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Email: chachrav@vtls.com
Vinod Chachra, president and CEO of VTLS Inc., is an internationally recognized lecturer, consultant, and innovator in the field of information system planning.
After earning his Ph.D. in industrial engineering and operations research at Virginia Tech, Dr. Chachra served the university in many capacities. From 1972 to 1985 he successively assumed roles of director of software development, director of computing and information systems, vice provost and then vice president computing and information systems.
Dr. Chachra was responsible for the creation of VTLS Inc. It was the first spinoff from Virginia Tech and the first tenant of the Corporate Research Center. VTLS is an international leader in integrated library automation, digital imaging services and radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. The company provides state-of-the-art library automation systems to more than 900 libraries worldwide.
Dr. Chachra has been active in the library profession for more than 25 years. He represented Virginia in the White House Conference on Library and Information Sciences in 1979, served on the legislative committee for library networking in Virginia, and is a former member of the White House Conference on Library and Information Services Task Force. He has worked with several countries in the design and implementation of their national bibliographic information resources and national union catalogs.
Dr. Chachra has written two books, a chapter in a third book, and numerous journal articles.