Bibliographic Control
1. Terminology project
2. Multiple controlled vocabularies
3. Subject thesaurus
4. Bibliographic utilities
5. New cataloguing rules, RDA and MARC21
Bibliometric research
1. Bibliometrics
2. Analysis of patterns of information
3. Usage data
4. Publication data
5. Citation analysis
6. Content analysis
7. Web sites
8. Databases
Change of Libraries and Managerial techniques
1. Human resources management
2. Organizational challenges
3. Strategic management
4. Re-engineering change in higher education
5. Fast-responded library
6. Learning organization
Changes in Learning, Research and Information needs and Behaviour of Users
1. 21st century librarians for 21st century libraries
2. New services for the research and learning communities
3. Redefining the library service experience
4. Forging collaboration between librarians and students
5. Library in the digital workflow of research
6. Content analysis of academic libraries’ Facebook profiles
7. Marketing the academic library through online social network advertising
8. International cooperation towards the development of technology in academic libraries
Climate Change Data
1. National greenhouse gas inventories
2. Inventory submissions
3. National communications
4. Information sources and availability
5. Socio-economic data
6. Definitions and methodologies
7. Climate change fund
8. Socio-economic data socio-economic data
Climate Change Impacts
1. Climate-related risks and disasters
2. Regional centres and networks
3. Risk management and reduction
4. Adaptation strategies
5. Access to information
6. Public awareness and participation
7. International cooperation
8. Research dialogue
9. Systematic observation
10. Sustainable development
Communication Strategies
1. Working with faculty, students, and staff
2. Users - Non users
3. Alumni, Partners, Stakeholders
4. Groups / teams
5. Archives, historical societies, museums and art galleries
6. Consortia
Data Analysis and Data Mining
1. Content analysis
2. Ontologies
3. Knowledge discovery
4. Machine learning
5. Databases
6. Data visualization
Development and Assessment of Digital Repositories
1. Preservation of records for the next generations
2. Demonstration on fiscal responsibility and sustainability
3. Development of new metrics of their usages
4. Evaluation and best practices
Development of Information and Knowledge Services on the Public Library
1. Public libraries transformations
2. Dynamic information market
3. Public library’s role in the society
4. Challenges before libraries today
5. Diversified societies
6. Public library’s policy
7. Communities and information market
8. Public libraries as creative industries
9. Production and consumption of knowledge
Digital Libraries
1. Digitization
2. Museum and art digital objects
3. Archival digital objects
4. Public libraries digital projects
5. Digital content for teaching
6. Digital images
7. Metadata
8. Repositories
Economic Co-operation and Development
1. Socio-economic, environmental and emissions data
2. Energy statistics
3. Economic and social development
4. Working parties and organizations
5. Education, training and public awareness
6. Financial mechanism
7. Green climate fund
8. Investments
Energy Data and Information
1. Energy consumption, products, prices and taxes
2. Energy-related statistical data include coal, oil, gas, electricity and heat statistics
3. Energy balances, prices and emissions
4. Emissions from fuel combustion from its energy data
5. Data from firms, government agencies, industry organizations and national publications
Environmental Assessment
1. International, national, regional, local core data sets
2. Integrated Environment Assessment
3. Global Environmental Outlook
4. Statistical and geo-referenced historical data sets
5. Emission database for global atmospheric research
6. Socio-economic data
7. Ocean observation
Financial strength and sustainability
1. Fund raising
2. Cost benefit analysis
3. Cost assessment
4. Value analysis
Health Information Services
1. Research by health information professionals
2. Role of librarians in implementing Evidence based medicine/practice
3. Prospects and challenges of implementing Research4Life in low income countries
Historical and Comparative case studies related to Librarianship
1. Library historiography
2. Agencies, people, and movements within the development of librarianship
3. Comparative case studies related to libraries, special collections, or library programs/services
Information and Data on various aspects of Food and Agriculture
1. Agricultural production and trade
2. Land use, and means of production
3. Trade indices and food supply
4. Population and labour force
5. Food balance sheets
6. Fertilizer and pesticides
7. Forest products
8. Fishery products
9. Agricultural machinery
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1. Resource development policy
2. Resource project description
3. Research and development of the services
4. Knowledge discovery and knowledge creation
5. Knowledge mining
6. Team building and management
Information Literacy: Information sharing, Democracy and Lifelong Learning
1. Information Literacy and citizenship
2. Strategic approaches to Information Literacy
3. New pedagogic challenges for libraries
4. Collaborative work between librarians and academic staff
5. Independent learning skills, online information skills and lifelong learning
6. Concepts of learning, teaching and the developments in networked technology
7. Staff development and Information Literacy
8. New areas of practice and research
9. Information literacy projects on special scientific disciplines
10. Advocacy, marketing and promotion
11. Benchmarking
12. Evaluation and assessment
Library change and Technology
1. Communicating change, scenarios and projections
2. Adaptation technology
3. Technology information
4. Technology diffusion
5. Technology needs assessment
6. Technology research and development
7. Technology transfer
Library Cooperation: Problems and Challenges at the beginning of the 21st century
1. Union catalogue and storage equipment
2. Collection policy and collection development
3. Joint acquisitions (purchasing, access, inter-library loan and document delivery)
4. Joint digitization’s projects
5. Local, regional and country heritage
6. Human resource in local, regional and country level
7. Organizational culture
Management
1. Excellence and innovation
2. Quality and benchmarking
3. Measures and metrics
Marketing
1. Marketing research
2. Public relations
3. Publicity
4. Communication
Museums, Libraries and Cultural Organizations
1. Networks and collaborations
2. Cultural policy, diversity and intercultural dialogue
3. Marketing & communications management
4. Case studies
5. European integration
6. Multiculturalism, interculturalism, transculturalism
7. National and international collaboration
8. Cultural policies, migration and mobility
9. Identity, memory and heritage
10. Divergence and commonality
11. Visitor experiences in collaborative projects
12. Archiving, preservation and exhibition technologies
13. Arts funding
14. Arts policy
15. Libraries, theaters, music, film industry, television etc
16. Libraries, archives and museums and their admission
Music Librarianship
1. Musical archives
2. Collections of music assessment
3. Copyright and broadcasting issues, copying costs
4. Librarianship and musicology
5. Music bibliography
6. Music library automation
7. Music publishing industry
8. Presentation on the duties, challenges and satisfactions of performance music librarians
9. Collections of music preservation
10. Space and music collections
Performance Measurement and Competitiveness
1. Criteria of performance indicators (PI) selection for libraries and the kinds of PI
2. Different methodologies proposed for library assessment
3. The technological effect
4. Financial indicators
5. Organizational performance
6. Comparison among governmental and non-governmental organizations' performance
Publications
1. Internet Filtering
2. Privacy and share of information in libraries
3. The Read/ Write Web and the future of library research
4. Digital rights, copyright management and libraries
Quality evaluation and promotion of info = documentary institutions services methods
1. User education in informational recourses
2. The importance of personal involvement
3. Accreditation of digital libraries
4. Development of a network of peers
5. Cataloguing is changing
6. Customer services
7. Management/administration
8. OPAC 2.0 - the catalogue on web
9. The benefit of change
10. Electronic library
11. Digital repository management
Scientific, Technical and Socio-Economic Aspects of Mitigation of Climate Change
1. Stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations
2. Dangerous anthropogenic interference
3. Forest degradation
4. Afforestation and reforestation
5. Forest Management
6. Land-use change
7. Aviation and marine "Bunker Fuels"
8. Research and systematic observation
9. Methodological issues
10. Socio-economic data and tools
Technology & Innovations in Libraries and their Impact on Learning, Research and Users
1. Creating webliographies
2. Computing interfaces and how libraries need to adapt
3. Creating materials samples collection to support the engineering curriculum
4. Embedding librarians in the classroom
5. Teaching scholarly communication and collaboration through social networking
6. Sustainable development and the role of innovative & benchmarked practices
7. Fostering innovation through cultural change
8. Science & technology libraries as multi academic activities centres
9. Change as a service
10. Embedding innovation for scholarly information & research
11. Trends, possibilities and scenarios for user-centred libraries
Technology Transfer and Innovation in Library Management
1. Innovative management
2. Human resources management
3. Competence management
4. Communications in organizations
5. Intercultural management
6. Information technology and knowledge management
7. Library's ethics and social responsibility
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