LIS Education, Profession, Research, Transforming Library Space and Green Libraries:
Relevance of Ranganathan’s philosophy- Leadership in LIS profession & Embedded Librarianship Skills & New Roles for Librarians, Change Management: Issues and Strategies- Sustainable Library Building Design & Green Libraries - Transition from print to electronic Libraries as community centre’s Bibliometrics, scientometrics, webometrics, community networks for scientific data, Research data management-Open Science
Marketing of Library Resources, Innovative Services:
Best practices for services in Academic, Public and Special Libraries - Outreach Services of Libraries (User profiling methods, personalization of services - Innovative technologies for Teaching, MOOCS
Branding library services, Personal branding for LIS professionals
Digital Libraries, Digitization and Library Automation:
E-Publishing in Academic Libraries - Emerging & Innovative Technology Applications in Libraries - Knowledge Management & Sustainable Digital Preservation - Plagiarism: issues and challenges - Cyber Laws - Digital resources Disaster management & Recovery Plans Robotics
Big Data, Semantic Data, Ontology in Libraries, and Information Retrieval:
Cloud Computing & Linked Data and Data Curation - Research Data Management Tools, Open IoT technologies - Data mining, Semantic web, Digital Open Data: Open Science - Big Data & Data Analytics & Data Exchange & Interoperability - Learning Management System & Content Management systems - Ontological Tools, Knowledge Discovery and Representation in Digital Libraries - AI / Machine Learning for DLs
Open Access Resources, Databases, IPR:
Internet and Challenges for Intellectual Property Rights - Open Access Journals, Books, and Electronic Theses and Dissertations - Intellectual property rights: National and International Efforts. E-Resource Management and Standards - Open Access Resources in Teaching and Learning Process
Social Media and Mobile Applications in Libraries:
E Learning and Social Media Tools, Social Network Analysis - Mobile Social Networking and Mobile web for Libraries - Social and Human Elements of Information Security - Social Sharing/Social Networking Services/Idea Generation/Mobile Based Services - Library 4.0, Block Chain technologies
Public Libraries as a Community Development Centre:
Developing Community Information System and Advocacy Tools - Studies on outreach, citizenship, learning skills, extending formal education and information literacy - Strengthening informal learning, Collaboration with Institutions, NGO and other Organizations - Preservation and Conservation of cultural heritage - Crowd sourcing and Crowd funding and sustenance - Public libraries legislations and need for revisions, community patronage