DRTC Golden Jubilee National Conference on Library Education Jointly with XXIX IATLIS NATIONAL CONFERENCE, 2012 at DRTC, Bangalore

DRTC Golden Jubilee National Conference on Library Education Jointly with XXIX IATLIS NATIONAL CONFERENCE, 2012

26-28 December 2012

Theme: LIS Education and Research: Contemplating Persistent and Debatable Issues

Organized jointly by

Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science (IATLIS) 

and

Documentation Research & Training Centre (DRTC),Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile Mysore Road, Bangalore- 560 059

Sub-themes: (suggested topics but not limited to the following)*

  - What course components are relevant and irrelevant in LIS Curriculum?
  - Is LIS research over-emphasizing Survey Research, Citation Analysis,
  and redundant topics?
  - What ICT topics should form the core and specializations in LIS
  Curriculum?
  - Core vs. Specializations with special reference to Public Library
  system and School Library system
  - How to facilitate smooth transition from:
      - Tradition to modernity
      - Classification to Ontology
      - Cataloging to Bibliographic Metadata
      - Authority files to Metadata Schema
      - Moving beyond Informatics and work in Data and Text Mining
      - Information Sources to Information Gateways and Discovery tools
  - National Mission for Libraries and LIS Education
  - E-learning in LIS, Open Courseware, LISwiki (Open invitation for
  voluntary editors)
  - IPRs and Open Access
  - Open Source Software in LIS
  - Open Standards in LIS
  - Library 2.0: Web 2.0 Technologies
  - Role of Social Networks in Library Services
  - Resource Discovery tools: A critique of Web Search Engines

*Invited talks on:*

  - Data Science: Data Repositories, Linked Data, Data Analytics
      - Semantic web: Ontology, metadata and Inferencing
      - Cloud Computing: LIS Clouds

Panel Discussion on LIS Education and Research
Note: These sub-themes are not exhaustive, rather indicative only.

Call for papers:

Full articles and research papers (with abstracts) on the above mentioned theme and sub-themes for the XXIX IATLIS* *National Conference should reach to Dr. H. P. S. Kalra, General Secretary, IATLIS, Department of Library & Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala ? 147002 (Punjab) as a hard copy and also as an email attachment latest by *21 December 2012*. The paper should not be more than 3000 words. Please send your paper both in print and electronic form on a CD in Microsoft Word and also a soft copy through email to iatlis2012@gmail.com. The paper should include Title, Name and Address of author(s), Abstract and Key Words. References at the end of the paper and their in-text citing should be according to APA Style manual.

For further information about this check this link:

http://www.wooster.edu/psychology/APA-crib.html

Registration Fees:
Indian Delegates: 
Sponsored: Rs. 3,000/-
Non-Sponsored: Rs. 2,000/-
Retired Professionals:Rs.1,500/-
Accompanying Person: Rs. 1,500/-
Students: Rs.  750/-
Foreign Delegates:
SARRC Countries: $ 150
Other Countries: $ 300

The registration fee covers conference kit, proceedings of the conference (upon post- publication), and working lunch, dinner and breakfast and session tea for the days of the conference. The registration fee does not include accommodation charges. Papers presented at the conference will be published in the post-conference volume and would be sent to the registered delegates later on. Delegates are requested to include registration fees for accompanying persons while forwarding their registration forms since it would not be possible to entertain last minute request in view of shortage of accommodation. Accompanying persons shall not be entitled for conference kits. Delegates are requested to intimate their travel plan in advance to avoid inconvenience. The Demand Draft for registration fee should be in favour of IATLIS payable at Patiala, and should be sent along with duly filled Registration Form latest by 21 December 2012 to:

Dr. H. P. S. Kalra, General Secretary, IATLIS and
Head, Dept. of Library and Information Science,
Punjabi University, Patiala 147002 (Punjab)
Ph.-0175-3046179 and 3046180  Email: hpskalra@gmail.com

Accommodation: Accommodations in ISI guest house are very limited and will be arranged by the local Organizing Secretary ONLY on first-come-first served basis for those participants who send prior information for it in the registration form. Charges for accommodation are to be borne by the participants as per actuals. Bangalore is host to several hotels and hostels catering to all budgets. Delegates can also make their booking on their own.

Organising Secretary:
Dr. Devika P. Madalli, devika@drtc.isibang.ac.in