Theme: LIBRARIES AND LIBRARIANSHIP IN TRANSITION: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES (LIBTRANS 2014)
Sub-themes
(Indicative, But Not Limited To)
Librarian and Librarianship
Knowledge Society/ Knowledge Management
Networking and Services
User Education
Technology and Libraries
E-resources and Collection Development
Technical Sessions
Each technical session will have invited theme papers followed by paper presentations by the authors.
Sub-themes
(Indicative, But Not Limited To)
Librarian and Librarianship
- Current Changes and Challenges of Library and Librarianship
- Public Libraries and Social Enhancement
- Libraries and Social Justice
- Libraries and RTI
- Collection Development and Access Management
- Role & Direction of Library Education and Research
- National Commission on Libraries
- Reading Habits and the Role of Libraries
- Soft skills for LIS professionals
- Marketing of Library Services and Products
- Copy Right Issues and Libraries
Knowledge Society/ Knowledge Management
- Role of LIS professionals in the Knowledge Society
- Relevance of Dr. S R Ranganathan’s Contributions in the Knowledge Society
- KM Tools & Techniques
- Metadata
- Interactive Information Retrieval
- Semantic Web and Ontology
- Federated Search
Networking and Services
- Libraries and Social Networking
- Library Networks and Consortia
- Community Information Services
User Education
- Information Literacy
- User Education
- User Studies
Technology and Libraries
- Innovative/ Best Practices in Libraries
- ICT and Libraries
- Marketing of Information Services
- Web 3.0/Web portal development
- Institutional Repositories
- Web Scale Discovery
- Application of OSS in libraries
E-resources and Collection Development
- Virtual Libraries
- Digital Libraries
- Cloud Computing
- Open Source and Open Access
- Web Portal and Content Management
Technical Sessions
Each technical session will have invited theme papers followed by paper presentations by the authors.