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