Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Proliferation of Library Conferences in India

I wonder now a days why everyone is organizing either national or international library conferences in India and from where people are attending? One can see at least one conference is getting organized in some part of the country every month. Sometimes, articles presented in these conferences are not of good quality and even the conference sessions are below average in content.

If organizers don't take enough care in managing the conference, one can see what happens from the last week's example of ILA conference organized at
Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Mumbai Mirror newspaper dated 14th Nov 2008 described ILA conference as sleep-inducing International Conference on Libraries while talking about Orient BlackSwan's free distribution of English guides at the conference. You can read this article at www.mumbaimirror.com story titled "Q for ABC".

Hope other library conference organizers noticed this and are taking enough precautions for not to attract such bad publicity.


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