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� identify new roles to be taken by NIE libraries in the context of emerging
information environment.
Book Exhibition
A book exhibition on the subject ‘Adolescence Education’ was held at on
23 November 2010 at DLDI, NIE, New Delhi. Various book distributors came to
exhibit their books on the subject. The books were selected by the Director,
NCERT, Professor Saroj Yadav, Head and Coordinator NPET, Ms. Geeta
Narayanan from UNFPA and other faculty members of NCERT. Finally the
recommended books were selected and finalised for acquiring for DLDI.
Information Literacy Programme
DLDI organised a lecture on ‘Developing Education Curriculum using Aggregated
Resources’ by EBSCO Publisher on 26 November 2010 at NIE, New Delhi. EBSCO
is a full text database in the field of education and other related subjects via
internet. It is the world’s largest online database of full text in education journals
from early childhood to higher education and all educational specialised such
as multilingual, education, health education and testing. EBSCO is the database
which provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2200 journals as well as
full text for more than 1300 journals, nearly 550 books and monographs and
reference papers etc. Faculty and research scholars attended the lecture. The
faculty of NCERT was of the view to subscribe the database as it contains the
current as well as archival data.
Adolescence Education Resource Centre
As part of Adolescence Education Programme (AEP), a resource centre has been
developed at DLDI known as Adolescence Education Resource Centre. The
objectives of AERC are to:
� acquire / procure print and non-print material;
� digitise the materials on Adolescence Education;
� have linkage with the national and international agencies working on
Adolescence Education;
� disseminate the materials and make facilities available to different target
groups as per their needs;
� create the e-forum for discussion on Adolescence Education;
� disseminate information through networking; and http:// ncert.nic.in/ncert/
dldi/aerc.html
AERC will serve as a forum for exchange of information / materials / ideas
nationwide to organisations and individuals through the active participation and
cooperation of several agencies. It will serve as an agency for documentation and
dissemination of information related to the adolescence education with specific
reference to universalisation of the adolescence education. The target group will
include the key national organisations working in school education, teacher
education and open learning system.
Annual Report 2010-11