Dear Madam/Sir,
Greetings from BITS Pilani!!
We are planning to publish a reference book in Library and Information
Science subject. I appreciate your time to write book chapters during this
COVID-19 blockdown period.
This book will be a valuable reference material for the upcoming budding
LIS professionals to study and understand the modern concepts and
developments in Library and Information Science field. There will be six
chapters in the book titled *"Innovations in Modern Libraries: Case studies
and Experiences".*
Please find the content page of this book.
*Innovations in Modern Libraries*
*Case studies and experiences*
*CHAPTER-1: Acquisition and collection Development*
· *Library Budget management*
· *Collection Development Policy (CDP), *
· *Balanced acquisition, recommendations, *
· *Acquisition of digital resources, preservation and conservation
of rare books, *
· *Weeding out policies, *
· *Best acquisition procedures, Book processing, etc. *
*CHAPTER-2: Automation of library services*
· *Selection of LMS for Library Automation *
· *Importance of retro conversion of existing library*
· *Integration of new LMS with existing systems*
· *Use of Barcode, RFID Technologies to provide effective Services*
· *Best circulation policies and procedures*
· *The Library Manpower training and development, etc *
*CHAPTER-3: Digital library resources and services*
· *Digital resources and Services*
· *Why and how digitization needed in this 21st century libraries*
· *Effective IR System*
· *Digital Library policies, *
· *IPR and copyright laws for digital resources, *
· *Online resources access management and usage analysis, etc*
*CHAPTER-4: Web enabled services in the Library*
· *Online services, *
· *Library Portal development, *
· *Hardware & Software requirements to develop interactive library
portal *
· *How to provide Cloud Based services*
*. Library App development*
*CHAPTER-5: Creating inviting spaces in the library*
· *Importance of Creative Spaces in the Library *
· *Role of Welcoming spaces for the modern users to meet their
needs*
· *Maker Space and Innovative Space as a part of Incubation centre
of the organization*
· *Researcher Spaces and displays*
· *Institute Heritage Gallery, etc*
*CHAPTER-6: Connecting with modern users*
· *Various Initiatives to reach the larger community and non users*
· *inculcate the reading habits among the users, *
· *Users Information Literacy and engagement initiatives, etc*
I request each one of you to contribute a chapter for this reference tool.
A reputed publisher has agreed to publish this book with ISBN. A strong
experienced editorial team will do a blind review for all the chapters
contributed for this book. We will do the plagiarism checking for all the
accepted chapters. Many of you might have submitted your thesis on various
topics mentioned above. Please convert your research reports into a chapter
and send us before the deadline with proper modifications.
Please send your manuscripts/chapters by 25th April 2020 in word format not
exceeding 5000 words.
Please send your chapters to: *ishappa.bandi@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in