Call for Papers

The Indian Library Congress is scheduled to be held at Kannur from 1-3 January 2023. The Congress aims at a scholarly assessment of the local and global experience in the functioning of libraries.  The focus is on the formulation of an active strategy to assess the prospects and address the challenges of the present and the future.  

Papers are invited in the following themes. 

Themes of Indian Library Congress

1. Evolution and history of libraries

Changes in global concepts through the ages – Regional, national and international experiences of libraries in community building – Local self- government institutions and Co- operative movement – Functional integration of public libraries and libraries in academic institutions; Problems and prospects

2. Politics of the public library

Critical appraisals of Indian experience – Evolution, growth and challenges-– Public policy and allocation of resources by the State and Union governments.

3. Library – society and culture

Social justice and the experiential world of the marginalized – Libraries and women empowerment- culture and literature – Literacy, literature, community and libraries – Sports and public libraries – Libraries and child development and welfare- Librarians and their changing roles in the present 

4. Contemporary Kerala – Library movement: Challenges and prospects

Kerala development experience -Collective learning and skill development through libraries -The people’s library movement and resource mobilization in the background of the People’s Mission for social Development

5. Libraries- spatial transformation

Libraries and the role of science and technology – Building designs, construction, preservation and expansion of democratic spaces – Green libraries

6. Imagining the future libraries