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Registration open International Conference on Digital Library

Management (ICDLM)

International Conference on Digital Library Management (ICDLM)

Theme: Extending Benefits of Modern Technology to Public,

Academic and Special Libraries

Science City, Kolkata, 11-13 January, 2011

Venue:      Science City, Kolkata

Organiser:  TERI, New Delhi

Co-Organiser:     Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation, Ministry of

Culture, Government of India, Kolkata

Continuous capacity development and awareness programmes are

necessary to achieve the objective of transforming the novice into

digital librarians of future. The success of ICDL 2004, ICDL 2006 and

ICDL 2010 has encouraged and motivated TERI, New Delhi and Raja

Rammohan Roy Library Foundation, Kolkata in partnership with

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Ministry of Culture, Government of India, New Delhi to conduct of the

ICDLM 2011 which will provide yet another stimulating forum for DL

professionals to share their knowledge, experience and wisdom.

The theme of the proposed conference is “Extending Benefits of

Modern Technology to Public, Academic and Special Libraries”. The

conference will focus on creation, adoption, implementation and

utilization of digital libraries, e-learning and a knowledge society. We

invite you all to submit your research paper.

Who should participate?

  (a)    Professionals from public, academic and special libraries

  (b)    Information Technology professionals.

  (c)    Content and knowledge managers

  (d)    Policy makers

  (e)    Academicians, students and distance learners

  (f)    Archivists and museologists

  (g)    Information providers and vendors.

  (h)    E-publishers and virtual electronic communities

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  (i)    Library and Information Science professionals.

  (j)    All stakeholders in the digitization and knowledge business.

Conference will cover Original papers focusing on the theme of the

conference— Extending Benefits of Modern Technology to Public,

Academic and Special Libraries are invited for the. Some of the topics

are listed below:

  §  DL development and management

  §  Content organization and management

  §  DL architecture and access management

  §  Knowledge management

  §  Digital preservation

  §  DL standards and policy

  §  Thesauri and ontologies, semantics, metadata and retrieval

  §  Open archives initiatives/PMH

  §  Multilingual and interoperability

  §  Copyrights issues in digital environment

  §  DL services and applications

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  §  Collaboration and Networking between public libraries

Digital initiatives of public libraries  º  

  §  Open Educational resources

For Early–bird registration offer please visit

http://www.teriin.org/events/icdlm/registration.php

Registration:  please visit http://www.teriin.org/events/ICDLM