Dear Professionals, Greetings from Department of Library and Information science, We the faculty members, Research Scholars, Students and alumni of Department of Library and Information Science, Bharathidasan University happily announce International Conference on International Conference on "Knowledge Resource and Library Technologies" February 24-25, 2017 *ICKRLT -2017* Knowledge resources basically meant for not mere access to the information available in any format but gives emphasis on scientific and relevant organization of documents, may be in the shelf or digital archive which involve range of scientific principles and systems to organize, retrieve, disseminate the required knowledge in subject domains. The foremost priority of knowledge resource access adhere to the specific subjects domain, alternate approaches such as regional, personal, time, materials and methods and even analytical also need to be taken care by the knowledge resource systems. Library technologies may be of indexing, classification system, metadata, taxonomy and ontology, semantic web, folksonomy, remote sensing or of content management e-learning systems. These both resources and technology equally warrant the human interface for effective organization and right delivery of information at right time in a more customized manner. This Conference aimed at making an effort in this direction in bridging the Gap between the user community, knowledge resources and library technologies for the provision of information services in the fast developing knowledge society. *Objective:* To bring together LIS professionals, Teaching fraternity, Scientists, knowledge workers in corporate and information industries, the students and research scholars of LIS, Education, Computer Science, Information Technology and other relevant disciplines to deliberate on the prevailing trends, the future technologies towards identification, organization, dissemination and conception and generation of information and knowledge data sets. *Call for Papers* Original papers as the outcome of research, Case Studies, Surveys, projects, Best Practices, Innovative information services, Conceptual Papers from LIS Professional, faulty members, Students and industries are welcome. *Themes* To meet the objective of the progamme, papers/research articles can be contribute in the following related themes · Knowledge Society and Economy · Knowledge Management and the Libraries · Knowledge resource building by different types of libraries. · Facilitating access to different types of knowledge resources: · Library Automation, Resource Sharing and Networking · Digital Library System · Knowledge Organization and Knowledge Organization Systems · KOS in digital environment · Tools and Components of Knowledge Organization · Classification, Cataloguing, Indexing, Subject Heading Lists, Thesaurus · Taxonomies, Authority Lists, Metadata, Ontology, Semantic Web · Public Library Systems and Services · Scholarly Communication and Publication · Open Course Ware and Scholarly Open Access · Information and Knowledge Literacy · LMS, CMS, E-learning software etc. · Social Networking Tools and Techniques · Open Source Software · User Studies and Information Seeking Behaviour · Cultural and Heritage Documentation · Information and Knowledge Ethics · Digital Rights Management (DRM) · Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Webometrics, Altmetrics · Library Tourism *Guidelines for Submission of Papers* Authors are requested to submit the soft copy of full paper (with abstract not exceeding 200 words and at least three keywords) on CD and an e-mail attachment to the organizing secretary. The paper should not exceed 6 pages of A4 size with double line spacing and font size 12 in Times New Roman. Charts, graphs, photographs, if any, should be inserted in appropriate places of the article. References should be given as per the APA Style manual. A few of the selected and extended papers will be published in peer-reviewed/ referred Journals. Papers can be e-mail to Organizing Secretary at ickrelt2017@gmail.com For details please visit the conference website: https://ickrelt2017co nference.wordpress.com/ *Important Dates* Conference Dates 24-25, February 2017 Last Date of Submission of Abstract 30, January 2017 Decision on acceptance of Abstracts 03, February 2017 Last Date of Submission Full Paper 15, February 2017 *Registration* Registration Type LIS Professionals - India Rs. 1500/- SAARC Participants $75 Overseas participants $100 Students Rs. 750/- (only MLIS, M.Phil., Ph.D Regular Scholar) *Last Date for Registration* The last date for registration is 20th February 2017 *Registrations for all the papers are mandatory.* The Registration fee includes Conference kit, working lunch, refreshments. The demand draft may be drawn in favour of “Bharathidasan University, Trichy -24”. An author can contribute maximum two papers (either first or co-author). The paper will be included in the conference volume only after receiving the registration fee along with filled in Registration Form. The soft copy should be mailed to ickrelt2017@gmail.com. *Accommodation* Accommodation for outstation participants will be arranged at the University Guest House on request. The Guest House has Rs. 500 on sharing basis. The payment for the University accommodation should be made on the spot by cash. The participants are requested to confirm the arrival and departure timing over phone/e-mail. Plenty of Hotels/Lodges are available with nominal cost. with kind regards *Organizing Secretaries* *Dr. S. Srinivasa Ragavan* Professor and Head Department of Library and Information Science Bharathidasan University Trichy – 24 Mobile: 9486916358 & *Dr. R. Balasubramani* Assistant Professor Department of Library and Information Science Bharathidasan University Trichy – 24 Mobile: 9994889426 - -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.