Seminar Theme

Advances in hardware and software for digitization of information have made electronic publishing a viable format for scholarly communication.  The rapid success of these technologies let to develop many types of electronic recourses.  Electronic Resources that are introduced in the libraries including databases, e-journals, e-books, project reports, reading lists, past exam papers, lecture materials, reading materials, Web pages, etc., available in digital form collected, processed and managed by the libraries and information centers for providing various  types of services to their users. In addition to these, different types of libraries are using many more other resources to fulfill the requirements of their users.  Rapid growth in the number of electronic resources and complexity of managing e-collections has posed new challenges for librarians and hence requires the development of new tools.  To over come this problem, Electronic Resources Management Systems were introduced both for managing e-collections throughout their life cycle and also for aiding collection-development decision making.  The integration of such systems in the existing library environments is helpful to information professionals.

            Any new technology provides many new applications but also pose some new problems and challenges.  The advent to internet and Web Technologies have given rise to increased concerns regarding plagiarism and illegal copying and distribution of digital content.  Digital Rights Management (DRM) Addresses these issues and protects the rights of the content providers.  The main issue for librarians is how library services have to be changed to accommodate e-resources into the library collection.  Other problems faced by the libraries are to be discussed are licensing issues, user authentication, date encryption, payment methods, cataloging of e-resources and providing access to the users.  Also the library staff needs training in the use and management to e-resources.  In spite of trained manpower, availability of many automated systems to manage the e-resources, libraries, librarians, information produces, publishers, information vendors and users are still facing lot of problems.  To create a market for the e-resources, new business models and marketing strategies need to be adopted.  In addition to these, there are many other problems faced by the authors, e-publishers abd booksellers to be discussed in international professional forums particularly in the Indian context so that we can reach to some consensus between these groups.  This seminar tries to provide a platform for representatives from these groups to discuss and address the key issues in the publishing, usage and management of e-resources.

Seminar Objectives

• To provide a forum for discussion among users, librarians and electronic information resources providers including e-publishers and suppliers for addressing the various issues related to publishing, usage, emerging technologies and management of various types of e-resources;
• To discuss the areas of e-resources applications in e-learning and life-long learning;
• To address issue like standards and interoperability, digital rights management, etc., of e-resources;
• To provide an opportunity for the e-publishers to educate Indian users about e-publications and their advantages in Indian context; and
• To provide and opportunity for seminar participants and e-publishers to exchange views and provide feedback on the use of e-resources in academic & research libraries.

Scope of the Seminar

The seminar will cover with all areas dealing with different types of Electrical Resources. Some suggestive themes of the seminar are:

• Electronic Resources

Impact of e-resources on education and research, life cycle of an E-resources, Analysis of the characteristics digital documents; Problems in applying rules, etc.

• Technological issues in E-Publishing

New initiatives in e-publications development, multimedia use in e-publications, File formats, trends in e-books & e-journals publishing, etc.

• Standards for Electronic Resources and Interoperability

Various types of standards in e-resources; Proprietary standards vs. open standards; Evolution of standards and descriptive rules

• E-Resources Managing Systems (ERMS)

Managing E-resources, Design & development of ERMS, assessing users’ needs, Return on investment (ROI) to funding bodies & users, Preservation & Archiving issues; etc.,

• Electronic Resources for Education

Schools, colleges, universities, R&D Organizations; Sciences, Technology & Engineering institutions; Agricultural & Medical Sciences institutions; Social Sciences & Humanities institutions; Use of E-Resources for teaching and learning, Distance Education, E-learning, Enterprise application etc.

• Users and usage of Electronic Resources 

Users –perceptions, inhibition, attitude, expectations, problems; Use and usability issues; Accessibility issues; Problems related to E-resources, etc.

• Electronic Resources in Libraries

Collection development issues; Lending issues (user authentication, data encryption, etc); Cataloging of e-resources; Obsolescence issues; etc.

• Digital Rights Management

Rights Transfer, Copyright issues; Plagiarism and piracy issues; Digital Content Rights management, etc.

• Economics of  Electronic Resources

Business models for E-Resources; E-books & e-journals publishers and distributors; Pricing models in E-resources; Marketing trends/opportunities in E-Resources; licensing issues; issues related to publishers, aggregators and booksellers, etc.

Who can attend this seminar?

• Information & Library Science Professionals and Educators
• E-books & E-journals publishers and suppliers
• Academics, research students and teachers with an interest in e-publishing, Internet, etc.
• Academics in the fields of publishing, education and training.
• IT professionals and Educators with an interest in e-publishing and e-learning.
• General users of e-resources.

Submission of papers

The seminar organizers are looking for high quality research and review papers in the areas related to e-resources.  Paper may be submitted in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf.) or MS Word (.doc) format.  Receipt of the paper will be confirmed through email. All papers submitted to National Seminar on Electronic Resources in Academic and Research Libraries  must be written in English, using appropriate grammar and syntax.  The page limit for final papers is eight single-spaced pages in 10 point, Times New Roman Font. 

Soft copy of the article should be sent to the mail surendrasvul@gmail.com, and the hard copy should be posted to the organizing secretary of the seminar.

Important dates

Seminar Dates                                           :26.3.2012 to 27.3.2012

Last Date for Submission of Full Paper          :20.3.2012

Last Date for Registration                             :20.3.2012

Registration Fees

All the participants are requested to register for the seminar by sending the filled in registration form, along with prescribed fee on or before 20.3.2012.

Participants	Amount in Rs.
Library Professionals	:500/-
Research Scholars and Students	:200/-

Lord Venkateswara Darshan

Provisional arrangements to be made for Darshan of Lord Venkateswara on payment basis.  

Accommodation

Accommodations in university and other guest house will be arranged by the organizers for which prior information has to be provided on payment basis

About S.V.University

Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati was established in 1954, in the world famous temple town of Tirupati on the sprawling campus of 1000 acres with a panoramic and pleasant hill view. This University stands as a testimony to the wisdom and foresight of great visionaries Late Sri Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu, the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and Late Sri Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy, to cater to the educational needs and aspirations of the people of Rayalaseema area. With a great wisdom, the founder of this University have rightly coined the motto “Wisdom lies in proper perspective” for it. The University has grown excellently from strength to strength over the past fifty-two years, as a premier institute of higher learning under the able and committed leaderships of successive Vice-Chancellors starting from Prof. S. Govindarajulu to the present Vice-Chancellor Prof. N. Prabhakar Rao. It has gone through greater strides in the transformation of the University with acquiring necessary and modern sophisticated instrumentation to catch up with the world competition in academic and research programmes.
Right from its inception, the University has been laying more emphasis on teaching, research and extension activities in different subjects. The range of subject departments, courses and research programmes undertaken and promoted during the last fifty-two years reflect the Sri Venkateswara University’s commitment in promoting socially relevant and inter-disciplinary programmes. The University was started with six departments of Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Botany, Zoology, Economics and Philosophy. The University has eight constituent colleges concerning various conventional and advanced subject, in order to provide good academic and smooth administrative service to one and all. Besides these colleges, it has a PG centre at Kavali. The University has 58 departments, wherein 71 different PG courses and several Diploma and Certificate courses are being run with a total academic faculty strength of 400 and 1500 non-teaching and a student strength of 5000, including research scholars. Several novel and newly emerging PG courses have also been introduced during this academic year. The University has been moving forwards in achieving academic excellence with a strong commitment and dedicated approach, by clearly setting up of a vision of its own. The initiatives taken by the Vice-Chancellor have already started yielding excellent results, in terms of research funding, extension activities and thus keeping the University on the path of excellence.

S.V.University Library

Sri Venkateswara University, named after the Lord of the Seven Hills, came into existence as a teaching and affiliating University on the 2nd September, 1954, for the encouragement of higher education and research in all branches of learning. It was intended to fulfil the long felt need of the people of Rayalaseema for their educational advancement.

The University Library was started in the year 1955 with a small collection of 6,700 books taken from the Sri Venkateswara College, Tirupati, administered by Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams. Initially the library was housed in one portion of the college main building. Later, it was shifted to the present  building which was declared open in July 1964, by Late Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, the then President of India. He described it as   “Taj Mahal of the South".

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SEMINAR ORGANIZERS

Director of the Seminar

           

Prof.C.Aruna Prasad Reddy

Librarian,

 S.V.University Library,

 Tirupati-517502

Cell : 9440163323

Email : arunaprasad_c@rediffmail.com

Organising Secretary

Dr.K.Surendra Babu

Assistant Professor,

S.V.University Library,

Tirupati-517502

Cell : 9573246734

Email : surendrasvul@gmail.com


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