IISER MOHALI

1. Heading the Institute library created under " Learning Commons"

2. Presiding Officer / Chairperson of the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC), which deals with THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF WOMEN AT THE WORKPLACE (PREVENTION, PROHIBITION AND REDRESSAL) ACT, 2013 (POSH ACT 2013)

3. Member of the “Cost Negotiations Committee” for a very prestigious initiative taken by the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Prime Minister of India, “ONE NATION AND ONE SUBSCRIPTION” Under the Ministry of Education, Government of India

4. Member of the “Cost Negotiations Committee” for a very prestigious initiative Under the Ministry of Education, Government of India “e-Shodhsindhu” through INFLIBNET Centre

5. Member of the Expert Committee Constituted by MHRD under Project “ShodhShuddhi,” in identifying suitable plagiarism detection software ( PDS) for all 1000+ Universities, CFTIs, and Colleges

6. Nodal Officer who coordinates between IISER Mohali and IIT Khargpur under the National Projects National Digital Library of India ( NDLI), the Ministry of Education (MoE), Govt of India

7. Nodal Officer who coordinates between IISER Mohali and INFLIBNET Centre under the National Projects Indian Research Information Network System(IRINS), the Ministry of Education ( MoE), Govt of India

8. Nodal Officer who coordinates between IISER Mohali and INFLIBNET Centre under the National Projects e-Shodhsindhu ( eSS), the Ministry of Education ( MoE), Govt of India

9. Nodal Officer who coordinates between IISER Mohali and INFLIBNET Centre under the National Projects Shodhganga , the Ministry of Education ( MoE), Govt of India

10. Nodal Officer who coordinates between IISER Mohali and INFLIBNET Centre under the National Projects ShodhShuddhi , the Ministry of Education ( MoE), Govt of India

11. In-charge of Institute Archival Cell, IISER Mohali

12. Members of negotiation Committee under the Consortium for e-Resources of Agriculture ( CeRA), a Project of World Bank, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Min of Agriculture, Govt of India.

13. Handled Four National, multi-crore, mega library projects under the National Agricultural Technological Project (NATP) and the National Agricultural Innovative Project (NAIP ) under the aegis of the World Bank as Co-PI / CPI of the Projects as follows:

- Strengthening of Digital Library and Information Management under NARS ( e-Granth“) ( 2009-12 extended up to 2014) with the objective to develop " WorldCat", a Union catalogue of around 200 Agricultural libraries in association with OCLC, Ohio, USA.

- To have a repository of digital content of Agricultural literature' published from 1905 across India with capacity building of Ag. Library professionals under Project “ Krishikosh”.

- Consortium of e-Journals in Agriculture ( CeRA) ( 2008-2011, extended till date) e-resources covering 150 ICAR Libraries and 45 SAUs.

- Strengthening of Libraries and Networking under NARS ( ( 2002-2005)

- National Survey on “Impact of NATP on Indian Agricultural Libraries” ( 2005-06)

- Prepare a concept note “Library Resources are reflecting National Perspective under AKI - agriculture knowledge Innovation Programme of library partnership between National Agricultural Library, USA and National Agricultural Library, India ( 2004-05)

As a part of a World Bank Project,  underwent training at OCLC, Ohio,USA and worked closely with OCLC-Dublin for World Cat to develop"AgriCat" for Indian Agricultural Libraries. During the World Bank project visited the Library of Congress- Washington DC, the National Agricultural Library -Beltsville, USDA, Maryland, USA, Ohio State University- Columbus, Ohio., John Hopkins University- Baltimore., Stanford University- California to attend SITS meeting, DLF Conference at Palo Alto., libraries of New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Chicago, etc.  She also visited De La Salle University Library, Manila, Philippines; Hong Kong Central Library, Hong Kong; Singapore Public Library, Singapore; Bibliotheca of Nancy and Paris ( France), Sri Lanka, Oman, and Bangkok ( Thailand).  

14. Member of Research Advisory Committee of Developing Library New ( DELNET) New Delhi from 2020.

15. Member of Board of Studies in Library and Information Science, Dept of Library and Information Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh from 2017-2019

16. Member of Board of Studies in Library and Information Science, Dept of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala in 2019.

17. Member of  National Advisory Committee of INDEST-AICTE Consortium,

18. Member of e-Resources Negotiation Committee of INDEST-AICTE Consortium

19. Member of National Advisory Committee of Cambridge University Press ( CUP), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and Springer Nature. 

20. Guided PhD, M.L.I.Sc., MSc Computer Science and PGDLAN Students

Organized International conferences on :

1. “Dynamics of Library for Excellence in Electronic Revolution” in association with SLA– Asian Chapter, USA at IISER Mohali in 2017

2. 11 th Annual Meet & Workshop of INDEST-AICTE Consortium in 2015 with IIT Delhi at IISER Mohali,

3. National Conference of Agricultural Librarians and User Community on “Agricultural Librarians in the Knowledge Web” in 2011 at ICAR H.Q, New Delhi 

4. National Conference of AALDI on “ National Conference on knowledge Management in Globalized era” at IARI, New Delhi in 2010.