Honours and Awards
Individual
Recipient of
- Best Librarian State Award - 2023 by the Department of Public Libraries, Government of Karnataka, Bangalore on August 12, 2023.
- Peer Review panel member by University of South Africa: Department of Library and Information Services, Pretoria, South Africa, October 14-18, 2019. University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, 2019
- Member of J-Gate Vision Group, 19-20 August 2017, Informatics, Bangalore, India, 2017
- Global Innovation Awards 2016: Honorable Mention by Turnitin, 2016
- IASSIST Fellowship to attend IASSIST 2016, Bergen, Norway, IASSIST Data, 2016
- Partial support by BI-International Grant, Germany to attend the 36th IATUL Conference, Hannover, Germany, 2015
- Sponsorship to attend 5th International m-libraries Conference 2014, Hong Kong, 2014
- NDLTD-ETD Travel Grant to attend ETD-2010 Conference, Austin, Tx. USA, Networked Digital LIbrary of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), USA 2010
- Endeavour Research Fellow (Australia), 2008 - to visit Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia, Australian Government, 2008
- Best Poster Presentation at International Conference on Digital Libraries ICDL–2004, New Delhi, India. 2004
- Qualified MSET (Maharashtra State Eligibility Test) for Lectureship, Maharashtra State, 2001
- Gold Medal (Dr.S.R.Ranganathan) for securing Second Rank in MLISc, Karnatak University, Dharwad, 1999
- National Merit Scholarship 1998 and 1999, Karntaka University, Dharwad. 1998 & 1999
- Founder of KM-Forum: an initiative from India – an e-discussion group for global KM & LIS professionals. 2005
- Designed and developed KM Cyberary: a gateway to Knowledge Resources - for KM, LIS professionals and all Internet users searching for information in all subjects. 2002
Institutional
Recipient of
- CONTENT CONTRIBUTOR IN THE NATIONAL DIGITAL OF INDIA (NDLI) 2018 by NDLI, IIT Kharagpur - as Nodal Person of NITR
- Certificate for Workshop Coordination for conducting Regional (East-1) Institutional Digital Repository workshop of National Digital Library of India at NITR, 2017 by NDLI, IIT Kharagpur - MHRD GOI Project.
- Highest Usage Award for e-Resources to NITR, 2015 by Various Publishers