Dear Members Response to the Infographic competition is encouraging. However, some young LIS professionals requested an extension of the last date for submitting their Infographics, in this view last date to submit Infographics has been extended to 10th December 2017. Kindly note further extension will not be allowed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LIS Academy, a professional charitable Trust established to work for the development of the LIS Profession is organizing 6th National conference of Institute of Scientometrics on INFORMATION FOR ALL with sub themes Scientometrics, Infographics and Public Libraries on 21st to 23rd December 2017 at Gandhi Bhavan Bangalore. As part of this conference, a National level Infograph design competition is organized for LIS professionals. It is a wonderful opportunity for library professionals to design Infograph of their library and its services. Showcase your library through Infograph and win cash prize. The best Infograph will be awarded Rs. 10000 cash prize with best infograph award. Expert committee will decide the top ten infographs and same will displayed during the conference. Conference delegates will be voting for the best infograph. This voting will be the part of consideration for the decision of the judges. Consolation prizes will be given to remaining 9 infographs selected by the expert committee along with certificate of appreciation. Note: Contestants have to register for the conference, where they get an opportunity to listen to the international speakers and interact with delegates from all parts of the country. Contestants should send soft copy of designed infographs before 20th of November 2017 and should bring poster size (24 x 36 inches) colour print to display at conference venue. Send your Infograph to: sip.lisacademy@gmail.com For More Information visit conference website: http://sip.lisacademy.org All rights reserved by IOS conference organizers ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is Infograph& how to create? Infographics are graphic visual representations of data or Information that are intended to present complex information quickly and clearly. One can design Infographs by using Image editors like adobe photoshop, Sumopaint, or Microsoft PowerPoint. Various web infographic tools such as PIKTOCHART, CANVA, VIZUALIZE, etc which comes with thousands of predesigned templates where one need to select and add data to templates by subscribing template. with warm regards -- Shivaram BS ICAST, CSIR-NAL Govt. of India (Autonomous) HAL Airport Road Kodihalli, Bangalore-560017 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.