Y Srinivasa RaoDr. Y. Srinivasa Rao, doctorate, gold medalist and merit scholar in the field of Library and Information Science (LISc). He has twenty years of experience in the profession of Librarianship. At present, he is working as Deputy Librarian at School of lanning and Architecture (SPA), Vijayawada, (Institute of National Importance, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India) since 2013. Prior to this, he worked at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, Odisha over a decade and at Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi in different capacities. His areas of interests include academic library system, digital resources and services, intellectual property rights, open access etc. He has published more than two dozens of papers in various national and international journals (mainly Library Management of Emerald, Library Collections, Acquisitions and Technical Service of Elsevier Science, Journal of Library Philosophy and Practice, Computer in Libraries, DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology etc.), conferences and edited volumes of LISc books. He has reviewed for international journals like Electronic Library of Emerald and International Journal of Library and Information Science (www.ms.academicjournals.org). He has organized many workshops, seminars and conferences at local, regional, national and international level at both NIT Rourkela and SPA Vijayawada. For instances, International Conference on Scholarly Communication, Open-access Publishing and Ethics (SCOPE-2018) during October 25-26, 2018, Regional (South-IV) Workshop on Institutional Digital Repository (IDR-2017) in collaboration with IIT Kharagpur under National Digital Library (NDL) Project during April 21-22, 2017 and National Conference on Scholarly Communication and Intellectual Property Rights (SCIPR) - 2014 during 04-05 August 2014. He attended various international and national conferences and workshops in the field of LISc. He was a resource person for PGDLAN Course at Sambalpur University, Sambalpur. Odisha. He interviewed with Monday Morning in couple of times on library developments on February 16, 2011 and on BPCL: Rendezvous with Y.S. Rao on February 13, 2012 . Apart from his prime responsibilities, he has been assigned various academic and administrative responsibilities at SPA Vijayawada including Dy. In-Charge for CSAB-2014, 2017 and 2018 and Official for CCMT-2014 online counselling. He is a Local Coordinator - Global Initiative for Academic Networks for the year 2017 and 2018 and Nodal Officer - National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) for the year 2017 and 2018. He was also involved in various other committees such as institute publication, recruitment, academic inspection, convocation for 2015 and 2016, lease negotiating 2016, returning officer for students elections - 2017 etc. At present, Dr. Rao, is a Member of Board of Studies of LISc, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam till 2020 and an expert member for the NIT Andhra Pradesh - Library Advisory Committee for the year 2017-18. He was a Member of International Librarians Network (ILN) for the year 2016, an Advisory Committee Member of INDEST-AICTE Consortium for NITs in the Eastern region for the year 2010-13 and Sectional Committee Member for University and College Libraries. for Indian Library Association (ILA) in the year 2013-2016.n Library Association (ILA). Read More Read Less