*Post-Modernisation of Libraries: Challenges and Opportunities*
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*First Announcement*
A one-day National Seminar on *Post-Modernisation of Libraries: Challenges
and Opportunities* will be held on 25 November 2011. This UGC sponsored
seminar will be organized by the Department of Library and Information
Science, V.P.M.’s Joshi-Bedekar College, Thane 400 601, (Maharashtra).
The proposed seminar focuses on the challenges ahead of computerization and
networking of libraries. These two accomplishments open several other
opportunities which have to be exploited to achieve full potentials of
automation and networking. Thus, the theme is a pointer to many landmark
decisions to be made at this stage. It will be a great turning point, as the
decisions made will have both local and global implications. Papers based
on experience and/or on some recorded applications of cutting-edge
technologies in LIS are invited on the following topics.
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- Online Book Purchase
- Assessment of the use of databases (e-books, e-journals)
- Changing face of consortia and aggregation activities
- Human Resources Development to face the future issues
- Information Literacy and optimizing the Use
- Innovative Information Services
- Proprietary *Vs *Open Source Movement and Libraries
- Information Related Standards
- Future of Digital Libraries
- Library’s Social Space
- IPR issues and libraries
- Application of Open Source s/w in libraries
- Any other relevant to the theme of the seminar
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The papers should be sent to nbarse@gmail.com