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17. Awards, Honours and Distinctions

17.1. Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director

Dr. Jagdish Arora delivered 31 Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Lecture on “Changing Roles of
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Libraries in Research and Innovation” and “Data Management and Libraries” organized by Sarada
Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS) and Ranganathan Centre for Information

Studies, Bangalore on 31 August, 2016 in Anna University, Chennai.
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Dr. Arora was nominated as a Member of the Expert Committee, National Institutional Ranking
Framework (NIRF) as well as a member of the Implementation Core Committee of the India Rankings
2017 (NIRF) for the years 2016 and 2017. He continued to be a member of the Project Review and
Steering Group (PRSG) of the National Digital Library Project of the National Mission on Education
through ICT being executed by the IIT Kharagpur. Dr. Arora continued to be a member of the Standing

Committee as well as its sub-committee, e-PG Pathshala, a project of the National Mission on Education
through ICT being executed by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi. He is also Member of the
Advisory Committee of ICSSR for Setting up Data Centre in ICSSR, New Delhi. He was nominated a
member of the UGC’s Standing Committee on Notification of Journals. He continued to be a member of
the Court of Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar.

Dr. Arora was Chairman of the special session on National Digital Library (NDL) wherein he also
moderated a panel discussion on NDL during 5 International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL-
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2016): “Smart Future: Knowledge Trends that will Change the World” held at India Habitat Centre, New
Delhi on 13 December, 2016.
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Dr. Jagdish Arora delivered a number of invited talks, keynote addresses and moderated panel
discussions as per the details given below:

i) Invited talk on “ICSSR Data Service: Social Science Data Repository”, during the EqUIP Academic

Symposium on Digital Archives and Databases as a Source of Mutual Knowledge, held on 5 and 6
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May, 2016 in Rome, Italy.
ii) Keynote address on “Changing Role of Libraries in Google Era” during the International
Conference on “From Ownership to Access: Leveraging the Digital Paradigm” held on 19 and 20 th
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May 2016 at Ambedkar University Delhi, Kashmere Gate, Delhi.

iii) Invited presentation on “Activities and Services of INFLIBNET Centre” during the DST-Interaction

Meet on Development of Database of Indian / NRIs Ph. D. Degree Holders, held on 5 April, 2016 at
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Technology Bhawan, New Delhi.

iv) Invited talk on “Information Sharing & Cloud Computing”, during “Recent Advances in
Information Technology (READIT)”: National Conference on Information Access in Digital Era”

organized from 13 to 14 July, 2016 at IGCAR, Kalpakkam.
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