Dr. Jagdish Arora

Dr. Jagdish Arora, currently Advisor, National Board of Accreditation (NBA) was the Director of INFLIBNET Centre from August, 2007 to Dec. 2018. He worked as Librarian at the IIT Delhi and at IIT Bombay. He was the founder National Coordinator for e-Shodh Sindhu, the national consortium formed with merger of INDEST-AICTE Consortium, UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium and N-LIST.

Dr. Arora is recipient of several national and international awards including Fulbright Professional Fellowship in Library and Information Science, NDLTD Leadership Award (2017), Young Librarian of the Year (SATKAL), Librarian of the Year (IASLIC) and ILA-Kuala Best Librarian Award, etc.

Dr. Arora was awarded a citation and memento in 2017 for his commendable contribution to digital initiatives for higher education by the Honourable Shri Pranab Mukherjee, the then President of India. He is recipient of three life-time Achievement Awards.

Dr. Arora has more than 100 research articles to his credit that were published in learned research journals and as chapters in books and conference proceedings. He has presented research papers in several national and international conferences and symposia in India and abroad. Dr. Arora is Course Coordinator for course on Digital Library that is being offered for eleven consecutive time on SWAYAM platform from 2017 onwards.

His research interests include consortia-based subscription to e-resources, digital libraries, digitization of old and fragile documents and their storage, database-driven Web interfaces, Web-based library services, Web-based learning and education, MOOCs, access management technologies, scientometric analysis, rankings of HEIs, etc.