Broadly the themes of the conference are divided into main streams running in parallel sessions on all the days of the conference.
Stream 1: Trends in Library Education and Research
- Library Education and Research: Trends and Vision
- I schools
- Curriculum design
- Student-centered learning, space and support infrastructure (learning resources)
- Open/Distance LIS Education, e-Learning, OERs (Open Educational Resources)
- Accreditation
- Continuous Professional Education and Training
- Supply/demand: Library Profession Vs. LIS Manpower
- International Collaboration in LIS Education and Research
- LIS Publishing and Research Dissemination and Metrics
Stream 2: Trends in Public Library Services
- Community Information Services
- Acquiring and Structuring Local Content
- CMS Software for Developing Public Library Sites
- Liaison
- Web 2.0 for Public Libraries
- Capacity Building for ICT Applications
- Public Library Governance, Acts and Policy Issues
Stream 3: Trends in Domain Specific Information Systems and Services
- Agricultural Information Systems
- Medical Information System
- Scientific and Industrial Information System
- Information System for Social Sciences and Humanities
Stream 4: Trends in Open Access to Information and Data
- Open Access to Information
- Open Data Infrastructure Initiatives
- Open standards for Interoperability
- OAI-PMH, OAI-ORE for Harvesting
- Building Federated Search Engines
Stream 5: Trends in ICT applications to Library and Information Science
- Library Automation/Management Software
- Resource Sharing and Consortia
- Software tools related to LIS like Zebra Server, Shibboleth, ezproxy etc.
- Standards for Library and Information Science
- MARCs, FRBR, Z39.50, SRU/SRW, ILL, etc.
- Digital Libraries
- Role of digital libraries in education, cultural, social and economic development
- Digitization: Best Practices
- Digital Data Migration and Preservation
- Open Source Software for Digital Libraries: Features and Evaluation
- Semantic web
- Intelligent Agents in Semantic Retrieval
- Representation:OWL, RDF, SKOS
- Semantic Web Technologies and Digital Libraries
- Semantic Markup: Languages and Techniques
- Ontology and Metadata
- Vocabulary and Taxonomy Development
- Methodologies for Ontology Development
- Knowledge Management
- Knowledge Management System and Architecture
- Knowledge Management Case Study, Best Practice, Evaluation
- Knowledge Organization
- Classification Research, KO Applications
- KO Models and Systems
- Use and Usage Studies
