INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACADEMIC LIBRARIES: Transforming Academic Libraries: Evolution, Innovation, Quality, Transfiguration [5-8 April,2023]

ICAL-2023
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
Transforming Academic Libraries: Evolution, Innovation, Quality, Transfiguration  Organized by
Delhi University Library System, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Conference Date: April 5-8, 2023

Who Should Participate

Academic fraternity in teaching, learning and research; Library and Information Science professionals; Information Technology professionals; Students and Research Scholars;
Management Professionals; Knowledge workers; Policy makers; Archivists; IT Service providers;
Professional Associations; Content and knowledge managers; Electronic publishing, scholarly communication and virtual communities; Information providers and representatives from Information Industry; and All stakeholders in the knowledge management

Call for Papers

Sub themes

Author/s are requested to submit their proposals which reflect Case Studies; State of the Art; Review Papers; Specific Proposals; Current Trends, etc

Vision & Roles of the Future Academic Libraries

• Futuristic vision of academic libraries;
  
• Relevance of Academic Libraries in Implementation of National Education Policy 2020;
  
• Indigenous knowledge creation, content development and digital libraries;
  
• Indian Knowledge System: Ancient to Modern;
  
• Evidence Based Library Services in Educational Institutions;
  
• Strengthening Library-Faculty Collaborations;
  
• University, college and research libraries as partners in the knowledge generation;
  
• Emerging Trends in Digital Governance

Change Management

• Empowering staff to meet the challenges, professional leadership and development, and new models of academic library governance;
  
• Models and success stories of deliveries, exchange of ideas of how to work together in future;
  
• Challenges in Managing Academic Libraries;
  
• Government and institutional policies on infrastructure, access control, resource sharing, and resource development and management; and
  
• Role of Libraries and Librarians in Institutional Ranking.

Technology, Policy and Innovation

• LocaltoGlobal:Implicationsofrepositioninglibrariesintodigitalfuture;
  
• Challenges in provision of digital information services;
  
• Innovations in library management and services;
  
• Digital Library Standards and Policies;
  
• Sustainable Digital Library Models;
  
• Digital Library Consortia: Challenges and Future Perspectives;
  
• Web 3.0 Technologies and their applications in Academic Libraries;
  
• Application of Mobile, Web and Semantic Technologies in Academic Libraries;
  
• Online Information Search Strategies, Techniques in Intelligent Information Retrieval;
  
• ICT Enabled Library Security Tools, Technologies and Implementations;
  
• Plagiarism Detection Tools and Policies;
  
• Application of Artificial Intelligence in Academic Libraries;
  
• Digital Repositories: Development, Preservation and Challenges

Library and Research Ecosystem

• Research Ecosystem- publishing, research metrics, research visibility, publishers, society publication,
  
• supervisor-researchers etc; Research Data Management;
  
• Data visualization;
  
• Machine learning in the research support services;
  
• E-research tools and techniques;
  
• Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Copyright limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives;
  
• Wikidata, Wikibase in Libraries;
  
• Open access publishing, open access resources and open access policy;
  
• Library cooperation in research support services; and National and International cooperation and collaboration in knowledge access and management.

Advocacy

• Problems, issues and best practices for academic library advocacy;
  
• Advocacy for better use of library services, for better inflow of finances, better infrastructure and better faculty status; and Advocacy for transforming the academic libraries to eenvironment

Management Models and Framework, Library Services 

• Emerging management models for academic libraries;
  Manpower structure in ICT environment Library budgeting models;
  
• Evolving ways and means for better relationship for working with faculty;
  
• User centric services, reference and outreach;
  
• Changes in emerging user characteristics, behavior, and expectations;
  
• Users expectations in the emerging digital environment;
  
• Information literacy and competency programmes, etutorials;
  
• Best practices in modern library services;
  
• Convergence in collection management and technical services;

Author(s) should use the on-line submission mode available at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICALConf2023

send a copy of Abstract/Paper through e-mail attachment on icalsecretariat@admin.du.ac.in

Website: https://crl.du.ac.in/ical2023/

Importent Dates

• First Day of the Conference April 05 | 2023
  
• Last Day of the Conference April 08 | 2023
  
• Current Conference Goes Live December 05 | 2022
  
• Submission of Papers Up To March 01 | 2023
  
• Confirmation on Acceptance of Papers March 11 | 2023
  
• Registration of Delegate January 01 | 2023

For more information please visit: crl.du.ac.in/ical2023

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