International Conference on Digital Library Management (ICDLM) Theme: Extending Benefits of Modern Technology to Public, Academic and Special Libraries Science City, Kolkata, 11-13 January, 2011 Venue: Science City, Kolkata Organiser: TERI, New Delhi Co-Organiser: Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, Kolkata Continuous capacity development and awareness programmes are necessary to achieve the objective of transforming the novice into digital librarians of future. The success of ICDL 2004, ICDL 2006 and ICDL 2010 has encouraged and motivated TERI, New Delhi and Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, Kolkatai to conduct of the ICDLM 2011 which will provide yet another stimulating forum for DL professionals to share their knowledge, experience and wisdom. The conference will focus on creation, adoption, implementation and utilization of digital libraries, e-learning and a knowledge society. We invite you all to submit your research paper. Who should participate? (a) Professionals from public, academic and special libraries (b) Information Technology professionals. (c) Content and knowledge managers (d) Policy makers (e) Academicians, students and distance learners (f) Archivists and museologists (g) Information providers and vendors. (h) E-publishers and virtual electronic communities (i) Library and Information Science professionals. (j) All stakeholders in the digitization and knowledge business. Some speakers: 1. Dr. P. Anandan, Managing Director, Microsoft Research India 2. Prof. N Balakrishnan, Associate Director, Indian Institute of Science, India 3. Mr Jens Thorhauge, Director General, Danish Agency for Libraries and Media, DENMARK 4. Barbro Wigell-Ryynänen, Counsellor for Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Education and Culture,FINLAND 5. Professor Gobinda Chowdhury, Director, Centre for Information and Knowledge Management, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 6. Mr. Jean-Marc Comment, Archives fédérales suisses, Switzerland 7. Prof. Dr. Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Germany 8. Prof. Elena Maceviciute, Lithuania and Swedish School of Library and Information Science, Vilnius University, Sweden 9. Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium 10. John Paschoud, InfoSystems Engineer & Projects Manager, London School of Economics Library, UK 11. Rebecca B. Vargha, Library Director, Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina, USA 12. John Paul Anbu K., Head – Periodicals, University of Swaziland Libraries, Swaziland 13. Lizhu Zhou, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 14. Samuel Trosow, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information & Media Studies / Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario, Canada 15. Dr Tengku Mohd T Sembok ,Department of Information Science, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Malaysia 16. Prof. ARD Prasad, DRTC, Indian Statistical institute, India 17. Dr. Subbiah Arunachalam, MSRF, India Call for papers Original papers focusing on the theme of the conference— Extending Benefits of Modern Technology to Public, Academic and Special Libraries are invited for the. Some of the topics are listed below: § DL development and management § Content organization and management § DL architecture and access management § Knowledge management § Digital preservation § DL standards and policy § Thesauri and ontologies, semantics, metadata and retrieval § Open archives initiatives/PMH § Multilingual and interoperability § Copyrights issues in digital environment § DL services and applications § Collaboration and Networking between public libraries º Digital initiatives of public libraries § Open Educational resources For details of paper submission guidelines and submission process, visit . Important dates Submission of full papers 20 October 2010 Notification of acceptance of paper with comments 05 November 2010 Submission of the revised paper after incorporating comments 20 November 2010 Take advantage of Early–bird registration offer please visit http://www.teriin.org/events/icdlm/ REGISTRATION FEE: Up to 30 November 2010 1. India and SAARC countries: Indian Rs 3000 + Rs 309 service tax 2. Other countries (including service tax): US$ 125 After 30 November 2010 3. India and SAARC countries: Indian Rs 3500 + Rs 360 service tax 4. Other countries (including service tax): US$ 150 Contact: DEBAL C KAR Organizing Secretary ICDLM Secretariat TERI, Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110 003, India Telephone 24644654, 24682100, 41504900 Fax 24682144, 24682145 E-mail icdl@teri.res.in Web www.teriin.org/events/icdlm India +91 • Delhi (0)11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer: The information contained in this e-mail is intended for the person or entity to which it is addressed, and it may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review or other use of this mail or taking any action based on it by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. 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