FOL19: International Conference on Future of Libraries Indian Institute of Management Bangalore Bangalore, India, February 26-28, 2019 |
Conference website | https://library.iimb.ac.in/conference2019 |
Abstract registration deadline | November 5, 2018 |
Submission deadline | December 15, 2018 |
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.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
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.
List of Topics
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Academic and Research Libraries:
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
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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. The major subthemes are
- 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
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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
- 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
Committees
Editorial committee
- Dr Swati Bhattacharyya
- Dr K. Rama Patnaik
- Dr. Kishor Chandra Satpathy
- Dr M.G. Sreekumar
- Dr. Parvez Akhtar
- Mr. N V Sathyanarayan
Venue
IIMB Bangalore
Bannerghatta Road,
Bengaluru, India - 560 076
Phone: (080) 2699-3016
Contact
Dr K. Rama Patnaik
Email: librarian@iimb.ac.in
Phone No: +91 80 2699 3016
Dr Kishore C. Sathpathy
Email: ksathpathy@isical.ac.in
Phone No: +91 9435175531