel good and proud to be the librarians.-Ms.Shubhangi Chaplgaonkar, Library Incharge, Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management, New Nashik
2. Course for research scholars (COIST)
- Good initiative. Very much useful for research scholars. - Dr. H K Kaul, Director, DELNET, New Delhi (3rd Oct., 2013)
- Glad to know about this course, and happy that you are organising this programme. This is very well designed, and I hope many will benefit from the same. - Dr. Sanjaya Mishra, Director, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), New Delhi
- Congrats. Good imitative. Keep it up. - Dr. Ramesh Gaur, University Librarian, Jawaharlal Nehry University (JNU), New Delhi
- Great initiative. - Dr. Hirwani, Head, CSIR Unit for Research and Development of Information Products, Pune
- I must compliment your organization and your initiative in organizing such a course which is of immense value to a Ph.D. research scholar or even a Post Doctor as being aware of online e-resources, tools and content building software are extremely important - Dr. R Guruprasad, Scientist, KTMD, CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bangalore
- Good to know about this Course - Dr. Shamprasad Pujar, Deputy Librarian, RBI's IGIDR, Mumbai
- Very good initiative. I have seen the curriculum and it is just what a confused research scholar would need in this information overload. - Dr. Satish Kanamadi, University Librarian, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai
- Indeed a good course. This is the area where librarians should focus on their own campuses as well. In Western world, librarian are admired to help students with these skills, and I am glad you are taking some initiatives in this direction. - Dr. J K Vijayakumar, Acting Manager, Reference & Research Services, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- This seems to be a good initiative. - Mr. Venkat Kesavan, Head, Dept. of Library, The Times of India, Mumbai
- Well done. This is the need of the hour. - Dr. S K Savanur, Former Head, British Council Library (Chennai) and WRIC Library, University of Mumbai
- The course is a wonderful idea. The course outline seems very comprehensive. I'm sure this will be very well received. - Dr. Neha Chaudhari,Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore
3. Open Interview
- A wonderful set of interviews– Carl Malamud, American technologist, author, and public domain advocate, known for his foundation Public.Resource.Org
- 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 and well designed/structured crowdsourced blog by Dr Hulagabali. The very first interview (Dr Jeffrey Beall’s) is most important one. I read the interview. Well planned questions and very appropriate answers by Dr Beall. –Dr I R N Goudar, Former Scientist ‘G’ and Head, ICAST, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore
- Good work. – Dr G K Manjunath, Director of Libraries, Ahmedabad Univesity
- A creative idea! – Dr Sanjaya Mishra, Education Specialist, Commonwealth Learning
- Very good initiative. Beall’s interview- is a great beginning. Please keep it up. Well done!! – Dr Ramesh C Gaur, Director and Head, Kalanidhi Division, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New Delhi
- Good work. –Dr Satish Kanamadi, Librarian, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
- A very good initiative. – Dr Mayand Trivedi, University Librarian, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara
- I think it’s a good effort and I appreciate your efforts. – Dr Kumaresan Chidambaranathan,Manager – Library & Information Services, Ara Institute of Canterbury – Christchurch, New Zealand
- Excellent! It is the way one has to give back to society and uphold the values of librarianship. Good work and keep it up. – Dr S M Pujar, Chief Librarian, IGIDR, Mumbai
- I read the full interview (of Jeffrey Beall) and found it extremely good. ..I congratulate you on this initiative. – Dr Parvez Akhtar, Librarian, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad
- It is an extremely nice effort to explore the thoughts of a person (Jeffrey Beall) who fought for freedom from predatory journals..Rope in more stalwarts through your Open Interview. – Dr Gopakumar V, University Librarian, Goa University
- An eye-opener interview! (of Jeffrey Beall) – Arati Desai, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
- The idea of interviewing Jeffrey Beall itself is amazing! I am thrilled that you have taken such an initiative. Please do more! – Vasumathi Sriganesh, Founder, QMed Knowledge Foundation
- Indeed, nice initiative – Kishore Ingale, Head, Information Resource Centre, Tata Consultancy Services, Pune (Branch)
- Open Interview sounds absolutely wonderful. It is such a rich initiative and I am certain it will be very valuable for knowledge scholars around the world. – Lavanya A Shanbogue, author, feminist researcher and TEDx speaker
- It’s a brilliant initiative. – Dr Ravija Srivastava, Image Consultant, Mumbai
- Wonderful. Great concept. – Satish Bendre, Former Senior Executive, Johnson & Johnson, Mumbai
- I went through Open Interview’s website in detail and I loved it. The website indeed looks great and the initiative (you have taken to create a non-profit crowdsourced blog) will definitely help get more informative voices out there. – Puja Sherlekar, Graduate Student Writer, Fox School of Business, Temple University, U.S.A.
- Selected the right topic for discussion with right person. Really it is informative. – Dr K C Gangadhar, NMIT, Bangalore
- This is an amazing work. – Shweta Singh, Research Scholar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
- Excellent! – Suman Nair, Head, HR Department, SIES Group of Institutions, Mumbai
- Good beginning. Very informative and a must for academicians. –Dr Ravindra Dastikop, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, SDM College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad
4. Research Projects
- ICon-AD
- It is a very good initiative and excellent work. -- Dr. Murali Prasad M R, Chief Librarian, Centre for Economic and Social Studies
- It appears to be an interesting archive and valuable resource. -- Dr. Marianne Bamkin, Centre for Research Communications, Nottingham University, Nottingham
- It is very informative and helpful. -- Ms. Nevena Tomic, Library Manager, Students’ City Cultural Center, Serbia
- I must congratulate for initiating such an important project on conference abstracts in open domain for the benefit of researchers. -- Mr. Nihal Alam, Research Associate, TERI, IHC, New Delhi
- It is nice that librarians are sharing abstracts. -- Dr. G K Manjunath, Chief Librarian, RBI’s IGIDR, Mumbai
- Initiative is good. -- Dr. S M Pujar, Deputy Librarian, RBI’s IGIDR, Mumbai
- ICon-AD is a good initiative. -- Mr. Manju Naik, Assistant Librarian, IIT Bombay
- Really wonderful and superb initiative. The initiative is unique and is a leading-edge. -- Dr. Parveen Babbar, Deputy Librarian, JNU, New Delhi
- It is a good idea. --Dr. S K Savanur, Former Librarian, WIRC, University of Mumbai
- An innovative idea. -- Dr. Nanaji Shewale, Librarian, GIPE, Pune