ABOUT ME

Name : Poornima Narayana

Date of Birth : 2nd May 1955

Nationality : Indian

Address : Deputy Head, ICAST
                 National Aerospace Laboratories
                 Airport Road
                 Bangalore – 560017

Tel:  +91-80-25086083 (Off) 26682781 (Res)
Fax: +91-80-25268072
E-mail: poornima@css.nal.res.in
 

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

M.L.I.S, Madras 1991 Lib & Inf Sci
B.L.I.S, Bangalore 1976 Lib & Inf Sci
B.Sc, Bangalore 1974 Chemistry, Botany, Zoology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: More than 23 years in Library & Information Service

Present Assignment: Scientist ‘E1’ and Dy. Head, ICAST,
National Aerospace Laboratories,
Bangalore-560017

Experience Summary
 

New Initiative
Library Automation - Database Creation - Barcoding - Library Housekeeping	Complete  > 3.0 L Records All activities
Portal Design & Development - Aerospace Gateway - Unique Contents Organisation - > 50,000 Links - Exhaustive Indian Content	http://www.aeroinfo.org.in (Virtual Library)
Library Web Site - ICAST Information, Collection, Services… - OPAC of ICAST - Online Bookshops, Online Recommendation forms	http://www.icast.org.in (Service Media)
Access to e-Journals - IP enabled - 1000 nodes - 3 campuses (6 km apart)	1200 (Elsevier) + 100 (Others) + 850 Free titles
News Clipping Service - Aerospace, S & T - Greater user awareness - Search facility - Archiving	Intranet and Internet
Union Catalog of Journals (Web enabled)	CSIR Libraries (40 + Holdings)) + Aero libraries (20)
Digital Library Initiative - Technical Reports - Other NAL Knowledge Base	“Digital Aerospace Lib & Inf Centers (DALIC)” and “P DAINER (Prototype for Digital aerospace Institutional Repository Projects)”
CD-ROM based Services	Service + Popularisation
On-line Service	Continued + Popularisation
Publications (Service)	Combined Aerospace Report Addition & Combined Aerospace Book Addition (Monthly)
ISO 9001 Certification	Divisional Representative
Library Management - General ICAST Services - Manpower Management - Collection Development - Budget Control - Circulation - Inter Library Loan - Lib Adv Commit - User Training	Co-ordination 12 Regular + 10 Trainees Guidance & Assistance Assistance Co-ordination Co-ordination Convener (2002-) Conduction
Miscellaneous - Invited Lectures - Conference/Seminar Papers - Workshops/Seminars Organisation	>15 >25 Few

HONOURS/AWARDS

Recipient of the “J William Fulbright Award in Information Sc & Tech” Fellowship for the year 2003-4 awarded by United States Educational Foundation in India (USEFI) under Fulbright-Hayes Act of US Congress. As a Visiting Scholar, underwent Fellowship at University of Illinois at urbana Champaign (UIUC) and University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Recipient of the “Outstanding Performance Award” for “Creation of ICAST Portal & Database of Books, Reports, Standards and Patents for the year 1998-99”.

Current membership of Professional Body

Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) : Life Member
 

Conferences/Seminars/Workshops attended (Recent ones only)

International

i. 49th FID Conference and Congress on “Towards the New Information Society of Tomorrow: Innovation, Challenges and Impact”, 11-17 Oct 98, New Delhi,
   India

ii. “4th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL-2001)”, Nov 2001, Bangalore, India

iii. ‘Future of American libraries”, 30-1 Oct 2003, Urbana Champaign, IL, USA

iv. “ALA Meeting” Oct 2003, Chicago, USA

v. “International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICIM2005)”, 21-5 Feb 2005, Mumbai, India

National

I have attended a number of seminars, conferences, meetings organised by various organisations like IASLIC, ILA, SIS, NISSAT, CSIR, DRDO, ISI etc., Presented good number of papers. (Appendix –1)

As I see myself as a Professional

I started my career as a humble Assistant Librarian 24 years back. Before occupying the present position of Dy. Head of well-known Information Centre of NAL, I had the opportunity of working in various section of the library at various capabilities. I am very fortunate to associate myself as the Project Leader for database creation of ICAST holdings, a Herculean task which was completed in a record time with the assistance of trainees and my colleagues. The other challenging work is creation of ICAST Web site and a portal for Aerospace S&T. The portal has become immensely popular and has been evaluated and indexed by many well known search engines and Aerospace Portals like IAIN (AGARD), AEROSEEK, AERADE (Cranefield University), World-wide Virtual Library: Aerospace (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), etc. My aim is to make our ICAST as one of the model Information Center in the world especially in terms of modernization, maintenance and providing quality information services and also realize full fledged the Digital Library. The rich exposure I gained during my FULBRIGHT FELLOWSHIP awarded by United States Educational Foundation in India (USEFI) and Fulbright Foundation, USA as a visiting Scholar at Univ of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) in setting up an “Indian Aerospace Digital Library” has benefited me in leading a team at National level for setting up our Institutional Repository and Digital Aerospace Library and Information center. I have presented quite a good number of papers in conferences/seminars. My active participation in the activities of OLIC (Official Language Implementation Committee) has fetched me number of prizes notably first prize consecutively for three years in technical / general essays.

Head, ICAST has been a constant source of inspiration, innovative ideas and his encouragement, support and guidance has been my strength to initiate and implement new initiatives. I have the fullest satisfaction of being an L & IS Professional.

Poornima Narayana

Appendix 1

Papers Presented/Lectures at Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums

1. “Sources on CD-ROM” – CD-ROM workshops at NAL, Bangalore, Nov. 1993 & Feb. 1995.
2. “Engineering databases on CD-ROM” – IV Online CD-ROM Meet at CLRI, Madras, Aug. 1994.
3. “CD-Networking” – DRTC Annual Workshop on Information Retrieval, DRTC, Bangalore, Oct. 1996.
4. “Technical Reports in Aerospace and other related subjects” – Institute for Information Studies, Bangalore on 4th Feb. 1997.
5. “Cataloguing aspects (OPAC) of LIBSYS System” – LIBSYS Users Meet at NAL, Bangalore, Oct. 1997.
6. “Implementation of ISO-9000 in Libraries – A case study of NAL’s Information Center” – DRTC’s annual seminar on ‘Quality Management’, Jan. 1999.
7. “Electronic media Information Sources in Aerospace Technology” (Communicated).
8. “Internet/Intranet based Library & Information Services at NAL” – IIRML Workshop, Internet School, IISc, Nov. 1999.
9. AeroInfo: A Worldwide Web virtual Library for Aerospace Sciences” – DRTC Annual Seminar on ‘Information Sources through electronic media’, Bangalore,      March 1-3, 2000.
10. “Consortia and Web: Access to e-journals, International Databases and inhouse information services” - CSIR V HOLIC Meeting, Trivandrum, Feb. 7-9,         2001.
11. “Contents Organisation for effective information retrieval through the portal ‘AeroInfo’- ASSIST I Conference on ‘ Internet Resources and Librarianship’,
        Bangalore, Aug. 12-4,2001.
12. “Management of Internet Resources on Library Home Page: A Special reference to Library Homepage – DRTC/NISSAT Workshop on ‘Information
        Resource Management’, Bangalore, March 13-5,2002.
13. ‘Glimpses of ICAST at the service of Aerospace community – A Bird’s Eye view” Proceedings of the one day Symposium in honour of Dr T S Prahlad,
        Director, NAL on ‘Aerospace Technologies and Perspectives” , Bangalore, 29th May 2002.
14. ‘Indian Aerospace Digital libray (IADL)’ Proposed Project towards the Fulbright Fellowship, Orientation Program for 2003-4 for Indian Fulbright Grantees,
        Bangalore, 11-4th May, 2003.
15. ‘A Fulbrighter’s experience gained at GSLIS/UIUC in building an Indian Aerospace Digital library (IADL)” Proseminar GSLIS/UIUC, USA, 2nd February
        2004.
16. ‘A Fulbrighter’s experience gained at GSLIS/UIUC and Visualization of an Indian Aerospace Digital library (IADL)”
         - 12th April 2004, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore
         -  8th May 2004, National Center for Scientific Information (NCSI/IISc), Bangalore
17. “Electronic Publishing: Impact on Library and Information Services” AICTE Workshop at Don Bosco Institute of Technology, 4th August 2004, Bangalore.
18. ‘ Innovative services offered by ICAST/NAL for its corporate Members” at: Oct 2002, General Electric Co., Knowledge Center, Bangalore
        - Sep 2004, General Motors Ltd., Bangalore
        - March 2005, Infotek Associates, Bangalore
19.‘A Model for Scientific and Technical Consortium: Case Study of CSIR” DRTC/ISI/INDEST/USEFI Symposium on ‘Consortium Approach to resource
       sharing: Issues and policies”, ISI, Bangalore, 6-8 October 2004.
20. ‘Know about E_Affairs: E mail as a quick and effective means of communication” All India Radio, Bangalore , 19th November 2004.