Dear Friends,

Wishing you A Very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2010

I am happy to inform that we have received 157 abstracts/papers from 16 countries. Many of our friends are in final touch of their abstract/papers and requested us to extend the date further for submission of abstract/paper. Keeping in view their request, the core organizing committee of ETTLIS 2010 is agreed to extend the date further and the extended dates are:

Submission of Abstract/paper : February 15, 2010
Notifications… Continue

Presentations ffrom the UK's Library and Information Research Group are at http://www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/special-interest-groups/research/activities/pages/default.aspx
The latest set are presentations from an event at Loughborough University (these are not about information literacy, but various aspects of library and information research)

Conference Alerts Worldwide
http://www.conferencealerts.com/library.htm
To get an overview and links to various academic International Conferences conducted worldwide in the field of Library & Information Science one can visit this website. Here one can do 3 things:
1) subscribe alerts through e-mail
2) add an event and
promote an event

APPEAL: Join this site (http://lishelp.ning.com/) to strengthen the LIS profession/professionals and society.

Dear Professionals/Friends,
I would like to inform you about the new initiative taken to strengthen the LIS professionals and Society via a social network entitles (HELP DESK FOR LIBRARY AND SOCIETY (HDLS) created with the suggestions by different professionals. Kindly join the website at (http://lishelp.ning.com/… Continue

The first LIS Research Coalition Conference will be a one-day event at the British Library Conference Centre in London on Monday 28th June 2010. There are no further details available at the moment.