Brief Profile: Dr. Mehtab Alam Ansari with Twenty Five  years of professional experience with B.Sc., M.A., MLISc. M. Phil. & Double Ph.D. degrees is presently working as a Professor in the department of Library & Information Science, Aligarh Muslim University. Dr. Alam has authored/ co-authored / co-edited  four books and has contributed several chapters in the books published from India as well as abroad. In addition to these, he has contributed more than fifty  papers & articles in various national &international journals, magazines and prominent national dailies. Under his supervision, Six scholars have been awarded PhD degrees from Aligarh Muslim University. Also,he has  successfully supervised two M.Phil dissertations and more than Sixty MLISc dissertations. Dr Mehtab Alam has participated and presented papers in several national and international conferences. Previously worked as an Assistant Librarian in Dr. Zakir Husain Library, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, Dr. Mehtab had  been associated with internationally reputed library software companies viz. VTLS an Ameican Company, Softlink,an Austarlian company and Libsys Corporation in different capacities. As an employee of VTLS, Dr.Mehtab has  received advanced level of training on the Virtua Library Management Software in Blacksburg, USA. His area of interest include cataloguing (Theory), Information Retrieval, Library Automation, Digital Library, Academic Library System etc. Dr. Mehtab Alam has visited Canada, Congo, Indonesia, Pakistan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and the United States of America. In June 2019,he has attended a workshop on 'Web Basics Part II' in Toronto Public Library, Canada.