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were organised at Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur and University of Calcutta, Kolkata. Seven
National Workshops on Capacity Building Programme for Public Library Personnel, three of which were

organized at INFLIBNET Centre and one each in Lucknow, Pondicherry, Chennai and Kalyani for the
National Mission on Libraries, Ministry of Culture. Six User Awareness Programmes on Shodhganga and
Urkund were organized at Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer

Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam (Women's University), Tirupati, Periyar University, Salem,
Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod and Assam University, Silchar to promote open access to theses
and dissertations as well as for their qualitative improvement in terms of plagiarism-free content. A
special demand-based training programme was organized on Latest Trends in Library and Information

Science for LIS Teachers of North-East India at INFLIBNET Centre during April, 2016. All the LIS teachers
in North-East Region participated in the programme and appreciated the special efforts put in by the
INFLIBNET Centre in organizing such a programme.

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10 PLANNER 2016 was organized during the year under report in the North Eastern Hill University
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(NEHU), Shillong from 9 to 11 November 2016. The Conference was a huge success with more than
200 delegates who participated the convention including 29 publishers who took part in the exhibition
organized during the Convention. The proceedings of the conference published 42 papers and 17 papers

were selected for poster presentation out of 128 submissions. The Convention was inaugurated by Mr. R
G Lyngdoh, Vice Chancellor, Martin Luther Christian University in the presence of Prof. Sri Krishna
Srivastava, Vice-Chancellor, NEHU and other dignitaries. Prof. Jagtar Singh, Department of Library and
information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala was the Keynote Speaker for the Convention.

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The 7 Higher Education Forum, earlier known as UGC-Infonet University Forum was organized in
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collaboration with Elsevier Science in New Delhi on 14 September, 2016. The agenda for 2016 Higher
Education Forum was built around the objective of “Leading the way in Institutional Ranking”. More
than 80 participants from universities and Centrally-Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs) participated

in the programme.

The INFLIBNET Centre had the pleasure of welcoming Ms. Louise Corti, Associate Director, UK Data
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Services, University of Essex, Colchester. She visited the INFLIBNET Centre on 6 March, 2017 to discuss
the possibility of collaborative development on R-based analytical tool developed by the INFLIBNET

Centre. She also delivered half-a-day workshop on “Preparing Qualitative Data for Sharing and Reuse”
at the INFLIBNET Centre. 30 participants from various institutes in social sciences participated in the
workshop. This was the first exposure of its kind for the participants. In addition, an International
Conference in collaboration with Mizoram University, Aizawl was organized on Library and Information
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Services in Knowledge Society at Mizoram on 3 March, 2017.

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