H.K. Kesavan (Hiremagalur Krishnaswamy Kesavan) is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
His achievements in INSDOC is also no less outstanding which include among others the starting of Indian Science Abstracts, and Associateship in Documentation and Reprography course, publication of several union catalogues of scientific serials, and Directory of Scientific Research Institutions in India.
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He is also known as Father of Indian National Bibliography as it was first brought out in its leadership on August 15, 1958.