Central Library, Central University of Odisha

12/08/2022

Celebration of "National Librarians' Day" in Central Library, Central University of Odisha on the occasion of 130th Birth Anniversary of Padmashri Dr. S.R. Ranganathan (1892-1972).

Happy Librarians' Day.

Cuo Koraput

14/03/2022

Central Library, Central University of Odisha successfully organised a two-days “Library Orientation Programme - 2022” for the newly admitted students and research scholars on 10th and 11th March 2022.

14/03/2022

09/03/2022

Central Library, Central University of Odisha is going to organise a Library Orientation Programme - 2022 for the newly admitted students on 10th and 11th March 2022.

11/01/2021

The Central Library, Central University of Odisha has successfully conducted two days "Virtual Library Orientation Programme" for the newly admitted students for the academic session 2020-21, which was held on 6th and 8th January 2021 through Google Meet and Cisco Webex Online Platform. Around 200 students, faculty members and library staffs have participated in this programme.
Librarian I/c, Dr. Bijayanada Pradhan introduced the users about the need & purpose of virtual orientation programme. He delivered a short lecture on plagiarism and its negative effects towards the academic integrity especially in higher education, open access resources & open course-ware etc. Further in the session, Sh. Rudra Narayan, Professional Assistant, discussed about the standard guidelines, rules and regulations while accessing the library resources and facilities. Sh. Anuj Kr. Singh (IT Consultant) had a valuable discussion on online library membership and how to access the e-resources facilities remotely along with the Govt. Initiatives and other useful resources like MOOCs, SWAYAM, and Spoken Tutorial etc. The session was very interactive and useful to the users, where users’ queries had taken after the presentation. Further, the session has been concluded with a vote of thanks to the users participated in the programme.

11/01/2021

The Central Library, Central University of Odisha has successfully conducted two days "Virtual Library Orientation Programme" for the newly admitted students for the academic session 2020-21, which was held on 6th and 8th January 2021 through Google Meet and Cisco Webex Online Platform. Around 200 students, faculty members and library staffs have participated in this programme.
Librarian I/c, Dr. Bijayanada Pradhan introduced the users about the need & purpose of virtual orientation programme. He delivered a short lecture on plagiarism and its negative effects towards the academic integrity especially in higher education, open access resources & open course-ware etc. Further in the session, Sh. Rudra Narayan, Professional Assistant, discussed about the standard guidelines, rules and regulations while accessing the library resources and facilities. Sh. Anuj Kr. Singh (IT Consultant) had a valuable discussion on online library membership and how to access the e-resources facilities remotely along with the Govt. Initiatives and other useful resources like MOOCs, SWAYAM, and Spoken Tutorial etc. The session was very interactive and useful to the users, where users’ queries had taken after the presentation. Further, the session has been concluded with a vote of thanks to the users participated in the programme.

19/08/2020

Central Library, Central University Of Odisha successfully organizes Webinar on “Open Educational Resources & Research Visualization Tools for Academic Communities” on 17.08.2020.

17/08/2020

Central University Of Odisha

The Central Library, CUO successfully organised webinar today on the theme ‘Open Educational Resources & Research Visualization Tools for Academic Communities.

Bijayananda Pradhan, Librarian In-Charge started the webinar with a welcome speech and introduced the theme of the webinar & its relevance on the present research context. Prof. I. Ramabrahmam, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor of CUO in his inaugural address highlighted the importance of the Open Education Resources(OER) and Research Visualization tools in education & research. He congratulated the Central Library for successfully hosting the webinar.

Dr. Sandeep Kumar Pathak, Librarian, IISER-Bhopal delivered the talk on “Open Educational Resources & Research Visualization Tools for Academic Communities”. He clarified the concept of OER, discussed major initiatives of OERs worldwide and highlighted their role in Open Education with special reference to SWAYAM & NPTEL courses. He briefed about the various initiatives taken by Ministry of Education, Govt. of India like National Digital Library of India, PM e-Vidya, Swayamprava, E-PG Pathsala etc. He also stressed upon the role of librarians in providing OER content customized to the need of their users. The OERs are very much relevant in the new normal post COVID-19 pandemic.

The webinar ended with vote of thanks by Rudra Narayan. Today’s webinar was attended by 70 participants including many academicians from all over the country. Faculty members, Research Scholars and students of Central university of Odisha were also present in the webinar.