• Developed a TOC service for wissensschaftskolleg zu Berlin during one month stay in May, 2010.
• Developed and designed the website for Documentation Research and Training Centre, Unit of Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore.

• Master of Library & Information Science (2 year course) from Banaras Hindu University(BHU) in the year 2007 with 79.40% marks.
• Qualified UGC JRF/NET(National Research Fellowship Exam) in June 2007.
• At present doing research at DRTC,Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore as Junior Research Fellow.

• Balaji B., Preedip and Kumar, Vinit, (2011) “Use of web technology in providing information services by south Indian technological universities as displayed on library websites”, Library Hi Tech, Vol. 29 Iss: 3, pp.470 - 495 Library Hi Tech (ISSN: 0737-8831).

• Kumar, Vinit and Madalli, Devika and Raj, Mithun (2011) Building a Personalized ToC service for the Library of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, accepted for publication in The Electronic Library (ISSN: 0264-0473).
• Kumar, Vinit and Madalli, Devika (2011) Towards semantic framework for faceted knowledge organization systems for better contextualization, in proceedings of “International Conference on Digital Libraries and Knowledge Organization (ICDK 2011)”, organized by MDI, Gurgaon, Feb 14-17th, 2011.

• Kumar, Vinit (2010) Linked Data: a best practice for better knowledge transaction, in proceedings of “Workshop on Knowledge Transactions” organized by DRTC, Bangalore, Feb 15-17th, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1849/440
• Kumar, Vinit (2010) Comparative evaluation of open source digital library packages in Tripathi, A., Prasad, H.N., Mishra R. Open Source Library Solutions, Ess Ess Publications, New Delhi. (ISBN: 9788170006237) http://hdl.handle.net/1849/441
• Kumar, Vinit (2008) Next Generation Catalogues: User's Expectations in proceedings of 6th CALIBER 2008, themed “From Automation to Transformation” organised at University of Allahabad, Allahabad during 29th Feb. to 1st Mar. 2008. (ISBN: 978-81-902079-6-6)http://hdl.handle.net/1849/439

• Attended the seminar on “The Co-evaluation of libraries and the Internet” held on 26th March at American Corner, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore-1 Organized by DRTC, ISI and American corner Bangalore.

• Attended “Workshop on Ontology” organized at Documentation Research and Training centre, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore India 23rd March - 25th March 2008.
• Attended one workshop, “International Workshop on Digital Preservation of Heritage: Research Issues in Archiving and Retrieval”, Oct. 29 - 31, 2007 held in Indian Statistical Institute(ISI), Kolkata.
• Attended one International conference, “International Conference on Knowledge Organization in Networked Environment”, from 3rd Sep.- 5th Sep. 2007, organized by DRTC, ISI Bangalore.
• Participated in a “Workshop on Webpage Designing” jointly organized by the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication and department of Library and information Science, BHU, Varanasi, from 22nd to 28th April, 2007.

• Acted as resource person in Pre-seminar tutorial on Moodle at National Conference on Next Generation Digital Libraries and Web Technologies : challenges and opportunities organised by SALIS, 19th August, 2010 at Krishna Engineering College, Coimbatore.
• Acted as resource person in “Three Day Workshop on Developing Digital Library Using DSpace” at MSRIT Bangalore, from 27-29th August, 2008.
• Acted as resource person in “National Workshop on DSpace for Building Institutional Repositories and Digital Libraries” organized by Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam at FISAT Angamaly, Kerala from 21-25 October, 2008.
• Taken classes on DSpace administration, membership, OAIPMH, Installation and Customisation. as resource person in “National Workshop on 'Building Institutional Repositories using DSpace“ held in August, 2009 at ITER, SOA University, Bhubaneswar.

• Successfully completed certificate on semantic web from “Asian Semantic Web School” during December, 8-12, 2008, at Bangkok, Thailand.
• Successfully completed certificate course in “Six sigma Advanced Green Belt Certification For IT/ITES Industries” during February, 2008 from Statistical and Quality Control Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore.
• Successfully completed certificate on “General Course on Intellectual Property” during March 1 to April 15, 2009, from WIPO Worldwide Academy, World Intellectual Property Organization(WIPO).

• Assisted Dr. K.S. Raghavan for teaching Cataloguing practice paper to MS-LIS students in Documentation Research and Training Centre, Bangalore from Sept, 2008- Feb, 2009 semester.

• Life time member of Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC), Kolkata.

Email - vinit[at]drtc[.]isibang[.]ac[.]in, vinitbhu06[at]gmail[.]com
Vinit Kumar
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