Assistant Professor
Nikesh serves as Information Technology Librarian at Zayed University. He is a library systems expert with specialization in Web-scale Discovery solutions, LSP/ILS implementations, remote access, repositories, and Institutional ORCID API implementations. He secured MTech in Information Systems and Management with a gold medal from the University of Mysore. In addition, he has master’s degrees in Library and Information Science and in Business studies. Prior to joining Zayed University UAE, Nikesh served as Systems Librarian at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi and took a lead role in unifying the ILS, discovery, remote access and repository systems of the Masdar Institute, the Petroleum Institute and the KUSTAR, implementing the massive systems migration projects for the newly merged entities of the Khalifa University. Nikesh has extensive experience leading the technical operations at EBSCO serving as EBSCO Discovery Engineer and he has implemented over 100 EBSCO Discovery profiles across India and South Asia to deliver seamless and integrated discovery user experiences in libraries.
• Excellent exposure with the publishing industry: work experience as Information specialist. Involved in Client Relationship Management for the country of Kuwait for major International publishers viz. Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor and Francis, Thompson Reuters, Emerald, EBSCO, Nature, Lexis Nexis, Ovid & Sage. I trained customers on database portals of these.
• Team member in the implementing Institutional repository of Mahatma Gandhi University http://www.mgutheses.org/
• Lead role in Implementation of union catalog project of Mahatma Gandhi University
• Extensive working knowledge in ILS systems, Digital library software, and ERM systems
• Experience in content creation and management of Libguides. http://libguides.kustar.ac.ae/prf.php?account_id=90850
• Working knowledge in Moodle LMS.
• Extensive knowledge in citation databases, SCOPUS and Web of science.
• Project Management (Union catalog, theses digitization for the institutional repository, ILS migration, Web-scale Discovery service migration, Institutional repository migration)
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About Nikesh Narayanan
Nikesh serves as Information Technology Librarian at Zayed University. He is a library systems expert with specialization in Web-scale Discovery solutions, LSP/ILS implementations, remote access, repositories, and Institutional ORCID API implementations. He secured MTech in Information Systems and Management with a gold medal from the University of Mysore. In addition, he has master’s degrees in Library and Information Science and in Business studies. Prior to joining Zayed University UAE, Nikesh served as Systems Librarian at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi and took a lead role in unifying the ILS, discovery, remote access and repository systems of the Masdar Institute, the Petroleum Institute and the KUSTAR, implementing the massive systems migration projects for the newly merged entities of the Khalifa University. Nikesh has extensive experience leading the technical operations at EBSCO serving as EBSCO Discovery Engineer and he has implemented over 100 EBSCO Discovery profiles across India and South Asia to deliver seamless and integrated discovery user experiences in libraries.
• Excellent exposure with the publishing industry: work experience as Information specialist. Involved in Client Relationship Management for the country of Kuwait for major International publishers viz. Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor and Francis, Thompson Reuters, Emerald, EBSCO, Nature, Lexis Nexis, Ovid & Sage. I trained customers on database portals of these.
• Team member in the implementing Institutional repository of Mahatma Gandhi University http://www.mgutheses.org/
• Lead role in Implementation of union catalog project of Mahatma Gandhi University
• Extensive working knowledge in ILS systems, Digital library software, and ERM systems
• Experience in content creation and management of Libguides. http://libguides.kustar.ac.ae/prf.php?account_id=90850
• Working knowledge in Moodle LMS.
• Extensive knowledge in citation databases, SCOPUS and Web of science.
• Project Management (Union catalog, theses digitization for the institutional repository, ILS migration, Web-scale Discovery service migration, Institutional repository migration)
| Present | Assistant Professor, Zayed University ‐ Library and Learning Commons | |
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Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2019 - Present | Information Technology Librarian, Zayed University | 2015 - 2019 | Systems Librarian, Khalifa University |
Honors and Awards
- Gold Medal - M.Tech in Information Systems and Management honor dateApr 2011 honor issuerUniversity of Mysore
| 2008 - 2010 | MTech, University of Mysore ‐ International School of Inforamtion Management | |
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| 1995 - 1996 | Master of Library and Information Science, university of kerala ‐ Department of Library Science | |
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Assistant Professor and IT Librarian
Zayed University, Dubai
+971507097346
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