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[ICDK Conf]

International Conference on Digital Libraries and Knowledge Organization (ICDK 2011)
14-16 February 2011 at MDI Gurgaon (National Capital Region – Delhi)

Jointly Organized by
Management Development Institute (MDI)
Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC)
INDEST-AICTE Consortium, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi

In Association with
UNESCO
Goethe-Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan
South Asian Studies Council, MacMillan Center, Yale University

Conference Highlights

·         Galaxy of International Speakers

·         Pre-conference Workshops/Tutorials on cutting-edge digital library topics

·         Emerald’s international journal Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems to bring out a special issue with selected articles from the conference

·         Reputed international publisher to publish the post conference proceedings as an edited book with ISBN

·         Most convenient location, in the millennium city Gurgaon (National Capital Region- Delhi), just 10 kms away from Delhi IGI airport and 30 kms from New Delhi railway station

·         Strategic partnership with national and international agencies

 

 

Workshops / Tutorials

How to Improve Access to Information? A Tutorial Workshop By Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Developing Digital Libraries Using DSpace: A Workshop By Prof. ARD Prasad, Documentation Research & Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore

Social Media in Information Services: A Workshop By Waltraut Ritter, Director (Research and Innovation), Knowledge Dialogues, Hong Kong

Digitization Workflow from A to Z By Klaux Kempf and Gabriele Messmer, Bavarian State Library, Germany

 

Digital Libraries and Building DLs using Greenstone By Dr. M.G. Sreekumar, (UNESCO Coordinator, Greenstone Support for South Asia), Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Developing and Managing a Virtual Reference Service: A Tutorial-Cum-Workshop By Dr. H.P.S. Kalra, Punjabi University

Eminent Speakers

Dr. Ann Okerson, Yale University

Dr. Anjana H. Bhatt, Florida Gulf Coast University

Prof. Anna Maria Tammaro, (Chair IFLA Education and Training Section), University of Parma, Italy

Prof. ARD Prasad, Documentation Research & Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore

Prof. Chutima Sacchanand, School of Liberal Arts, Sukhothaim Thammathirat Open University, (Former President - Thai Library Association), Thailand

Dr. Devika P. Madalli, Documentation Research & Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore

*Dr. Ellen R. Tise, President, International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)

Prof. Fausto Giunchiglia, Department of Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy

Dr. Fazlul Alam, Executive Director, Bangladesh Research and Development Association (BRADA), University of Dhaka

*Dr. Frederick J. Friend, Honorary Director, Scholarly Communication UCL

Prof. G. P. Agarwal, National Cordinator, INDEST-AICTE Consortium, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Gabriele Messmer, Bavarian State Library, Germany

Prof. Gary Marchionini, Dean & Cary C. Boshamer Professor, School of Information & Library Science, North Carolina University

Dr. H K Kaul, Director, DELNET-Developing Library Network

Klaux Kempf, Bavarian State Library, Germany

Heather Brown, Assistant Director, Artlab Australia

Prof. Hussein Suleman, Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Prof. Ingeborg Torvik Solvberg, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director, INFLIBNET, Ahmedabad

Dr. John B. Rose, Honorary Research Associate, University of Waikato, New Zealand.

Prof. Joyce Chao-chen Chen, Professor and University Librarian, Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies, National Taiwan Normal University

Prof. Mitsuhiro ODA, Department of Education, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan

Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur, IGNCA, New Delhi

Dr. Ravinder Kumar Chadha, Joint Secretary, Parliament of India

Dr. Stuart Weibel, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC, Dublin, Ohio

Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore

Dr. Sujin Butdisuwan, Faculty of Informatics, Mahasarakham University, Thailand

Dr. Suzie Allard, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee

Please visit the conference site at: http://www.mdi.ac.in/ICDK/Home.html for more details on registration, etc.

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Conference Secretariat (ICDK 2011)

Management Development Institute (MDI)
Mehrauli Road
Gurgaon – 122007, INDIA
Conference URL: http://www.mdi.ac.in/ICDK/Home.html