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Non-profits: What Founders Go Through 

Non-profits: What Founders Go Through 

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I recently came across a great post on LinkedIn by Ajit Sivaram – co-founder of U&I Trust. In this post he described what it is like to be a Founder of a not for profit organization in India. In approximately a dozen paras that he wrote, every line resonated with what I feel today. People ask me why QMed is a not for profit. Next time I am asked this question, I am going to use Ajit’s answer: “My work isn’t just charity. It’s necessary. It’s professional. It’s the hard, unglamorous labor of building the India we keep saying we want.”…
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The ONOS – ensuring permanency and maximum use

The ONOS – ensuring permanency and maximum use

1.2 - Sector story
The ONOS - https://www.onos.gov.in/ is an initiative launched in January this year with support from the Govt of India. It is one through which all Government institutions can get access to articles from a large number of journals (more than 13000). This from more than 27 subject categories. From 2027 - Private institutions will also have this access, but with a fee. This has been one of the best thing that happened in India, in academics and research. However I have some worries about this. A major one being - that like the Cochrane Library, this should not go, thanks…
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Our Founder gives a talk about Library and Information Sciences as a Career

Our Founder gives a talk about Library and Information Sciences as a Career

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A couple of weeks back I was invited by a friend  Dr Shubhada Nagarkar to participate in an event she planned for and deliver a short talk.  Dr Shubhada is a Prof of Library and Information Sciences in the Savitribai Phule University, Pune. She planned this event to attract more students to the profession and so the talk was for Undergrad students of any discipline. The event was online and held on May 15. There were around 37 participants. There were five speakers Dr Mehtab Alam is the Head of an LIS department of AMU. He talked about the profession and…
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