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Academic and Research Libraries:
We invite original contributions involving research, models, practices or strategies envisioning the future of your library. Papers should discuss on how libraries strategizing by refocusing their collection, demonstrating the value by learning commons, services models, research and data management services, digital scholarship and other multiple drivers to communicate its value for the institute success.
Contributions will address the overall conference theme and cover exploration and activities related to but not limited to the following topics:
Designing learning spaces
Publishing industry
Research impact, ranking of Institutions and role of Libraries
Information literacy
Library instruction models
Data driven decisions, ROI and other metrics
Library Leadership
Performance and Impact assessment
Support for learning and research
Collection building and custom /services
Copyright, scholarly communications, publishing research
Open access, archiving of IR and support for research
Technology and access to knowledge
Primary research data, data curation and Data management services
LIS Education and manpower challenges
Higher education and libraries
Public Libraries:
Historically public libraries have contributed immensely in persevering the culture in analog world. In contemporary times, its role is even more significant to bring the access and benefits of technologies to all the citizens regardless of the social and economic stature apart from its pivotal role in digital preservation.
The role of public libraries in providing civic amenities, education and information learning, steady access to Government forms and services, public documents, greater access to computers and digital preservation of culture and archival docs is unparalleled. Cases studies, research papers and practices that redefine their role are solicited. The major subthemes are
Historical role and current transformation
Studies on outreach, citizenship, learning skills, extending formal education and information literacy
Provision of academic/other knowledge resources, recreation and personal research
Strengthening informal learning, Collaboration with Institutions, NGO and other Organizations
Preservation of cultural heritage
Expectations from /public/users
Crowd funding and sustenance
Public libraries legislations and need for revisions
Philanthropy and community patronage
Digital Domain:
Digital domain is distressed with challenges of access, preservation and other regulatory restrictions.
While there is exponential growth in knowledge resources aided by ever evolving technologies, technology enabled restrictions, intellectual property rights, copyright and contract laws, licensing, and privacy and use of digital content has constricted the access instead of enhancing its reachability.
Papers in this theme exploring the strategies to overcome normalization of such restrictions in digital domain and case studies that have developed and chronicled the culture, demography, classics or digitized the manuscripts and classics are sought
IPR, copyright and DRM
Open access scholarly Communication
Privacy and use
Digital preservation
Digital archives, of culture and demography, trade, literature, classics etc.
Data repositories
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