What’s Next in Libraries?: February 2015

Farewell & Thank you Note

Dear All,

Greetings from the WNL 2K15 Team of NIT Silchar.
Hope you have reached your home safely. First of all I would like to thank all of you for your kind cooperation for making International Conference on “What’s next in libraries? Trends, Space, and partnerships” a grand success.

I take this opportunity to thank all the members of the International & National Advisory Committee, Local Organizing Committee, Invited Guests, Speakers, Institutional Partners, Sponsors, Media & Participants for their role in making the Meet a success. I wish to express my gratitude to my colleagues in the library, faculty members & staff in the institute for their valuable help & support. I am grateful to many individuals (& the one who helped me initially & don’t want to be named), many institutions & my family members for their support in making this International Conference a success.

I wish to put on record my sincere gratitude for the help, support & advise received from the following persons:

UIUC, USA
Pradeep Khanna, Associate Chancellor for Corporate and International Relations
Paula Kaufman, Interim Director, Mortenson Center
Susan Schnuer, Associate Director, Mortenson Center
William H. Mischo, Head, Grainger Engineering Library Information Center
Jeffrey Mark Schrader, Assistant Dean for Facilities, University Library
Barbara J. Ford, Mortenson Center
Milind Basole, eText Group, CITES Academic Technology Services
Lindy Wheatly, Mortenson Centre
Bhavna Hirani, Program Coordinator

NIT Silchar & Other Institute
Prof. Asis Datta, National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi
Prof. N V Deshpande, Director
Prof. F A Talukdar, Chairman, LSC
Mr. Nikhil Sharma, FICCI, New Delhi
Ms. Geeta Malhotra, ReadIndia, New Delhi
Dr. M K Sinha, AU Silchar
Arindam Gupta, Silchar

For updates, kindly visit the site.
http://lvpnits.wix.com/wnlconference2k15
https://www.facebook.com/WNL2015
http://whatsnextinlibraries.blogspot.in
http://librarynits.wix.com/whatnextinlibraries

Kindly note the following:

2. Newspaper Clippings: The newspaper clipping (23 Nos) of WNL 2015 have been uploaded to the Blog. To access the same please follow the link:http://whatsnextinlibraries.blogspot.in/ & https://www.facebook.com/kishor.c.satpathy/media_set… . Few more online links are given below:

NIT meet focuses on ‘libraries for all’-Times of India

Jan 23, 2015, 06.00AM IST

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/NIT-meet-focuses-on-libraries-for-all/articleshow/45983656.cms

Libraries central to society: Kalpana Dasgupta- Assam Tribune, Feb 1, 2015

http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=feb0215/state055

http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/showpage.asp?id=feb0215,8,87,1548,666,606

Libraries need aesthetic facelift: Paula Kaufman- Assam tribune, Jan 20 – Assam Tribune

http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=jan2115/state050

Libraries are to be mass oriented: Kalpana Dasgupta- The Sentinal, January 25,2015:

http://www.sentinelassam.com/cachar/story.php?sec=2&subsec=12&id=215954&dtP=2015-01-26&ppr=1

Eastern Chronicle, January 19 & 22, 2015:

http://easternchronicle.net/index.php?archive=19.01.2015&city=1#

http://easternchronicle.net/index.php?archive=22.01.2015&city=1#

Manipur Chronicle, January 19, 2015:

http://manipurchronicle.net/index.php?archive=19.01.2015#

Dainik Jugashank, January 19, 2015:

http://dainikjugasankha.in/index.php?archive=19.01.2015&city=1#

Samuhik Prasanga, January 20 & 22, 2015:

http://samayikprasanga.in/archive.php?dt=2015-01-20&pn=3 http://samayikprasanga.in/archive.php?dt=2015-01-22&pn=6

Dainik Jugashank, January 19,20& 22 2015:

http://dainikjugasankha.in/index.php?archive=19.01.2015&city=1#

http://www.dainikjugasankha.in/index.php?archive=20.01.2015&city=1#

http://www.dainikjugasankha.in/index.php?archive=22.01.2015&city=1#

Prernabharti_28th_jan_ 2015 (अंक04)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/253953828/Prernabharti-issue04-28thJan15

3. Report of the Conference: We are in a process of preparing the final report & outcome of the Conference. I request all the rapporteurs to send their report & recommendations within 3 days so that the same can be complied by Rapporteur General & incorporated in the main report. All other participants are free to send their recommendations. The final version will be updated to the blog & website.

4. PPTs: The PPTs of the workshop and conference have been uploaded to: http://www.slideshare.net/ksatpathy . If your ppt is not included, pl. mail it to ksatpathy@gmail.com.

5. Certificates & Money Receipts: If you have not received the certificate or Money Receipts, kindly mail us at ksatpathy@gmail.com. We will send it by post.

6. Conference Abstract Book: The soft copy of the Conference Abstract Book is available at: http://www.slideshare.net/ksatpathy/wnl-2015-souvenir . For hard copy please send a mail to ksatpathy@gmail.com.

7. Printed report: We are planning to bring out a printed report consisting of invited lectures, photographs, newspaper clippings, participants list & this will be send to all of you. In this context, I would like to request all the paper presenters & speakers to send 10 line summary of their papers / talk for inclusion in the report. Please tell us your views on “What’s Next in Libraries” in max 20 lines for inclusion in the Report.

Please send your Feedback to me to improve our forthcoming events…….

Thanks and Regards

Kishor
Organising Secy, WNL 2015
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Dr. KIshor Chandra Satpathy
Librarian
National Institute of Technology
Silchar-788010, Assam, India
Tele: +91-3842-240055 (Off) +91-9435175531 (M)
E-mail: ksatpathy@gmail.com

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