Dear Professional Friends, The entire country has been under the Lockdown status due to Covid-19 Pandemic disease. At this juncture, we need to maintain social distance and stay safe. Due to this lockdown status, Education Institutions are closed, and the Librarians confined to the empty Libraries and the students to their houses. The LIS Academy had earlier announced it's National Conference at the University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, from 27-29 August 2020. Unfortunately, due to the mass spreading of pandemic COVID-19 disease across the country, the organizers have planned to organize a Virtual Conference from LIS Academy Studio on the same dates. Online Virtual LISACON-2020 The LISACON-2020 Conference will now be held in a Virtual Mode operated from LIS Academy. All the Conference's activities will be web-streamed, and the paper presenters will be allowed to present their papers from their places through Video Recording. The Conference Venue will be created with a studio. Only Plenary speakers and Panel Members will be invited for their physical presence. However, if they are unable to attend physically, they can also address their paper through a webinar. The entire Conference will be held on the scheduled three days, and every day there will be two sessions. Each session will consist of 90 minutes with six invited paper presenters and a Plenary Speaker who will moderate the session. Papers are invited from the professionals, and the best six papers fitting to the theme and cleared through the peer review process will be selected for presentation at the Conference. Accepted Paper Presenters will be treated as Invited Speakers. They will be paid Rs.2000 towards Cash prize, free registration, a memento, and a certificate of appreciation. Plenary Speaker will be paid an honorarium of Rs.5000, a certificate of appreciation and a Memento. The selected presenter will have to share his/her PPT. After scrutiny, they will be asked to create a video for 10 minutes using a zoom platform or any other platform with HD quality MPEG-4 format videos. Conference Theme: Reinventing Excellence in Librarianship Excellence is about being the best, striving to be better, and delivering quality services. Libraries are universally considered as social institutions, which facilitate acquisition and dissemination of knowledge. Library professionals are efficiently serving the information needs of end-users by adopting new tools, techniques, and technologies from time to time. The advent of digital technologies has brought in disruptive changes in all spheres of the library. Today's library is less about what we have for users and more about what we do for users. Librarianship has to reinvent and reposition itself to achieve excellence. The librarianship needs to rethink innovative content acquisition models, out of the box thinking in extending library services, leveraging technologies, and new modes of reaching the user community. The LISACON-2020 theme "Reinventing Excellence in Librarianship" will focus on bringing best practices, success stories, case studies, and innovative research outcomes to a common platform. CALL FOR PAPERS Original research papers/case studies / best practices are invited to the following theme and sub-themes. Conference Theme: Reinventing Excellence in Librarianship Conference Sub-themes: 1.Reinventing Library Services in the Digital Age Discovery and retrieval services; Archiving and Networked Services; Web-based information services; User profiling services; Research data management services; Research support services: 2.New Paradigms in Collection Development User-Focused Collection Development; Collaborative collection development; Innovative content acquisition models; Open access and collection development policies; New perspectives in collection assessment; Changing Content Types & Formats; Content Licensing; 3.Leveraging Library Technologies: Converging library technologies; Open source tools; Library technologies & ERP integration; Social media platforms; Protocols and interoperability; Data visualization tools; 4.Data, Metrics, and Ranking: Role of Librarians Data aggregation Sources & Models; Publication metrics for ranking & accreditations; Usage metrics-driven decision making; Online metric tools for Librarians; 5.Role of libraries in Inculcating Research Ethics Research integrity; Research misconduct; Publication ethics; Predatory publishing; Plagiarism; Institutes research integrity policies; 6.Library Diplomacy Libraries as Instruments of Cultural Diplomacy; Libraries reflecting their national heritage; Library diplomacy to globalize libraries; Libraries as foreign policy; Important Dates: Submission of Abstracts:10/06/2020 Notification of accepted Papers: 20/06/2020 Submission of Full-length paper: 1/07/2020 Notification of Acceptance of full-length paper: 10/07/2020 Submission of camera-ready paper: 24/07/2020 Submission of PPT and 10 Minute video : 5/08/2020 Publication Guidelines: The authors are requested to submit original papers related to the conference theme and subthemes. Papers that are not relevant to the scope of the conference theme and subthemes will be rejected. The papers aligned to the conference theme and sub-themes will be checked for Plagiarism / Similarity as per UGC guidelines with 14 words filter by excluding text in quotes and references. The overall similarity needs to be within 10% All selected papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed. The authors will be requested to submit a camera-ready copy as per the conference template. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The conference proceedings will be published with ISBN Number. For formatting guidelines and paper-template, authors are requested to visit the conference website: http://www.lisacon2020.lisacademy.org Presentation Guidelines: Since the Conference is organized in virtual mode, authors of the accepted papers are requested to record a video of their presentation for 10 minutes. The organizers will share the backdrop for display on the zoom platform and are required to use the same. The curated videos will be consolidated and streamed on the day of the Conference by the session chairman. All presenters will have to be present as a panelist during their session. REGISTRATION DETAILS: · International Participants $20 · SAARC & ASEAN Countries $15 · Indian Professionals: Rs. 500 · Each session Participation: Rs. 100 Conference certificate / Session certificate will be issued through LISACON-2020 mobile APP after confirmation of payment and attendance. For more details please visit Conference Website: http://lisacon2020.lisacademy.org You may also download the Conference Mobile app from the following link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lisacon2020.lisacademy.org Thanks & Best Regards, Dr. P. V. Konnur President LIS Academy, First Floor, 7/29, Mathikere Main Rd, Gokula 1st Stage, Nanjappa Reddy Colony, Yeswanthpur, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560054 Mobile : 09449679737 E-Mail : pvkonnur@gmail.com Website: www.lisacademy.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.