Thematic Areas & Tracks

1. EDUCATION & INFORMATION LITERACY

Tracks

  • Curriculum development and planning
  • Innovative teaching learning strategies
  • Knowledge retrieval methods
  • Ethics and professionalism
  • Intellectual property rights
  • Teaching and learning skills
  • LIS pedagogies
  • Quality assurance and accreditation of LIS programme
  • University libraries and copyright laws
  • Information literacy in higher education

3. EMERGING TRENDS AND TECHNOLOGIES IN LIBRARIANSHIP

Tracks

  • Transition from print to electronic
  • Digital libraries
  • Electronic resources through consortia
  • RFID
  • Barcode technologies
  • Community outreach programmes

5. LIBRARIANSHIP AND SOCIAL NETWORKING

Tracks

  • Social media and Web technologies in libraries
  • Mobile applications for libraries
  • Blogs and online social networks as user centric service tools
  • Code of ethics and best practices in libraries

7. MARKETING LIBRARIES

Tracks

  • Marketing libraries in Web 2.0 World
  • Re-engineering manpower
  • Services marketing mix in library and information centres
  • Marketing and promotion of library services

2. INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

Tracks

  • Communication strategies
  • Cloud computing
  • Library automation
  • e-learning
  • Data analysis and data mining
  • Information visualization
  • Current technology for access service enhancement
  • Networking
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Image processing
  • Semantic Web

4. DOCUMENTATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

Tracks

  • Indigenous knowledge and practices
  • Digital preservation
  • Intangible cultural heritage and its documentation
  • Indigenous medicine

6. BIBLIOMETRICS/ SCIENTOMETRICS/ INFORMETRICS/ WEBOMETRICS

Tracks

  • Theory and practice
  • Methods and techniques
  • Citation and co-citation analysis
  • Indicators
  • Mapping and visualization
  • Science policy and research assessment
  • University policy and institutional rankings
  • Journals databases and electronic publications
  • Data accuracy and disambiguation
  • Scientific fraud and dishonesty

8. INNOVATIVE PRACTICES IN LIBRARY SECTOR

Tracks

  • Designing barrier-free services in the academic libraries
  • Usage studies
  • Library management practices