People starting with letter K

K. N. Roy: K. N. Roy was the chariman of the Karnataka Universities Review Commission, 1979 that submitted its report in 1980. 2005-J-P-II-Q-44

K. P. Sinha: As per the Recommendation at a Seminar on ‘Role of Libraries in Social Education’ organized by India Adult Education Association at Delhi in the year 1955, the Ministry of Education, the Government of India appointed Library Advisory Committee in 1957 to report on the status of public library development in the country. The Library Advisory Committee or Sinha Committee, after its chair, the late Dr. K.P. Sinha, who was at that time Director of Public Instruction in Bihar. This committee recommended the need for library legislation for each state. It is the first report of the Post Independent India which deals extensively with the issues related to the development of public libraries in India. 2011-J-P-II-Q-36, 2013-D-P-II-Q-25, 2013-D-P-III-Q-43, 2016-J-P-III-Q-37

K. Williamson: K. Williamson in "Discovered by chance: The role of incidental information acquisition in an ecological model of information use" (1998) develops The Ecological theory for the study of human information behavior. This model emphasizes that at least in the field of everyday life information, information is often incidentally acquired rather than purposefully sought. 2015-J-P-II-Q-30

Kaoru Ishikawa: Kaoru Ishikawa (July 13, 1915 - April 16, 1989) was a Japanese organizational theorist, Professor at the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Tokyo, noted for his quality management innovations. The term quality circle was most accessibly defined by Professor Kaoru Ishikawa in his handbook, "What is Total Quality Control: The Japanese Way" (1985). A quality circle or quality control circle is a group of workers who do the same or similar work, whom meet regularly to identify, analyze and solve work-related problems. The Seven Basic Tools of Quality introduced by Kaoru Ishikawa in 1968 are - Cause-and-effect diagram (also known as the "herringbone", "fishbone" or Ishikawa diagram), Check sheet, Control chart, Histogram, Pareto chart, Scatter diagram, Stratification (alternately, flow chart or run chart).  2006-J-P-II-Q-32, 2013-D-P-II-Q-29, 2014-D-P-III-Q-10, 2015-D-P-II-Q-11

Karl Emil Maximilian "Max" Weber: Karl Emil Maximilian "Max" Weber (21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist, philosopher, jurist, and political economist whose ideas profoundly influenced social theory and social research. Max Weber, in his sociological and philosophical work, identified and distinguished three types of legitimate domination, that have sometimes been rendered in English translation as types of authority- Rational-legal authority, Traditional authority and Charismatic authority. 2013-J-P-II-Q-33, 2013-S-P-II-Q-33

Keyes DeWitt Metcalf: Keyes DeWitt Metcalf (April 13, 1889 – November 3, 1983) was an American librarian.

Popular Books of Keyes DeWitt Metcalf includes - Planning Academic and Research Library Buildings (1965). 2012-J-P-III-Q-74, 2013-J-P-III-Q-60, 2014-D-P-III-Q-63

Khalifa Mohammad Asadullah: Khalifa Mohammad Asadullah (1890 – 1949) was a pioneer of the library movement in the Indian subcontinent before 1947. In 1930, he was appointed the Librarian of the Imperial Library (now National Library of India) in Calcutta, a post which he held for about 17 years. In 1933, he was one of the founding members of Indian Library Association and was its first Secretary from 1933 to 1947. Khalifa Mohammad Asadullah was honoured with the title of “Khan Bahadur” in 1935 by the British Government. 2009-J-P-II-Q-36, 2013-D-P-II-Q-8, 2015-J-P-II-Q-10

Khan Bahadur Khuda Bakhsh: Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library was opened to public in October, 1891 by Khan Bahadur Khuda Bakhsh with 4,000 manuscripts, of which he inherited 1,400 from his father Maulvi Mohammed Bakhsh. Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library is one of the national libraries of India. 2013-D-P-III-Q-62

Kurt Zadek Lewin: Kurt Zadek Lewin (September 9, 1890 – February 12, 1947) was a German-American psychologist, known as one of the modern pioneers of social, organizational, and applied psychology in the United States. Lewin is often recognized as the "founder of social psychology". Kurt Lewin developed a change model involving three steps: Unfreeze, Change, Freeze (or Refreeze) in the context of management. Kurt Lewin and colleagues in "Patterns of aggressive behavior in experimentally created social climates" 1939 identified three different styles of leadership-Autocratic, Democratic and Laissez-Faire. 2013-D-P-III-Q-25

Dr. Badan Barman at present working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science, Gauhati University, Guwahati-781014, Assam, India. He is the creator of the LIS Links (http://www.lislinks.com) - India’s most popular social networking website for Library and Information Science professionals. He also created the Open Access Journals Search Engine (OAJSE) (http://www.oajse.com), UGC NET Guide (http://www.netugc.com), Assam Archive (http://www.assamarchive.com) and LIS Study (http://www.lisstudy.com) website.