SIG-EduLearn Officers

2023-24 Executive Officers:

1. Chair: Dr Priya Vaidya, (PhD-LIS | GoldMedalist) | Senior Program Leader, Aspirational Bharat Collaborative-Centre of Excellence-Education, Piramal Foundation | Ex-SRF (UGC), Department of Library & Information Science, AMU, Aligarh. Mobile No.: +91-7417779580. Email: vaidyapriya26@gmail.com

Dr Priya Vaidya is a Senior Program Leader in the "Centre of Excellence-Education" under the Aspirational Bharat Collaborative of the Piramal Foundation. She has also been recognised as a MAXQDA Professional Trainer (Qualitative Data Analysis Software), the Microsoft Innovative Educator 2023-24, a Microsoft Certified Educator for Technology Literacy for Educators – 21st Century Learning Design, and also a 'Student Member' of the Editorial Board of Information Matters. Her areas of interest are Qualitative Research, Educational Policies, Service Quality, ICT Applications in Education and Research, Bibliometrics, and Systematic Reviews. Regarding her work experience, she is presently engaged with the Madrasa Education Program in alignment with NEP-2020 and NIPUN-Bharat, and emphasizing the need for blended education in Madrasas by introducing different Live-Action Projects (LAP) like fully functional Library Set-Up, Project-based Learning, etc. Apart from this, she worked as a 'Library Intern', deputed as a 'Semi-Professional Assistant' on leave Vacancy at Maulana Azad Library, AMU and handled the Seminar Library Automation Project using LibSys 7.0 (ILMS) at the Department of Petroleum Studies, Zakir Hussain College of Engineering & Technology, Aligarh Muslim University. Apart from this, during her PhD research, she was voluntarily assigned to a teaching project to teach 'Library & Information Services' to the MSc/MBA students of the F/o Agriculture Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.  She has a few research publications to her credit. She has been conferred with different awards viz, Best SIG-IEP Logo Award in 2023, the Women Researcher Award-2023, BEST Research Paper Award-2022 during an International Conference in Chennai, and the first position in the Best Student Paper Award- 2021, organized by KELPRO Bulletin. She has published and presented research papers at national and international conferences.

 

2. Chair-Elect: Dr Muhammad Tariq, Deputy Librarian, Comsats University Islamabad, Lahore Campus. Email: tariqnajmi@cuilahore.edu.pk

Dr. Muhammad Tariq is an academician, researcher, trainer and Library professional, having more than 22 years of experience in the LIS/IM field. He has been teaching at the M.Phil and PhD levels since 2014. Moreover, he has supervised 26 M.Phil theses and 4 are still under his supervision. As a researcher, he has published 28 research articles and also attended 14 national/international conferences and presented his papers. He has conducted many trainings in different institutes at the national level. His areas of interest are Artificial Intelligence, innovation, leadership, communication, online information resources and soft skills. Currently working at COMSATS University, Lahore Pakistan. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Information Management Sciences (IJIMS) and also the chief editor of CUI Lahore Newsletter.

 

 

3. Secretary: Mr Rajesh Kumar Das, Assistant Professor, Institute of Information Sciences, Noakhali Science and Technology University. Email Id: rajesh@nstu.edu.bd

Rajesh Kumar Das is an Assistant Professor at the Noakhali Science and Technology University Institute of Information Sciences. His research lies at the intersection of science of science, scholarly & scientific communication, digital humanities, Society; culture studies, data analytics and visualization. His research led to several publications in indexed journals and conferences. With more than 6 years of teaching and research experience, he is also active through different volunteer and leadership positions at different information science forums like the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI), and Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) etc. He has been a part of various professional responsibilities e.g., newsletter officer, secretary, curriculum committee member, supervisor, advisor, conference session chair, and ad-hoc journal reviewer. He received awards and grants including the faculty's “Dean's Merit List of Honour-2016” from the University of Dhaka and a “Research Grant” from Noakhali S&T University.

 

4. Treasurer: Prof. Anna Maria Tammaro, Editor in Chief Digital Library Perspectives, Retired Professor University of Parma (Italy). Email: annamaria.tammaro@unipr.it

Anna Maria Tammaro is a Professor at the University of Parma (Italy) and has been the local Coordinator of the DILL International Master's Program (an Erasmus Mundi-funded project with the Universities of Oslo, Tallinn and Parma). She is Editor in Chief of the journal Digital Library Perspectives and Editor of the Digital Heritage column of International Information and Library Review. Her research interests include Internationalisation of LIS education, Digital library, Research Data Management, Transliteracy and Gamification.

 

 

 

 

5. Webinar Officer: Dr Manika Lamba, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Illinois. Email: manika@illinois.edu | lambamanika07@gmail.com

Dr. Manika Lamba is currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is a member of the HTRC research support services team where she is working with Dr. John Stephen Downie on different funded projects. Her research focuses on information retrieval, digital libraries, health & social informatics using text mining, NLP, and machine learning techniques. In addition to publishing scholarly articles, she has published 2 books. Currently, she is serving as the Editor-in-Chief of IJLIS, Elected Member of the IFLA Science and Technology Libraries (SciTech) Section, and at various positions at ASIS&T. She has received funding from Princeton University, NSF, ASIS&T, and SICSS for her research.