Brief profile: Prashanta Kumar Behera; Deputy Librarian. IIT Tirupati Prashanta Kumar Behera is currently serving as Deputy Librarian at the Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, since January 2024. He possesses over 25 years of professional experience in the field of library and information science. Prior to his current role, he served as Assistant Librarian at IIT Kanpur for ten years and as Technical Officer at CSIR–Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, for another ten years. Earlier in his career, he was professionally associated with reputed organizations such as Wipro Technologies and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. Apart from this he has actively participated in numerous seminars and conferences and has published ten research articles in globally indexed journals. His areas of interest include Scholarly Communication, Library Automation, Data Security and Management, Research Integrity, Open Access Publishing, and Bibliometric and Scientometrics Studies.