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Please consider to participate and encourage your colleagues and team

members to participate to The International Conference on Digital Library

Management: ICDLM 2011 to be held in Kolkata, India, on 11-13 January

2011

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, Kolkata in partnership with Ministry of Culture,

Government of India, New Delhi to conduct of the ICDLM 2011 which will

provide yet another stimulating forum for DL professionals to share their

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knowledge, experience and wisdom.

The theme of the proposed conference is “Extending Benefits of Modern

Technology to Public, Academic and Special Libraries”. The conference

will focus on creation, adoption, implementation and utilization of digital

libraries, e-learning and a knowledge society.

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.

Conference will cover Original papers focusing on the theme of the

conference— Extending Benefits of Modern Technology to Public,

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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

Digital initiatives of public libraries º

§ Open Educational resources

For Early–bird registration offer please visit

http://www.teriin.org/events/icdlm/registration.php
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Registration: please visit http://www.teriin.org/events/ICDLM

Delegates fee | Up to 30 November 2010 | After 30 November 2010

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India and SAARC | Indian Rs 3000 + Rs 309 | Indian Rs 3500 + Rs 360

countries | service tax | service tax

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Other countries | US$ 125 | US$ 150

(including | |

service tax) | |