*Call for Papers - Final : Submission date extended to January 19, 2015* *Subject: Invitation to attend National Conference on Emerging Trends & Techniques for Electronic Resource Management in Libraries:* *Issues & Challenges on February **13-14, 2015** at Rourkela* Greetings from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela, *Dear Sir/Madam/Friends,* It gives us immense pleasure to inform you that Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL) of National Institute of Technology Rourkela is organizing the “*National Conference on Emerging Trends & Techniques for Electronic Resource Management in Libraries: Issues & Challenges*” on *February **13-14, 2015* in association with SLA-Asia and SLP. This conference is the second event under the series “*Empowering Library Professionals to Empower Society (ELPES)*”. The main objectives of this conference are: - Awareness and importance of electronic resources; - Familiarization with the different ways of accessing electronic content; - Acquaint with the review activities associated with e-resources; - Examine copyright and licensing implications for scholarly communication; - An opportunity to develop ideas, strategies and policies for e-resource management (ERM); - Equip participants with skills for collection development and management of e-resources both theoretical and practical; - To discuss the issues and challenges faced during ERM cycle; - To adopt best practices for enhancing usage of e-resources. We request you and your colleagues to participate and contribute a paper for this conference. And also help us to spread this message among library & information science professionals, information scientists, knowledge managers, students & scholars. Kindly register at the earliest to avail campus accommodation as we have limited number of rooms available. For Call for papers and other details please visit: http://library.nitrkl.ac.in/events/elpes2/ and http://library-nitrkl.blogspot.in/ ***Important Dates:* *Extended date of submission of paper* *Last date of submission of paper* *January 19, 2015* *January 09, 2015* *Last date of accepted Notification* *January 25, 2015**Conference Date**February 13-14, 2015* **Looking forward to meet you at NIT Rourkela. ** *Encl: Invitation and Poster* With Best regards, Yours sincerely, *Dr.Bhojaraju Gunjal* Organizing Secretary, ELPES-2 *Connect with BPCL: Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/bpcl.nitrkl> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/BPCL_NITR> | Google+ <https://plus.google.com/u/0/114839086094720039070/> | Blog <http://library-nitrkl.blogspot.in/>** |* ************************************************************************************************************* *Dr.Bhojaraju Gunjal* * Ph.D, MLISc, PGDLAN | Endeavour Research Fellow (Victoria University, Australia)* *Head, Central Library,* ** *Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL),* ** *National Institute of Technology Rourkela,** **769008, **Odisha. INDIA. * *Tel (Off): +91 (0) 661-2462101 <%2B91%20%280%29%20661-2462101> | Cell: +91 9040511891 | E-mail: Bhojaraju.G@gmail.com <Bhojaraju.G@gmail.com> * ************************************************************************************************************* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.