THEMATIC AREAS
The conference will discuss all aspects of special libraries.
Each theme is divided into several sub-themes as detailed below,
but not necessarily limited to:
Information Resources and Services
- Managing Information over Load
- Customized Information Services
- E-Referencing and New Referencing Techniques
- Value Added Services
- Benchmarking Techniques
- Measuring Service Quality
- Sustainable Information Resources
- Offshoring and Outsourcing
- Key reference tools for Asian source
- Content Creation and Management
Information Society: Emerging Paradigm
- Information Society: An Asian Perspective
- Information Society: Sustainable Models
- Community Information Systems
- Design and Role of Information Centres
- Delivery of Information Services
- Information Systems: Case Studies
- E-Governance and Public Information
- Information Literacy and Competency: Capacity Building
- Mapping Community Participation Patterns
- Information Divide and Deprivation
- Private and Public Participation
- Funding Opportunities
Information Communication and Technologies
- Delivery Methods and Mechanisms
- Information Generation and Cultivation
- Information Warehousing and Storage
- Information Harvesting and Dissemination
- Retrieval and Access Mechanisms
- Information Tools/Technology: State of the Art
- Development of Information Portals and Information Gateways
- Applications of Web 2.0 in Asia
Information Objects, and Products
- Information Portals
- Digital Libraries/Repositories
- E-journals Management
- Information Sharing Models/Consortia
- Information Networks and Protocols
- Standards, Copyright, licensing and IPR Issues
- Publisher/Vendor/Library Relations
Information and Business
- Information Entrepreneurship : Scope and Prospects
- Information Marketing
- Employment opportunities
- Skill Upgradation and Career Advancement
- Recruitment and Hiring Techniques
- Creating Lobbies and Pressure Groups
- Role of library Associations
- Special libraries after 20 years
LIS Education, Training & Research
- Course material and Content Contemporarising
- Continuing and Life Long Learning and role of SLA
- E-learning Modules
- Skills and Competency Development
- Incubation and Training Centres
- Research Relevance LIS
- LIS Education, Research and LIS School
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