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, Kolkata
Partner:    Ministry of Culture, Government of India, New Delhi

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 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
   (i)    Library and Information Science professionals.
   (j)    All stakeholders in the digitization and knowledge business.


Call for papers

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
   §  Collaboration and Networking between public libraries
   º  ?Digital initiatives of public libraries
   §  Open Educational resources


For details of paper submission guidelines and submission process, visit
www.teriin.org/events/icdlm
< >.

Important dates

Submission of full papers 20 October 2010
Notification of acceptance of paper with comments 05 November 2010
Submission of the revised paper after incorporating comments 20 November
2010

Registration:
                                                                                
   Delegates fee   |    Up to 30 November 2010   |    After 30 November 2010    
 ------------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------- 
                   |                             |                              
   India and SAARC |   Indian Rs 3000 + Rs 309   |   Indian Rs 3500 + Rs 360    
   countries       |         service tax         |         service tax          
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                   |                             |                              
   Other countries |           US$ 125           |           US$ 150            
   (including      |                             |                              
   service tax)    |                             |                              
                                                                                



Contact:
DEBAL C KAR
Organizing Secretary
ICDLM Secretariat
TERI, Darbari Seth Block,
IHC Complex, Lodhi Road,
New Delhi – 110 003, India
Telephone 24644654, 24682100, 41504900
Fax 24682144, 24682145
E-mail dckar@teri.res.in
Web www.teriin.org/events/icdlm
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