Dear LIS Professionals,

Welcome to the 3rd edition of InfoVision - The Knowledge Summit Series (www.infovision2007.org).

Come to InfoVision 2007, listen to and interact with the ‘who is who’ of the Social Networking Community at The Maratha, Mumbai – Dec 17-18.

Why should LIS professionals participate in InfoVision 2007?

• InfoVision is a platform and a forum to know, understand and implement the cutting edge Information Management Tools and technologies in one of oldest Knowledge Portals – the libraries

• InfoVision will provide an opportunity for LIS professionals to reinvent, reposition and be relevant in the current information world by adopting/adapting contemporary tools and technologies

The theme of InfoVision 2007 – ‘Social Networks, Knowledge Discovery and Innovation’ is one of the current buzz words. American Society for Information and Science and Technology (ASIS & T) 2007 annual conference held during October 2007 at Milwaukee, was on the same theme. Social computing and networking platforms and software have emerged as the key technologies that are changing the paradigm and landscape of the information world.

InfoVision 2007 will help you - To build library 2.0 – a participatory library model.

Learn social networking technologies to build library user communities, Friends of Friends communities and such other online communities to serve your patron better; To learn and implement social networking technologies for serving library patrons better, to provide engaged library services, and publicise and promote libraries as knowledge hubs.

Key take-away for the LIS profession:

1. An over view of Social networking software that let libraries interact online with the communities they serve.

2. Understanding the implementation of Web 2.0 technologies and tools including blogs, RSS, wikis , folksonomies and other types of social networking systems, even down to pod casting and IM for providing web services .

3. To learn from the users and designers their processes of knowledge discovery in order to integrate them with library services.

4. An opportunity to learn some of the emerging platforms for collaborations and community.

5. Listen to case studies that to assess, implement and use web 2.0 software successfully, offering real-world scenarios and examples all along the way

So… what are you waiting for?

See you expand your social network at InfoVision 2007!

Dr. Shalini R. Urs

Program Co-Chair: InfoVision 2007

Executive Director and Professor

International School of Information Management

University of Mysore

Mysore - 570006

India

Tel : 91-821-2514699

Fax : 91-821-2519209

Email : shalini@isim.ac.in

URL : www.isim.ac.in