Personal:

Dr. Sanjeev Kumar joined PAU in the year 2004 in Mohinder Singh Ranhawa Library as Assistant Librarian. Prior to this he worked as college librarian from 1999 to 2004. He has done his Masters in Botany (Honours), B. Lib & Inf. Sc. & M.Lib & Inf. Sc from Punjab University Chandigarh. He completed his PhD in Service Quality evaluation in Agricultural University libraries from Lovely Professional University, Phagwara. He has total working experience of 26 years serving in academic libraries. He has attended various International and National conference and presented research papers. He has also delivered various lectures on library and information services and Research & publication Ethics and actively associated in successfully organizing 3rd International Conference of Agricultural Librarians at PAU library, Ludhiana. He has delivered various extension lectures related to library activities for enhancing the awareness and use of library. He used to organize various orientation lectures for the new users at the beginning of semester. Various library tours have been conducted during the visits of educational trips from other academic institutions. He is also a Nodal Officer for the improvement and development of departmental libraries of college of Community Science, PAU Ludhiana.

Teaching :

He has teaching experience of 14 years. He has been teaching two PG courses – PGS-501 and RPE501 to Masters and Doctorate degree students

Research :

He has around 30 publications to his credit in the form of Journals articles, Conference papers and Book chapters. Some important publications are as under

• Kumar S, Bala S and Kumar A (2024) Institutional repositories an emerging resource for scholarly agricultural communication and access: a study. In: Partap, B and Bala, R (eds). Next Generation Libraries in the Networked Digital Environment.  Pp 395-402. NIPA Genex Electronic Resources & Solutions P Ltd. N. Dehli.
• Kumar  S (2023) Institutional repositories as a viable medium for digital preservation and accessibility of scholarly content: a case study of PAU repository. In: Partap, B and Joshi, N (eds) Digital Transformation in Libraries and Information Centres. Pp 153-63. Today  & Tomorrow’s printer & Pub. N Delhi.
• Kumar  S, Bala S and Kumar A  (2023) Internet of things (IoTs) and libraries: service innovations and improvements. In: Ramesh Babu, B et al. (eds) Emerging Technologies In Libraries : Trends and Developments. Pp 208-12. B S Pub. Hyderabad.
• Kumar S and Kumar J (2023) User’s perception towards information and communication technology application in agricultural information services: a study. Proc  3^rd Int. Conf. of Agricultural Libraries and Sustainable Development Goals The Way Forward.Pp 639-51. Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana.
• Kumar S  (2022) Social media in strategic management of library and information services. In : Lal,D D, Talwar, y and Sinha, M K (eds) The Changing Landscape for the Libraries and Librarians: Issues and  Challenges. Pp 172-81, NIPA, N.Delhi.