About T.A. PAI MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE (TAPMI ) ( http://www.tapmi.edu.in )
T. A. Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) is located in the international university town of Manipal. It is one among the leading management institutes in India and is known for its academic rigour and faculty-student interaction. Founded by late Shri T. A. Pai in 1980, the institute’s PGDM program is recognized by AICTE on par with MBA and it is consistently ranked among top 20 premier B-schools in India. CRISIL has rated the institute with the highest ‘A***’ grade. Further, TAPMI has received International accreditation from AACSB (Association to advance collegiate Schools of Business, FLORIDA, US). The institute has received many awards for its excellence in academic courses, faculty and infrastructure. The fully residential scenic campus is spread over scenic 42-acre land surrounded by hillock and overlooking a valley filled with verdant tropical greenery. The campus houses state-of-the-art, Wi-Fi-enabled and air-conditioned classrooms, offices, faculty rooms, knowledge centre, computer centre, and student centre. The campus also includes a canteen, general store, yoga hall, gym, mini open-air theater and separate A/C hostels for men and women, and residences for faculty and staff. Please see TAPMI Website www.tapmi.edu.in for more details.
TAPMI Knowledge Centre is a three storied centrally air-conditioned building holds the library on one wing and computer lab on the other. The library with a plinth area of about 13,000 sq ft. has a rich collection of print and electronic resources supported by technology enabled facilities and services. It has over 36,000 quality books and subscribes about 290 national and international print periodicals. It subscribes 18 academic and corporate databases like Science Direct, EBSCO, PROQUEST, JGate, Financial Times, CRISIL, ISI emerging Markets, Indiastat.com, Capitaline, CMIE’s prowess and Economic Outlook etc. Statistical packages such as SPSSv22.0 and STATA MP3 have been installed in the campus. The library services include long working hours, bar-coded transactions, ILL, photocopying, document scanning, network laser printing, OPAC and library web portal. The membership includes membership subscription to DELNET, American Information Resource Centre (AIRC); European Case Clearing House (ECCH), HBS, SSRN, IIMA, and TERI. The online databases are IP authenticated and Wi-Fi accessible across campus. Recently, Fedgate and EzProxy softwares have been installed in the campus to provide federated search and remote access facility to library resources across the Globe.
Manipal is the home for a large number of educational institutes for medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, arts and science, engineering and technology disciplines. It is known for its cosmopolitan ambience. The legendary pilgrimage town of Udupi is just 5 kms and Sringeri Sharada Devi temple is 80 kms from Manipal. Mangalore is the nearest Airport (70 kms) and Udupi is the nearest Railway Station (3 kms) to Manipal.
ABOUT MANAGEMENT LIBRARIES NETWORK ( MANLIBNET ): (http://www.manlibnet.in)
MANLIBNET was established in the year 1998 at the first convention jointly organized by the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) and Ahmedabad Management Association. The Association was established with the primary objective of providing a platform to improve the common understanding among management and business libraries and to promote effective collaboration and resource sharing.
Conferences: in order to facilitate experience sharing and professionals’ network, MANLIBNET organizes annual conferences in collaboration with academic institutions situated in different locations. The leading institutions that have collaborated with MANLIBNET to organize the conferences are IIM-Ahmedabad IIM-Lucknow, IIM-Kozhikode; XLRI, Jamshedpur; IMT, Ghaziabad; NIFM, Faridabad; Nirma University, Ahmedabad; ICSSR, Mumbai and Delhi, SSIM, Secunderabad; KIIT University, Bhubaneswar; IIHMR, Jaipur; University of Delhi, Delhi. IIM, Indore and EDII, Ahmedabad.
LDPs: In addition to an annual conference, MANLIBNET conducts state level Local Development Programmes (LDPs) for LIS professionals and knowledge managers in collaboration with various colleges.
Publications: Besides publishing of conference proceedings, MANLIBNET publishes a quarterly journal called ‘Journal of Library Management’ since 2012, which is approved by Registrar of Newspapers and Magazines, New Delhi.
MANLIBNET Executive Council Members
President: Dr. H. Anil Kumar, Librarian, IIM, Ahmedabad
Vice-President: Ms. Jyoti A Bhatt, Asst. Librarian, MS University of Baroda, Vadodara
Gen. Secretary: Dr. Akhtar Parvez, Librarian, IIM, Indore
Secretary: Dr. Akhtar Hussain, Librarian, IMT, Ghaziabad
Secretary : Dr. Rajesh Kumar, Librarian, INMANTEC Institutions, Ghaziabad
Treasurer: Mr. Jitender Sharma, Librarian, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida
Members: Ms. Chandrakala Pai, Librarian, Prin. KM Kundnani Coll. of Pharmacy, Mumbai.
Dr. Chandrakanta Swain, Librarian IIM, Raipur
Mr. Dharam Vir, New Delhi
Mr. Ganapathi Batthini, Librarian, EDII, Ahmedabad
Mr. Giridhar M. Kunkur, Librarian and Unit chief Publications & Media Relations, BITS, Pilani
Dr. K. Elavazhagan, Librarian, IIM, Trichy
Dr. K. P. Singh, Sr. Asst. Professor, DLIS, University of Delhi, Delhi
Dr. Meeta Rathod, Librarian, BRCM College of Bus Administration, Surat
Mr. Piyush Pant, Reliance Group, Noida.
Dr. T. S. Kumbar, Librarian, IIT, Gandhinagar
Dr. Tariq Ashraf, University Librarian, University of Delhi, Delhi
T. A. Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) is located in the international university town of Manipal. It is one among the leading management institutes in India and is known for its academic rigour and faculty-student interaction. Founded by late Shri T. A. Pai in 1980, the institute’s PGDM program is recognized by AICTE on par with MBA and it is consistently ranked among top 20 premier B-schools in India. CRISIL has rated the institute with the highest ‘A***’ grade. Further, TAPMI has received International accreditation from AACSB (Association to advance collegiate Schools of Business, FLORIDA, US). The institute has received many awards for its excellence in academic courses, faculty and infrastructure. The fully residential scenic campus is spread over scenic 42-acre land surrounded by hillock and overlooking a valley filled with verdant tropical greenery. The campus houses state-of-the-art, Wi-Fi-enabled and air-conditioned classrooms, offices, faculty rooms, knowledge centre, computer centre, and student centre. The campus also includes a canteen, general store, yoga hall, gym, mini open-air theater and separate A/C hostels for men and women, and residences for faculty and staff. Please see TAPMI Website www.tapmi.edu.in for more details.
TAPMI Knowledge Centre is a three storied centrally air-conditioned building holds the library on one wing and computer lab on the other. The library with a plinth area of about 13,000 sq ft. has a rich collection of print and electronic resources supported by technology enabled facilities and services. It has over 36,000 quality books and subscribes about 290 national and international print periodicals. It subscribes 18 academic and corporate databases like Science Direct, EBSCO, PROQUEST, JGate, Financial Times, CRISIL, ISI emerging Markets, Indiastat.com, Capitaline, CMIE’s prowess and Economic Outlook etc. Statistical packages such as SPSSv22.0 and STATA MP3 have been installed in the campus. The library services include long working hours, bar-coded transactions, ILL, photocopying, document scanning, network laser printing, OPAC and library web portal. The membership includes membership subscription to DELNET, American Information Resource Centre (AIRC); European Case Clearing House (ECCH), HBS, SSRN, IIMA, and TERI. The online databases are IP authenticated and Wi-Fi accessible across campus. Recently, Fedgate and EzProxy softwares have been installed in the campus to provide federated search and remote access facility to library resources across the Globe.
Manipal is the home for a large number of educational institutes for medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, arts and science, engineering and technology disciplines. It is known for its cosmopolitan ambience. The legendary pilgrimage town of Udupi is just 5 kms and Sringeri Sharada Devi temple is 80 kms from Manipal. Mangalore is the nearest Airport (70 kms) and Udupi is the nearest Railway Station (3 kms) to Manipal.
ABOUT MANAGEMENT LIBRARIES NETWORK ( MANLIBNET ): (http://www.manlibnet.in)
MANLIBNET was established in the year 1998 at the first convention jointly organized by the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) and Ahmedabad Management Association. The Association was established with the primary objective of providing a platform to improve the common understanding among management and business libraries and to promote effective collaboration and resource sharing.
Conferences: in order to facilitate experience sharing and professionals’ network, MANLIBNET organizes annual conferences in collaboration with academic institutions situated in different locations. The leading institutions that have collaborated with MANLIBNET to organize the conferences are IIM-Ahmedabad IIM-Lucknow, IIM-Kozhikode; XLRI, Jamshedpur; IMT, Ghaziabad; NIFM, Faridabad; Nirma University, Ahmedabad; ICSSR, Mumbai and Delhi, SSIM, Secunderabad; KIIT University, Bhubaneswar; IIHMR, Jaipur; University of Delhi, Delhi. IIM, Indore and EDII, Ahmedabad.
LDPs: In addition to an annual conference, MANLIBNET conducts state level Local Development Programmes (LDPs) for LIS professionals and knowledge managers in collaboration with various colleges.
Publications: Besides publishing of conference proceedings, MANLIBNET publishes a quarterly journal called ‘Journal of Library Management’ since 2012, which is approved by Registrar of Newspapers and Magazines, New Delhi.
MANLIBNET Executive Council Members
President: Dr. H. Anil Kumar, Librarian, IIM, Ahmedabad
Vice-President: Ms. Jyoti A Bhatt, Asst. Librarian, MS University of Baroda, Vadodara
Gen. Secretary: Dr. Akhtar Parvez, Librarian, IIM, Indore
Secretary: Dr. Akhtar Hussain, Librarian, IMT, Ghaziabad
Secretary : Dr. Rajesh Kumar, Librarian, INMANTEC Institutions, Ghaziabad
Treasurer: Mr. Jitender Sharma, Librarian, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida
Members: Ms. Chandrakala Pai, Librarian, Prin. KM Kundnani Coll. of Pharmacy, Mumbai.
Dr. Chandrakanta Swain, Librarian IIM, Raipur
Mr. Dharam Vir, New Delhi
Mr. Ganapathi Batthini, Librarian, EDII, Ahmedabad
Mr. Giridhar M. Kunkur, Librarian and Unit chief Publications & Media Relations, BITS, Pilani
Dr. K. Elavazhagan, Librarian, IIM, Trichy
Dr. K. P. Singh, Sr. Asst. Professor, DLIS, University of Delhi, Delhi
Dr. Meeta Rathod, Librarian, BRCM College of Bus Administration, Surat
Mr. Piyush Pant, Reliance Group, Noida.
Dr. T. S. Kumbar, Librarian, IIT, Gandhinagar
Dr. Tariq Ashraf, University Librarian, University of Delhi, Delhi