Kishore Krishna Banerjee, popularly known as K.K. Banerjee in the professional arena, has served under the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Culture and Prasar Bharati under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, and retired as the Director General of the Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation & Mission Director of the National Mission on Libraries. During his tenure, he also held the additional charges of Director General of the National Library of India and Secretary-Curator of Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata. He was also the adviser to the National Mission on Libraries, a project of the Government of India, and Project Director (Archives) East and Northeast Zone of Prasar Bharati, Kolkata. He was associated with a number of committees constituted by the Government of India for strengthening library services in the country. While at the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, he led the cultural exchange programme between India and Bangladesh in the celebration of Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary celebrations. 

Besides these official activities, he has contributed a number of articles to professional journals and has translated several short stories of eminent writers from Hindi into Bengali and is also actively associated with a little magazine, Ebang Jalarka. After doing his master’s at Jadavpur University, he obtained the bachelor’s degree of Library and Information Science from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. Presently, he is working on a topic, ‘Intelligentsia and Public Libraries in the 19th Century Bengal’, which involves a study on a varied and wide spectrum of public libraries located in the country and abroad.