[LIS-Forum] SALIS 2014 - National Conference on Reaching the Unreached: Connecting the Library Users and Resources through Innovative Services and Technologies

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SALIS 2014 - Conference Announcement

TEQIP (Phase II) Sponsored National Conference on
Reaching the Unreached: Connecting the Library Users and Resources through Innovative Services and Technologies
(SALIS 2014)

8th & 9th August 2014

Organized by
Department of Library, CIT, Coimbatore

and

SALIS


About CIT

The V. Rangasamy Naidu Educational Trust devoted to the cause of promoting technical and scientific literacy, established Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT) in 1956. CIT is one of the most reputed and prestigious educational institutions in South India since 1956. CIT, a 
government aided autonomous institution affiliated to Anna University, Chennai managed by a pedigreed lineage for the past 58 years, enjoys national repute. The Institute backed by world class research and development. The Institute boasts of strong academic–industrial 
interaction and a high quality of research and consultancy. The institute has celebrated its Golden Jubilee in the year 2006. All the departments are well equipped with qualified staff, class rooms and laboratories. CIT is identified as one of the beneficiary institutions under TEQIP 
(Phase II) – Sub Component 1.1 (Strengthening institutions to improve learning outcomes and employability of graduates).
About the Department of Library, CIT
The Department of Library, CIT functioning in the vast area of15,000 sq.ft. The main objective of the CIT library is to provide information services and access to print and e-resources to support the scholarly and informational needs of the institute community. The fully automated
library is well equipped with modern facilities and resources in the form of books, print and e-journals, back volumes and non-book materials.The CIT library has been subscribing many on-line databases and e-resources including IEEE, ASCE, ASME, Science Direct, Springer
Link, Mc-Graw Hill’s Access Engineering Library, J-Gate Plus, GREENR, ASTM, NPTEL etc. The library is also a member of N-LIST, DELNET and American Concrete Institute, USA for sharing / accessing information resources and servcies.

About SALIS

SALIS is a registered national professional body, actively involved in the development of all spheres of LIS by organizing various programmes such as conferences, seminars, workshops and training programmes on emerging topics throughout the year in various parts of the 
country through its chapters located in many places. SALIS publishes national and international journals, proceedings and newsletter for exchange of information and knowledge among LIS professionals. SALIS instituted many awards to encourage and motivate LIS 
professionals. One of the objectives of SALIS is to train the LIS professionals in the country to handle the latest IT tools and techniques more effectively and efficiently and also to understand and adopt the best practices in order to provide high quality service to the users.

About the Conference

Libraries are the integral part of academic, R &D institutions and also in a society to disseminate information and knowledge to the user community for the betterment and well being of the society. Libraries invest heavily for acquiring, processing and disseminating and maintaining
resources by spending huge amount of money. Therefore, these resources should be equitably utilized to the maximum for academic and R & D excellence, developing competency skills and acquiring knowledge for all the stake holders in the society. Innovative programmes 
and services should be designed using technologies to provide access and service to all particularly the unreached. At present, one group of users have access to plenty of resources but not utilizing and the another group needs information but not getting access to the 
information. Therefore, libraries should plan, design suitable programme to provide access to information to all and connect the right users to the right resource at the right time.

Conference Objectives

The conference is intended to provide a forum for LIS professionals to discuss, deliberate and exchange knowledge and ideas to reach the unreached. 

The objectives are

 To indentify the unreached groups
 Reasons for not reaching the unreached groups
 Reasons for underutilizing the resources
 Information requirements of the unreached group
 Ways to serve the unreached group
 Innovative programmes and service to serve the unreached group
 Suitable methods and technologies to promote and deliver the services

Themes and Sub-Themes

Connecting Users to Resources

Initiatives-To Reach the Unreached, To serve
the un-served, To make non-reader as reader,
Right users to the right resources; Connecting
the Resources to the users; Connecting the
students of distance education; Equitable
service to all the users; Academic Institutions:
Students-Scholars-Faculty; assignment - project
- fund - research - thesis - higher education -
Funding - job opportunities; Programmes for
Schools - Lesson planning, students project and
exercises; Connecting R & D - Industry -
Corporate Bodies - Small Scale industries with
correct resources: Literature studies - products -
patents - standards - reports - specification.

Innovative Programmes to Reach the Unreached

Audio - Video - TV - Online - Library Kiosk -
Information Booth - Online library services -
GPSS application to locate resources;
Programme for skill development and higher
studies - Research Help - Technology Help-
Online Research Assistants; Library as a
incubator; Liaison with Departmental activities -
Programs for attracting users to library -
developing reading habits making non-readers as readers

Innovative Library Services

Literature Review - SDI, CAS, Alert services;
Research Output - Bibliometric, Scientometric and Citation Studies; Push and Pull services; 
Eresource usage studies; Database creation- IRTrend report-consolidation and repacking;
Photos-Press-Publicity; 
Quality management – accreditation-Best Practices; 
KM initiatives for Knowledge Sharing: 
Ask a Librarian – FAQ - Forum-Group for Research in Progress - News Compilation; 
Publication activities; 
Electronic Article Delivery; 
OpenURL; 
Patents writing - IPR – Copyright – Plagiarism.

Innovative Library Services using Technology to ‘Reach the Unreached’

Telephone-IVRS-Internet-Email-Mobile-SMS; Elearning; CMS; 
Digital library services; 
Social networking tools: Blog – Facebook - Twitter – RSS - Flicker; 
Cloud technology; 
Automated library vending machines; 
Library Hot-spot ;
Mobile Library apps – MOPAC;
Lending E-books online;
Online Tutorial - Webinar.

Information Literacy Programmes

Awareness - Orientation - Bibliographic Instruction;
Guided Tour - how to use technology and resources;
 Curriculum - course embedded IL programmes for each subject ;
Modules for all courses;
 ICT- health - finance - food – literacy.

Out Reach Programmes
Extension service: for Isolated and Less privileged communities - rural population -
Differentially abled - Children-adult and aged -
house wife - poor and homeless; Establishment
of Village Library - Readers Group - reading
corner - Mobile library / Circulating library; Home
delivery; Adoption of Village libraries by
corporate; Design of outreach programmes in
vernacular language for all the ages;
Establishment of community college libraries;
Collaboration and Liaison of academic, local
libraries, local communities, small scale
industries and business groups for sharing
resources; Information Kiosk; Night Study room
for adult; Off-campus services.

Promotion and Marketing of Library Services

Brochures- banners- Slogans- flyers-news lettercut-
outs-exhibits-quotes-Advertisement - Special
programmes; Personal discussion – Chatting -
Group discussion – through websites – mobiles
– e-mail - street drama - mobile van – Library
week – Tope 10 readers – Tope 10 books – gift
and awards for the best users - Participation of
institution – professional association – Govtnational-
state-local bodies-NGO-Corporate for
promotion of library usage.

Submission of Papers

Original and unpublished papers on the conference themes are invited for presentation
at the conference. Papers will be accepted only after strict review by editorial committee.
Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings with ISBN. Selected
papers may be published in the SALIS journals.
Author Guidelines
Authors are requested to submit the full paper in word file (with an abstract not exceeding 200
words and at least 3 keywords) as an e-mail attachment to citsalis2014 at gmail.com.
Paper should not exceed 6 pages of A4 size with 1.5 line spacing and font size 12 in TMN.
Reference style: APA. Papers will not be
accepted without registration fee.
Target Participants
Librarians, Information professionals, LIS
Teachers, Students and Research scholars.
Registration Fee:
LIS Professionals    Rs.1000
Research Scholars (Regular) &
LIS Students    Rs.500
(Kit without conference bag)
Participants (without paper)   Rs.500
(Kit without conference bag and 
proceedings)

Registration fee should be paid through
Demand Draft drawn in favour of 'The Principal,
CIT’ payable at ‘Coimbatore’ and addressed to the “Organizing Secretary”. The online payment
details to be provided on request.

Last Dates

Submission of full-paper 30.06.2014
Registration 25.07.2014


Conference Websites

www.salis2014.wordpress.com
www.cit.edu.in
www.salis.in
www.autolib-india.net/salis
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007788373190

Accommodation

The delegates will be provided accommodation
in the college hostel on sharing basis against an
advance payment of Rs. 500/- on first cum first
served basis. In case of non-availability of rooms
in the hostel, accommodation will be arranged in
the nearby hotels on extra payment. Participants
can also make their own arrangement for
accommodation at hotels available in and
around Central Railway Station and
Gandhipuram. The room rent varies from Rs.
500 to 5000 per day.

About Coimbatore


Coimbatore is the second biggest city of Tamilnadu. It is identified as one of the fast
developing metros of India. It is abounded with universities, colleges and IT industries. Situated at the foot hills of Nilgiris, Coimbatore is known
for its pleasant climate, peaceful atmosphere and surrounded by major tourist spots has always been a favorite place for tourists.
Nearest Tourist Places
Ooty (Hill Resort)
Valparai (Hill Station)
Kovai Kutralam
Black Thunder
Temples
Perur
Marudhamalai
Eachanari
Isha Dhyanalingam
Koniamman Temple, 
Karamadai Ranganathar
Temple, 
Then Thirupathi, 
Anamalai
Masaniamman Temple and many more temples.
Palani and Guruvayur are around 100 kms from Coimbatore




Dr.M.Mandhirasalam
Organizing Secretary, SALIS 2014 &
Librarian
Coimbatore Institute of Technology
(Government Aided Autonomous Institution)
Civil Aerodrome (Po),
Coimbatore - 641 014.
Tamil Nadu, India.
Phone: 0422-2574071-72, Extn.355
Fax: 0422-2575020, Mobile: 0 98 42 95 65 85
E-Mail: citsalis14 at gmail.com
Web: www.cit.edu.in
&
Dr. S.Surianarayanan
President, SALIS
Dr. S.Swaminathan
General Secretary, SALIS
&
SALIS Governing Council


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