Theme and Subthemes

Theme: Building Participatory Library Services in Digital Era



Subtheme 1: Participatory Web Tools

  • Web 2.0 and Library 2.0
  • Social Networks
  • Mashups
  • Tagging & Social Bookmarking
  • Semantic Web
  • Technology Trends for and beyond 2.0
  • From OPACs to Discovery Tools

Subtheme 2 : Academic Libraries in Participatory Era

  • Participatory Librarianship Approach
  • Collective Intelligence and Collaborative Publishing
  • Library as Facilitators for Conversation and Interaction
  • Institutional Repositories
  • Open Journal/book and other Content Management Systems
  • Virtual Reference Services and Community Involvement
  • Digital Collections
  • Building the Participatory Librarianship.

Subtheme 3 : Building Infrastructure for Participation

  • Federated Search and Discovery Services
  • Cloud Computing
  • Collaborative Access Management, Open ID
  • Case Studies and Best Practices
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