The Odisha Library Academy (OLA) hosted its 7th successive webinar on Saturday on the theme, "Ranking Institutions of Higher Education: Performance Parameters and Role of Librarians”.
Advisor, National Board of Accreditation (NBA), New Delhi and former Director, UGC INFLIBNET Centre, Dr Jagdish Arora, was chief speaker. Dr Arora discussed about various quality parameters, frameworks and methodologies used by various ranking organisations across the globe along with the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) launched by MHRD, India. He also elaborated in detail on some parameters.
He also emphasized the important role of librarians/information officers for handling the huge institutional data and bending those validated data towards various frameworks/methodologies used by the ranking organisations across the globe.
Dr Banambar Sahoo from ICMR Bhubaneswar and president, OLA presided over the webinar, while Dr Bibhuti Bhusan Sahoo from IIT, Bhubaneswar along with Basudev Mohanty from IOP Bhubaneswar and general secretary, OLA organized the event.
More than 500 concurrent participants joined the online session and asked many questions on NIRF, the role of libraries and information centers for getting the higher ranks and issues faced during filling up institutional data for NIRF. The session ended with a formal vote of thanks by Niranjan Mohapatra.