Dear LIS professionals: The LIS professionals have been talking about retooling and repositioning for a long time: here is an opportunity to Just DO IT ! The 15th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2013) is brought to you by the International School of Information Management, University of Mysore and held in Bangalore, India, during December 9-11, 2013. The venue is Hotel Le Meridien, Bangalore. The theme of the conference is ³Social Media and Community Networks² Since its emergence in 2004, social media has become not just a rage but also an integral part of our daily lives and professional activities. Organisationsacademic, government, and corporates, are increasingly veering towards social media for not only reaching out to but also to engage with their customers and other stakeholders. Libraries are no exceptions and libraries across the world are using social media to promote services, highlight resources, integrating access, and to listen to the voices of their users. Libraries, the traditional agencies for building local communities of practice are finding new ways to build virtual communities with the help of the social media and its tools. ICADL 2013 offers a wonderful platform and brings a truly interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners of digital libraries with a focus on the theme of ³ Social Media and Community Networks.² Whether you are a practitioner or a researcherin the library and information profession, here is a chance to retool and reposition your career and the profession by learning more about the new media and the emerging tools through tutorials, plenary sessions, keynotes, contributed papers, exhibits, posters and other events. * Tutorials: ICADL 2013 offers an opportunity to familiarize oneself with cutting edge tools through its tutorials on the topics of Data Mining, Text Mining, and Social Network Analysis (http://www.isim.ac.in/icadl2013/tutorials.html) * Contributed Papers: Our contributed papers showcase the current research trends in the field of digital libraries (http://www.isim.ac.in/icadl2013/Accepted_Papers_and_Posters.html) * Talk-a-DL: We also have an innovative Talk-a-DL Programme-an Open House programme that offers a platform to delegates to share their thoughts and ask questions. * IDLI@ICADL: IDLI( Indian Digital Library Initiatives at ICADL2013) is another programme feature providing an opportunity for organisations to showcase their innovation in digital libraries (http://www.isim.ac.in/icadl2013/idli.html) * InfoQuiz 2013: One other interesting programme is InfoQuiz 2013 (http://www.isim.ac.in/icadl2013/infoquiz.html) Please compete and win a trip to ICADL 2013! ICADL 2013 has more to offer than just another Digital Library Conference! Come, learn, share and enjoy! Shalini Dr. Shalini Urs Chair, ICADL 2013 & Executive Director and Professor International School of Information Management University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore - 570006 Phone : + 91 821 2514699 Fax : + 91 821 2519209 www.isim.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.