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Dr. NABI HASAN is the Librarian & Head of the Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Earlier, he served as the University Librarian at Aligarh Muslim University. He is the First Norman E. Borlaug Fellow from India in Library Information Systems, trained at Cornell University, New York, USA. Dr. Hasan has been honoured with the Fellow of the Special Libraries Association Award 2022 (FSLA). He won the SLA Engineering Librarian of the Year Award 2021, the Bonnie Hilditch International Librarian Award 2018, the SLP-SLA Asian Fellow Award 2019, and the SLA Presidential Citation 2021. Dr. Hasan has been conferred with the Royal Society of Chemistry's Librarians' Choice Award 2019 and won the SLA Overall Best Poster Award 2020. He is the recipient of the Vice-Chancellor Appreciation Award 2003 HP Agriculture University Palampur, Appreciation from the Chairman, Board of Governors, IIT Delhi 2012, Appreciation from the Vice-Chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University 2018, Appreciation Certificate from IEEE twice, Lifetime Achievement Award 2015, and SALIS-Dr. Harish Chandra-Sushila Chandra National Best Librarian Award on Oct. 14, 2022. Earlier, Dr. Hasan served as President of SLA Asia and the Academic & Education Community of the SLA-USA. Dr. Hasan has 17 Books and over 180 articles to his credit. He is the 2024 President of the SLA Engineering Community, served as Co-Chair of the Annual Conference Advisory Council 2022-23 (ACS) and is a Joint-Chair of the 2024 SLA Annual Conference. More recently, he was awarded the Outstanding Academic Librarian Award 2023, conferred on National Librarians Day 2023 by the Social Development Federation, India and 2023 Elsevier Library Stellar Club Membership on successfully completing its certification program. Dr Hasan is the is the winner of SLA Asia Librarian Excellence Award 2024. He headed the National Resource Centre in Library and Information Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Govt. of India, under its ARPIT MOOCs Program 2019-21. He is currently the Coordinator of the NPTEL MOOCs Course on Science Communication: Research Productivity and Data Analytics using Open Source Software (Ongoing), 12 Weeks, 3 Credits. More details about him are available at: https://web.iitd.ac.in/~hasan