Good News for Library Associations/ Professional Societies :: UGC Assistance for Annual Conferences, Journal Publishing, Day-to-day office expenses India's University Grants Commission (UGC) recently announced a "UGC XI Plan Guidelines for Scheme for Incentivisation of Teachers, Subject / Discipline Based Association for Organisation of Various Academic & Research Activities during XI Plan (2007-2012)" that provides financial assistance to the subject-based associations including Library Associations. Objectives * The objective of the Scheme will be to support Subject Associations in Social Sciences Humanities & Languages in organizing specified activities in order to encourage teachers and researchers to participate in Conferences/Seminars/ Workshops and to present papers leading to publication, wherever possible. The following activities will be supported through the Scheme: (i) Core Grant for National Subject Associations: A core annual assistance will be provided to national level Subject Associations for secretarial support, day-to-day office expenses, communication and dissemination of their activities and outputs etc. The grant will be subject to a ceiling of Rs. 3.00 lakh per year and its allocation will depend upon the size of the Association as mentioned under (iii) of the eligibility. There will be three slabs of grant for Associations with Membership from 200-500, 501-1000 and 1001 and above. (ii) Annual Conferences of the Association: The UGC will provide financial support for holding of the Annual Conference of the National Subject Associations and for publication of the Conference Proceedings. The maximum amount of grant under this head will be Rupees seven lakh except in the case of the Indian Science Congress where this ceiling will be Rs. 20.00 lakh. This grant will also depend upon the size of the Association. (iii) Journals: The UGC will provide financial support to journals published by the Subject Associations as well as universities / university departments and other research institutions. The financial support under this head will be subject to a maximum of Rupees five lakh for Academic Association and three lakh for University department or fifty percent of the audited cost of publication, distribution and dissemination of the journal whichever is less. (iv) National and Regional Conferences, Seminars as well as Workshops for upgradation of teaching and research: National, State and Regional Subject Associations which fulfill the criteria mentioned above shall be eligible to apply for National and Regional Conferences, Seminars as well as Workshops for upgradation of teaching and research through universities or colleges. The maximum assistance available under this head will be Rupees 2.0 lakh. The items to be funded may be similar as mentioned for Annual Conference. Download Full-text Notification: http://www.ugc.ac.in/financialsupport/xiplan/disciplinebasedguidelines.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.