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TERI
(The
Energy and Resources Institute)
invites your attention to ICDL 2010, the third conference in the Institute’s
ICDL (International Conference on Digital Libraries) series. The theme
of ICDL 2010 is ‘Digital Libraries: Shaping the Information
Paradigm’ and the conference will focus on the strengths and
potential of digital libraries and their role in education, cultural,
social and economic development. The conference aims to bring together
a galaxy of experts, researchers, academics, and scholar students
and provide an international platform to address issues relevant to
digital libraries. |
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TERI’s
contribution to the DL Movement |
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TERI
has contributed to the DL movement by organizing two International
Conferences on DL’s in 2004 and 2006 respectively. The theme
of the first ICDL held in 2004 was ‘Knowledge Creation, Presentation,
Access and Management’. It was inaugurated by the then Hon’ble
President of India Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam. A roadmap for digitization
of manuscripts and libraries was also prepared as a follow-up activity
and submitted to the Ministry of Culture. The theme of the second
ICDL held in 2006 was ‘Information Management for Global Access’.
A final report on the conference was also submitted to the Ministry
of Culture. Both these conferences were very well attended and hundreds
of people from across the globe gathered to gether on a single platform
and shared their experiences.
TERI also conducts seminars and workshops
on DLs for library and information professionals on regular basis
since 2000. These seminars and workshops have received overwhelmed
response.
TERI regularly publishes‘World Digital Libraries’, a
bi-annual journal, to generate awareness at the global level with
special reference to India. |
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Who
should participate ? |
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The conference
is expected to attract participation from information scientists
and professionals from a wide range of disciplines, including those
involved in DL research and practice, from all over the world.
The following categories of professionals are expected to benefit
from the conference:
Library and Information Science professionals.
Information Technology professionals.
Knowledge workers.
Policy makers.
Educationists.
Archivists.
Content and knowledge managers.
IT Service providers.
Information providers and vendors.
Museologists.
Electronic publishing and virtual electronic communities.
All stakeholders in the digitization and knowledge business.
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