Congratulations to Sanjeev K Sunny, October’s Advisor of the month.

Sanjeev did his Masters in Documentation and Information Science from Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India. He is also pursuing a Ph.D in Library and Information Science from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai as a Direct PhD Scholar

Currently, Sanjeev is an Assistant Librarian at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India, and recently ran workshops reaching at least 150 participants!

How did you get into your field and what is your research story?
By chance! I joined Library and Information Science course after graduation by chance. However, the more I studied the more I loved this lovely profession of Librarianship. Now I have nearly eight years of experience of working in various types of libraries in both academia and in corporate world.

Where do you do your research/work the best? What kind of environment suits you? 
At night, In my study room. For research work I prefer complete silence and no one around.

How long have you been on Mendeley?
I have been using Mendeley since 2012. Prior to Mendeley I was unaware of reference managers. I have been introduced to reference managers using Zotero during our PhD Course Work. Later, as per my very nature, I looked for other possible and probably better options and I found the best – Mendeley.

How does Mendeley influence your research?
The best part is organization and retrieval of my literature that too along with all my sticky and universal notes. And, not to mention that ‘no worries about citations and bibliographies’.

Why did you decide to become an Advisor and how are you involved with the program?
I have always felt an inclination, since my childhood, towards teaching what I learn. Conducting Information Literacy programs for library users have always been my passion. When I heard about Advisor program, I took it as another exciting assignment towards helping library users. I started conducting hands-on training workshops for research scholars of our university (JNU); and later for professors, scientists and other researchers at different institutes.

What academic/researcher/librarian would you like to work with or meet, dead or alive?
I would love to work with a researcher in the field of application of knowledge organization and representation systems’ and ‘information retrieval’, And, also with librarians passionate about service library patrons.

What book are you reading at the moment and why?
“An Introduction to Budhhist Psychology and Counselling” – because I was astonished when I read few excerpts of this book about the insights of the master – Budhha who happened to be on this planet 600 BC.

What is the best part about working in research?
Success breeds success!

And the worst/most challenging part about working in research?
Analysis of the findings.

What is the one thing you want people to know about Mendeley?
It can manage all styles of citations and bibliographies within no time.