We, *Mr. M. Ayub felicitation Committee*, are pleased to propose to bring out a festschrift edited volume in honor of Mr. M. Ayub, Chief Librarian, Farook College, Kozhikode, Kerala. Mr. Ayub is a dedicated Library Professional who has rendered envious services for the betterment of the profession in Kerala especially for the development of College libraries. He is instrumental in developing the “Abussabah Library Complex” of Farook College, the best College Library under the University of Calicut. He has made the Farook College Library such a hub and the role model for college libraries with a variety of collections and services. He is the founder of first Library and Information Science School started in an affiliated college in the state of Kerala. The proposed festschrift volume will include original papers, case studies and research articles in the various themes in Library & Information Science as described below. The proposed title of the volume “*Redefining Academic Libraries in the Knowledge Society”* will focus on how the needs of technologically empowered academic community are met by technologically empowered libraries and library professionals. This will include, but not limited to the below sub themes; Libraries and Society Social Networking Role of Libraries in a Knowledge Society Libraries as Learning Space Library Services: New Paradigms Information Commons and the Libraries Human Resource Re-inventing the Role of Library Staff Competencies of Information Professionals New Skills for the New Age Continuing Education for Professional Development Innovative Library Services Mobile technologies/devices for libraries Library mobile applications Creating mobile websites/ m-opac, SMS alerts etc Using social networks such as Facebook, twitter, blogs, wikis, RSS feeds etc. for library services Publishing, editing and modifying content using content management systems such as wordpress, joomla etc. Using open source e-learning applications such as moodle. Best practices in Academic Libraries Marketing of Library Products in Academic Libraries Collaborative Library Services New paradigms in networks and collaborations in libraries Collaborative acquisition and access management Collaboration systems and technologies Cloud based library services ILL and document delivery systems in digital environment Collaborative learning systems Impact of collaborative services : case studies Open Access and Open Content Collection Library to Creation Library New generation of open source software: Impact on Library Services Open learning resources and learning content management System Multimedia enriched e-learning systems Standards and IPR issues Societal and cultural issues National and international projects on e-Learning and scholarly content generation New Trends and developments E-resource Management Institutional Repositories Digital Libraries E-resource consortium Library Portals Resource Discovery Services Copyright Issues Indian Copyright Act 2012 Amendments and Libraries Licensed Electronic Resources Copyright and Pay-per-view Management Impact of Copyright and IPR on the free flow of Knowledge The Organizing Committee solicits high quality research and technical papers, case studies, technology updates, etc. related to the theme and sub-themes of the festschrift edited volume. The paper submitted should have been neither published anywhere not kept under consideration for publication. All papers will go through a process of review and accepted papers will be published in the festschrift edited volume with ISBN. Correspondence will be made at m.bavakutty@gmail.com or azeez64@gmail.com The Organizing Committee will have the right to edit the papers. The papers should be submitted not later than 15th November 2013, in electronic version as mentioned below: *Format of Manuscript* 1. All papers should be typed on Microsoft Word-version. 2. Paper size should be A4, Portrait of size 8.5" x 11" with Margins: 1” (top & bottom); 1.5” (left & right) 3.All text should be typed in Arial or Times New Roman Font with size 12 and single-spaced. 4 Headings and subheadings must be in Bold font, left justified and numbered according to Level of heading as below: 1. First Level Heading 1.1 Second Level Heading 1.1.1 Third Level Heading 5.Header & Footer of font size 8. 6.Use double space after the headings, before starting the next paragraph. 7.Page Break can be given to give a logical end to a page. 8.The main title of your paper must not exceed 50 characters. This includes letters, spaces and punctuation. 9.Title should be followed by name, affiliation and address of the Author(s) 10.An abstract of length not more than 250 words should be supplied. 11.Few keywords must be given after the abstract. 12.Size of the paper to be kept within 5000 words. 13.All papers must be accompanied by one passport size color photograph together with a brief CV. 14.Illustrations such as photographs, charts, graphs, drawings, and diagrams should be labelled, so that they correspond with their mention in the text (e.g. Table-1, Figure-2, Diagram-3). -- With Regards Vahida Beegam.T Research Scholar Calicut University vahooo822@gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.