ABOUT THE SEMINAR:NSIL2018

About the National Seminar Libraries play a vital role in the lives of people. Rapid advances in information processing, storage & retrieval and communication technologies have brought revolutions in the role of libraries in disseminating information sources and services to their users. The emerging challenges of acquiring and providing access to electronic knowledge resources require librarians to change their role from traditional librarian to information scientist/knowledge officers.

• The vision of the next generation library professionals is to create a World Class Networked Global Library and Information Centre to provide web based quality information service to the users on time.
• The library and information professionals must change the library environment as pathways to provide right information at the right time in a variety of electronic media and information sources.
• Library professionals must ascertain their roles in more pro-active ways, both in the context of their academic pursuit and in the competitive markets for information dissemination and retrieval.

The seminar will be beneficial to the faculty, research scholars and students of library professionals, enrich the knowledge about new technologies and current trends.

Objectives of the Seminar

• To create awareness about innovative library services and best practices.
• To motivate and encourage the LIS Professionals to learn nascent trends and techniques.
• To create awareness on the emerging ICT application in Libraries
• To explore the new avenues of resource sharing in Digital Environment
• To identify the challenges ahead in innovative libraries/Librarianship

Theme and subtheme of the Seminar:

 Information Literacy

 Trends and Technologies in Libraries

 Web Resources and Technologies

 Search Engines and Federated Search

 Social Networks

 Digital Libraries and Digital Preservation

 Institutional Repository

 E-Teaching and E-Learning

 Open Source Software and Open Access

 Electronic Publishing

 Resource Sharing, Networking and Consortia

 Online Courses SWAYAM, MOOCs

 Total Quality Management & Knowledge Management

 Security Systems - RFID, CCTV, Biometric etc.

 Ethics of Access, Plagiarism, Copyright and Licensing

 Metrics in Library and Information Science

 LIS Education and Research

Important Dates:

Submission of Full Paper:    7th March 2018

Notification of Acceptance: 9th March 2018

Note:

The contributors are requested to submit survey based/case study papers not exceeding 2500 words in 12-point Times New Roman. References should be provided as per American Psychological Association (APA). Papers will be accepted after Plagiarism check. Accepted papers will be published in the Seminar Proceedings with ISBN. Only two papers may be allowed to all the contributor either by single or co-author. And also any one author must be registered in each paper. The full text of papers are to be sent to the Organizing Secretary. Email: cutnlib@gmail.com

Registration fee:

Faculty/ LIS Professionals - Rs.1000/- (Rs.1500/-with accommodation)

Research Scholars/Students - Rs. 500/- (Rs.750/-with accommodation)