International Fellowships and Awards
Help-age International Fellowship UK programme during Aug. - Sept. 1994. He was invited as a resource person for the Asian d Asian Institute of Technology(AIT), Bangkok, Thailand, under the fellowship in 1994.
He was invited to present two papers in the 10th International Meeting of University Administrators ( IMUA ) Fellowship, UK, during1996, at University of Capetown, Stellenbosch, Tecchnikon & Western Cape at South Africa .
Fulbright Scholar during, 1998 - 1999. He Visited Columbia University Newyork and Maryland University, USA under the Fulbright Fellowship and audited five courses.
Dr.M.K. Bhandi has been conferred the Society for Information Science (SIS) Fellowship for the year 2003 for his valuable Contributions to Library and Information Science. This was presented to Dr. M.K. Bhandi in the 21st Annual Convention and Conference on New Challenges in Information Management and E-learning in the Age of Globalisation issues and Opportunities held at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee on 9-11th April 2003. This felicitation was done by Sri Dharma Vir,Principal Secretary of Technical Education of Haryana on 9th the inaugural day of the Convention and Conference.
Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centers (IASLIC ) – S M Ganguli Award for Librarian of the Year2006 awarded to Dr M K Bhandi University Librarian, Mangalore University, Mangalore on 26-12-2007 at Jamia Millia University , Delhi .
‘Best Librarian Award’ of Government of Karnataka for the year 2007 has been conferred to Dr. M. K. Bhandi, University Librarian, Mangalore University on 12thAugust 2008 on ‘Dr. Ranganathan’s Birth Day and Librarian’s Day’.
The Karnataka State Government nominated Dr.M.K.Bhandi as a member of the ‘Karnataka Knowledge Commission Study Group on Libraries in Higher Education’.
The only true equalisers in the world are books; the only treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only wealth which will not decay is knowledge; the only jewel which you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom.
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