About the Conference

Never in the history of librarianship, the future of libraries is discussed as it is in the current era. Premature obituaries were nothing new in every period about the demise of libraries ever since technology permeated into our lives. Adding to this narrative, the literature and discourses replete with ideas and frameworks on how libraries are repositioning or negotiating their space within institutions to reclaim the central position to attract funds to strengthen their infrastructure and resources. We are also battling a perception that when you get everything in the web and resources available online, who needs the libraries.

This conference will address some of the fundamental issues pertaining to the redefinition of role of libraries in the digital domain and will attempt to narrow down the narratives on how libraries are transforming themselves to be relevant to journey of leaning, evolving cultures and improving human lives. As libraries are representatives of culture and advancement of society, this conference to expanded to include all libraries including public library systems.

THE HOSTS:

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore:

The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore was established in 1973 and is a leading graduate school of management in Asia. Under the IIM Act of 2017, IIMB is an Institute of National Importance. IIMB has around 110 full-time faculty members, more than 1200 students across various degree/diploma granting programmes and nearly 5000 annual Executive Education participants. IIMB’s vision is to be a global, renowned academic institution fostering excellence in management, innovation and entrepreneurship for business, government and society. Located in India’s high technology capital, IIMB is in close proximity to some of the leading corporate houses in the country, ranging from information technology to consumer product companies, giving the Institute an added advantage of integrating classroom knowledge with practical experience.

IIMB Library is housed in an independent building of 55000 Sq ft. spread across four levels abutting the Amphitheatre.   The IIMB library is a wealth of resources that provides convenient access to print material and 24/7, multi-platform access to thousands of electronic journals, eBooks, and databases, article and book delivery from libraries and other digital resources to support teaching, research, and learning. The library provides information services such as circulation, interlibrary loan, photocopying, article requests, orientation on accessing electronic content, copyright assistance, remote access, e-mail alerts, hands-on training for databases, and reference service The library’s information technology infrastructure comprises state-of-the-art integrated library management system, single search platform (all online subscribed content in one platform), link resolver (Visibility in Google Scholar), journal locator, usage analyser, data analytical tool, content management system for developing online guides, digital library, and online course on avoiding plagiarism. The IIMB library extends membership-based services to individuals, organisations, corporations and academic institutions.

  

Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata:

Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), a unique institution devoted to the research, teaching and application of statistics, natural sciences and social sciences. Founded by Professor P.C. Mahalanobis in Kolkata on 17th December 1931, the institute gained the status of an Institution of National Importance by an act of the Indian Parliament in 1959. The Headquarters of ISI is located in the northern fringe of the metropolis of Kolkata. Additionally, there are four centres located in Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Tezpur. Research in Statistics and related disciplines is the primary activity of the Institute. Teaching activities are undertaken mainly in Kolkata, Delhi and Bangalore. Offices of the Institute located in several other cities in India are primarily engaged in projects and consultancy in Statistical Quality Control and Operations Research'.

Central Library of ISI is located at Kolkata with a network extending to other locations of the Institute. It occupies a unique place in academic and research activities of the Institute. The Central Library moved to its present location in 1978, and it occupies 5 floors (60000sq.ft) of a ten-storied building at Kolkata. Over the years, the ISI Central Library has attained the distinction of being one of the richest libraries in India in the areas of mathematics, statistics, economics, theoretical computer science and related areas. The Central Library at Kolkata has over 3.5 lakhs volumes of books and journals besides many official reports, reprints, maps, microfilms and microfiches. It receives about one thousand scientific and technical journals annually. The library has developed a separate collection of books and journals in Mathematics and Statistics known as Eastern Regional Centre of NBHM collection, out of the grants from the National Board of Higher Mathematics.

Theme 1 Academic Libraries: 
We invite original contributions involving research, models, practices or strategies envisioning the future of your library.  Papers should discuss on how libraries strategizing by refocusing their collection, demonstrating the value by learning commons, services models, research and data management services, digital scholarship and other multiple drivers to communicate its value for the institute success.

Contributions will address the overall conference theme and cover exploration and activities related to but not limited to the following topics: 

• Designing learning spaces

• Publishing industry

• Research impact, ranking of Institutions and role of Libraries

• Information literacy

• Library instruction models

• Data driven decisions, ROI and other metrics

• Library Leadership

• Performance and Impact assessment

• Support for learning and research   

• Collection building and custom /services

• Copyright, scholarly communications, publishing research

• Open access, archiving of IR and support for research

• Technology and access to knowledge

• Primary research data, data curation and Data management services

• LIS Education and manpower challenges

• Higher education and libraries 

• Historical role and current transformation

• Studies on outreach, citizenship, learning skills, extending formal education and information literacy

• Provision of academic/other knowledge resources, recreation and personal research

• Strengthening informal learning, Collaboration with Institutions, NGO and other Organizations

• Preservation of cultural heritage

• Expectations from /public/users

• Crowd funding and sustenance

• Public libraries legislations and need for revisions

• Philanthropy and community patronage

• IPR, copyright and DRM

• Open access scholarly Communication

• Privacy and use

• Digital preservation

• Digital archives, of culture and demography, trade, literature, classics etc.

• Data repositories

Theme 2 Public Libraries:

Historically public libraries have contributed immensely in persevering the culture in analog world. In contemporary times, its role is even more significant to bring the access and benefits of technologies to all the citizens regardless of the social and economic stature apart from its pivotal role in digital preservation.

The role of public libraries in providing civic amenities, education and information learning, steady access to Government forms and services, public documents, greater access to computers and digital preservation of culture and archival docs is unparalleled. Cases studies, research papers and practices that redefine their role are solicited. 

Theme 3 Digital Domain:

Digital domain is distressed with challenges of access, preservation and other regulatory restrictions.

While there is exponential growth in knowledge resources aided by ever evolving technologies, technology enabled restrictions, intellectual property rights, copyright and contract laws, licensing, and privacy and use of digital content has constricted the access instead of enhancing its reachability.

Papers in this theme exploring the strategies to overcome normalization of such restrictions in digital domain and case studies that have developed and chronicled the culture, demography, classics or digitized the manuscripts and classics are sought

Important Dates

1st December 2018 – Last date for submission of  abstracts

5th November 2018 – Notification on acceptance of abstracts

20th December 2018 – Last date for submission of full-text articles 

30th December 2018 – Notification on acceptance of full-text articles​

Please send Abstracts not more than 200 words and last date for submission of abstracts is 5th November 2018, peer-review and notification of acceptance will be sent to authors by 20th November 2018, in order for them to included in the Abstract Book.

For more details and guidelines, please refer to the conference website: https://library.iimb.ac.in/conference2019

Please note that your abstract will be included in the print and the online version of the Book of Abstracts only if you have paid the registration fee before the conference in accordance with registration deadlines. Please look at the Important dates page for further information.

Activities/Schedule – 26^th – 28^th February 2019

Day 1: Workshop, Inauguration, Registration, Welcome address, Keynote address, Cultural Event.

Day 2: Introduction of Speakers, Keynote address, Four Invited Lectures, one Panel Discussions, Vendor presentations, Authored Paper Presentation, Poster Presentation

Day 3: Keynote address, Five Invited Lectures, Panel Discussion, Vendor Presentation, Paper Presentation, Poster Presentation, Vote of Thanks

For more Information Please contact us at:

Dr. Rama Patnaik, K:  <rama.patnaik@iimb.ac.in>

Dr. Kishor Satpathy:  <ksatpathy@gmail.com>