4th - 13th March 2022, Venue: Any place convenient to tutor and learner.
Program Co-ordinator: Dr. Shakuntala Nighot, Librarian & NDLI Club Precident, STIE
Participants: 47 Students of FYBEd (21-23) as tutors + 47 Learners from wide-ranging social background
Report:

National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is ever growing gigantic virtual public library which came into existence through National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT). It holds resources in several languages to support for all academic levels (KG to PG and life-long learners), all disciplines, all popular forms of access devices and differently-abled learners.

A comprehensive NDLI orientation Program was conducted by Dr. Shakuntala N. for FYBEd students (47) of STIE on 5th March 2022 which consisted of:

• Introduction to NDLI, its need, importance scope and rich and varied resources.
• Introduction to NDLI Club
• Membership to NDLI and STIE NDLI Club
• Hands-on Training for searching NDLI resources effectively
• Step by step demonstration about participation and Certificate generation for STIE NDLI Club Activity
• Detailed guidance about Each One Teach One Outreach Program.

Each One Teach One and its Objective

Innovative outreach Program Each One Teach One, was organised by STIE NDLI Club with the objective to reach out to lifelong learners from the society to make them aware and orient about this repository. FYBEd student accepted a role of personalised NDLI tutor and oriented one person/learner from the society about NDLI during 4th to 13th March 2013. Program consisted of following steps

• Introduction to NDLI and its resources to learner
• Helping the learner to register on NDLI
• Teaching the learner the search techniques to find and access the resources in their area of interest.
• Feedback from learner

Authenticity Check

To make this program more authentic the tutor had to upload learner’s photo in the form https://forms.gle/Su8HU25HDCxQh5De8 with NDLI home screen logged in with learner’s user ID.

Reward to Tutors

This program was registered as STIE NDLI Club Event. On 14th March 2022, 47 FYBEd Students received the certificate from NDLI Portal for participating in NDLI Each One Teach One Activity as NDLI Tutor.

Analysis and findings from the feedback:

1. Its observed that 63% of the learners were female while 27 % were male. This shows that more women are keen to become lifelong learners and acquire new knowledge in the area of their interest.
2. In all 46 learners of various age groups between 13 years to 68 years were benefitted with this program. Most of the learners were of the group 20-35 (58%) years followed by 45-50 (24%). This group consists of learners who are either taking higher education or people working for their professional growth.
3. It is found that though tutor’s parents, siblings, neighbours, friends, and cousins, extended family members or family friends chosen to become learners for Each One Teach One, Sisters, Mothers and Aunts ( in all 67.9%) were more enthusiastic to learn about NDLI.
4. Though learners with different highest academic qualifications from 4th grade till PhD and MBA Most of the learners were Graduate (50%), Post Graduates (10.9%) or studied at least till Higher Secondary level (19.6%).
5. Learners were with different occupations like Homemakers, Retired Persons, Teachers teaching and Students studying at secondary, higher secondary, graduate, postgraduate and research level in science, engineering, arts faculties, including primary and pre-primary Teachers, Laws, Businesses persons like Photographers, Singers, Chefs, people in Banking, Paramedical, Pharma, Hospitality industry had participated actively in the program.
6. People working in various public and private sector services (32.6%) and students studying at different academic levels (34.8%), and homemakers (17.4%) were keen to explore NDLI.
7. All 46 learners could successfully register on NDLI portal. They could search and access information resources in 9 languages including English, Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Bengoli, Gujarathi, Urdu etc.
8. Most of the learners (91.3%) were very happy to learn about NDLI and they found it a very useful resource.

Some representative feedbacks from learners depicts that comprehensive resources in NDLI can cater to various information needs of various user groups which underlines its importance to society.

• The concept that not only written matter but also can get video lectures and audio for the topic I am searching. Having so many useful resources at the same platform was the main highlight, really impressed and willing to share this information with all my students and professional friends. (Sakshi Patil, 47Y, Biology Professor)
• Really good to know that the government is taking the initiative to educate and provide legitimate knowledge to those in need. Surprisingly I could find great Videos and recipes of Cake Making. (Firoz Pinto, 57 Y, Chef)
• It's a very helpful tool to look up content on the go. It is very useful in terms of getting extra information apart from the contemporary curriculum. It caters to the needs of curious minds and works as an excellent resource to widen the horizons and scopes of personal and professional research. I'd surely recommend it to my peers. (Sheha Gadre, 24 Y, PhD Student of Drugs and Dyes)
• I am overwhelmed to have such rich and scholarly resources available at their figure tips. I am happy to get wonderful video lectures and resources on Classical Music (Yamini Rana, 60Y, Singer)

Learning Outcome: Though all 46 learners were of different age group, soci-economic, professional and academic background and belonging to various languages they could trace and use the resources from their subjects and languages in various forms. Thus through Each one, Teach One: Outreach for NDLI Orientation, STIE library could move out of its wall and reach out to lifelong learners or adults in the society to inculcate and boost reading habits in them, to quench their knowledge thrust or to fulfil their information needs. Thus through Each one was a small attempt by STIE library step ahead on the guidelines laid down by NEP 2020 and to reach out to society.

• NDLI Orientation Session Participation Certificate of Student,
• Invite of Each One Teach One,
• Achievement Certificate to same student as NDLI Tutor for Each One Teach One Program. (Source: https://club.ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/)
• Learners Logged in to NDLI with their personalised userID and Password.