Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology hosted a national conference on May 2013

An intensive national level conference was organized by Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology on May 16, 2013. The topic for the conference was “Collection Development and Management in Libraries and Information Centres in Digital Scenario”.

Collection development has always been a primary function for libraries. That is why Librarians have been trained about collection development principles during their education. Over the last few decades librarians have been facing certain challenges in balancing their collection development due to emergence of new medium. Now, the traditional formats are no more in demands and are inadequate to meet user’s demands. Today, any user requires precise information not that general source in shortest possible time. There is necessity to fill the gap between traditional and newly launched source of information.

The conference provided an opportunity to interact with LIS Professionals, Professionals from IT & Management, policy makers and knowledge seekers, Educationist and Academicians, Researchers, Archive Professionals, Students and distance learners, Publishers/Vendors, Content Managers/Media Experts/Knowledge Managers, Govt. Officials/Planner etc. This was open to all above mentioned personals.

Conference was followed with paper presentations and an award ceremony. Candidates had registered themselves for this conference on the following basis:

• Rs. 500/- for Library Professionals/Academicians and others

• Rs. 200/- for students/Research Scholars/Retired Professionals
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Following topics were discussed in the conference:

• Collection Development and Access Management

• Collection Development Management and Preservation

• Library Planning and Policies for Collection Development

• Managing Print Collection in Digital Age

• Emergence of new Technology for Collection Development

• Selection Sources and Processes

• Illegal Issues in Collection Development

• Electronic Document Delivery Services and Management

• Knowledge Organization Techniques

• Technology Issues in Online Services

• Collection Development & Rules in Changing Library

• Digital Libraries Development and Limitations

• Open Source Software tools for Digital Library Development.

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Source: Ajay Kumar Prajapati, click4college Specialist