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by ICLAM 2011 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

NIFT in collaboration with IFLA - Art Libraries Section Other Collaborators: C-DAC ( Dept. of IT), CSIR ,SLA (Asian Chapter) & ISIM (University of Mysore) Organises ICLAM 2011 (International conference on the Convergence of Libraries, Archives and Museums) (February 15 to February 17, 2011) Venue : India International Centre, New Delhi Theme: User Empowerment through Digital Technologies Registration Amount: Rs. 3000/ 1500/ 1200 (as per catagory) Highlights •Unique international conference of Librarians, Archivists & Conservators to promote digital convergence of the memory institutions •Selected papers will be published in IFLA Journal •Conference proceedings (with ISBN) of accepted papers will be published NIFT - ICLAM •Tutorials by leading Academicians & Industry experts •World renowned Academicians, Professionals, Freelancers & Entrepreneurs will share their ideas & experiences •Special sessions by Wikimedia, C-DAC & other reputed organzations •Special day of parallel sessions on Preservation of Heritage Resources LAST DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF COMPLETE PAPER (for Heritage sessions on 16-02-2011) “DECEMBER 30, 2010” About the Conference: User empowerment is critical to the development of all information organizations, i.e. libraries, archives and museums. The goal of technological innovations in information services is to enhance the sense of participation and control of IT-empowered users, who easily metamorphose from consumers to creators of information. Libraries, archives and museums, collectively known as memory institutions, are continuously empowering their systems and services with dynamic digital technologies to meet the increasing expectations of users. Information service providers throughout the world are striving to strike a balance between traditional organizational control strategies and user empowerment initiatives. In pursuit of empowerment of users, the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) has collaborated with the Art Libraries Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) to organize an international conference from 15th to 17th February, 2011 in New Delhi. The theme of the conference is ‘User empowerment through digital technologies’. This conference will offer a forum to deliberate on issues related to user empowerment in libraries, archives and museums, now developing into a unified knowledge repository through digital convergence. This is the first conference in the series titled “International conference on the Convergence of Libraries, Archives and Museums (ICLAM)” and NIFT’s third initiative to promote cross-sectoral collaborations in the knowledge sector in India. During the conference all stakeholders contributing to the convergence of libraries, archives and museums will analyze the theme of empowerment of users from multiple perspectives – ranging from user interface and digital preservation technologies to rights of the users and empowerment of disadvantaged user communities. The issue of empowerment is also related to affordability and sustainability of digital technologies particularly in this age of financial instability. Library & Information professionals, archivists and conservators, as end users of open source and commercial software, will discuss trends and problems specific to their own sectors. Leading professionals, academicians and entrepreneurs will also exchange views on other issues related to technological, infrastructural and organizational developments including partnerships in the knowledge sector. Eminent Speakers: CALL FOATIONS Dr. Dinesh Katre Group Coordinator, Centre for Development of Advance Computing, Pune, India www.cdac.in Mr. GussVan der Brekel Coordinator, Electronic Services Central Medical Library Netherlands Ms. Heather Brown Asstt. Director Artlab, Australia www.artlabaustralia.com.au Dr. Jagdish Arora Director, INFLIBNET Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India www.inflibnet.ac.in Prof. Jagtar Singh Department of Library and Information Science Punjabi University India www.punjabiuniversity.ac.in Dr. Jan Simane Chair & Treasurer, Art Libraries Section -IFLA Kunsthistorisches Institute in Florenz Italy www.khi.fi.it Ms. Lucile Trunel Literature and Art Department, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, France www.bnf.fr Mr. Martin Flynn National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London UK www.vam.ac.uk Ms. Maureen Burns President Visual Resources Association, USA www.vraweb.org Prof. P.B. Mangla Former HoD, Department of Library and Information Science Delhi University, India www.du.ac.in Mr. Pratapanand Jha Director (Cultural Informatics Lab.) Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts New Delhi, India www.ignca.nic.in Dr. R. K. Chaddha Joint Secretary Parliament Library, New Delhi, India Mr. Rolf Kallman Head of Department Swedish National Heritage Resources Board, Sweden Dr. S. Majumdar Librarian University of Delhi, India www.du.ac.in Mr. S. P. Singh Retd. Director (Conservation) National Museum, New Delhi, India www.nationalmuseumindia.gov.in Prof. Shalini Urs Executive Director, ISIM University of Mysore, India www.uni-mysore.ac.in Prof. T. Viswanathan Former Director, INSDOC (now NISCAIR) www.niscair.res.in More names of Speakers will be added soon……. Sub Themes: Emergence of the Technology-Empowered Users: • Changing roles of Users in Libraries, Archives & Museums • Information seeking behaviour of Users : Emerging Trends • New roles & identities for Librarians, Archivists & Conservators Empowering Users of Libraries, Archives & Museums: • User Interface Technologies : Emerging Trends • Social Media for Empowerment: Web2.0 & beyond • Management of User-generated contents in Libraries & Museums Building Information Repositories : Emerging Trends in Technologies • Digital Preservation Technologies : Emerging Trends • Building Institutional Repositories : Strategies for future • Open Source vs. Commercial software Re-defining Rights of Users of Libraries : Perspectives of Creators, Mediators and Users • Freedom of Access to Information • Copyright & Fair Use • IPR & Digital resources Serving the Empowered Users in Libraries & Information Centres • Relevance of Conventional Library services to Web - empowered Users • Information Literacy Programmes • Special services for Users with Special Needs • Marketing information services to the empowered users • Branding & Promoting Institutional repositories Open Access Publishing : A tool for Empowerment • Open Access Publishing of Books • Scholarly Communication & Open Access Publishing • Sustainability of Open Access Initiatives • Future of e-journals & e-books : Emerging Integrated format Bridging the Digital Divide among Users : Roles of Libraries & Information Centres • Economic barriers to Information Access • Empowerment of Disadvantaged User Communities • Roles of Public Libraries & Information Centres in the Rural Sector • Transcending the language barriers through digital technologies Partnerships for Empowerment & Libraries • Sustainable Digitisation Projects • Public & Private Partnerships for Digit al Libraries • Consortium model of Co-operation From Collaboration to Convergence: • Networking of Libraries, Museums, Archives and Beyond One day of Special Parallel Sessions on Heritage Resources in Art Libraries, Archives & Museums Cultural heritage in Art Libraries, Archives & Museums • Culture of Heritage Preservation: Eastern & Western perspectives • Changing Patronage : Public & Private funding of Artists & Collections • How authentic is the Art work? The Collector’s nightmare • Marketing Strategies for Visual Resources • Art libraries in Asia & Africa : Problems & Prospects • Public Museums in Asia & Africa : Problems & Prospects • Archives in the Digital Age : Problems & Prospects Digital Preservation of Cultural heritage • Conservation of Art works & Handicrafts : Fusion of traditional techniques & modern technologies • Challenges of preservation of Rare books & Manuscripts • Archiving Exhibitions (including various forms of art) • Preserving ‘born digital’ heritage : Emerging trends • Virtual & Physical Environments in Museums • Revival of traditions through Digital Preservation Special session on Conservation of Textiles • Conservation of Historic Textiles : Emerging trends • Conservation of Contemporary Designer collections • Digital Photography of Textiles ( including 3-D photography) • Business of Textile Conservation • Conservator’s role in Revival of traditional Textile crafts ICLAM-2011 offers following formats for presentations:  Papers in sessions: Thematic sessions of presentation of written papers with power point presentations.  Demonstrations: Demonstrations of hands-on applications / techniques with or without power point presentations can be presented in special sessions for Art Libraries and Museums.  Special interaction sessions: Professional interaction sessions on relevant issues can be arranged on special requests for informal and non-commercial presentations of interactive manner. Presenters will be in-charge of these sessions and will facilitate discussions. Who can participate? Library & Information professionals from special, academic & public libraries, conservators, IT professionals, publishers, authors, educators, students and all users of libraries, information centres, archives and visitors of museums from any part of the world can attend the conference. REGISTRATION India & SAARC country delegates Fees per participant Remarks Sponsored participant (Conference only) Rs.3500/- 20% discount in case of more than three participants from same organization One day participation Rs.1200/- Tutorial participation * Rs.1000/- Sponsored participant (Tutorial & conference) Rs.4000/- Non-sponsored, students, retired professionals etc. participant (Conference only) Rs.1500/- 20% discount in case of more than three participants from same organization/department Rest of the world delegates USD 150/- Tutorial participation* USD 50/- * If planned  Registration fee includes conference kit, tea, lunch, copy of proceedings and dinner, whenever planned.  Registration fee is non-refundable.  Substitutes are permitted.  Registration fee does not include accommodation.  Registration will be confirmed only if the form is duly filled and payment is received in full.  Students can participate by sending their form through their institution. Mode of payment:  All payments from delegates will be accepted in Cash/ Local Cheque/ Demand Draft prepared in favour of NIFT Delhi, payable at Delhi. Please indicate clearly that the payment is remitted towards registration for ICLAM – 2011 with particulars of the delegate. Bank transaction charges may be included for outstation or international cheques along with the registration fee. For further details please check the websites of NIFT http://www.nift.ac.in/ICLAM_2011/index.htm & IFLA http://www.ifla.org/en/news/71 Contact persons: Dr. Sanjeev Kumar 011-26542004&2 Moblie: 98100111975 Ms.Nandini Dutta 011-26542146/7 Email ids : iclam2011(a)gmail.com; nrc.nift(a)gmail.com; delhirc(a)gmail.com -- *Dr. Sanjeev Kumar* *Dy. Director * *National Resource Centre National Institute of Fashion Technology* *Hauz Khas, Near Gulmohar Park, New Delhi - 110 016, Tel: (011) – 26542004 Fax: +91-11-26866414, http//**ww.nift.ac.in*<http://www.nift.ac.in/> * * *Mobile: 9810011975* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article Request
by Obaiah B 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

Dear Members, One of our researcher is very much in need of fallowing paper, I would greatly appreciate if someone can send me the paper. Wilson, J. B. (2011). "The twelve theories of co-existence in plant communities: the doubtful, the important and the unexplored." Journal of Vegetation Science 22(1): 184-195. Regards Obaiah B. ATREE Bangalore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request to present one day Seminar on “Science, Education & Culture: Trends in Independent India
by Goutam Biswas 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

To All Library and Information Science, *Subject: Request to present one day Seminar on “Science, Education & Culture: Trends in Independent India. * * * Respected Sir/Madam, On behalf of Kalyani University Research Scholar’s Association (KURSA) it is inform you that the one day seminar on *“Science, Education & Culture: Trends in Independent India” * will be organized by KURSA on 20th January (Thursday), 2011 at 11 A.M in Vidyasagar Sabhagreeha . You are request to be present for the said Seminar and Preside over the session. The Association will be grateful if you present as a special guest for the said Seminar and preside over the session. Thanking You, Regards * * * Goutam Biswas* * * * ______________________* * Vice President, Kalyani University Research Scholar's Association* (KURSA) Website: http://www.klyuniv.ac.in/scholar.html -- * * -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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DRTC seminar on 'Knowledge Representation and Digital Libraries
by drtc＠isibang.ac.in 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research & Training Centre Bangalore 560 059 Seminar on Knowledge Representation and Digital Libraries includes Workshop on advanced DSpace 17th -18th February, 2011 http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/krdl Knowledge organization and representation is a major challenge in harnessing information on the Web for effective retrieval and the realization of semantic web. There have been many attempts in developing metadata and ontology in order to tame the web, which resulted in many metadata schema like Dublin Core, TEI, MODS, MARCXML. In the area of ontology models too the developments are reflected in the emergence of OWL and SKOS, which can be perceived in the transformation of many thesauri into either SKOS or OWL. In addition, the faceted classification systems prove promising in developing faceted ontologies. In view of the recent developments Documentation Research and Training Center, Indian Statistical Institute announces Knowledge Representation and Digital Libraries seminar that aims at bringing out the various aspects of prospective knowledge organization and representation models for better information retrieval on the Web through special invited lectures. The second topic focuses on a workshop on digital libraries. DSpace has emerged as a major software for digital repositories and in India the most widely used software. The latest version of DSpace 1.7.0 (to be released in December) has many features, which will be useful for the DSpace administrator. Special Lectures in Knowledge Representation Dr. Stuart Weibel, OCLC Prof. Gary Marchionini, North Carolina University Themes in Advanced DSpace * Backup & Restore, Export & Import, Data Migration from diverse resources *Harvesting in DSpace *Usage statistics using Solr *Advanced Customization *LDAP integration *Video Streaming *liblivecd: Ubuntu based livecd per-configured with DSpace and Koha (http://liblivecd.sourceforge.net ) *Other topics on DSpace as proposed by participants Resource Persons: International experts in the domain of knowledge models, representation and retrieval are expected to deliver lectures. The Participants: The Seminar is targeted at Library and Information professionals, faculty, students from the academia and industry. However, researchers in LIS related areas and computer professionals will also benefit from participating in the seminar. Registration Fee: The Registration fee for the Seminar is Rs.2000/-. The fee covers the cost of course material, lunch and tea. The fee should be paid in the form of a Demand Draft drawn in favour of the Indian Statistical Institute, payable at Bangalore. Accommodation Accommodation at a nominal cost could be arranged for a limited number of participants on a first-come-first-served basis in the Guest houses attached to the Indian Statistical Institute. For further details contact: Prof. A.R.D. Prasad Convener DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore 560 059 Email: ard(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in, ardprasad(a)gmail.com Telefax: 080-28482711 ============================================== Registration Form ====================================== Seminar on Knowledge Representation and Digital Libraries 17th -18th February, 2011 Registration Form 1.Name 2.Designation and affiliation 3.Address 4.Telephone Number(s) E-mail: 5.Demand Draft No name of the Bank and Date 6.Whether Accommodation is required? YES / NO Signature of Participant -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Congratulation to Dr. P.V.Konnur
by Meruvu. satyanarayana 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

A Hearty congratulation to Dr. P.V.Konnur, University Librarian, BangaloreUniversity, Bangalore, Karnataka, Awardee of "BEST LIBRARIAN 2009" awarded by IASLIC.at IASLIC XXIV National Seminar 2010. I hope that he will put efforts with our Library Associations on Government for redesignation of University Librarians as Professors because the Academic Librarians are Teachers like other regular department Teachers. The Universal definition for Teacher is a person who imparts knowledge,skills, providing activities, material,direction and guidance by way of Lecture/ demonstration/seminar/any appropriate method that facilitate learning of students in an educational Institution. Prof. M.Satyanarayana Professor in Library & Information Science(Redesignated post of University Librarian) Andhra University,Visakhapatnam Mobile:.09440632703 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Job Market for the LIS professionals
by Bobby Goswami 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Dear Library and Information Science professionals, I am conducting a online survey to complete my research paper entitled "Relevance of the rising job market for LIS professionals versus competencies needed with reference to Indian context". Please find some free time to complete my survey with the following link http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PPRTS6L Thanks for spending your valuable time to finish the survey and wishing all a very Happy New Year 2011. Kindly forward the link if you know any LIS professionals. Yours sincerely, Bobby Goswami Baruah Project linked person (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata) and Research Scholar (Northeastern Hill University,Shillong) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Symposium paper
by Y.A. Janardana gupta 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Dear Sir, I request to send a copy of yhe paper with details given below, as it is required by our User. 1.Mathematical modelling of an earth sensor Markland, C. A. In: Symposium on Automatic Control in Space, 7th, Rottach-Egern, West Germany, May 17-21, 1976, Preprints. Volume 2. (A77-24777 10-12) Duesseldorf, VDI/VDE-Gesellschaft Mess- und Regelungstechnik, 1976, p. 412-427. With regards, Y.A. JANARDANA GUPTA LIBRARIAN, LEOS/ISRO Peenya 1st stage Bangalore-58 ---------------------------------------------------------------- This mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. LEOS has taken every reasonable precaution to remove any viruses however you should also carry out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Congratulations
by subuhi ali 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

It gives me immense pleasure to share with you all that Dr. (Mrs.) P.K. Walia has taken charge as Head of the Department of LIbrary & Information Science, University of Delhi, Delhi. -- Miss SUBOOHI SIDDIQUI M.Phil (Library Science) Delhi University 09319385485 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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OSS Labs Koha Training & Certification - 2011 Calendar
by savitra sirohi 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

All, Our Koha training and certification workshop calendar for 2011 is available now, details are given below. The objectives of this program are to: - Train library professionals & staff on using Koha - To test and certify their readiness to use Koha This is a 3 day program, covering the key modules and functions in Koha. At the end of program, participants will be required to demonstrate their skills on the various modules. Participants who complete 60% of the exercises successfully will be awarded a Koha skills (Level 1) certificate. The current workshop schedule is as follows: Bangalore: 11th to 13th February, 2011 Mumbai: 24th to 26th February, 2011 Bangalore: 13th to 15th May, 2011 Mumbai: 26th to 28th May, 2011 Bangalore: 12th to 14th August, 2011 Mumbai: 25th to 27th August, 2011 Bangalore: 11th to 13th November2011 Mumbai: 24th to 26th November, 2011 For more information, including fees, registration and workshop outline please visit this page: http://www.osslabs.biz/koha/training-certification Thank you, Savitra Sirohi Nucsoft OSS Labs http://www.osslabs.biz -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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World Class Conference at World Class Venue
by ICLAM 2011 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

NIFT in collaboration with IFLA - Art Libraries Section Other Collaborators: C-DAC ( Dept. of IT), CSIR ,SLA (Asian Chapter) & ISIM (University of Mysore) Organises ICLAM 2011 (International conference on the Convergence of Libraries, Archives and Museums) (February 15 to February 17, 2011) Venue : India International Centre, New Delhi Theme: User Empowerment through Digital Technologies Highlights • Unique international conference of Librarians, Archivists & Conservators to promote digital convergence of the memory institutions • Selected papers will be published in IFLA Journal • Conference proceedings (with ISBN) of accepted papers will be published NIFT - ICLAM • Tutorials by leading Academicians & Industry experts • World renowned Academicians, Professionals, Freelancers & Entrepreneurs will share their ideas & experiences • Special sessions by Wikimedia, C-DAC & other reputed organzations • Special day of parallel sessions on Preservation of Heritage Resources LAST DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF COMPLETE PAPER (for Heritage sessions on 16-02-2011) “DECEMBER 30, 2010” About the Conference: User empowerment is critical to the development of all information organizations, i.e. libraries, archives and museums. The goal of technological innovations in information services is to enhance the sense of participation and control of IT-empowered users, who easily metamorphose from consumers to creators of information. Libraries, archives and museums, collectively known as memory institutions, are continuously empowering their systems and services with dynamic digital technologies to meet the increasing expectations of users. Information service providers throughout the world are striving to strike a balance between traditional organizational control strategies and user empowerment initiatives. In pursuit of empowerment of users, the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) has collaborated with the Art Libraries Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) to organize an international conference from 15th to 17th February, 2011 in New Delhi. The theme of the conference is ‘User empowerment through digital technologies’. This conference will offer a forum to deliberate on issues related to user empowerment in libraries, archives and museums, now developing into a unified knowledge repository through digital convergence. This is the first conference in the series titled “International conference on the Convergence of Libraries, Archives and Museums (ICLAM)” and NIFT’s third initiative to promote cross-sectoral collaborations in the knowledge sector in India. During the conference all stakeholders contributing to the convergence of libraries, archives and museums will analyze the theme of empowerment of users from multiple perspectives – ranging from user interface and digital preservation technologies to rights of the users and empowerment of disadvantaged user communities. The issue of empowerment is also related to affordability and sustainability of digital technologies particularly in this age of financial instability. Library & Information professionals, archivists and conservators, as end users of open source and commercial software, will discuss trends and problems specific to their own sectors. Leading professionals, academicians and entrepreneurs will also exchange views on other issues related to technological, infrastructural and organizational developments including partnerships in the knowledge sector. Eminent Speakers: CALL FOATIONS Dr. Dinesh Katre Group Coordinator, Centre for Development of Advance Computing, Pune, India www.cdac.in Mr. GussVan der Brekel Coordinator, Electronic Services Central Medical Library Netherlands Ms. Heather Brown Asstt. Director Artlab, Australia www.artlabaustralia.com.au Dr. Jagdish Arora Director, INFLIBNET Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India www.inflibnet.ac.in Prof. Jagtar Singh Department of Library and Information Science Punjabi University India www.punjabiuniversity.ac.in Dr. Jan Simane Chair & Treasurer, Art Libraries Section -IFLA Kunsthistorisches Institute in Florenz Italy www.khi.fi.it Ms. Lucile Trunel Literature and Art Department, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, France www.bnf.fr Mr. Martin Flynn National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London UK www.vam.ac.uk Ms. Maureen Burns President Visual Resources Association, USA www.vraweb.org Prof. P.B. Mangla Former HoD, Department of Library and Information Science Delhi University, India www.du.ac.in Mr. Pratapanand Jha Director (Cultural Informatics Lab.) Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts New Delhi, India www.ignca.nic.in Dr. R. K. Chaddha Joint Secretary Parliament Library, New Delhi, India Mr. Rolf Kallman Head of Department Swedish National Heritage Resources Board, Sweden Dr. S. Majumdar Librarian University of Delhi, India www.du.ac.in Mr. S. P. Singh Retd. Director (Conservation) National Museum, New Delhi, India www.nationalmuseumindia.gov.in Prof. Shalini Urs Executive Director, ISIM University of Mysore, India www.uni-mysore.ac.in Prof. T. Viswanathan Former Director, INSDOC (now NISCAIR) www.niscair.res.in More names of Speakers will be added soon……. Sub Themes: Emergence of the Technology-Empowered Users: • Changing roles of Users in Libraries, Archives & Museums • Information seeking behaviour of Users : Emerging Trends • New roles & identities for Librarians, Archivists & Conservators Empowering Users of Libraries, Archives & Museums: • User Interface Technologies : Emerging Trends • Social Media for Empowerment: Web2.0 & beyond • Management of User-generated contents in Libraries & Museums Building Information Repositories : Emerging Trends in Technologies • Digital Preservation Technologies : Emerging Trends • Building Institutional Repositories : Strategies for future • Open Source vs. Commercial software Re-defining Rights of Users of Libraries : Perspectives of Creators, Mediators and Users • Freedom of Access to Information • Copyright & Fair Use • IPR & Digital resources Serving the Empowered Users in Libraries & Information Centres • Relevance of Conventional Library services to Web - empowered Users • Information Literacy Programmes • Special services for Users with Special Needs • Marketing information services to the empowered users • Branding & Promoting Institutional repositories Open Access Publishing : A tool for Empowerment • Open Access Publishing of Books • Scholarly Communication & Open Access Publishing • Sustainability of Open Access Initiatives • Future of e-journals & e-books : Emerging Integrated format Bridging the Digital Divide among Users : Roles of Libraries & Information Centres • Economic barriers to Information Access • Empowerment of Disadvantaged User Communities • Roles of Public Libraries & Information Centres in the Rural Sector • Transcending the language barriers through digital technologies Partnerships for Empowerment & Libraries • Sustainable Digitisation Projects • Public & Private Partnerships for Digit al Libraries • Consortium model of Co-operation From Collaboration to Convergence: • Networking of Libraries, Museums, Archives and Beyond One day of Special Parallel Sessions on Heritage Resources in Art Libraries, Archives & Museums Cultural heritage in Art Libraries, Archives & Museums • Culture of Heritage Preservation: Eastern & Western perspectives • Changing Patronage : Public & Private funding of Artists & Collections • How authentic is the Art work? The Collector’s nightmare • Marketing Strategies for Visual Resources • Art libraries in Asia & Africa : Problems & Prospects • Public Museums in Asia & Africa : Problems & Prospects • Archives in the Digital Age : Problems & Prospects Digital Preservation of Cultural heritage • Conservation of Art works & Handicrafts : Fusion of traditional techniques & modern technologies • Challenges of preservation of Rare books & Manuscripts • Archiving Exhibitions (including various forms of art) • Preserving ‘born digital’ heritage : Emerging trends • Virtual & Physical Environments in Museums • Revival of traditions through Digital Preservation Special session on Conservation of Textiles • Conservation of Historic Textiles : Emerging trends • Conservation of Contemporary Designer collections • Digital Photography of Textiles ( including 3-D photography) • Business of Textile Conservation • Conservator’s role in Revival of traditional Textile crafts ICLAM-2011 offers following formats for presentations:  Papers in sessions: Thematic sessions of presentation of written papers with power point presentations.  Demonstrations: Demonstrations of hands-on applications / techniques with or without power point presentations can be presented in special sessions for Art Libraries and Museums.  Special interaction sessions: Professional interaction sessions on relevant issues can be arranged on special requests for informal and non-commercial presentations of interactive manner. Presenters will be in-charge of these sessions and will facilitate discussions. Who can participate? Library & Information professionals from special, academic & public libraries, conservators, IT professionals, publishers, authors, educators, students and all users of libraries, information centres, archives and visitors of museums from any part of the world can attend the conference. REGISTRATION India & SAARC country delegates Fees per participant Remarks Sponsored participant (Conference only) Rs.3500/- 20% discount in case of more than three participants from same organization One day participation Rs.1200/- Tutorial participation * Rs.1000/- Sponsored participant (Tutorial & conference) Rs.4000/- Non-sponsored, students, retired professionals etc. participant (Conference only) Rs.1500/- 20% discount in case of more than three participants from same organization/department Rest of the world delegates USD 150/- Tutorial participation* USD 50/- * If planned  Registration fee includes conference kit, tea, lunch, copy of proceedings and dinner, whenever planned.  Registration fee is non-refundable.  Substitutes are permitted.  Registration fee does not include accommodation.  Registration will be confirmed only if the form is duly filled and payment is received in full.  Students can participate by sending their form through their institution. Mode of payment:  All payments from delegates will be accepted in Cash/ Local Cheque/ Demand Draft prepared in favour of NIFT Delhi, payable at Delhi. Please indicate clearly that the payment is remitted towards registration for ICLAM – 2011 with particulars of the delegate. Bank transaction charges may be included for outstation or international cheques along with the registration fee. For further details please check the websites of NIFT http://www.nift.ac.in/ICLAM_2011/index.htm & IFLA http://www.ifla.org/en/news/71 Contact persons: Dr. Sanjeev Kumar 011-26542004&2 Moblie: 98100111975 Ms.Nandini Dutta 011-26542146/7 Email ids : iclam2011(a)gmail.com; nrc.nift(a)gmail.com; delhirc(a)gmail.com -- *Dr. Sanjeev Kumar* *Dy. Director * *National Resource Centre National Institute of Fashion Technology* *Hauz Khas, Near Gulmohar Park, New Delhi - 110 016, Tel: (011) – 26542004 Fax: +91-11-26866414, http//**ww.nift.ac.in*<http://www.nift.ac.in/> * * *Mobile: 9810011975* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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