Dr. Bhakti Gala is an Assistant Professor at the School of Library and Information Science, Central University of Gujarat, India, and is the current chair (2020-21) of ASIS&T South Asia chapter. She is the winner of the 2014 ASIS&T International Paper Contest held by ASIS&T SIG III and a 2014 Mortenson Associate. She has previously worked as a consultant for an international research project funded by OCLC and ALISE. She is currently leading a Health Informatics project funded by ASIS&T, USA. Her research interests include information literacy, public libraries, metadata, and digital archives & libraries. She has published her research in international journals like Library Quarterly, Library and Information Science Research, Information Processing and Management, First Monday and DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology.
