PROGRAMME

Day 1: Thursday, 5th February 2009

Registration 9.30-10.00

Welcome Address
Prof J N Goswami, Director, PRL 10.05-10.15

Inaugural Address 10.15-10.35

Prof B H Jajoo, Dean, IIMA

High Tea 10.35-11.00

Understanding Web2.0 (Chair : Mrs Rhoda Bharucha)

Library 2.0: Innovative Technologies for

Building Libraries of Tomorrow
Dr Jagdish Arora, INFLIBNET 11.00-12.00

Unleashing Library Services with Web 2.0

Dr Dhanashree Date, TCS 12.00-12.30

Poster session 12.30 – 1.00

Lunch 1.00 – 2.00

Web 2.0: Implications for Library Services

Dr Usha Munshi, IIPA 2.00 – 2.30

RSS and its use in Libraries

Mr Sukhdev Singh, NIC 2.30 – 3.00

Tea Break 3.00 - 3.30

Standards & Protocols (Chair : Shri P C Shah)

Interoperability Protocols &

Standards in LIS
Dr Shailendra Kumar, Delhi University 3.30 – 4.30

Quality Assurance for users in libraries

through ISO-9001: 2000 Standard
Dr Harish Chandra, IITM, Chennai 4.30 – 5.30

Poster session 5.30 – 6.30

Dinner 6.30 – 8.30
 Day 2 : Friday, 6th February 2009

Networking & RFID Technologies (Shri R S Sharma)

Networking with Users in the

Library 2.0 Scenario
Mr H Anil Kumar, IIMA 9.30 – 10.00

Networking of Indian Universities

for Resource Sharing
Mr Manoj Kumar, INFLIBNET 10.00 - 10.30

Tea Break 10.30 - 11.00

Social Networking: Tools and Technologies

for enhancing user interaction
Ms Sangeeta Kaul, DELNET 11.00-11.30

Networking walkthrough in a
typical digital library
Mr Manoj Singh, BARC 11.30 - 12.00

Poster session 12.00 – 1.00

Lunch 1.00 – 2.00

Open Source Technologies (Mrs. Dharmista Patel)

Open Source Technologies for Libraries

Dr M G Sreekumar, IIMK 2.00 – 3.00

Linux for Librarians

Ms Nishtha Anilkumar, PRL 3.00 – 3.30

Tea Break 3.30 -3.45

Koha: A Customizable Open Source ILS

Mr Vivek Singhwal, Pyther Innovations 3.45 – 4.15

Concluding session 4.15 – 5.00

High Tea 5.00 – 5.15