As a leading digital library expert, she was commissioned to carry out studies and projects by UNESCO, Educational Development Council, Washington, DC, USA and others.

[16] Vidyanidhi, the digital library project that was conceptualized and developed by Dr. Shalini Urs was funded by Government of India, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research under their National Information System for Science and Technology (NISSAT).

[17] Vidyanidhi was an endeavor to establish a national repository and a collaborative consortium of participating universities and academic institutions for the creation, submission, archiving and accessing of Indian theses and dissertations.

[21] She also initiated and has organized a well-known Academia-Industry Summit series called the InfoVision-Knowledge Summit in collaboration with industries such as Rediff.com, Microsoft Research, and industry bodies such as CII and BCIC since 2005 and has brought speakers from across the globe including star speakers such as Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) and Prabhakar Raghavan, Vice President of Engineering at Google and others.

[22][23] ISiM was established in 2005 in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore and Informatics India as an industry partner.