COAL CITY ENUGU 2016 AGM/CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS

NIGERIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, ENUGU STATE CHAPTER

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Enugu State Chapter of the Nigerian Library Association (NLA) announces her 16^th Annual Conference/AGM for the year 2016 holding as follows:

 

Date: Tuessday 22^nd – Thursday 24^th November, 2016.

Venue: National Library of Nigeria, Independence Layout, Enugu

Conference fee:  Fifteen Thousand Naira (N15, 000).  The fee covers all conference materials, lunch and conference proceedings.

 

CONFERENCE THEME: “Library Services and the Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals in the Digital Era”.

Sub-Themes:

1.      Evolving roles of Public Libraries in the digital age

2.      Academic Libraries in Nigeria and Sustainable Development Goals

3.      Makerspace in Libraries – gateway to collaborative learning in the digital age

4.      Information literacy and critical thinking for National development

5.      Enriching the lives of children for sustainable development through long vacation programme.

6.      School library services for Sustainable Development.

7.      Library services for the physically challenged in the digital era

8.      Building researcher-librarians for sustainable development.

9.      Libraries building digital collections for sustainable development

10.  Promoting indigenous knowledge for achieving Sustainable Development Goals

11.  Building strong Library Associations for National Development

12.  Libraries, Webinars, MOOCs and Online Learning: gateway for National Development

13.  Strategies for promoting Library Services to young people in the digital age.

14.  Building the Digital Literacy Skills of Librarians for National Development.

15.  Library Advocacy and partnership with NGOs for National Development.

 

Interested participants are hereby invited to submit full papers of not more than 18 pages double-line spaced with 12 point font size, processed in Times New Roman on any of the above sub-themes or any related topic under the general theme.

 

Deadline for submission of Full papers is Monday, October 31, 2016. Papers submitted after this date WILL NOT appear in the proceedings, but may be presented during the conference. Authors should include the name(s) and affiliations of the author(s) with functional e-mail addresses and submitted electronically to: enugu.nla@gmail.com with the subject: CONFERENCE PAPER! The file name should bear the author’s last name.

All submissions will be subjected to blind peer review by members of publication committee. Authors will be notified on the status of their submissions on or before October 15, 2016.

 

Format for Presentation: Accepted papers should be processed in not more than 20 slides for multimedia presentation during the conference.

Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings on payment of conference fee to the following bank account:

 

Name of Bank  First Bank Nigeria Plc

Account Name: Nigerian Library Association, Enugu State Chapter

Account Number: 2014867846

Find attached, please.

Helen Nneka Okpala (CLN)

helen.okpala@unn.edu.ng

07031030171 (State Chapter PRO)

 

 

Nigerian Library Association Revised Constitution.

 

Are you a paid-up member? Reach out for your copy of the Nigerian Library Association Revised Constitution, July 2016.

Research4life/INASP Advocacy competition on Elsevier Connect

 Research4Life posted on http://www.research4life.org/research4lifeinasp-advocacy-competition-elsevier-connect/: 

To highlight the critical role that doctors, researchers, librarians and policymakers play in advocating their leaders to support research in their institutions and countries, Research4Life joined with INASP to launch an advocacy competition. The aim of the contest is to find case studies that show how users have overcome hurdles to boost critical leadership support for the information and infrastructural resources needed to improve evidence based health care, agriculture and environmental policies as well as basic research in their countries.

A good example of advocacy leadership is the story of Grace Ajuwon, one of the first librarians to be trained to use Hinari, Research4Life’s flagship biomedical database. Over a decade ago, Grace, a senior librarian at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, used that training to jumpstart her own research into health information. A year later, in 2003, she published a peer-reviewed paper in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, concluding that clinical and nursing students were neglecting electronic resources. Grace successfully advocated for the inclusion of computer education in medical and nursing curricula, ensuring that computer laboratories were installed and went on train thousands of medical and research staff across her own and other African institutions in effectively using scientific resource.

Professor Charles O. Omekwu delivers inaugural lecture at University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

Invitation Card

Professor Charles O. Omekwu is blazing the trail come September 8, 2015 as he delivers his inaugural lecture at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Please save the date and endeavour to attend:

Date: Thursday September 8, 2016
Venue: Princess Alexandria Auditorium, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Time: 1:00pm prompt.
Topic: Cyberspace Revolution: Issues, implications and Imperatives.
Please feel free to contact him and wish him well and pray for him via his e-mail:
charles.omekwu@unn.edu.ng