Manika Lamba
Postdoctoral Research Associate
PhD, Library and Information Science, University of Delhi
MPhil, Library and Information Science, University of Delhi
MLIS, University of Delhi
MSc, Plant Biotechnology, TERI School of Advanced Studies
BSc (H), Biochemistry, University of Delhi
Other professional appointments
- Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Library and Information Services (IJLIS) (2021-Present)
- Chair of Professional Development Sub-Committee and Elected Standing Committee Member, IFLA Science and Technology Libraries Section (2023-2025)
- Co-Founder & Co-Organizer, International Café Meets, SIG-III ASIS&T (2022-Present)
- Secretary/Treasurer, SIG-OIM ASIS&T (2021-2022)
- Cabinet Representative, SIG-DL ASIS&T (2021-2022)
- Newsletter Officer & Webmaster, SA Chapter ASIS&T (2021-2022)
Research focus
Honors and Awards
- Best Volunteer Award, SIG-III ASIS&T (2023)
- ASIS&T SIG-III Special Project Funding for organizing “Winter School for Enhancing Research Skills” (2023, Co-PI)
- Data-Driven Social Science Research Funding for “Gender in the Journals: A Dataset of Gender and Politics Research” by Princeton University (2022, Co-PI)
- Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) Doctoral Fellowship (2021-2022)
- Travel Grant, BIGSSS Summer Schools in Computational Social Science, Groningen, Netherlands (2022)
- Research Funding for “Enabling interactive exploration of rich scientific multigraphs with Neo4j Bloom” (2021, Co-PI)
- ASIS&T Special Project Funding for “Dealing with COVID-19 and Saving People’s Lives in South Asia (SA) Areas and Beyond” (2021, Co-PI) [ASIS&T South Asia Chapter received the “Chapter Innovation of the Year Award” for the Project]
- Research Funding for “An Experimental design on the Relationship between COVID-19 misinformation and Protective Behavior” by SICSS (2020, Co-PI)
- Best Paper Award, ICDL2019 – New Delhi (2019)
- UGC Non-NET Scholarship (2019-2022)
Courses currently teaching
Publications & Papers
For a complete list of publications, visit Manika Lamba's Google Scholar page.
Selected Publications
Potnis, D., Gala, B., Reyes, V., Lamba, M., Warraich, N.F., Seifi, L., Perez, P.J. (2023). How to Better Engage with ASIS&T Members? Lessons Learned From SIG-III’s Activities During the COVID-19 Pandemic. In 2023 Mid-Year ASIS&T Conference. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7776962
Malik, A., Batool, S. H., Agarwal, N. K., Islam, Md. A., Jayasekara, P. K., Dangol, R., & Lamba, M. (2023). D/Misinformation on Social Media and the Role of the LIS Profession: A South Asian Perspective. In 2023 Mid-Year ASIS&T Conference. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7775553
Chan, H., Chu, S., Gala, B., Islam, M.A., Batool, S.H., Bhardwaj, R.K., Lamba, M. and Jayasekara, P.K. (2022). Equipping Students and Beyond with Sound COVID-19 Knowledge to Survive and Thrive Despite the Pandemic. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 59: 633-635. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.673
Lamba, M., Madhusudhan, M. (2022). Text Mining for Information Professionals: An Uncharted Territory, Springer Nature. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-85085-2 (Book's Website, GitHub Repository)
Lamba, M. (2022). Technological Advancements in Library Service Innovation, IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8942-7
Barnett, C., Fitzgerald,M., Krumholz, K., Lamba, M. (2022). Gender in the Journals: A Dataset of Gender and Politics Research. PS: Political Science & Politics, 55(3), 511-518. DOI: 10.1017/S1049096522000385
Lamba, M. (2020). Research Productivity of Health Care Policy Faculty: A Cohort Study of Harvard Medical School, Scientometrics, 124(1),107–130. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-020-034335
Lamba, M., Madhusudhan, M. (2019). Mapping of Topics in DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology, India: a study, Scientometrics, 120(2), 477–505.DOI: 10.1007/s11192-019-03137-5
Lamba, M. (2019). Marketing of academic health libraries 2.0: a case study, Library Management, 40(3/4), 155–177. DOI: 10.1108/LM-03-2018-0013
Lamba, M., Madhusudhan, M. (2018). Application of sentiment analysis in libraries to provide temporal information service: a case study on various facets of productivity, Social Network Analysis and Mining, 8:63. DOI: 10.1007/s13278-018-0541-y
Presentations
Speaker, “Meet the Authors: Text Mining for Information Professionals: An Uncharted Territory”, ASIS&T, December 2023
Speaker, “Sentiment Analysis using R”, RLadies Gaborone, October 2022
Speaker, “Topic Modeling with R”, RLadies Urmia, April 2022
Lamba, M. (2022). Visualizing the Pace of COVID-19 Research: An Experimental Study of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), NewDelhi. In SIS Annual Convention 2022, New Delhi. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7191599
Speaker, “Acceleration of Health Information Literacy: Preparing Multi-Lingual COVID-19 Contents for South Asia Region”, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 2021
Lamba, M. (2021). Analyzing Trends in Electronic Theses and Dissertations: 100 years of Library and Information Science. In ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), September 2021.
Lamba, M. (2021). Exploratory Text Analysis of Electronic Theses and Dissertations. In iConference (Virtual), March 2021.
Lamba, M. (2019). Text Analysis of ETDs in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT) Global (2016-2018). In ICDL 2019: Digital Transformation for an Agile Environment, New Delhi (pp.734–745). New Delhi, India. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3545907
Lamba, M., Madhusudhan, M. (2019). Mapping of ETDs in ProQuest dissertations and theses (PQDT) global database (2014-2018). In 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations – ETD2019, Porto, Portugal, November 2019.
Lamba, M., Madhusudhan, M. (2018). Metadata Tagging of Library and Information Science Theses: Shodhganga (2013-2017). In ETD2018 Taiwan Beyond the Boundaries of Rims and Oceans: Globalizing Knowledge with ETDs. Taipei, Taiwan. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1475795