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:

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:

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:

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: