Dear Moderator, Kindly Publish this Information for the benefit of LIS Professionals, Dear All, Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belgaum, Karnataka is organizing 2 Days National Conference on “Trends in Developing and Managing E-Resources in Libraries”, The Conference is scheduled to be held during 3rd week of May 2012. The following themes have been identified for paper presentation: - Types of e-resources and its utilities; - Mandatory requirement v/s subscription of e-resources,; - Policies, selection and budgeting of e-resources; - Latest trends in collection development of e-resources; - Competitive skills and techniques of professionals in organizing e-resources; - Tools and techniques in organizing e-resources; - Organization of e-resources using Open Source Software (OSS); - Need for management of e-resources; - Challenges, methods and impacts of e-resources; - Strategic planning and management of e-resources; - Provision to access virtual e-resources; - Effective usage of e-resources; - Optimum usage of e-resources; - Access patterns of e-resources using remote web portals; - Selecting patterns of e-resources for academic/research pursuits. Participants are hereby informed to gear up to submit full text articles to: vtuerm12@gmail.comhttp://in.mc1615.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=vtuerm12@gmail.com or krmulla@vtu.ac.inhttp://in.mc1615.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=krmulla@vtu.ac.in * Paper Submission Deadline : 30th April 2012 * Notification of Acceptance of the Paper : 10th May 2012 The detailed program and exact dates of the Conference will be announced shortly, For the details please visit the conference website: http://vtuerm12.webs.com For further details, Contact : Dr.K.R.Mulla Librarian and Organizing Secretary VTU, Belgaum-590018, Karnataka, India Ph: +91-9449873452 (OM), +91-9448031969 (PM) +91-831-2498191 (L), +91-831-2498192 (Fax) E-mail: vtuerm12@gmail.comhttp://in.mc1615.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=vtuerm12@gmail.com krmulla@vtu.ac.inhttp://in.mc1615.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=krmulla@vtu.ac.in With Regards, Vinay. C Sr. Gr. Librarian, SJB Institute of Technology, BGS Health & Education City, Uttarahalli Main Road, Kengeri, Bengalooru-560 060. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.