Dear Colleague, I am pleased to inform you that Central Library, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India in collaboration with NDLTD, USA and INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar is organising ETD2015:18th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and dissertations during November 04-06, 2015 at Convention Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. This Conference is being organised first time in Indian Sub-continent and will be a unique opportunity to Indian Libraries to learn from the experience of the Worldwide leaders in the field of digital archiving of Electronic Theses and Dissertations. This platform will also help Indian Libraries to learn more about digitization and digital archiving of theses and dissertations and other related issues. About 127 proposals have been received for presentation in ETD 2015 International Conference out of that 84 have been accepted for 3 days conference. Pre-conference workshops on topics like digitization, creation of ETD archive using VIREO and FEDORA, plagiarism and other legal issues will be very useful to all Universities.There will be special session on Shodhgnga also. Over 100 registrations have already been received, Early bird registration is available upto 300 registrations only. Due to space constraints maximum 400 registrations will be accepted. Therefore hurry up for registration. More details regarding the conference is available at conference sit etd2015india.in or may be seen in enclosed brochure I look forward to your early registration. with best regards ramesh ************************************ Dr. Ramesh C Gaur PGDCA, MLISc,Ph.D. Fulbright Scholar (Virginia Tech, USA) University Librarian Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) New Meharuli Road, New Delhi - 110067 Tele +91-11-26742605, 26704551 Fax : +91-11-26741603 Email: rcgaur@mail.jnu.ac.in ;rcgaur66@gmail.com URL: www.jnu.ac.in Brief Profile: http://www.jnu.ac.in/Library/RameshCGaur.htm -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.