International Seminar on Knowledge Management jointly organised by Asia-Pacific Institute of Management and Delhi Library Association

Continuing the series of successful programmes over the last 19 years, Asia-Pacific Institute of Management and Delhi Library Association jointly organized International Seminar on Knowledge Management on 20-21 February 2015.

The Seminar started with Saraswati Vandana by the students of AIM New Delhi. The Organizing Secretary Dr. K. Madhavan gave the event introduction and shared the brief profiles of the invited speakers and seminar participants. Dr. Vikas Kumar, Senior Faculty at the Asia-Pacific Institute of Management delivered the welcome speech. The seminar had Guest Speakers including Ms. Krishna Roy Chowdhury (Qatar National Library) inaugurated the seminar. In her inaugural speech, she underlined the importance of similar intellectual interactions and assured all support in future events at AIM. Dr. Akhilesh Kumar, Director of Asia-Pacific Institute of Management delivered the presidential speech and said that the seminar would be forum for creating new knowledge in the area of Knowledge Management. Dr. Kumar welcomed all the delegates and wished them success.

This seminar attracted library professionals and management experts from different parts of India and abroad including the following senior professionals:

• Ms. Kamini Perera (The Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka)  
• Dr. Indra Koul (Deputy Director, Indian Council for Historical Research)
• Dr. S. Majumdar (Librarian, India International Centre, New Delhi)
• Dr. Gayas Makhdumi ,University Librarian, Jamia Milia Islamia
• Dr. R. K. Bhatt (Department of Library and Information Science, Delhi University)
• Dr. Narendra Kumar (Deputy Librarian, Delhi University Library System)
• Ms. Meenu Kumari (Librarian, TR College, Sonepat, Haryana)
• Dr. Praveen Babbar (Deputy Librarian, JNU, Delhi)
• Dr. Neeraj Chourasia (Deputy Librarian, IIT Delhi)
• Dr. Taruna Joshi (Librarian, Ramjas College, Delhi University)
• Mr. Kumar Sanjay (NITI AAYOG, New Delhi)
• Prof. Saurabh Mittal (Asia-Pacific Institute of Management, New Delhi)
• Prof. Nitin Arora (Asia-Pacific Institute of Management, New Delhi)
• Ms. Satija Varsha (NITI AAYOG)
• Mrs. Poonam Singh (Librarian)

It is heartening to note that more than 125 participants from different academic institutions in India and abroad attended the Seminar and they were enthusiastic and active in all the sessions and shared their views on different facets of Knowledge Management. The participants also got an opportunity for networking with various national and international dignitaries. The two days’ deliberations added to knowledge and experience of the participants. The International Seminar speakers were presented with mementos as acknowledgement of gratitude from the organizing committee for attending the International Seminars and sessions in the event.

The valedictory session was chaired by Dr. Akhilesh Kumar, Director of Asia- Pacific Institute of Management. Dr. Kumar congratulated the organizing team for the grand success of the seminar. Seminar organizing secretary, Dr.K. Madhavan and Dr. Jnanendra Singh of the Delhi Library Association thanked all the delegates for making the event a grand success. Dr. Akhilesh Kumar also promised the august gathering of organizing such programs in the coming years as well. The invited speakers were univocal in appreciating the efforts of organizing committee to make the seminar a grand success.

The papers presented in the seminar would be published in the form of edited volume with ISBN number. The edited volume will be released by the end of the April 2015.