Dear Professionals,     With great pleasure we would like to  inform you that, Department of Library & Information Science, Mangalore University, Mangalagangotri, Mangalore, in association with Karnataka State SC/ST Library Professionals Association (R), Bangalore, is organising a Two Day National Level Conference on " Democratization of Information using ICT: Role of Libraries for Social Enlightenment", during 24-25th January, 2014 at Mangala Auditorium, Mangalore University Campus, Mangalore-574199            ObjectivesThe Conference is to provide a platform for sharing of knowledge and expertise among the LIS faculty, librarians, researchers knowledge managers and IT professionals from Information Science. Further, this conference aims to come out with strategic directions for building knowledge society by means of policies and programs to ensure information access to reach the unreached utilizing the ICT gadgets efficiently.   Call for Papers Authors interested in contributing their papers for the National Conference should send their papers to the E-Mail: demict2014@gmail.com for review. Accepted papers  will be published in the conference proceedings with ISBN.   Sub- Themes includes the following but not limited to : * Five laws & Changing Dimensions * Virtual Libraries *  Community Information Centres * E- Resource Management * E- Governance * Open Access & Institutional Repository * Knowledge Management * Web 3.0- Tools & services * Library Legislation &RTI Act * Case Studies related to the theme & sub themes  The article must be submitted electronically according to the MS Word format with 12 font, Times New Roman and the manuscript limited to 3000- 4000 words. The main title should be followed by name, affiliation and address of the author(s) with e-mail Id & the length of the abstract should not be more than 200 words ( In Italics). At least 5 keywords must be given with bold face. Last Date for submission of full paper is on or before: December 25th 2013. Acceptance notification :  January 5th, 2014 For Further details of Submission of paper & Conference details please visit : http://mangaloreunilibraryconference.weebly.com Organising Secretary Dr khaisar Muneebulla Khan Prof, Dept of LIS Mangalore University Mangalore-5742199 E-Mail: khaisarmk@yahoo.com Ph:09845504886 0824-2287316(O) 0824-2287811 (R) Joint- Organising Secretary Dr T Y Mallaiah Dy Librarian/ Secretary KSSC/STLPA Mangalore University Library Mangalore-5742199 E-mail - 09448004946 0824-2287394(O) 0824-2287375 (R) We look forward to see you all in the New Year at the Conference ------------------------------------ Dr Sujatha H R Librarian ( Selection Grade) & President (DKKLA) Sri Venkataramana Swamy College Bantwal-574211, Karnataka E-Mail: hrsujatha@yahoo.com Mob: 919164560894       ·         -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.