Short Term Training Course on Information Technology for Information Management

SAARC Documentation Centre in collaboration with National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR), New Delhi, India will be organizing five weeks course on Information Technology for Information Management from 27th April to 29th May 2015. Two participants from each Member States are invited for the Course. Interested Candidate(s) are requested to contact your National Focal Point.

30th SAARC Charter Day

 SAARC Documentation Centre (SDC) celebrated the 30th SAARC Charter Day at SDC, 14 Satsang Vihar Marg, New Delhi.In order to commemorate the SAARC Charter Day, the Centre organized an elocution competition on SAARC for the visually challenged school children.

Course on Visual Documentation

Course on Visual Documentation (8th to 19th Decmber 2014)has been cancelled due to lack of confirmation of participation for the Member States.

Workshop on Essential Skills for New Age Information Professionals

Workshop  on Essential Skills for New Age Information Professionals  was conducted in collaboration with National Library of Maldives from 30th November to 4th December 2014. Forty Eight participants from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Sri Lanka and the SAARC Secretariat, Kathmandu, Nepal attended the Workshop.

Second Short Term Training Course on Information Technology for Information Management

SAARC Documentation Centre (SDC) in-collaboration with  National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR) conducted  Short Term Course on Information Technology for Information Management from 27th October to 28th November 2014 at SDC, 14 Satsang Vihar Marg, New Delhi. Ten Participants from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka attended the training.

48th Session of Programming Committee Meeting

The  Programming Committee Meeting was held from 20 – 22 October 2014 at Kathmandu, Nepal. The Director and The Deputy Director, SDC attended the meeting.

SAARC Conference on Open Access

SAARC Conference on Open Access was organized in collaboration with CSIR- URDIP. The conference was organized in order to create awareness about the this growing Open Access moment and to equip the information professionals from SAARC countries with tools to develop IRs. Seventy Participants from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka attended this Course which held  from 13th to 14th October 2014.