Broadly the themes of the conference are divided into main streams running in parallel sessions on all the days of the conference. However, authors are encouraged to submit papers on narrower and related areas, as the following are only broader guiding themes.
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
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
