Bhojaraju Gunjal

by Bhojaraju Gunjal
(Bangalore, India)

Presently lives in Melbourne, Australia as 2008 Endeavour Research Fellow at Victoria University.

Bhojaraju Gunjal lives in Bangalore, India and serves as the Knowledge Management Consultant at one of the world’s leading information technology companies. He has more than eight years of professional experience in Knowledge/Content Management & Library Administration in IT Sector.

Prior to this, he served as Knowledge Management-Lead in Cognizant Technology Solutions (Bangalore).

Designed and developed KM Cyberary: a gateway to Knowledge Resources - for KM, LIS professionals and all Internet users searching for information in all subjects. Please refer KMC at http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.html.

Founder of KM-Forum: an initiative from India – an e-discussion group for global KM & LIS professionals. Actively participating in KM group meetings & discussions. Join this at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/

He is pursuing Ph.D in Library & Information Science on the topic “Knowledge Organisation Systems in Digital Libraries: A Case of ETDs” from University of Mysore, Mysore. His academic background is MLIS (Master of Library & Information Science) from Karnatak University, Dharwar securing high First Class and Gold Medal. Recipient of National Merit Scholarship for twice. Completed PGDLAN (Post Graduate Diploma in Library Automation and Networking) from University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. Also qualified Maharashtra State Eligibility Test (M-SET) for lectureship.

Published & presented technical papers in the field of Knowledge Management and Library & Information Science, both in national and international conferences/journals and also attended various professional training programs.

Life member of library associations like ILA, IASLIC, BOSLA, SIS & ALISP (Online).

Area of interests:

Knowledge Management (KM), Digital Libraries (DL), Knowledge Organisation Systems (KOS), Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD), Content/Information Analysis, Management & architecture, Library Administration & ICT applications, Library Automation and Networking, Marketing of Library and Information Services, Sharepoint Portal 2003/MOSS 2007 (Microsoft), Documentum, Web Designing.

For more details please refer http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cv.html.