Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 03:56:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Arunachalam Hariharan <hariharan_ah@yahoo.com> National Conference on Reaching the Unreached: Connecting the Library Users and Resources through Innovative Services and Technologies (SALIS 2014) Date: 8th & 9th August 2014 Organized by Department of Library, COIMBATORE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Coimbatore Jointly with Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) About the Conference Libraries are the integral part of academic, R&D institutions and also in a society to disseminate information and knowledge to the user community for the betterment and well being of the society. Libraries invest heavily for acquiring, processing and disseminating and maintaining resources by spending huge amount of money.Therefore, these resources should be equitably utilized to the maximum for academic and R & D excellence, developing competency skills and acquiring knowledge for all the stake holders in the society. Innovative programmes and services should be designed using technologies to provide access and service to all particularly the unreached. At present, one group of users have access to plenty of resources but not utilizing and the another group needs information but not getting access to the information. Therefore, libraries should plan and design suitable programme to provide access to information to all and connect the right users to the right resource at the right time. For more details, pl visit the Conference Websites: www.salis2014.wordpress.com www.cit.edu.in http://www.salis.in/ Address for Correspondence Dr.M.Mandhirasalam Organizing Secretary, SALIS 2014 & Librarian Coimbatore Institute of Technology (Government Aided Autonomous Institution) Civil Aerodrome (Po), Coimbatore - 641 014. Tamil Nadu, India. Phone: 0422-2574071-72, Extn.355 Fax: 0422-2575020, Mobile: 0 98 42 95 65 85 E-Mail: citsalis14@gmail.com Web: www.cit.edu.in Organizing Secretary, SALIS 2014 & President & General Secretary and GC, SALIS -------------------------------------------------- A.Hariharan SALIS