[LIS-Forum] LIS Professionals:Want to retool, reposition ? Here is a wonderful opportunity @ ICADL2013- Ahead of Time Registration Closes soon

[Shalini Urs]

Dear LIS professionals:

The LIS professionals have been talking about retooling and repositioning
for a long time: here is an opportunity to Just DO IT !

The 15th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL
2013) is brought to you by the International School of Information
Management, University of Mysore and held in Bangalore, India, during
December 9-11, 2013. The venue is Hotel Le Meridien, Bangalore.
 

The theme of the conference is  ³Social Media and Community Networks²
 

Since its emergence in 2004, social media has become not just a rage but
also an integral part of our daily lives and professional activities.
Organisations‹academic, government, and corporates, are increasingly
veering towards social media for not only reaching out to but also to
engage with their customers and other stakeholders.  Libraries are no
exceptions and libraries across the world are using social media to
promote services, highlight resources, integrating access, and to listen
to the voices of their users.  Libraries, the traditional agencies for
building local communities of practice are finding new ways to build
virtual communities with the help of the social media and its tools.

 
ICADL 2013 offers a wonderful platform and brings a truly
interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners of digital
libraries
with a focus on the theme of ³ Social Media and Community Networks.²

 
Whether you are a practitioner or a researcherin the library and
information profession, here is a chance to retool
and reposition your career and the profession by learning more about the
new media and the emerging tools through tutorials, plenary sessions,
keynotes,
contributed papers, exhibits, posters and other events.
 

* Tutorials: ICADL 2013 offers an opportunity to familiarize oneself with
cutting edge tools through its tutorials on the topics of Data Mining,
Text Mining, and Social Network Analysis
(http://www.isim.ac.in/icadl2013/tutorials.html)

* Contributed Papers: Our contributed papers showcase the current research
trends in the field of digital libraries
(http://www.isim.ac.in/icadl2013/Accepted_Papers_and_Posters.html)
 

* Talk-a-DL: We also have an innovative Talk-a-DL Programme-an Open House
programme that offers a platform to delegates to share their thoughts and
ask questions.
 

* IDLI at ICADL: IDLI( Indian Digital Library Initiatives at ICADL2013) is
another programme feature providing an opportunity  for organisations to
showcase their innovation in digital libraries
(http://www.isim.ac.in/icadl2013/idli.html)

 
* InfoQuiz 2013: One other interesting programme is InfoQuiz 2013
(http://www.isim.ac.in/icadl2013/infoquiz.html)
 

Please compete and win a trip to ICADL 2013!
 

ICADL 2013 has more to offer than just another Digital Library Conference!
 

Come, learn, share and enjoy!

 
Shalini
Dr. Shalini Urs
Chair, ICADL 2013
&
Executive Director and Professor

International School of Information Management
University of Mysore
Manasagangotri
Mysore - 570006
Phone :  + 91 821 2514699
Fax      :  +  91 821
2519209 
www.isim.ac.in




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