K Rama Patnaik

K. Rama Patnaik has a Doctoral Degree in Library and Information Science from the Andhra University of Visakhapatnam, India and the Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Library and Information Science from Andhra University. Her Thesis on “Marketing of Library and Information Services in Indian Libraries: Present Trends and Future Perspectives” was adjudicated as an excellent thesis by School of Information Science, Michigan University in 2002 She had secured gold medals in both Master’s and Bachelor’s programmes of Library and Information Science. She is with IIMB for more than eight years now and before joining IIM Bangalore, she was with two leading National Law school libraries. Dr Patnaik was a member of Member of “Study Group on Libraries in Higher Education” as part of the Karnataka Knowledge Commission, Chaired by Dr. Kasturi Rangan from 2009-2011 and currently a visiting fellow with Council for Social Development, Southern Regional Centre, Hyderabad. She is regular resource person for all the workshops conducted by Council for Social Development under the aegis of ICSSR (Indian Council of Social Scient Research) for user instruction sessions to faculty and research scholars. She was awarded Emerald LIS Research Fund Award (2000 UK pounds) for best research proposal among South Asian Librarians in 2012 for writing a research proposal titled “Raising the bar for fair use access to electronic resources: Are we signing away our rights? An analysis of license agreements and its impact on role of libraries in management education in India” and Junior Research Fellowship by University Grants Commission India for qualifying national level test NET/JRF for pursuing her Doctoral studies. She has published 14 papers in national and international journals also course writer for INFLIBNET e-pathshala, University of Hyderabad and B R Ambedkar open University Programmes. Her areas of professional interest are Integrating Technology in Information services, current trends in Management of electronic resources, and creating subject profiles using Libguides.

Publications

Changing the Scope of Library Instruction in the Digital Age
Changing the Scope of Library Instruction in the Digital Age
Swati Bhattacharyya, K Rama Patnaik. © 2018. 286 pages.
The current digital age is impacting the contents and delivery of instructional service in many ways. Instructional sessions not only describe various features of a resource, but...