From: Dr. Chennupati K. Ramaiah Subject: Request for your contribution to Dr. A.L. Moorthy Feschrift Volume Date: Sunday, 1 April, 2012, 19:49 Dr. A.L. Moorthy Feschrift Committee Department of Library and Information Science, Pondicherry University, R.V. Nagar, Kalapet, PUDUCHERRY – 605 014. INDIA. E-mail: ckramaiah@gmail.com; Mobile: 09487605773 Date: 01.04.2012   Dear Sir/Madam,            Dr. AL Moorhty is the best information scientist in the country who had 30+ years research, administration, editing, and vast library professional experience. His contributions to LIS profession particularly to S&T Information centres are tremendous.   He worked for several S&T organizations including the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Srihari Kota, ISRO, Defence Electronics Research Laboratory (DLRL), Hyderabad and presently working as Director, DESIDOC, Delhi (DRDO). At DESIDOC, he introduced many new services and innovative techniques for optimal utilization of information resources. He established a digital library and enhanced digital content. He has created web-based and project oriented information services to all R&D scientists of DRDO through its intranet. He has guided the development of Library Automation Software, Database of Library Holdings and Union Catalogue of Periodical Holdings. He improved the quality, coverage, content and timely publication of periodicals both as Editor for a decade and currently as Editor-in-Chief. He was instrumental in starting new publications like Technology Focus, DRDO Monographs & Special Publications. He has initiated and realized DRDO Consortium for providing online access of over 450 R&D Journals to all DRDO Labs. He is now spearheading the establishment of Knowledge Repository of DRDO Technical Reports and Institutional Repository.   Dr Moorthy is a Life Member of several national professional associations and also member of many international associations. He has published about 45 papers and edited over 30 Books/Conference Proceedings. He was Guest Editor of ILA Newsletter and AGLIS Journal for a few years. He is on the Editorial Board of many professional journals. He has received DRDO’s Best Popular Science Communication Award -2010, SR Ranganathan-Kaula Award-2009, SIS Fellowship-2009, ILA-Kaula Best Librarian Award-2008, and ILA-CD Sharma Best Paper Award 2008. He is examiner of PhD theses of many universities and also member of Board of Studies in the LIS of couple of Universities.   As mark of honour, some of his friends and well wishers have suggested to bringing out of festschrift volume. In this regard, we have planed to bring out a festschrift volume in his honour on “Electronic Resources Management”. Therefore you are requested to contribute an article on any one of the areas / topics listed in the enclosed letter. Kindly inform your title of paper on or before 15th April 2012 so that we can eliminate any duplication while selecting the topic level itself. The following are the important dates for the festschrift volume:   Last date for title of the paper      - 15 April 2012 Title confirmation to the contributor          - 20 April 2012 Last date for Full paper submission         - 15 May 2012 Communicating the paper acceptance - 20 May 2012 Revised Full paper submission    - 30 May 2012   So, you are therefore earnestly requested to contribute a paper (either research or review) to this volume. We look forward for your positive response in this regard.          With best regards,                                                                                  Yours sincerely,                                                                                         (Prof. C.K. RAMAIAH) Electronic Resources Management Topics & Sub-topics     Challenges to Electronic Resources Impact of e-resources on education and research, life cycle of an E-resource, Analysis of the characteristics digital documents; Problems in applying rules, etc.   Technological issues in E-Publishing New initiatives in e-publications development, multimedia use in e-publications, File formats, trends in e-books & e-journals publishing, etc.   Standards for Electronic Resources and Interoperability Various types of standards in e-resources; Proprietary standards vs. open standards; Evolution of standards and descriptive rules   E-Resources Managing Systems (ERMS) Managing E-resources, Design & development of ERMS, assessing users’ needs, Return on Investment (ROI) to funding bodies & users, Preservation & archiving issues; etc.   Electronic Resources for Education Schools, colleges, universities, R&D Organisations; Science, Technology & Engineering institutions; Agricultural & Medical Sciences institutions; Social Sciences & Humanities institutions; Use of E-Resources for teaching and learning, Distance education, E-learning, Enterprise applications etc.   Users and Usage of Electronic Resources Users – perceptions, inhibitions, attitude, expectations, problems; Use and usability issues; Accessibility issues; Problems related to E-resources, etc.   Electronic Resources in Libraries Collection development issues; Lending issues (user authentication, data encryption, etc); Cataloging of e-resources; Obsolescence issues; etc.   Digital Rights Management Rights Transfer; Copyright issues; Plagiarism and piracy issues; Digital Content Rights management, etc.   Economics of Electronic Resources Business models for E-Resources; E-books & e-journals publishers and distributors; Pricing models in E-Resources; Marketing trends/opportunities in E-Resources; licensing issues; issues related to publishers, aggregators and booksellers, etc.   ************************************************************Dr. Chennupati K. RamaiahMSc (Meerut), MLISc (Delhi), PhD (Loughborough), MACM, MASIST, MCLIPProfessor & Head, Dept. of Library and Information Science,Pondicherry University, R.V. Nagar, Kalapet,PUDUCHERRY – 605 014. INDIA. Mobile: 9487605773.Email: ckramaiah.lis@pondiuni.edu.in ;ckramaiah@gmail.com Tel & Fax: 0413-2656757,2656766; Website:http://www.pondiuni.edu.in/*************************************************... -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.