Qualification
MCA, M.Phil.
Experience
20 Years, 6 month
Specialization
Library Automation
Digitisation
Online Resources
Research Profile
Official website - www.avinuty.ac.in/
ORCID - https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5526-1326
Google Scholar - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=csB1EdYAAAAJ&hl=en
Awards and Achievements
Resource Person
Resource person in the training programme and provided "Hands-on-Training Programme on End Note” for Fresher Scholars of July 2024 batch held on 9th October 2023 @ 10:00 am - 11.:30 am organised by the Research & Development Cell, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore.
Resource person in the GURU-DAKSHTA 2023-2024 Faculty Induction Programme (FIP) and gave a talk on "Ecosystem around the University : INFLIBNET centre" held on 20th January 2024 @ 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm organised by the Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore.
Resource person in the orientation programme and provided "Hands-on-Training Program on End Note” for Fresher Scholars of July 2023 batch held on 27th September 2023 @ 1:30 pm - 3.:30 pm organised by the Research & Development Cell, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore.
Resource person in the workshop "Workshop on Endnote web” for School of Engineering faculty members and final year ME & BE students held on 01st September 2023 @ 1.30 pm - 3.30 pm organised by the IQAC & School of Engineering Library, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore.
Resource person in the Short-term capacity building programme on "Research Ecosystem and Technology" and gave a talk on "Empowering Academic Excellence: Harnessing the Power of Turnitin & Grammarly" held on 29th August 2023 @ 11.15 am - 12.45 pm organised by AADC & Research & Development Cell, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore.
Resource person in the training programme and provided "Hands-on-training on End Note” for research scholars held on 3rd,4th,5th,15th & 16th November 2022 @ 3.00 pm - 5.30 pm organised by the Research and Development Cell, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore.
Resource person in the GURU-DAKSHTA Faculty Induction Programme (FIP) , Phase II and gave a talk on "Software Tools for Research & Tools for Plagiarism" held on 6th April 2022 @ 3.15 pm - 4.30 pm organised by the Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore.
Resource person in the UGC-STRIDE Sponsored five days online training programme on “Environmental Sustainability and Research Ethics” and gave a talk on "Exploring e-Resources" held on 31st March 2022 organised by the School of PSCS, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore.
Resource person in the UGC-STRIDE Sponsored six days online training programme on “Environmental Sustainability and Research Ethics” and gave a talk on "Plagiarism Checking in Research" held on 21st March 2022 organised by the School of Biosciences, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore.
Resource person in the GURU-DAKSHTA Faculty Induction Programme (FIP) and gave a talk on "Enhancing Quality of Higher Education : Role of INFLIBNET centre" held on 21st December 2021 organised by the Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore.
Resource person in the in the International Student Development Programme on "Dogmatic Quality Research and Publications" held on 16th December 2021 and gave a talk on " Assessing Plagiarism in Qualitative Publications" organised by the FSN department, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore & Nutrition Society of India, Coimbatore Chapter & Nutrition Association.
Resource person in the Webinar on "Effectively Create Knowledge on e-resources to accomplish your Research Goals" held on 5th October 2021 organised by the Central Library, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore.
Resource person in the Summer Internship on “Analytical Techniques in Research” organized by Bharat Ratna Prof.C.N.R Rao Research Centre , Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore on 25th May 2021.
Resource Person for the Part I Paper 4 “Research & Publication Ethics,” for the Research Scholars of Jan 2021 Batch, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science & Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore on 10th &11th May 2021.
Resource person in the Summer Internship on “Analytical Techniques in Research” organized by Bharat Ratna Prof.C.N.R Rao Research Centre , Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore on 12th June 2020.
Resource Person in the Webinar on "Remote Access to Library Online Resources" held on 21st April 2020 organised by the School of Engineering Library, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore.
Resource Person in the Webinar on "Library Online Resources & its Remote Access Facility" held on 28th April 2020 organised by the Central Library, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore.
Resource person in the Five day workshop on “Nuances of Revised Assessment and Accreditation Framework of NAAC” organized by IQAC , Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women under Paramarsh Scheme and presented a talk on "Library as a learning resource" on 31st January 2020
Resource Person for the Guest lecture titled “Knowledge Utilities of Library” organized by Library, School of Engineering, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore on 15th November 2019 .
Resource Person for the Summer Training Programme in Biological Sciences for Post Graduate Students organized by Department of Zoology , Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore on 16th May 2011
Organizer
National Webinar on “ Identify & Publish Research Papers in UGC Care Journals”, Library, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore on 11th Nov 2021
Webinar on “Integrating Scopus in Research Workflow”, Library, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore on 26th Oct 2021
Virtual Training on “The Web of Science Platform: Supporting Scholarly Publishing & Exporting References using Endnote”, Library, IQAC & Clarivate Analytics on 21st Oct 2021
Webinar on “User Awareness Program of VIDWAN Database & IRINS (Indian Research Information Network System)” , Library & INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar on 20th July 2021
List of Programmes Attended (58)
Editor
National Conference on Contemporary Dimensions in Library and Information Science, AIHS&HEW, Coimbatore, 27.01.2018(ISBN:978-93842-348-6-7)
Speaker
Speaker in the Assist World Record of the Longest Multinational Confluence Virtual "BOOKS ARE THE TREASURE OF THOUGHTS" held in the commemoration of the 90th Birth Anniversary of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam the 11th President of India and the 10th year Anniversary Celebration of Assist World Records Research Foundation which was held between 25th August 2021 and 15th October 2021.
Project Involved
Shodhganga Project sponsored by UGC Rs. 10,75,000 during the year 2014-2016
Academic and other responsibilities
Activities
Developed a Robust In-house software for Library Circulation activities in the year 2005 which is used by the Education and Self-Finance library till date.
Created an intranet website and hosted in the local server in the year 2006 which is for browsing the department level data using a secured login provided for departments
Created Institutional repository using Dspace for uploading digitalised thesis, rare books and updated regularly
Integrated and customized library content and services in to the RFID system.
Completed the Shodhganga project sanctioned by UGC in the year 2014-2016 for Rs. 10,75,000 towards digitization of thesis.
Academic Responsibilities
Providing Institution data for INFLIBNET for the projects : Eshodhsindhu, INDCAT, INFED, Vidwan
Coordinating and making accessible the research data through INFLIBNET Shodhganga website
Content creation and website maintenance of the Library website
Supporting faculty and students in checking the quality of their papers and thesis using anti-plagiarism software
Helping the scholars and faculty members in identifying impact factors and citation of their publication
Organizing training & user awareness programme for online resources by inviting publishers and subject specific resource person
Providing orientation on the beginning of every academic year for the research scholars, Post Graduate and Under Graduate students
Identity card committee for preparation of cards for all Institution members
Conferences & Workshops
Conferences (International)
International Conference on Electronic Publishing organised by University of Pune, Department of Library and Information Science and Jaykar Library , 13th - 15th March 2013 ,Jaykar Library, Pune
E-India 2011 : ICT Conference on “E-India 2011” organised by Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar, Gujarat , 14th - 16th December 2011, Gandhinagar, Gujarat
CALIBER 2011 : International Conference on “Towards Building A Knowledge Society : Library as a catalyst for knowledge Discovery and Management”, Poster presentation on 'Web Harvesting', Goa University, Goa, 02nd-04th March 2011
CALIBER 2007 : International Conference on “Multilingual Computing and Information Management in Digital Networked Environment “ , organised by INFLIBNET, Ahmedabad 02nd - 04th February 2005 held at Punjab University, Chandigarh
WIT 2005 : International Conference on “Gender Issues in E-Society” , Presented a paper titled 'E-learning – A New Way of Learning ’, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, 19th -20 th December 2005, J.Geetha
LIST 2004 : National Conference on Library Resource Management in Digital Era presented on "Users Needs in the Modern Library - A study", Bishop Heber College, Dept. of Library Science, Trichy, 14th - to 15th February 2004,
WIT 2003 : International Conference on “ Women in Digital Era, Prospects and Challenges” , Presented a paper titled 'Career in IT- A New Challenge for Women’, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, 10th -12 th December 2003
CALIBER 2003 : International Conference on International Conference on “Mapping Technology on Libraries and People” , organised by INFLIBNET, Ahmedabad 15th - 16 th February 2003 held at INFLIBNET Centre Ahmedabad
Conferences / Workshops (National)
One day regional training programme on” Plagiarism Detection Software (PDS) – Shodhshuddhi” organised by Bharathiar University and INFLIBNET Centre on 29-11-2023 at Arignar Anna Library, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore
National Conference on Computational Intelligence (NCCI 2023), Theme: Environmental Sustainability through Computational Intelligence, and presented a paper on the title "Usefulness and Implications of Big Data in Academic Libraries " on 31st January 2023 organised by Kristu Jayanti College. Bengaluru, 30-31 January, 2023
Workshop on “Quality Research and UGC-CARE Journals ” organised by Directorate of Research and Development and Internal Quality Assurance Cell, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women on 17.05.2022
One day regional training programme on” Plagiarism Detection Software –Urkund” organised by Cochin University of Science and Technology and INFLIBNET Centre on 27-08-2019 at University Library,Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin
National Workshop on “Information Management System : Strategies on E-Resources Management in Higher Education” organised by Christ University 26-02-2013 to 28-02-2013, Centre for Education Beyond Curriculum (CEDBEC) in association with International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU), Bangalore
Faculty Training Programme on E-Resources organised by PSG Institute of Management 19-01-2011 to 20-01-2011, PSG Institute of Management, Coimbatore
LIST 2004 National Conference on Library Resource Management in Digital Era organised by Bishop Heber College 14-02-2004 to 15-02-2004, Dept. of Library Science, Bishop Heber College, Trichy
Virtual Programmes
NACLIN 2021 : 24th National Convention on Knowledge, Library and Information Networking - Virtual, Online, Interactive Conference on “The Future Ready Libraries and Librarians : Thinking the Unthinkable” , Dec 6-8, 2021 , DELNET, New Delhi
Virtual Library Management Development Programme on “Contemporary Trends & Technologies in Library & Information Science , Sep 13-17, 2021 organised by CVM University, Gujarat & MANLIBNET and Jio Institute
State Level Online Awareness Programme (PDS-ShodhShuddhi) in Kerala & Tamil Nadu” , June 23, 2021 organised by INFLIBNET Centre, Gujarat
Webinar on “Roles & Privileges of University Coordinators in Shodhganga” , June 15, 2021 organised by INFLIBNET Centre, Gujarat
National Webinar on “Infrastructure Augmentation for Teaching, Learning & Research” Dec 21-22, 2020 Organised by UGC Paramarsh Scheme, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women
National Webinar on “Academic Excellence – Unlock your potential" Dec 15-16, 2020 Organised by UGC Paramarsh Scheme, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women
Webinar on Two Day National Open Workshop on Getting Aligned to the Publishing Process- Scopus + Science Direct Sep 25, 2020 & Sep 28, 2020 organised by Elsevier, New Delhi
Memberships
Member
Publication promotion and Citation Enhancement Committee
Website Committee Member
Co-coordinator, Shodhganga Project
Executive member , NDLI club
Infonet Committee Member