CFP: National Conference on Emerging Trends & Techniques for Electronic Resource Management in Libraries: Issues & Challenges on February 13-14, 2015 at Rourkela

Subject: CFP & Invitation to attend National Conference on Emerging Trends & Techniques for Electronic Resource Management in Libraries:

Issues & Challenges on February 13-14, 2015 at Rourkela

Greetings from NIT Rourkela!

Dear Sir/Madam,

It gives us immense pleasure to inform you that Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL) of National Institute of Technology Rourkela is organizing the “National Conference on Emerging Trends & Techniques for Electronic Resource Management in Libraries: Issues & Challenges” on February 13-14, 2015 in association with SLA-Asia and SLP.

This conference is the second event under the series “Empowering Library Professionals to Empower Society (ELPES)”. The main objectives of this conference are:

Awareness and importance of electronic resources;
Familiarization with the different ways of accessing electronic content;
Acquaint with the review activities associated with e-resources;
Examine copyright and licensing implications for scholarly communication;
An opportunity to develop ideas, strategies and policies for e-resource management (ERM);
Equip participants with skills for collection development and management of e-resources both theoretical and practical;
To discuss the issues and challenges faced during ERM cycle;
To adopt best practices for enhancing usage of e-resources.

We request you and your colleagues to participate and contribute a paper for this conference. And also help us to spread this message among library & information science professionals, information scientists, knowledge managers, students & scholars. Kindly register at the earliest to avail campus accommodation as we have limited number of rooms available.

For Call for papers and other details please visit: http://library.nitrkl.ac.in/events/elpes2/ and http://library-nitrkl.blogspot.in/

Looking forward to meet you at NIT Rourkela.

With Best regards,

Yours sincerely,

Dr.Bhojaraju Gunjal

Organizing Secretary, ELPES-2

Biju Patnaik Central Library