The conference aims to address the main issues of concern within the framework of From Ownership to Access: Leveraging the Digital Paradigm issues. Some of the important areas, which conference intends to engage itself with are listed below:
- E-Books Access in Libraries
- New ways for Library Resource Access
- Procurement and Management including Right management of E-books
- Trends, New models and tools
- Impact of eBooks on learning
- E-books Accelerating – Will print books disappear?
- Future of eBooks
- Web Based Access in Libraries
- Semantic Web
- Text mining
- Cloud Computing and Libraries
- Social Media and Applications in Libraries
- Social Networks, Virtual Organization and Networked Information
- Web Archiving and Preservation
- Next-generation web services
- Future Models of Accessing the Libraries
- Acquisitions and Collection Development
- Access, Ownership and Resource Sharing
- Economics of access versus ownership
- Licensing Pricing IPR & Privacy Issues
- Threats to Digital Lending
- Database Ownership: Myth or Reality
- New & Emerging Resources, Products, & Services
- Library Outreach, Marketing & Advocacy
- Open Access
Participants are invited to contribute papers for presentation on the above themes and related aspects. The papers should be based on research surveys; case studies or action plans rather than theoretical explanations