Present Work:   

At MANAGE since 1993. Responsible for management of the MANAGE Information Resource Centre. The focus is on providing a gateway for clients, to access information resources as well as network with agricultural research, extension and training institutions on the web.

Coordinating training programmes for capacity building among information professionals in the area of information management.

Editing MANAGE publications. 

Coordinating linkages among agricultural information centres. Enabling research and extension institutions to exchange agricultural information through networking initiatives.

Work Experience: 

Twenty years in information management

Diploma / Certificates 

Advanced Diploma in French

Honours

  Fulbright Fellowship in Information Science and Technology 2004-2005,

  Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

 

  Recipient of the Florence Salzer scholarship as best all round Library and

  Information Science student

Publications / Presentations

• User-friendly and complete packaging a critical need for consumer orientation for marketing and agricultural information
• Criteria for evaluation of web resources.
• Rural development information : A case study of computerisation of CORD database
• A decade of research and consultancy at MANAGE
• Information Management in the Digital Era
• Electronic networking through Discussion Forums, 2003
• Internet and Agricultural Information Services : initiatives at MANAGE, 2003

Contact Details

National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE)
Rajendranagar, Hyd- 500 030, AP, India
Phone : 040-24016702 to 706 (O), Extn.: 252

Residence: 040-40160738

Mobile : 98487-85837

E-mail:  lakshmi@manage.gov.in

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