1st Alumni Meet and Seminar on Library Development in Odisha: Past, Present and Future Organized by Alumni Association and Department of Library and Information Science, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar Date – 14th and 15th February 2015 About Us: The Department of Library and Information Science (DLIS), Utkal University (UU), Bhubaneswar was established in 1981. By now it has completed 33 years of its existence and produced thousands of students working all over India and other parts of the world in different capacities. By the untiring efforts of a bend of dedicated teachers, the department could rise to the occasions by providing teaching and research facilities attracting students from all over India. The department had also organized several national level seminars, conferences, workshops, Refresher courses and many meetings from time to time taking leadership in this region. It also received a good score in NAAC assessment. The alumni association has been established since 2006 to support the department in various activities relating to professional developments and teaching programmes. It provides a platform to discuss various issues of the profession rendering its invaluable support in giving back to its alma mater in the best way possible. Now this is the occasion for the alumni to hold its 1st Alumni meet followed by a seminar on “Library Development in Odisha: Past, Present and Future” in collaboration with department of library and Information Science, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. In this context all the alumni of the department and other library professionals are requested to send their original papers on any one of the topics given below to have overall picture of library development in the state and its future vision. The original papers should reach in softcopy to alumni.dlis.uu@gmail.com by 20th December 2014. Selected articles will be published in a book form with ISBN number. Editorial board has the right to reject/accept the paper. Prof. P. Padhi President, Alumni Association Prof. P.Jena Organising Secretary and HOD, DLIS, UU SUBTHEMES A. Development of Public Library and Information Centers in Odisha 1. Library movement in Odisha 2. Role and Status of public library and information centers of Odisha 3. Restructuring and redesigning the public library systems in Odisha in an digital era 4. Odisha Public Library Act 2001 – its implementation for developing the public library system 5. Role of HKM state library in providing library and information service to the community 6. Status and scope of developing city central libraries in Odisha 7. Status of district library and information service centers in Odisha 8. Developing community library and information centers on government programmes and policies 9. Planning for developing library services for the disables 10. Mobile library services for the rural public 11. Developing a public library network for the state of Odisha 12. Need for developing and publishing bibliographical tools like state bibliography, indexing, directories and other related databases for the literary output of Odisha in both odia and English language B. Academic Libraries as a Support System in Teaching and Research programme 1. Organisational structure and status of college library services in the state of Odisha 2. Present status of university libraries in Odisha and their scope for future development 3. Need for developing a library manual for college and university libraries of Odisha 4. Academic status of college and universities university libraries of Odisha 5. A model School library service for the state of Odisha 6. Restructuring and redesigning the college and university libraries in the digital era 7. Developing a database of doctoral dissertations for each university a tool for bibliographic control of doctoral thesis 8. Designing and developing a database of research publication of the academic community of the state/central universities of Odisha by the University Central Library 9. Need for and present status for computerization and digitization of college and university libraries in Odisha 10. Institutional repositories at the university library in Odisha 11. Scope and status of continuing education for the technical staff and semi professionals working in college and university libraries 12. Planning and development of an academic library network for college & university libraries of Odisha C. Special Libraries and Information Centers in Odisha 1. An overview of Library development in public sector undertaking 2. Special Libraries and information service centers available in Bhubaneswar 3. A model Library of national repute. 4. Need for developing an institutional depository library for the Odisha State Archives. 5. Developing an institutional repository for Odisha state museum library 6. Quality Library services & management in Agriculture and other related library systems 7. An overview of Judicial library system in Odisha 8. Quality Library services & management in Health care and Research libraries of Odisha 9. Quality Library services & management in engineering and Management colleges Libraries of Odisha. D. Library and Information Science Education and Research in Odisha 1. Restructuring and redesigning of Library and Information Science education in Odisha in digital environment 2. Need for establishing a State Training Institutes in Library and Information Science for professional and Human Resource development 3. Role of Library & Information Science literature in Odisha for library development 4. Library and information science research in Odisha 5. Bibliometric analysis of Ph. D thesis and dissertations submitted in LISc, UU, Bhubaneswar 6. Scholarly Publishing in Odisha - An analysis of Research Papers AUTHOR GUIDELINES FOR PAPER SUBMISSION Author Guidelines for paper Submission All Authors are requested to send their articles electronically, through email ID: alumni.dlis.uu@gmail.com Author(s) are requested to use following format: Format of Manuscript All papers should be typed on Microsoft Word-version. Paper size should be A4, Portrait of size 8.5" x 11" with Margins: 1" (top & bottom); 1.5"(left & right) All text should be typed in Arial or Times New Roman Font with size 12 and single-spaced. Headings and subheadings must be in Bold font, left justified and numbered according to Level of heading as below: 1. First Level Heading 1.1 Second Level Heading 1.1.1 Third Level Heading Header & Footer of font size 8. Use double space after the headings, before starting the next paragraph. Page Break can be given to give a logical end to a page. The main title of your paper must not exceed 50 characters. This includes letters, spaces and punctuation. Title should be followed by name, affiliation and address of the Author(s) An abstract of length not more than 250 words should be supplied. Few keywords must be given after the abstract. Size of the paper to be kept within 5000 words. All papers must be accompanied by one passport size color photograph together with a brief CV. Illustrations such as photographs, charts, graphs, drawings, and diagrams should be labeled, so that they correspond with their mention in the text (e.g. Table-1, Figure-2, Diagram-3). Guidelines for references Provide the list of references at the end of the paper in sequence as per the guidelines and the examples suggested. The reference guidelines for the author(s) are provided below. Books SURNAME followed by initials. (Year). Title of the book in bold italics. (pp. referred pages). Place of publication: Name of the publisher. For a paper/chapter in a book (multi-authored) SURNAME followed by initials, Surname followed by initials, and Surname followed by initials. (Year) Title of the paper/chapter in bold. In X and Y (Eds). Title of the book in italics, (pp. 45-50) . Place of publication: Name of publisher, Year. (Number of Pages of the book) p. Journals/Magazines/Newsletters SURNAME followed by initials. Surname followed by initials, and Surname followed by initials. (Year). Title of the paper in bold. Title of the journal/magazine/newsletter in italics, Vol. No (issue no.), 45-55. Reports SURNAME followed by initials /organization (Year). Title of the report in bold (only the first letter in caps).pp.(Referred page numbers) Place of publication: Name of the organization/ publisher. Web site Author/organization. Name of the article in bold. Available at Web site URL (Accessed on dd/mm/yyyy). Paper in published proceedings SURNAME followed by initials. Title of the paper in bold. (Year). In X, Y, and Z (Eds).Title of the published proceedings in italics. Name of the conference/workshop, city, country, date, organized by name (s) of organizer(s). p.(number of pages of the paper) Place: Publisher, Year.. Some examples of the bibliographic reference as per the guidelines are as below: ROWLEY, Jennifer. (1998). The electronic library. (pp.100-110). London: Library Association Pub. INFLIBNET Centre. (2005) Annual Report 2004-05 (pp.30-32). Ahmedabad: INFLIBNET Centre. CAIN, Jack. Assessment of options for handling full Unicode character encoding in MARC 21: a study for the Library of Congress. Part 1: New Scripts. Available at http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2004/2004-report01.pdf (Accessed on 22/11/2007). PREM CHAND [et. al.]. (2007). Access to scholarly literature in higher education institutions under INFLIBNET Consortium. In Information and Knowledge Management in Networked World. Proceedings of the International CALIBER 2007, Punjab University, Chandigarh, 8th - 10th February 2007. (pp. 570-588). Ahmedabad: INFLIBNET Centre. -- Thanks and Regards Dr. Bibhuti Bhusan Sahoo Deputy Librarian Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar Toshali Bhavan, Satyanagar Bhubaneswar-751007 (India) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.