Role of Llibraries in Indian Culture and Management

Dr Sanjiv Saraf (born 1970), the author, is at present Dy. Librarian, Central Library, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (UP). Starting his professional career as a Indexer in Information and Documentation unit of National Research Centre for Soybean (ICAR) Indore (M.P>) in 1992, he has been a practicing librarian and teacher of LIS for over 13 years now. He has also served in Govt. College, Patharia (DAMOH) (M.P.) as Librarian for about 10 year. An alumnus of Sagar University, dr. Saraf has been awarded the best Research paper Award has been awarded the best research Paper Award from Third national Science Conference. A member of ILA, IASLIC, IATLIS and MPLA, he has also been secretary of MPCLA. Dr. Saraf is also the author of several publications. He has contributed a number of research papers in several journals and presented research papers in national and international conferences. He acted as Organizing Secretary of several conferences and seminars. He is very near to Limcas Book of World record regarding highest number of university degrees. At present he has 12 university degrees with Ph.D. in Library Science. Dr. Saraf has outstanding contributions in the field of Jain research and at present he is National Publicity Officer of renowned Jain association (Tirthankar Rishbhadeva Jain Viduat Mahasangh)