Welcome to International Conference
on
University Librarianship: an academic challenges and opportunity
14 – 15th July 2010 in Colombo Sri Lanka

The theme of the conference is “University librarianship: an academic challenge and opportunity”. It is comprised of the following sub-themes:

• Recruitment, training and retention in university librarianship
• Future of professionalism of university librarians
• Contribution to the university governance
• LIS curriculum development
• Emerging trends in open access initiatives
• Quality management in libraries
• Meeting challenges in funding
• Security issues in libraries
• Access to information and copyright law
• Library management Systems and Digital Library initiatives
• Reaching offsite and differently-able learners