Personal:

Dr. (Mrs.) Suniti Bala joined PAU in the year 2005 as Assistant Librarian. She has done her B. Lib & Inf. Sc. and M. Lib & Inf. Sc. from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar with gold medal. She completed her PhD in Information Literacy from Desh Bhagat University, Mandi Gobindgarh. She has attended and organized various training programmes, seminars, conferences and orientation lectures. She was awarded with Certificate of Appreciation for hard work and support towards the smooth conduct of 3rd International Conference of Agricultural Librarians and User Community (ICALUC-2023). She is PAU Nodal Officer for IRINS a web-based Research Information Management (RIM) service provided by the Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre. She is Co-PI of E-GRANTH project (Strengthening of Digital Library and Information Management under NARES) in NAIP. She is also a Nodal Officer for Organization of the Departmental Libraries viz College of Basic Sciences; KVK, Ropar; KVK, Faridkot and KVK, Patiala.

Teaching :

She has a teaching experience of 14 years. She has been teaching PG courses – Library and Information Services (PGS501) and Research and Publication Ethics (RPE501) to master and doctorate degree students of PAU.

Research :

She has published 29 research articles and edited 2 books. Some important publications are given below: Kumar S, Bala S. and Kumar A (2024) Institutional repositories an emerging resource for scholarly agricultural communication and access: a study. In: Partap, B and Bala, R (eds). Next Generation Libraries in the Networked Digital Environment. Pp 395-402. NIPA Genex Electronic Resources & Solutions P Ltd. N. Dehli. Amit Kumar and Bala, S. (2023). Awareness and Use of Krishikosh among the Post Graduate students of PAU, Ludhiana: A study. In International Conference of Agricultural Librarians & Users Community (ICALUC-2023) on Agricultural libraries and sustainable development goals: the way forward (5th – 6th October, 2023) / ed by G. Rathinasabapathy; K. Veeranjaneyulu; K. Kandpal; O.P.Choudhary and Yogita Sharma; NIPA: New Delhi, pp 177-184. Bala, S., Sanjay Chandwani, Nirmal Singh and Dhiraj Kumar (2023). Information Seeking Anxiety amongst Postgraduate Students of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology, Vol 43 (6), 399-405. Bansal, Sonia and Bala, S. (2022). Moocs in Library and Information Science: A study of SWAYAM portal. In: Bhanu Partap, et.al (eds). Cutting edge technology and libraries, NIPA, New Delhi. Pp 47-56. Bala, S. (2021). Research and publication ethics: Assessment of self- perceived knowledge. In International Conference of Agricultural Librarians & Users Community (ICALUC-2021) on Management of Knowledge Resource Centres in the Networked Digital Environment: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities (25th – 26th Feb, 2021) / ed by G. Rathinasabapathy, K. Veeranjaneyulu & V. Srinivasa pp466-471