Dear Professional Friends, I am happy to inform all the professional friends that the LISACON-2020 Virtual Conference of LIS Academy is all set to launch from 27-30 August 2020 every day from 2.30pm to 6.00pm. As informed to all this conference is projecting to be a conference of difference. It was earlier proposed to be conducted physically at University of Hyderabad. Unfortunately, due to the Pandemic Covid-19 the same has been planned to be conducted in virtual mode. Still the Conference Organizing Committee has put its fullest effort to make it a conference of difference. The four days Conference will be inaugurated by Prof. K.K.Aggrawal, the Hon’ble Chairman, NBA, New Delhi on 27th August 2020 at 2.30pm. Prof.Karisiddappa, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor, VTU and Prof. T.D.Kemparaju, Vice Chancellor of Bangalore North University have agreed to be the Guests of Honour. Prof.B Raja Shekhar, Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Hyderabad (UoH) will preside over the Inaugural Function. Prof.Veerabhadrappa, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor Kuvempu University will deliver the Valedictory address on 30th August 2020. Please find the Invitation Card of Inaugural & Valedictory Function in the following link: http://lisacon2020.lisacademy.org/invitation-card The Conference is configured with 36 Invited Speakers and six Plenary speakers who are eminent LIS Professionals from across the country. There are six sessions of 90 minutes’ duration spread over two sessions every day from 28th to 30 August 2020 from 2.30 pm to 6.00 pm. Please find the Program schedule of the Conference in the following link: http://lisacon2020.lisacademy.org/program-schedule Takeaways for the Registered Participants: The registered participants will get attendance online Certificate immediately and after Relaxation of the Postal services Print certificates will also be sent to the address. The registered Participants will get the e-copy of the flip book containing the Abstracts of the Conference papers. There will be a Quiz program during each of the Conference Sessions. All the registered participants are eligible to take part in the quiz Program. End of every session during the question and Answer time, a link of quiz questionnaire in google form containing the questions related to the lectures delivered in that session. The same will be released through chat box and scrolling message. The quiz will be automatically closed after 10 minutes. All the participants are requested to open the link immediately and answer the Multiple Choice Questions and submit the same within 10 minutes. Sooner the quiz is closed; the results will be announced during the beginning of the next session. There will be two prizes; the winner and the runner. Both of them will get the exiting prizes along with the Conference Memento and a beautiful Certificate of Appreciation. Guidelines for quiz competition may be seen from the following link: http://lisacon2020.lisacademy.org/quiz-competition/ Hence, it is appealed to all the professionals to register for the conference at earliest and make benefit of listening to the who is who of LIS Profession in India and neighbouring countries. You may register from the following link: http://lisacademy.org/lisacon/online/index.html If you have any queries related to the conference, please contact in the following contact address. Thanks & Regards, *Dr. P. V. Konnur* *President* - LIS Academy, Bangalore *Former LIS Professor*, *Fulbright Scholar* - (UIUC, USA) *Adviser - VTU Consortium, * *Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi - 590 018, * *Chairman* - State Level Book Selection Committee, DPL, Karnataka *Mobile* : 09449679737 *E-Mail* : pvkonnur@gmail.com Website: *www.lisacademy.org <http://www.lisacademy.org/>*