webinar on “IIS University Digital Library and National Digital Library: Resources and Facilities”

Central Library organized a webinar on “IIS University Digital Library and National Digital Library: Resources and Facilities on September 23, 2020 from 9.30 am to 10.30 am. About 100 students attended the session Dr. Deepa Pareek gave an overview to the students about the library resources (books, journals, periodicals, online resources, newspapers) and facilities. She oriented them about the Book Bank facility provided by the library and other healthy practices (Best Library User Award, Extra book provision to meritorious students, Suggest a Book Register etc.) offered by the library.

Then the session was overtook by Dr. Sonal Jain, Librarian. She demonstrated them about IISU digital library and National Digital Library, how to login remotely and oriented them on how to use and access the online web resources. She gave an overview to the students about the various e-resources subscribed by the library and the resources available in open access platform. She oriented them on how to use the technology and access the online web resources. The students were informed about the National Digital Library of India (NDL India) which is an all-digital library that stores information (metadata) about different types of digital contents. She also make them aware about the benefits of e-resources and to avoid plagiarism and acknowledge by mentioning references and making a proper bibliography.