CONTENTS

1. Profile: At a Glance

2. General Information

3. Educational Qualification

4. Academic Experience & Achievements

5. Interested Research Area

6. Subject Studied

7. Library Software’ Known

8. Courses Attended

9. Training Programmes

10. Publications

11. Co- Curricular Activities

12. Reference

1. Profile: At a Glance

Name

GIRISH RATHOD M.S.

Date of Birth

12^th June 1980,

Father Name

Sakrya Naika

Educational Qualification

M.A.,(Eng) MBA(HR).,

M.Sc, M.Phil (Ph.D.)

in Library & Information Science

Responsibility held

Information Officer/ Librarian & Head

2. General Information

Permanent

Address

S/o Nagi Bai & Late Sakrya Naika

“Parvathi Krupa”,

3^rd Cross,

Indira Nagar, Malavagoppa,

Shimoga – 577 222.

Karnataka (India).

È: +91 973 98 64927.

e-mail:girishrathodms@gmail.com.

Sex

Male

Nationality

Indian

Religion

Hindu

Marital Status

Single

Hobbies

Reading books, News papers, Magazine & Journals, Writing poems and articles, Tour & Travel, etc.

Home Town

Shimoga

3. Educational Qualification

SSLC

(1996 – 87%, A+ Grade)

National High School, Shimoga, Karnataka.

PUC

(1998 – 81%, A+ Grade)

DVS (Ind) PU College,Shimoga, Karnataka.

Bachelors Degree

in Eco, LIS, CS

 (2002 – 62%,A Grade)

Sahyadri Arts & Science College.

Kuvempu University. Shimoga – 577 201

Karnataka (India)

                  M.Sc

 In Library & Information Science

(2004 – 68%, A Grade)

Dept. Library & Information Science JnanaSahyadri, Shankaraghatta

Kuvempu University, Shimoga – 577 451.

Karnataka (India)

M.Phil

In Library & information    Science (2008 –68% A Grade)

Dept. Library & Information Science

Alagappa University, Karaikudi,

Tamilnadu (India)

M.A.

In English Literature

(2014 – 58%, A Grade)

Karnataka State Open University,

Mysore, Karnataka (India).

MBA

In Human Resource Management

(2014 – 65%, A Grade)

Indira Gandhi National Open University,

New Delhi (India)

UGC – NET

December – 2009, December – 2012, June -2013.

K – SET

December - 2013

Pursuing Ph.D.

Entitled:Design & Development of An Information Support System for Fashion & Apparel Industry.

Dept. Library & Information Science JnanaSahyadri, Shankaraghatta

Kuvempu University,

Shimoga – 577 451. Karnataka (India)

4. Academic Experience & Achievements:

23/06/2004

 To

07/07/2010

10/07/2010

To

Till Date

Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, RGC Campus, Cholanagar, Hebbal, R.T.Nagar Post,

Bangalore – 32.

Government First Grade College, Sirsi (U.K.) – 581 401. Department of Collegiate Education,

Government of Karnataka.

Achievements

1. 3000 titles are classified by DDC method.
2. Adopted OPAC system and computerized whole library and whole software were developed.
3. The interior library arrangements are to the best space management giving ample space for each section.
4. Develop the separate reference section.
5. As per AICTE norms we started subscribing very many journals from Informatics (India) Ltd.
6. Taken up the collection from a few hundred books to 30,000 plus.
7. Earlier the library was working for just an hour (During lunch break) now we work the whole day. (12hours)
8. Introduced circulation policy.
9. Abolish lecturers recommending book lending to the same sectarian students.
10. Conducted books fair’s, where lending publishers and retailer’s at participated in great number.
11.  Automated Dental & Nursing Library and Induced Digital Library.
12.  Designed separate Dental, Nursing & MBA College library & Information center.
13. Developed GFGC, Sirsi, College library and membership borrowers’ card and circulation system.

5. Interested Research Area

1.      Information systems & Services

2.      Management of Information System.

3.      Information & Communication Technology

4.      Economics & Management and etc.

6. Subjects Studied

Postgraduate Level: Library and Information Science.

                                     a. Information Sources & Services.

                                     b. Information Processing & Retrieval.

                                     c. Library & Information management.

                                     d. Information Systems & Services.

                                     e. Academic Libraries.

                                     f.  Research Methodology

                                     g. Networks & Networking

                                     f. Information Technology.

                                     h. Dewey Decimal Classification.

                                     i. Universal Decimal Classification.

                                     j. AACR – II Cataloguing.

                                     k. M.S Office, Oracle, CDS/ISIS, HTML.

Postgraduate Level: MBA in Human Resource management

Postgraduate Level: M A in Literature of English language

Post-Post Graduation Level : Library and Information Science

                     a. Research Methodology Theory

                     b. Research Methodology Techniques

                     c. Library & Information Science

                    d. Dissertation on Design and Development of an Institutional Repository using Dspace for RGIT, Bangalore: A Case Study.

Research Level:      Research methodology, SPSS, Information Systems & Services

7. Library Software’ Known

   CDS/ISIS, LIBSOFT, EASYLIB, LIBSYS. SOUL, KOHA, e-lib, e-granthalaya.

8. Courses Attended

1.   Underwent 6 months training on “CITOM” (Certificate in Information Technology and Office Management) during 2001.

2. Participated in “NEENASUM”, campaign during 2003-04 @ Kuvempu University.

1. Underwent one month Library Trainee in IIM, Bangalore. And one more month Library Trainee in IISc, Bangalore. Sponsored by Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, R.T.Nagar, Bangalore – 32. During 1^st June 2004 to 31^th July 2004.

4.Underwent SQ (Spiritual Quotient) Training in ISKCON, Bangalore. During 2006 -07.

5. Passed Karnataka State Public Service Commission conducted Departmental Examination in Second Session, December – 2010.

6. Participated in UGC sponsored Orientation Programme during 16^th January 2012 to 13^th  February 2012  @ UGC - Academic Staff College, Bangalore University, Bangalore.

7. Participated in UGC sponsored Refresher Course in Library and Information Science during 16^th September 2013 to 5^th October 2013,  @ UGC – Academic Staff College, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. Rajasthan.

9.   Training Programmes:

a.      Workshop:

1.    Participated one day National Level Workshop on “E-Resources-A Tool to Make Science & Engineering Research Easier”@ East Point College of Engineering & Technology, Bangalore on 26^th May 2006.

2.   Participated One day training programme/workshop for “College librarian’s of Govt. and Aided colleges” on 11^th October 2010. @ KLE Society’s S.K. Arts College and HSK Science Institute, Hubli.

3.     Participated in workshop on Koha and E-lib held on dated 16th to 21st March 2011, organized by Department of Libraray and Information Science, Kuvempu University, Shankarghatta.

4.    Participated in one day awareness workshop on “Continuous Evaluation for Quality & Excellence” (CEQE) on 6^th March 2012. Organised by the Department of Collegiate Education, Regional office, Dharwad @ JSS College, Dharwad.

5.    Participated one day workshop on ‘Information Literacy’ on 12th October 2012 at Govt. Arts College, Bangalore organized by Karnataka State College Librarians’ Association.

6.   Participated one week workshop ‘Samskruti Shibira’ on 2^nd October 2014 to 8^th October 2014 at NEENASAM, Heggodu, Sagara. Karnataka.

7.  Participated in ‘Faculty Development Programme’ workshop ‘Project Genesis’ on 1^st December 2014 to 9^th December 2014 at Infosys BPO, Mysore, Karnataka.

b.      National Conference:

1.      Attended a 2 days 4^th “ASSIST” National Seminar on “Digital Resources & Services in Libraries”, @ Department of Library and

Information science, Kuvempu University, during 2004.

2.      Presented paper in  National Conference on “Content Management in Digital Era: Opportunities and Challenges” @ Department of Library and Information science, Kuvempu University, Shankaraghatta, Shimoga, held during 12^th & 13^th March 2010.

3.       Article entitled “Role of Textile Research Association’s (TRA’s) Resource Center in Textile Research in India: A perspective study”  presented in the National Conference on “Academic libraries– 2020”, held during 12th  to 14th August, 2010 organized by KSCLA, at SIT, Tumkur. 486pp.

4.       Article entitled “Convergence Technology in Education” presented in the National Conference on “Assimilating Recent Development of ICT in Education”, held during October 08th  & 09th, 2010 organized by Department of P.G. Studies and Research in Education,  at Kuvempu University, Shankarghatta, Shimoga.

5.       Article entitled “Problems and Prospects of Migrants in Uttara Kannada District of Karnataka State: A Case Study”, presented in the 52nd Annual Conference on “Indian Society of Labour Economics”, held during December 17 to 19, 2010 organized by Department of P.G. Studies and Research in Economics, Karnatak University, Dharwad.

6.      Article entitled “Use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) for Human Rights Education” presented in the International Conference on “Restructuring Political Science in the age of Globalisation”, held during March 25th to 27th 2011 organized by Department of Political Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad.

7.      Article entitled “War for Talent: Human Resource challenge for our time”, presented in the National level Seminar on “Economic Reforms/Global Economic Slowdown and its impact on human Resources development policies and practices in India”, held during May 4th and 5th May, 2011 organized by Dr. A.V. Baliga College of Commerce and Business Administration and PG center for studies in commerce, Kumta,(U.K), Karnatak University, and College Teachers Association, Dharwad.

8.      Article entitled “Copyright issues for bloggers, Website owners and other content creators” presented in the National Conference on “Collection Management in Changing Context: Problems and Prospects”, held during August 19th and 20th 2011 organized by KUCLA and KSCLA@ Shimoga. 665-669pp.ISBN: 978-81-921937-0-0

9.      Participated in National Conference on “Information Literacy Competencies for Higher Learning and Research” held on 21^st & 22^nd October 2011.

10.  Attended National Seminar on “Extension and Outreach Library Services to Build-up Academic Excellence” held during 3rd December 2011, organized by Department of Libraray and Information Science, Kuvempu University, Shankarghatta.

11.  Attended Indian Library Association (ILA) -The 57th Annual conference on "Knowledge Society: Innovations In Librarianship" organized by St. Agnes Centre for Post Graduate Studies & Research, Mangalore, Karnataka, in collaboration with Karnataka State College Librarians’ Association (R) Bangalore, Karnataka on February 23rd to 25th, 2012.

12.  Article entitled “Rights to Water and the Legal Regime in India”, presented in the National Conference on “Emerging Issues of Human Rights with Special Reference to Women and Sexual and Reproductive Health” held during 2nd & 3rd March, 2012 organized by Dr. A.V. Baliga College of commerce and Business Administration & PG Center for Studies in Commerce. Kumta, (U.K.).

13.  Participated 1^st National Banjara Professors’ Conference on 14^th & 15 July 2012, organized by National Banjara Professors Association, All India Banjara Seva Sangh, held at Pandit Rangamandir, Gulbarga, Karnataka.

14.  The Paper entitled “Information Literacy, Digital Divide, Rural-Urban Divide” has been presented in the 3rd KSCLA National Conference on Empowering Librarians for lifelong learning skills at PDAC Engineering College, Gulbarga during 17-18th August 2012.

15.  Participated in Indian Library Association (ILA) -The 58th Annual conference on "Next Generation Libraries: New Insights and Universal Access to Knowledge(ILANGL–2013), held at the Department of Library and Information Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka. during 24th to 27th, February 2013.

16.  Participated one day State level Seminar on “Importance of Libraries and problems” organized by Library & Information Center, Government First Grade College, Davanagere, held on 27^th October, 2013.

17.  An article entitledon “Banavasi - The eternal beauty of tourism: A perspective study”,  has been presented By Girish Rathod M.S., Anusha L. Gouda, Harshitha Bhandari, Deepa V. Bhat and Swetha Gouda, in the National Conference on “Issues, Challenges and Opportunities in Horticulture, Tourism and Information Technology in India”, (NCHTIT – 2014) on 21^st & 22^nd February 2014, organized by RDF, Sirsi. 347-350pp. ISBN: 978-81-921937-2-1

18.  An article entitled on “Developmental model for tourism potentialities in Uttara Kannada district”  has been presented by Girish Rathod M.S, Dr. T. S. Halemane, And Vishwalinga Prasad B. in the National Conference on “Issues, Challenges and Opportunities in Horticulture, Tourism and Information Technology in India”, (NCHTIT – 2014) on 21^st & 22^nd February 2014,  organized by RDF, Sirsi. 196-200pp. ISBN: 978-81-921937-2-1

19.  An article entitled on “Elegance of water falls in Uttara Kannada district” has been presented by Girish Rathod M.S., Madhukumar Madiwal, Aslam Mulla,  Malatesha G. Kabber, and  Jabeer K. Sab in the National Conference on “Issues, Challenges and Opportunities in Horticulture, Tourism and Information Technology in India”, (NCHTIT – 2014) on 21^st & 22^nd February 2014,  organized by RDF, Sirsi. 364-367pp. ISBN: 978-81-921937-2-1

20.  An article entitled “Glimpses of tourism in Shimoga district: An overview” has been presented by Girish Rathod M.S., Ravi Kumar M. and Santhosh in the National Conference on “Issues, Challenges and Opportunities in Horticulture, Tourism and Information Technology in India”, (NCHTIT – 2014) on 21^st & 22^nd February 2014,  organized by RDF, Sirsi. 387-392pp. ISBN: 978-81-921937-2-1

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23.  An article entitled ‘Reading Habits and the Role of Libraries’ has been presented by Girish Rathod M.S. and Dr. Padmamma S. in the National conference on ‘Libraries and Librarianship in Transition: Challenges and Opportunities’ (LIBTRANS – 2014) on 22^nd -23^rd August 2014, organized by Besant Evening College, Mangalore. 278-284pp. ISBN: 978-81-929927-0-9

24.  Participated one day National Seminar on “Challenges before Social Sciences” organized by Department of Studies in Sociology, Government First Grade College, Byadagi, held on 27^th October, 2014.

c.       International Conference:

1. Article entitled “Malware” presented in the Sixth International Conference on “Webometrics, Informatrics and Scientometrics and 11^th COLLNET Meeting”, held during October 19 to 22, 2010 organized by Department of P.G. Studies and in Library and Information Science, at Mysore University, Mysore. Page No.:897-908 & ISBN:

2. Research article entitled “Planning and structure of an Information Support System for Fashion and Apparel Industry” presented in the International Conference on “ICLAM 2011”, held during 15th to 17th February, 2011 organized by NIFT, at New Delhi.        Page No.: 376-783pp. ISBN:938039714-3

3. Article entitled “Cloud Computing: Save Time, Money, and Resources with a Private Test Environment” presented in the International Conference on “ICDLEIML-2011”, held during 8th to 10th October, 2011 organized by KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Page No.: 223-235pp., ISBN:978-81-86052-07-5

4. Participated in International Conference on Knowledge Management and Organisation in the Digital Era (ICKMODE) at SIT, Tumkur, Karnataka. during 17th to 19th, January 2013.

5. Article entitled “Information Literacy among Undergraduate Students in Government First Grade College, Sirsi: A Study” Presented in the 6^th KSCLA International Conference on “Paradigms of Digital Library, E-resources, Open Access and Information and Media Literacy” held during 9^th 10^th October 2015 at BVB Engineering College, Hubli. Organised by KSCLA, Bangalore. Page No.:385-389pp.,ISBN: 978-81-924533-7-8.

10.        Publications:

a.            National Journal

1.   Girish Rathod M.S., Dr. S. Padmamma & Jyothi Guru, : “Design and Development of an Institutional Repository using Dspace at Rajiv Gandhi institute of Technology Bangalore: A Case Study”, Indian Journal of Library & Information Technology, KSCLA, Bangalore, April- June – 2012, Vol-II, No.2, 23-27pp., ISSN-2249-8494.

b.            International Journal

1.Girish Rathod M.S., & Dr. S. Padmamma: “Design and Development of an Information Support System of Fashion and Apparel Industry: A Literature Review”, International Journal of Information Sources and Services, IJSS/Geetajali Research Publication, March – April: 2015, Vol-II, No.2, 48-64pp., ISSN-2349-428X. 

2.Girish Rathod M.S., & Dr. S. Padmamma: “Information Resources and Services of Fashion and Apparel Institutes Resource Centres in India: A Perspective Study”, International Journal of Information Sources and Services, IJSS/Geetajali Research Publication, September – October: 2015, Vol-II, No.5, 49-59pp., ISSN-2349-428X. 

c.       Books:

1.      Girish Rathod M.S., “The Banjara Community: An Outlook”, Springer, Lodon, 2012.

2.      R.Y.Khan, B.K. Kemparaju and Girish Rathod M.S., ed., “Issues, Challenges and Opportunities in Horticulture, Tourism and Information Technology in India”, RDF Sirsi, (U.K.), Karnataka, 2014. ISBN: 978-81-921937-2-1.

11.     Co- Curricular Activities

1.      Participated in all NCC activities & B certified.

2.      Participated in the”SAHYADRI UTSAV” inter college co-curricular activities. Kuvempu University, Shimoga.

3.      Writing poems and articles.

4.      Participating in cultural programmes

5.      Participating in Sports; Swimming, Cycling, Gymnasium etc.

1. References – Available on Request.

Declaration

I hereby declared that, as above shown information are correct to the best my knowledge.

Thanking You,

Yours’ Sincerely,

23/12/2014

SIRSI                                                                                  (GIRISH RATHOD M.S.)