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5. Human Resource Development & Consultancy

H G Hosamani, Scientist C (LS)

Hema Cholin, STO (LS)
Vijaykumar Shrimali, STA (CS)
All Technical Staff Members

One of the important objectives of the Centre is to impart training in the use of ICT to library and
information science professionals working in university and college libraries. Since the inception of the
Centre in 1991, 721 programmes include annual conventions, training programmes, workshops and

seminars focusing on the library automation, networking, e-resource awareness, theses repositories,
institutional repositories, etc. have been conducted by the Centre benefiting 58,283 participants.
INFLIBNET Regional Training Programmes for Library Automation (IRTPLA) and User Awareness
Programmes on e-resources, Shodhganga and plagiarism detection software were conducted across
the country in collaboration with the universities and colleges. National and International Conventions

called PLANNER in North-Eastern regions and CALIBER in various states of India are being organized bi-
annually as part of the human resource development activities. The Centre has also conducted a total
no. of 130 Training Programmes on SOUL Installation and Operations for Libraries so far. Brief reports
on every training programme organized during the period under report are given in Part III : National
Conference, Workshops, Seminars and Training Programme of this report. Table 8 given below provides

no. of human resources development programmes conducted across the country and no. of participants
who benefitted from these programmes during the year under report.

Sl. Name of the Programme Programmes Total
No. Participants
1 IRTPLA (INFLIBNET Regional Training Programme on 2 77

Library Automation
2 Onsite / In House Training Programme on SOUL 2.0 1 25
3 Special Training Programme and National Workshops 18 485
4 PLANNER 1 200
5 Training Programme on SOUL 2.0 7 11 9
6 Shodh ganga Awareness Programme/Anti Plagiarism 6 1190
7 National Conference on ETD 1 66

8 e-PG Pathashala: Content Creation for Post Graduate 1 125
Courses
9 NML Training Programmes 7 225
10 The 2016 Higher Education Forum 1 50
Total 45 2,562

Table 8: Conferences/Training programmes/ Workshops/Seminars conducted by
INFLIBNET Centre during 2016-17

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