Dear Members of the LIS Community LTC2021 – the 5th Library Technology Conclave, is being launched on 6th November with a pre-conclave curtain-raiser lecture, in an entirely new and unique format to fit into the virtual conference model. The event is spread across a range of pre-conclave and conclave events, from November 2020 through January 2021. The theme of the Conclave is “eScience and Digital Libraries”. eScience is where data sciences meet the science. It is all about the data sciences as applied to scientific research. It is the congruence of four domains – scientific research, computational sciences, data sciences and digital libraries – that promotes data intensive collaborative research across scientific disciplines and communities. It will be an exciting program where scientists, information & data scientists and the IT & Digital Library professionals will be coming together to interact. THE CURTAIN-RAISER LECTURE: * TOPIC: “eScience and the Fourth Paradigm in Research” * SPEAER: Prof. Samir K. Brahmachari, JC Bose Research Fellow and the former Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). * DATE & TIME: Nov. 6, 2020; 11 AM- 12:30 PM Please REGISTER for this curtain-raiser lecture at: https://ltc2021.org/emailer/ LTC2021 is an annual event, 5th in the series, organized jointly by: Informatics India Ltd., in association with: * The National Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore * CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute, Bangalore; and * Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore. Please visit the Conclave website www.LTC2021.orghttp://www.ltc2021.org/ for more details about the pre-conclave and conclave programs. REGISTRATION IS FREE for all the programs under LTC2021 Conclave series. N. V. Sathyanarayana Chairman & MD Informatics India Ltd., Bangalore, India. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.