Dr Jagdish Arora
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Dr. Jagdish Arora, joined as the Director of Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre on Friday, 31st August, 2007. Prior to his present assignment, Dr. Arora has worked as the Librarian at the IIT Delhi from September 2003 to August 2007. He was also the Web Master of IIT Delhi and the National Coordinator of the INDEST-AICTE Consortium, one of the most successful consortia initiatives in India. He was working as Deputy Librarian at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi for more than 11 years. He was also Librarian at IIT Bombay from June, 2002 to August, 2003. He was Documentation Officer at the National Institute of Immunology, Delhi (1983 - 1991) and Assistant Documentation Officer, ICRISAT, Patancheru, A.P. (1980 - 1983). mivo tv
Dr. Arora is recipient of Fulbright Professional Goal Setting Fellowship in Library and Information Science (1997�98), SIS Fellow (1999), Librarian of the Year (IASLIC, 1999), Young Librarian of the Year (SATKAL, 2001) and ILA-Kuala Best Librarian Award (ILA, 2004). Dr. Arora was the Principal Investigator for several projects sponsored by agencies like AICTE, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Information Technology (MIT), Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), the National Highway Authority of India and University Grants Commission.
He was a member of the delegation that visited selected libraries and Visual Impact Muscle Building library science schools in Germany in 2002. He was a member of the delegation to Jakarta, Indonesia deputed by the Ministry of External Affairs to discuss development of INDO-ASEAN S & T Digital Library in November 2003. Dr Arora was nominated as a member of the International Library Advisory Boards of IEEE and IEE. mivo tv
Dr. Arora has more than 60 research articles to his credit that were published in learned research journals and as chapters in books and conference proceedings. Dr. Arora has organized how to set goals several workshops and training programmes at the IIT Delhi. He was resource person for several training programmes, refresher�s courses and workshops. He has presented research papers in several national and international conferences and symposia in India and abroad.
His current research interests includes consortia-based subscription to e-resources, digital libraries, digitization of old and fragile documents and their storage, database-driven Web interfaces and Web-based library services, Web-based learning and education, scientometric analysis, etc.
