Ajit Pyati Curriculum Vitae
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Curriculum Vitae
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Peer-Reviewed Articles
Pyati, A.K. (2009). “Public library revitalization in India: Hopes, challenges, and new visions,” First Monday 14(7). Available: [link]
Pyati, A.K. (2007). “A Critical Theory of Open Access: Libraries and Electronic Publishing,” First Monday 12(10). Available: [link]
Srinivasan, R. and Pyati, A.K. (2007). “Diasporic Information Environments: Re-Framing Immigrant-Focused Information Research,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(12): 1734 – 1744.
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Pyati, A.K. (2006). “Critical Theory and Information Studies: A Marcusean Infusion,” Policy Futures in Education, 4(1): 83-89.
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Pyati, A.K. (2005). “WSIS: Whose Vision of an Information Society?” First Monday 10(5). Available: [link]
Pyati, A. K. (2005). “Web-Based Communities and the Information Society: Alternatives and Resistance,” IADIS 2005 Web-Based Communities Conference Proceedings. February 2005. Lisbon, Portugal.
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Pyati, A.K. (2003). “Limited English proficient users and the need for improved reference services,” Reference Services Review, 31(3): 264-71.
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Pyati, A.K., “Information needs and behaviors of diasporic populations,” Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences: Taylor & Francis. (in press)
Pyati, A.K. “Understanding the Roles of Libraries in (Inter)National Development: Lessons from India,” Canadian Journal of Library and Information Science (in press)
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Invited Book Chapters
Pyati, A.K. (2008). “Open Source Software and Libraries,” Book chapter in Information Technology in Libraries: New Critical Approaches (G. Leckie & J. Buschman, Eds.). Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, pp. 205-220.
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Pyati, A.K. (2009) “Critical Theory and Information Studies: A Marcusian Infusion,” Book chapter in Marcuse’s Challenges (D. Kellner, Ed.). New York: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 181-192
Pyati, A.K. “Linking theory and practice: creative and transformative possibilities in professional education and research,” in Pathways of Creative Research: Towards a Festival of Dialogues (A.K. Giri, Ed.). New Delhi: Shipra Publications (in press)
Pyati, A.K. “Herbert Marcuse: Liberation, Utopia, and Revolution” in Critical Theory in Library and Information Science: Exploring the Social from Across the Disciplines (G. Leckie and J. Buschman, Eds.) (in press)
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Interviews, Book Reviews & Commentaries
Calderone, S., N.E. Jaramillo, and Pyati A.K. “Cultural Studies Matters.” InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, 2(1): [Link]
Calderone, S., N.E. Jaramillo, and Pyati, A.K. “Editors’ Note.” InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, 2(2): [Link]
Pyati, A.K. Review of Library Trends: Pioneers in Library and Information Science 52(4): Spring 2004, Rayward, W.B. (Ed.). Library Quarterly 75(3): 384-386.
Day, R.E. and A.K. Pyati. “We Must All Be Information Professionals: A Conversation with Ron Day – Critical Interventions into the Information Society,” InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies 1(2): [Link]
Arora, T., N.E. Jaramillo, and A.K. Pyati. “Editors’ Note.” InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies 1(2): [Link]
“Ajit Pyati, open source and open access in libraries” – Interview with Heather Morrison for OA Librarian, October 2006: [Link]