Tuesday, July 24, 2012



SIS India & NIT Silchar


Presents


SIS 2012

29thConvention & Conference of SIS

on

Information-Innovation-Technology: Creating Seamless Linkages

(26-28 November 2012)

BACKGROUND

New Paradigms are crafted by Contemporary Research in Information Science through a multi-disciplinary approach with influence from bordering disciplines such Education, Sociology, Psychology, Behavioural Sciences apart from predominant perspectives from Computer Science. The theme of this conference is to provide a platform to educationists, Information specialists and Library professionals to explore this multi- disciplinary approach by integrating technologies in understanding the implicit and explicit functions of information, innovation and communication.

THEMES

Information, Innovation & Technologies: Creating Seamless Linkages

SUB-THEMES

I: Information

New theories and paradigms in information science; foundations of information science

·         Metadata,

·         Information Retrieval and Information Access,

·         Information Architecture and Organization of Information,

·         Information & Knowledge Management,

·         Distributed and Collaborative Information Spaces,

·         Integration of Information Resources,

·         Electronic Information System,

·         Digital Rights Management,

·         Patinformatics and Copyright

·         Bibliometrics and Infometrics, Data Analytics.

II: Innovation and Technology

New Innovations & Technologies Applications in Information Science and Information Services

·         Web 3.0; New Practices,

·         Cloud Computing,

·         Smart Mobile Applications in LIS,

·         Wearable Technologies,

·         Blogs & Wikis in LIS,

·         E-Learning and Information Literacy

·         Scholarly Publishing, Open Access, Digital Repositories, and Digital Libraries,

·         E-Books & E-Journals,

·         E –Resources Access and  Management,

·         Consortia and Networks,

·         Security of Library Resources,

·         Quality Assurance & Best Practices,

·         Innovative Library Products & Services


OBJECTIVES

• The principal objective of this Convention is to provide a platform for exchange of knowledge, ideas & learning experience among the Librarians, Information specialists, Scientists, Information providers & persons related to LIS.

   To identify emerging innovations in the field of Library and Information Science

TARGET AUDIENCE

Practicing Librarians and Information Specialists, Academicians, IT Professionals, Scientists, Students and Faculties of LIS etc.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers based on Case studies, Researches, Practical experiences, etc. on the main theme and sub-themes of the Seminar are invited from the interested participants. The Paper should be within 6000 word including Abstract of about 300 words with 4 keywords and typed in MS-WORD in 12-point Times New Roman. All the references should be properly tagged and referred following Chicago Manual Style. The authors should agree with the transfer of the copyright of the papers to SIS, New Delhi and the NIT Silchar. The same should be sent as e-mail attachment to the Organizing Secretary on or before 30th August 2012. All the received papers will be peer–reviewed. Only the accepted papers will be published in an edited book format to be published under the aegis of SIS, India.

General Instructions:

1. Both invited and contributed papers will be considered

2. A generalized presentation should be avoided

3. A declaration by the author(s) should be made separately that the paper(s) has/ have not been sent elsewhere for publication/presentation

4. All accepted papers will be invited for presentation

5. The decision of the Editorial Committee will be final.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for Paper Submission     :    30 August 2012

Notifications for Acceptance        :    15 Sept 2012

Camera Ready Paper Submission  :    30 Sept 2012

Conference Date                        :    26-28 Nov 2012

REGISTRATION

Delegates are requested to fill the registration form and return the same with conference fee and other applicable payments to the Conference Secretariat latest by October 15, 2012.


Conference Fee
SIS members
Working Professionals
Students, Retired and unemployed library and Information specialists
Accompanying Person
Overseas Delegate
 (Early Registration by October 10, 2012)
Rs 800
Rs. 1200
Rs. 500
Rs. 1000
$ 100
Regular (After October 10, 2012)
Rs 1000
Rs. 1500
Rs. 600
Rs. 1200
$120

The registration fee will cover registration materials, lunch, dinner, tea & snacks.The demand draft should be drawn in favor of SIS 2012 and payable at State Bank of India, NIT Silchar Branch (code 7061), Silchar– 788010.

ACCOMMODATION

Delegates requiring accommodation during the Convention & Conference are requested to fill in the accommodation format in the registration form which can be downloaded from the website. Accommodation will be provided inthe institute guest house, other guest houses, and hostels. Limited accommodation is available for Students. All requests for accommodation must accompany demand drafts of required amounts drawn in favor of SIS 2012 and payable at State Bank of India, NIT Silchar Branch (code 07061), Silchar – 788010. Tariff for accommodation per day for different categories is shown below:


Type
Tariff (Rs.)/Day
AC
Single
Double
Type – I
2000
3500
Type – II
400
700
Non-AC
300
600

TARIFF FOR ADVERTISEMENT FOR SOUVENIR


Back Outside Cover
Rs. 25,000
Back Front/Inside Cover
Rs. 20,000
Special Page (Coloured)
Rs. 15,000
Ordinary Page (Full)
Rs. 10,000
Ordinary Page (Half)
Rs. 5000

 Advertisement submission deadline: 15th October, 2012

VENUE

CET Hall, NIT Silchar-788010

NIT Silchar is located on the Silchar - Hailakandi road at a distance of about 8 K.M. away from the railway station/bus stand. Silchar is linked to the rest of the country by road, rail and air. Transport facilities by the way of day super/night super bus, are available from Guwahati/Shillong/Aizwal/Agartala/Imphal to Silchar.

CLIMATE

The state of Assam experiences a maximum temperature of 36° Celsius and a minimum temperature as low as 10° Celsius in upper Himalayas. The annual rainfall is 2484.5 mm and the rainy season is from June to October. The winter stretches from November to February. The climate of Silchar will be moderately cool during November. The participants are advised to bring some woollen clothes as during November the weather will be moderately colder one. The temperature will be between 17 and 30 Degree Celsius during morning and night.

THE HOST

The National Institute of Technology, Silchar (An Institute of National Importance) is one of the premier national level institutions for technical education in North East India. Government of India as a joint venture with Government of Assam established Regional Engineering College, Silchar in 1967 with the objective of imparting quality engineering education, providing cosmopolitan outlook among students and fostering a spirit of National Integration. This institution has been transformed and upgraded to National Institute of Technology, Silchar with a Deemed University Status with effect from 28.06.2002. The institute has been subsequently made into a fully funded Government of India institution. The institute is situated in an extending campus about 540 acres of undulating land and lakes surround by tea estates and hillocks providing an ideal environment for studies.

LIBRARY@NIT SILCHAR

The Central Library which is the heart of the Institute was established in 1977.  It provides one of the important academic services to the Institute. It is a well equipped Library, centrally located with easy access and does provide right impetus for the intellectual growth of the students, teachers, research scholars & others around.  Presently the Library is a part of the LTT building with 997 Sq. Ft. floor area & having around 90,000 collections of documents.

The National Institute of Technology Silchar Library with its modern collection of knowledge resources and innovative information services fills an essential role for students, faculty, and the surrounding community in their intellectual pursuits. It is a hybrid library with the state-of-the-art technological applications. The Library holds knowledge resources predominantly related to Science and Technology, Social Sc & other allied subjects. The Library is now fully computerized with an integrated system connected to the Campus Network providing e-resource facility to the institute community.The entire Library collection including the CD-ROM databases and the online databases are made available through Institute’s network. Users can access the online databases through Institute’s network.   On-line Public Access Catalogue facility is available at the ground Floor of the Library. OPAC can also be accessed through any terminal on the Campus Network. Library collection can also be searched through Web OPAC.

The Library offers a range of information services to support the learning process set to the highest professional standards. The Library is holding membership of DELNET, New Delhi for inter library loan. National Institute of Technology Silchar Library is an active member of INDEST Consortium through which online full text journals can be accessed.

SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE (SIS)

The Society for Information Science (SIS) (http://www.sis.org.in) founded in 1975, works in the broad domain of Information Sciences. The Society for Information Science (SIS) was formed with the following aims;

i)  To promote interchange of information in the discipline of information science and its subdivision amongst the specialists and between specialists and the public.

ii)  To encourage and assist the professionals to maintain the integrity and competence of the profession.

iii)  To foster a sense of partnership amongst the professionals engaged in these fields.


           The Society is of the firm opinion that there should be systematic approach in adapting new information technology with cot-benefit analysis. There should also be a plan to strengthen infrastructure viz., to create manpower and maintenance support to the new technology. The Society is firmly committed to provide a congenial environment for interaction among information innovation, industry, technology management and services which are socially relevant in the interest of the Nation. The SIS functions through an Executive Committee consisting of experts from different institutions and assisted by various sub-committees for carrying out its programme.

Society for Information Science (SIS) is an all India professional body devoted to encouraging interaction among information professionals, scientists, managers and users. The Society is truly professional in nature. It enrolls only the qualified persons as members after the applications have been screened and approved by the Membership Screening Committee which is duly nominated by the Executive Committee.

          The Society has come a long way in 36 years of its existence; it has been able to peruse the programme quite successfully maintaining its vibrant character. It is a body of experts and leading professionals from different esteemed Indian institutions such as CSIR, IITs, IIMs, ICMR, and different universities, colleges, and others in the field of information Science. The most important programme of SIS i.e. Annual Conventions are being organized regularly every year in different parts of the country. SIS has organized the event in most of the states of India but it will be for the first time one NE state will be holding the SIS Convention.  The last SIS convention SIS 2011 was held in CSIR- URDIP, Pune on the theme 'Patinformatics for Research and Business Planning'. SIS Conventions, cover the topics, which in a way reflect SIS’s forward thinking about selecting topics from the frontier areas of information science and technology.

The SIS awards Fellowships to members in recognition of their outstanding contributions to information Science and to Society. The Young Information Scientist Award has been instituted in 1989 in the memory of Late Shri A.S. Raizada, Founder Secretary of SIS. The publications of SIS include SISCOM and SISTRANS.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Patrons:

Prof. N V Deshpande, Director, NIT Silchar

Prof. Naresh Kumar, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Mohali

Chairman

Prof. A K Dey, Dean (Academic), NIT Silchar

Organizing Secretary

Dr. Kishor Chandra Satpathy, Librarian, NIT Silchar


Assistant Organizing Secretaries

Dr. M K Sinha, DLIS, Assam University, Silchar

Mrs. Krishnamati Singha, Asstt. Librarian, NIT Silchar

 NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE


Dr R R Hirwani, Head, URDIP, Pune

Dr B C Sharma, Senior Consulting Editor, BI Publications, New Delhi

Mr. N K Wadhwa, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi

Dr. Divya Srivastava, Director, Indian Council for Medical Research, New Delhi

Dr. Harish Chandra, IIT Madras

Dr. Rama Pattnaik, IIM Bangalore

Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director, INFLIBNET, Ahmedabad

Dr. P R Goswami, Director, Central Secretariat Library, Delhi

Dr. H K Kaul, Director, DELNET, Delhi

Prof. N Laxman Rao, DLIS, OU, Hyderabad

Prof. P K Panigrahi, DLIS, University of Kolkata

Dr. Ramesh Gaur, JNU, New Delhi

Dr. P K Jain, SLA, New Delhi

Dr. J N Satpathy, President, IASLIC, Kolkata

Mr. Yogendra Singh, Librarian, IIT Roorkee

Dr. B Sutradhar, IIT Kharagpur

Dr. Sanjay Kataria, Librarian, JIIT University, Noida

Dr. Subarna Das, DLIS, Jadavpur University, Kolkata (WB)

Prof. Parbhakar Rath, DLIS, Mizoram University, Aizwal

Prof. Masoom Raza, DLIS, NEHU, Shillong

Dr. Tamal Guha, Librarian, Sikkim University, Sikkim

Prof. Roshan Raina, IIM Lucknow

Dr. D Krishnamurty, Librarian, University of Manitoba, Canada

Dr. Gurdish Sandhu, Associate Director (Library & Learning Services), UEL, London, UK

Dr. Hassan Kiani, Al-Zahara University, Tehran, Iran

Mr. Girendra Pokharel, Librarian, Ministry of Education, Nepal

Mr. Sugath Gunatilake, Librarian, Ministry of Agriculture, Colombo, Sri lanka

Mr. Bhim Dhoj Shrestha, DLIS, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Mr. BishnuAryal, Librarian, Public Youth Campus, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Mr. Nafiz Zaman Shuva, DLIS, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dr. Md. Anisur Rahman DLIS, International Islamic University Malaysia
 

LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Mr. H. S. Chakroborty, NIT, Silchar

Mr. Langmuanjohn Tonsing, NIT, Silchar

Sri Jayanta Bhattacharjee, AU Silchar

Dr. Mukut Sarmah, DLIS, AU Silchar

Sri Shankar Chakraborty, Librarian, N.C. College, Badarpur

CONTACT DETAILS

Dr. Kishor Chandra Satpathy

Librarian & Organising Secretary

National Institute of Technology

(A Deemed University-Institute of National Importance under Ministry of HRD, GOI)

Silchar-788010, Assam, India

Telephone    : +91-3842-240055 (Off) +91-9435175531 (M)

E-mail           :  kishor_satpathy@yahoo.com and ksatpathy@gmail.com