Dear Professional Friends, LIS Academy desires to thank all the professionals who have responded for our call for suggestions on theme for 3rd LIS Academy conference proposed to be held at University of Hyderabad (UoH), Hyderabad. There was an overwhelming responses received both from national as well as international professional community. However, after deliberating over the themes received, the organizing committee has finalized the theme and sub themes. LIS Academy, Bangalore in collaboration with University of Hyderabad (UoH), Hyderabad is organizing 3rd LIS Academy conference on “Reinventing Excellence in Librarianship”. The conference will be held at University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad during 27-29 August 2020. The conference organizers are inviting papers on conference theme and sub themes as under: Conference Theme: Reinventing Excellence in Librarianship Conference Sub-themes: Reinventing Library Services in Digital Age: Discovery and retrieval services; Archiving and Networked Services; Web based information services; User profiling services; Research data management services; Research support services; New Paradigms in Collection Development User Focused Collection Development; Collaborative collection development; Innovative content acquisition models; Open access and collection development polices; New perspectives in collection assessment; Changing Content Types & Formats; Content Licensing; Leveraging Library Technologies: Converging library technologies; Open source tools; Library technologies & ERP integration; Social media platforms; Protocols and interoperability; Data visualization tools; Data, Metrics and Ranking: Role of Librarians Data aggregation Sources & Models; Publication metrics for ranking & accreditations; Usage metrics driven decision making; Libraries in Inculcating Research Ethics Research integrity; Research misconduct; Publication ethics; Predatory publishing; Plagiarism; Institutes research integrity policies; Library Diplomacy Libraries as Instruments of Cultural Diplomacy; Libraries reflecting their national heritage; Library diplomacy to globalize libraries; Libraries as foreign policy; Smart Technologies for Public Libraries Maker Space; Augmented reality; Multimedia books; Digital maker labs; Coding Clubs; Digital story telling; Digital interfaces for printed books; Social, and innovation hubs; Important Dates: Submission of abstract of the paper:29/02/2020 Notification of acceptance of the abstract:12/03/2020 Submission of Full length paper:01/05/2020 Notification of Acceptance of full length paper:1/07/2020 Submission of camera ready paper along with registration details:15/07/2020 Publication Guidelines: · Authors are requested to submit original papers related to conference theme and subthemes. Papers that are not relevant to the scope of conference theme and subthemes will be summarily rejected. · The papers that are aligned to the conference theme and subthemes 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 by peer reviewers of the conference proceedings to ensure an adequate standard, that the proposed subject of the submitted paper has been followed, that the paper is of a suitable length, the standard of English is adequate and the paper is appropriately referenced. · The papers will be accepted based on the reviewer’s comments/decisions and authors will be requested to submit camera ready copy as per the conference template · Papers that are accepted will be published in the conference proceedings providing at least one author completes registration (including payment). See the registration section of the conference website for more information about registration. The conference proceedings is a book published with an ISBN · If multiple papers are accepted for publication and presentation by the same author, each paper requires a registration fee to be included in the proceedings. For formatting guidelines and paper template authors are requested to visit conference website (for more details visit conference website after 10th of February 2020; http://www.lisacademy.org/ OR http://lisaconf3.lisacademy.org/ ) Conference Attractions: 1. Best three accepted papers selected by expert committee will be considered as invited papers. The registration fee for these authors will waived off and they will be extended free local hospitality. 2. Best paper awards for the papers presented in the conference: 3 best papers will be awarded based on recommendations of the Expert committee and conference poll 3. Library quiz program during conference and prizes will be awarded to winner 4. Presenting your library success Story telling through PechaKucha (for more Information on PechaKucha kindly visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZJc8PB2DsQ), best PechaKucha presentation will be awarded cash prize and certificate with memento (subject to submission of minimum five PechaKucha presentations). 5. Showcase your library - Video Contest for “Best Library Award – 2020” (for more details visit conference website after 10th of February 2020; http://www.lisacademy.org/ OR http://lisaconf3.lisacademy.org/ ) Registration Details: Early bird registration before 1st June 2020 General professionals: Rs. 2000 Student Participants: Rs. 1500 Registration after 1st June 2020 Working professionals: Rs. 2500 Student Participants: Rs. 2000 Accommodations not included in the registration Fee, However, organizers will facilitate accommodation on twin sharing basis for the first come first serve on additional payment. For any clarifications / details contact: lisacademyorg@gmail.com With warm regards Thanks & Regards, Dr. P. V. Konnur Former LIS Professor, Fulbright Scholar - (UIUC, USA) Adviser - VTU Consortium, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi - 590 018, Chairman - State Level Book Selection Committee, Karnataka President - LIS Academy, Bangalore Member of Syndicate, KUVEMPU University, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India 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.