Dear Sir, Kindly consider for SALIS Members at a concessional rate of Rs. 750 /- Hope it will encourage more participants to attend. with regards, kalyani ks On Saturday, 12 April 2014, 19:49, Mailing List Admin wrote: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 03:11:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Arunachalam Hariharan National Conference on Reaching the Unreached: Connecting the Library Users and Resources through Innovative Services and Technologies (SALIS 2014) Date: 8th & 9th August 2014 Organized by Department of Library, COIMBATORE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Coimbatore Jointly with Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) About the Conference Libraries are the integral part of academic, R&D institutions and also in a society to disseminate information and knowledge to the user community for the betterment and well being of the society. Libraries invest heavily for acquiring, processing and disseminating and maintaining resources by spending huge amount of money. Therefore, these resources should be equitably utilized to the maximum for academic and R & D excellence, developing competency skills and acquiring knowledge for all the stake holders in the society. Innovative programmes and services should be designed using technologies to provide access and service to all particularly the unreached. At present, one group of users have access to plenty of resources but not utilizing and the another group needs information but not getting access to the information. Therefore, libraries should plan and design suitable programme to provide access to information to all and connect the right users to the right resource at the right time. LIS Professionals Rs.1000 Research Scholars (Regular) & LIS Students Rs.500 (Kit without conference bag) Participants (without paper) Rs.500 (Kit without conference bag and proceedings) Registration fee should be paid through Demand Draft drawn in favour of 'The Principal, CIT’ payable at ‘Coimbatore’ and addressed to the “Organizing Secretary”. The online payment details to be provided on request. Last Dates Submission of full-paper 30.06.2014 Registration 25.07.2014 Awards and Mementos Cash Awards will be given to best papers for Professionals, Students and Women separately. Mementos will be given to all the presenters. Conference Websites www.salis2014.wordpress.com www.cit.edu.in http://www.salis.in/ Address for Correspondence Dr.M.Mandhirasalam Organizing Secretary, SALIS 2014 & Librarian Coimbatore Institute of Technology (Government Aided Autonomous Institution) Civil Aerodrome (Po), Coimbatore - 641 014. Tamil Nadu, India. Phone: 0422-2574071-72, Extn.355 Fax: 0422-2575020, Mobile: 0 98 42 95 65 85 E-Mail: citsalis14@gmail.com Web: www.cit.edu.in Organizing Secretary, SALIS 2014 & President & General Secretary and GC, SALIS -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.