SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

 







Research papers are invited on
the following themes and sub-themes of the conference. 



Next Generation Services: 

Design and development of innovative Library services for academic 

/Special  /R&D/ Corporate/Public libraries- Information requirements 

of next generation users- User study-scientometrics/webometrics-

Citation/database studies- valuation of library services.  

Next Generation Library Services using Social Networking Tools: 

Web 2.0/Library 2.0 , RSS , Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Wikis, Mashups,

 LinkedIn, Metadata and Social Tagging , Federated Search and 

Discovery Tools, Semantic Web. 

Content Management: 

E-Publishing,CM software and tools, OpenCourseWare, 

Open Source Journal Publishing –  E-learning- Models and standards. 

Digital Initiatives:

Digital Library- Building Digital  Archives/IR- OAI and OA 

journals- Digital Rights management (DRM) - Next generation 

standards and protocols for DL- Interoperability and metadata 

-Digital Preservation and strategies. 

Emerging Technology for Future Library:

 Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems - Future Library Automation-

 ISR and Search Engine- Cloud Computing- M-Library- Security and 

Surveillance Technologies- Solutions and Innovations.

Collection Development for Future Library: 

Policy, Criteria and methodology for selection of resources for the future 

library-Printed - E-resources-Purchase and access to books, journals, 

reference sources and databases-Ownership,Licensing-Access mechanism- 

Consortium-Resource sharing and partnership- E-resources management-

Physical space and Funds availability.  

IPR-Copyright: 

IPR- Copyright  & Open Licensing – Patents- IPR and 

impact of Library- Scholarly Publishing and
copyright issues- Emerging trends IPR in the IT world. 

Library and Society: 

Policy for Future Library and Library services –Government's information policy

Knowledge Commission-Library Legislation- LIS Education and Research-

Information Literacy Programmes-Universal Access to Information-

Freedom to Access- Best practices.





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