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Dr. Appasaheb Naikal, is the winner of the 2023 Karnataka State Best Librarian Award and brings an impressive twenty-four years of continuously advancing and highly responsible leadership experience in business management and technological institutes of higher learning in India and abroad. Currently, he serves as the Librarian and Convener of the Indian Business Museum at IIM Kozhikode, India’s foremost business school, where he embodies the essence of a cutting-edge library. Under his guidance, the Library has transitioned into the digital age, providing online access to 95% of its collections and operating as an open-access facility, available 24/7 to users. His illustrious career includes roles as a Librarian at IIM Indore, another prestigious management institute in India. Furthermore, he made significant contributions during his nearly decade-long tenure as a Global Campus Librarian at S P Jain School of Global Management, Singapore. Additionally, he served as a Knowledge Manager at Kuder Visions Unlimited, Singapore, and as a Librarian at Tech Mahindra Ltd, Mumbai.

Dr. Satish Kanamadi is presently serving as Librarian at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. His areas of interest are Web resources, Cataloguing and Metadata, Digital Library Systems, Knowledge Management, etc. He was awarded Two Gold Medals at his Masters (1995) and UGC Junior Research Fellowship (1997) and has completed his Graduation, Masters and Doctoral studies from Karnatak University, Dharwad. He was conferred with Commonwealth Professional Fellowship, UK (2010) and was a Fellow at London School of Economics, London, UK for three months. He is also the Chairperson of Centre for Library and Information Management Studies at TISS and teaches at PG Diploma and Masters programmes. He has successfully supervised 7 PhDs.