Organizing Committee

Conference Adviser
Professor Dr. Mohammed Farashuddin,
Chief Adviser and Founder Vice Chancellor, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Founder of the Conference Series
Hildrun Kretschmer and Theo Kretschmer, COLLNET, Germany

General Chair
Dr. Bernd Markscheffel, COLLNET Coordinator
Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany


Conference Chair
Dr. Dilara Begum, Chairperson & Associate Professor,
Department of Information Studies, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh


Organizing Secretary
Mohammed Motiur Rahman, Deputy Librarian (Jr.), East West University Library, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Dr. P. K. Jain, Librarian, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi Enclave, Delhi, India

Conference Programmer
Dr. Debal C Kar, PhD, Librarian, Galgotia University Noida, Delhi, India
Narendar Kumar Wadhwa, Former Chief Scientist, CSIR-NPL, Delhi, India
Dr. Parveen Babbar, Deputy Librarian, Jawaharlal University, Delhi, India

Co-ordinators
Md. Hasinul Elahi, Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Studies, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, E-mail: [email protected]
Abdur Rahaman Sumon, Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Studies, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, E-mail: [email protected]
Program Committee Members
Rumana Rahman, Lecturer, Dept. of Information Studies, E-mail: [email protected]
Most. Shahin Akhter, Assistant Registrar, E-mail: [email protected]
Ms. Shaharima Parvin, Sr. Assistant Librarian, E-mail: [email protected]
Norbut J-Are Gomes, Assistant Chief, HR, E-mail: [email protected]
Md. Shawkat Ali, Sr. Assistant Librarian, E-mail: [email protected]
Mr. Tahur Ahmed, Sr. Assistant Librarian, E-mail: [email protected]
M. Abdul Gani, Sr. Assistant Librarian, E-mail: [email protected]
Ms. Afrin Sultana, Assistant Librarian, E-mail: [email protected]
Md. Sagar Shahnawaz, Assistant Librarian, E-mail: [email protected]
Ms. Saifun Momota, Assistant Librarian, E-mail: [email protected]
Md. Abdul Latif, Assistant Librarian, E-mail: [email protected]
Md. Ershadul Haque, Assistant Librarian, E-mail: [email protected]
Md. Sariful Islam, Library Circulation Officer, E-mail: [email protected]
Nur Mahammed Golam Newaz, Library Circulation Officer, E-mail: [email protected]

Programm Committee Members
Amir Reza Asnafi, Iran
Anjana Bhatt PhD, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA
April, Secretary, Asian Community, Kazakhstan
Catherine Lavallée-Welch, President, SLA, USA
Dinesh Kumar, PhD, AUD, Delhi, India
Grant Lewison, Kings College London, UK
Hemant Sharma, Prof., Jiwaji University, Gwalior
Jayamadura Mohottige Shalani Dilinika, DLIS, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
Jean-Charles Lamirel, Faculty Member, Henri Poincaré University, LORIA, France
Joseph Yap, President, SLA Asian Community, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary
K P Singh, Prof. Dept of LIS, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Kyoko Sato, Past President, Asian Community, SLA, Japan
Labibah Zain, UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, Indonesia
M P Singh, Prof. Dept of LIS, BBRAU, Lucknow, UP, India
Mu-Suk Oh, President 2019, Asian Community, South Korea
Nabi Hasan PhD, Librarian, IIT, New Delhi, India
P R Goswami PhD, Former Director, IGNCA, Delhi
Parveen Babbar, PhD, Past President, Asian Community, SLA, Deputy Librarian, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India
Parveen Babel, PhD, Banasthali University, Rajasthan, India
Professor Manoj Kumar Verma, Department of Library and Information Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl, Mizoram, India
R K Sharma, PhD, Director General, Delhi Public Library, Delhi, India
R.K. Verma, Former Chief Scientist, CSIR-NISCAIR, New Delhi
Sandeep Pathak, PhD, Dy Librarian, IISER, Bhopal, MP, India
Santosh Gupta, PhD, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur
Seema Ramprasad President Elect, SLA, USA
Shirley Ingles-Cruz, Past President, Asian Community, Congress of the Philippines, Philippines
Sun Yuan, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Thijs Bart, ECOOM, MSI, K.U.Leuven
Yue Chen, WISELab, DUT, Dalian, China

COLLNET Regional Chairs

• Wolfgang Glanzel (Belgium)
• Valentina Markusova (Russia)
• P K Jain (India)
• Yue Chen (China)
• Farideh Osareh (Iran)