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International Conference on Academic Libraries (ICAL-2009)

5th to 8th October, 2009

Delhi University Library System, University of Delhi

Delhi, INDIA        

CALL FOR PAPERS  

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK: All stakeholders who would like to participate in the conference by contributing their valuable knowledge are advised to go through the CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK to understand the thrust areas on which the conference intends to deliberate and accordingly make a choice of the relevant theme. Please click here to go through the conceptual framework of ICAL-2009. Author/s are requested to submit their proposals which reflects Case Studies; State of the Art; Review Papers; Specific Proposals; Current Trends etc.

SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE: Knowledge Sharing, ICT Management, Digital Repository, E-Teaching, E-Tutorials, Library-Faculty Relationships and User-centric Services. For details regarding WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE please follow the link.

THEME OF THE CONFERENCE: The outline of different Sub-themes with probable explanation is placed here that will provide the author an idea of various dimensions of the Conference.

Vision & Roles of the Future Academic Libraries: This should imbibe a comprehensive outlook of the academic libraries by 2020 and set the ball rolling for the conference. The tentative sub-themes are:

• Futuristic vision of academic libraries;

• University, college and research libraries as partners in the knowledge generation;

• Academic Libraries in e-teaching and e-learning;

• Future of Print Publications

Technology, Policy and Innovation: ICT has a profound impact on all spheres of activities in the academic libraries. Its impact has been noticed on the way the libraries are to build its collection, its technical activities, its outreach activities, its budgetary strategies, its manpower development, its infrastructural requirement and the most important its library services. We invite thought provoking papers on different aspects of the theme with a focus on:

• Local to Global: Implications of repositioning libraries into digital future;

• Technologies and critical issues involved in the provision of digital information and services;

• Technological Innovations leading to improved library management and services

Change Management : We presume that change can have huge impact leading to catastrophic results or small and incremental results; change can be predictable or unpredictable; change can have positive or negative impact; it can be productive or unproductive; it will impact small adjustment in ones life or can collapse ones world; last but the least, it can be easily managed or can be stressful. The theme has been introduced with a view to understand the challenges and opportunities to organizational change, the team approach to handling change and applying change management strategies. We invite thought provoking papers on different aspects of the theme with a focus on:

• Empowering staff to meet the challenges, professional leadership and development, and new models of academic library governance;

• Models and success stories of deliveries, exchange of ideas of how to work together in future; and

• Government and institutional policies on infrastructure, access control, resource sharing, and resource development and management.

Library Vendor/ Publisher Interface: It is presumed that the publishers who bundle knowledge have great deal of stake in the future of academic libraries. Their quality of publication; strategy to market them; pricing models; outreach programmes; technological updates; the searching interface; the relationship among themselves to provide better and focused content; the handling of IPR issues with a view to provide more liberal approach to fair use of the content by libraries and its users. We invite thought provoking papers especially from vendors on different aspects of the theme with a focus on:

• Library — Vendor — Publisher relationship in knowledge access and management;

• Indigenous knowledge creation, content development and digital libraries;

• Copyright and open access publishing, self archiving, and open access policy;

• Legal deposit, electronic publications, pricing model and digital archiving;

• National and international cooperation and collaboration in knowledge access and management;

Management Models and Framework, Library Services: The theme has been introduced with a view to identify different models, standards and tools which can be used to bring change in the ICT environment. It is expected to generate large number of views from across the world which has far reaching impact on developing the best out of all. We especially focus on faculty-student-library relationship in all spheres of activities in the academic libraries. We also focus on the institutional involvement in providing better manpower, better financial outlay based on the emerging practices. We invite thought provoking papers on different aspects of the theme with a focus on:

• Emerging management models for academic libraries;

• Manpower structure in ICT environment

• Library budgeting models;

• Evolving ways and means for better relationship for working with faculty;

• User centric services, reference and outreach;

• Changes in emerging user characteristics, behaviors, and expectation;

• Academic Library linkages with Public Libraries, Special Libraries and others

• Analyze users expectations in the emerging digital environment;

• Information literacy and competency programmes, e-tutorials;

• Best practices on modern library services;

• Convergence in collection management and technical services;

• Cataloguing and metadata;

• Management systems and standards;

• Marketing and promotion

Advocacy: The libraries of the developing nations are faced with serious crisis of establishing its identity. The conference intends to coin an Advocacy theme ‘RIGHT TO READ’ which involves providing all possible facilities to the user community. This is due to lack of inter-personal relationship between the ex-chequers, users, and partners and between the informed citizens. While many of the developed nations have brought the libraries in the forefront of nation’s activities, the developing nations especially India requires to develop an advocacy model based on best practices that are indigenous based on cultural, social and economic conditions. We invite thought provoking papers on different aspects of the theme with a focus on:

• Problems, issues and best practices for academic library advocacy;

• Advocacy for better use of library services, for better inflow of finances, better infrastructure and better faculty status; and

• Advocacy for transforming the academic libraries to e-environment

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Guidelines have been prepared to help those intending to submit and present the paper. The Authors desires to submit the paper should go through the details available as AUTHORS' GUIDELINES  or  given at : http://library.du.ac.in/ocs/index.php/ical/ICAL/about/submissions#presenterGuidelines Papers should reflect the conference broader theme: Knowledge Sharing, ICT Management, Digital Repository, E-Teaching, E-Tutorials, Library-Faculty Relationships and User-centric Services

Abstract and the full paper should be submitted simultaneously for approval to the Editorial Board by the date announced.  The full paper will be reviewed by the Editorial Board and the comments, if any, of the board will be communicated to the author/s for necessary action. The authors can use the on-line submission mode however it will be mandatory to sent a copy of your abstract/paper additionally as an e-mail attachment on ical2009.os@gmail.com   .The abstract and paper received through e-mail must be captioned as: SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACT/PAPER FOR ICAL 2009.

The Paper should confirm the following guidelines:

They should be single-spaced, A4 page size, 12 point font size, Times New Roman font type, in Word or RTF format;

THE TEXT OF conference paper must comprise:

• Title of the paper

• Name(s) of author/s, their Institution, city and country

• Abstract of approximately 200 words, summarizing the presentation along with key words

• Full text

REVIEW POLICY

Please follow the hyperlink to go through the detailed PEER REVIEW GUIDELINES.  The  paper will be reviewed by the Editorial Board and the comments, if any, of the Board will be communicated to the author/s for necessary action.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

Authors who submit to this conference agree to the following terms : Author/s retain copyright over their work, while allowing the conference to place this unpublished work under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

HOW THE PAPERS WILL BE HANDLED: The Conference intends to handle the entire academic exercise by inviting experts to deliver the key note address on each day in Plenary Sessions followed by invitation to authors to present their paper in each session. We intend to conduct the poster sessions based on the themes of each day. The Poster Session has been introduced with a view to provide maximum opportunity to authors for maximum one-to-one interaction.. Each session including the Poster Sessions will have an expert reviewer who will analyze the Proceedings of the session and report back to Central Committee to frame the necessary recommendations. The recommendations ultimately will be developed into a Road Map for submission to all stakeholders by which the academic libraries will have their future.

 

FOR FURTHER DETAILS CONTACT: Dr. S.M. Dhawan, Director, Programme Steering Committee, ICAL on smdhawan@yahoo.com  

 

  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
IMPORTANT

The conference will maintain its proceedings of high standard and hence would evaluate each and every paper in accordance with the international standards. Hence, all stakeholders who would like to participate in the conference by contributing their valuable knowledge are advised to go through the CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK to understand the thrust areas on which the conference intends to deliberate and accordingly make a choice of the relevant theme.

CONTACT

For all queries and further details, please contact :

ICAL 2009 Conference Secretariat

Dr. S. Majumdar, Organising Secretary, ICAL

C/o University Librarian, Central Library, University of Delhi

New Delhi - 110 007, India

Phone - 91-11-27666034, 27667848

Fax - 91-11-27666034 E-mail: ical2009.os@gmail.com

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