<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman">Dear Professional Colleague,</FONT></SPAN>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB>It gives me a great pleasure to inform you that the <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1253191298_0>Delhi University Library System</SPAN> of the <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1253191298_1>University of Delhi</SPAN>, a premier University in <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1253191298_2>India</SPAN>, has taken the responsibility to host an <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1253191298_3 style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none">International Conference</SPAN> on <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1253191298_4 style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Academic Libraries</SPAN> from October 5 to 8, 2009 involving large number of professionals from India and abroad. <B>Dr. Sam Pitroda, C</B></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN>hairman
<SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1253191298_5>National Knowledge Commission</SPAN>, </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN>India</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN>, </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB>has kindly consented to inaugurate the Conference.</SPAN></FONT>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB>The Conference has received an</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US> overwhelming response from the library professional from across the world to our call for papers. We have received more than <B>170 paper contributions</B></SPAN><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: #993300">,</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US> out of which about 120 papers have been selected for the conference. </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB>ICAL-2009 has also made provision for poster presentations.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB> </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US>A good number of International experts have already consented to be present in the Conference</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB> to make the event more serious, fruitful and memorable. </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN> </SPAN>The list of Prominent International Speakers is available at: <A
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2.85pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-US>Besides, we are organizing a “</SPAN><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: windowtext">Pre-Conference Tutorial on Virtual Referencing</SPAN></B><B><SPAN lang=EN-US>”.</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US> </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Experts from OCLC will conduct the Tutorial on </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1253191298_7>5<SUP>th</SUP> October</SPAN>, 2009</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US>. It will explore real time <SPAN class=yshortcuts><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1253191298_8>virtual reference service</SPAN>, including </SPAN>the know how of a <SPAN class=yshortcuts><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1253191298_9>reference management service</SPAN></SPAN> called Question Point. </SPAN></FONT>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: windowtext">Exhibition of Library Materials</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: windowtext">: </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB>DULS will be holding an exhibition of Library related materials including books, periodicals, non-book materials, LMS, various other ICT tools, etc. </SPAN></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT face="lucida console, sans-serif" size=2> </FONT></DIV><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size=2>Rajesh Singh</FONT></FONT><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size=2> </FONT>
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