Ahalia School of Engineering and Technology & ASET NDLI Club in collaboration with IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal organized a national level webinar on “Awareness of NDLI (National Digital Library of India)” for Students, Faculty members and Staff from various Colleges on June 18, 2021 from 3.30 – 4.30 pm. The webinar commenced with the welcome address delivered by Mrs. Bindu Valoor, Manager – Academics Outreach, Ahalia Group. Dr. P. R. Sreemahadevan Pillai, Principal presided over the function and give the presidential address. Dr. Krishna Kumar Kishor give the felicitation address. Mrs. Bindu Valoor introduced the resource person, Dr. Vignesh Sornamohan, Chief Strategic and Outreach Officer, National Digital Library of India, IIT Kharagpur. Dr. Vignesh Sornamohan introduced us the beginnings of NDLI. He said it had been launched by Ministry of Education, New Delhi and IIT Kharagpur is the implementing institution. In his presentation, the resource person elaborated upon NDLI and its features, as well as the wide range of e-resources made available on NDLI Platform. He explained use-models of content access, web content harvesting, NDLI Repository, content contribution and Learning Management System. He demonstrated how NDLI e-resources could be browsed by type, subject, and sources. He also demonstrated how users could access different types of learning resources such as e-articles, audio lectures, e-books, question papers, theses and video lectures. He emphasized that NDLI has taken special care of young students during the COVID-19 pandemic by offering e-resources for students of CBSE class 9, 10 11 and 12. Participants were shown how to install NDLI App on their phones through Playstore. He also discussed about how to form an NDLI club in the institute. He said NDLI Club is a platform for conducting learning-oriented events, both online and offline he also discussed the benefits which students will get on joining the club. The program ended with the vote of thanks delivered by Dr. Balamurugan V., Professor, HoD – ECE Department, Chairman Library Committee. The event was coordinated by Mr. Lal S., Librarian, ASET , Mrs. Bindu Valoor, Manager, Academics Outreach, Ahalia Group and Mr. Rajesh P. Admin. Assistant, ASET. A total of 155 participants participated in the event.
Webinar on ‘Awareness of National Digital Library of India’
