Prof. Manoj Kumar Sinha
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Prof. Manoj Kumar Sinha holds a Master’s and PhD degrees in Zoology and Library and Information.
Science from T.M. Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur. He also obtained B. Ed. Degree from
Annamalai University and Post-Graduate Diploma in Higher Education from IGNOU, New Delhi.
At present, he has been working as the Dean, Swami Vivekananda School of Library Sciences & as the
Head in the Department of Library and Information Science, Assam University, Silchar. Altogether he
has 17 years of working experience as a library professionals/ administrator and about nine years
Teaching Experience in Library and Information Science. He worked as a University Assistant
Librarian in Assam University from 30/01/1997 to 18/11/2009and then he was appointed as
Reader in the newly established Department of Library and Information Science, Assam University. He is a life member of ILA, IASLIC, UPLA, SIS, MANLIBNET, JILA, Assam Library Association, FBAI,
and is actively associated with research and academic work. He has been a member of Boards of PostGraduate Studies and School Boards of a few departments of Assam University and other Universities.
He has been serving as an examiner, as M.Phil. Dissertations /PhD. Theses Examiners in a number
of Indian Universities.
He was awarded Excellence Award in August -2016 and Achievers Award for Best Paper from
Modern Rohini Education Society, New Delhi in January-2017. He has been regularly invited by the
NERO, UGC Guwahati for evaluating Minor Research Proposals (MRP) and Seminar Proposals etc
He has also organised a few National seminars, conferences and workshops Recently, he has successfully
organized National Seminar on Collection Development (NSCD-2011) in collaboration with Central
Reference Library, Kolkata (he has the honour of Chairing Technical Sessions in many Seminars and also
acted as Rapporteurs, Rapporteur General in SIS -2012 and PLANNER-2016 and Chaired Technical
Session in many Seminars and Conferences.
He has been professionally active and delivered many invited and contributed research papers and
successfully done many professional assignments in seminars and conferences. He has been invited as
Resource Person for Invited talk on diverse topics in Seminar, Workshops, Conferences and Refresher
Courses from many Universities located in the North Eastern Region and the rest of India.
He may be contacted at [email protected]
Silchar and become the founding Head of the Department and continuing as the HoD till now.
He has published more than 300 research papers and articles in the areas of Library & Information
Sciences, Botany, Zoology and Environmental Sciences. His present areas of interest are Traditional
Librarianship, Academic Library System, Public Library System, Library Automation and
Networking, Digital Library, Indigenous Knowledge System etc. He has credit to guided 47 Masters
students , 10 M. Phil. S & 08 Ph.D. Scholars and many more are working under his supervision.

ORCID ID

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2145-0006

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My Professional Societies

Indian Library Association