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Dear Professional Friends,
The en re country has been under the Lockdown status due to Covid-19 Pandemic disease. At this juncture,
we need to maintain social distance and stay safe. Due to this lockdown status, Educa on Ins tu ons are
closed, and the Librarians confined to the empty Libraries and the students to their houses.
The LIS Academy had announced it's Na onal Conference at the University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, from 27-
29 August 2020. Unfortunately, due to the mass spreading of pandemic COVID-19 disease across the country,
the organizers have planned to organize a Virtual Conference from LIS Academy Studio on the same dates.

VIRTUAL LISACON - 2020

The LISACON2020 will be held in Virtual Mode. The conference ac vi es will be web-streamed. The
paper presenters will be allowed to present their papers from their places through video recordings,
and all speakers will be present online for Q/A sessions.
The conference venue will be created with a studio at LIS Academy, Bangalore. Only Plenary speakers
and Panel Members will be invited for their physical presence at the Conference Venue. However, if
they are unable to a end in person, they can also address their paper through a webinar. The en re
conference will be held on the scheduled three days, and every day there will be two sessions. Each
session will consist of 90 minutes, with six invited paper presenta ons and plenary talk. He/she will
moderate the session.
Papers are invited from the professionals. The best six papers based on the scope of the sub-theme
and cleared through the peer review process will be selected for presenta on at the conference.
Accepted papers will be treated as Invited talks. The presenter/authors of the paper will be paid
Rs.2000 towards Cash prize per paper, free registra on, a memento, and a cer ficate of apprecia on.
The selected presenter will have to share his/her presenta on (PPT/PPTX). A er scru ny, they will be
asked to create a video for 10 minutes using zoom or any other pla orm with HD quality MP4 format
videos with conference backdrop provided by organizers.

Reinventing Excellence in Librarianship
CONFERENCE
THEME

Excellence is about being the best, striving to be be er, and delivering quality services. Libraries are
universally considered as social ins tu ons, which facilitate acquisi on and dissemina on of
knowledge. Library professionals are efficiently serving the informa on needs of end-users by
adop ng new tools, techniques, and technologies from me to me. The advent of digital
technologies has brought in disrup ve changes in all spheres of library. Today's library is less about
what we have for users and more about what we do for users. Librarianship has to reinvent and
reposi on itself to achieve excellence. The librarianship needs to rethink innova ve content
acquisi on models, out of the box thinking in extending library services, leveraging technologies, new
modes of reaching the user community. The LISACON-2020 theme "Reinven ng Excellence in
Librarianship" will focus on bringing best prac ces, success stories, case studies, and innova ve
research outcomes to a common pla orm.