CALL FOR PAPERS                    

 LAST CIRCULAR

Respected Sir/Madam,

It is a pleasure and honour to have the opportunity to initiate the belated publication of festschrift in honour ofProfessor Avadhesh Kumar Varma , an eminent scholar and renowned educationist in the field of library and information science who retired in 2008 as Head of the Dept. of Library and Information Science from Pandit RaviShankar Shukla University, Raipur, putting behind him an illustrious academic career spanning over  four decades of teaching and research work . Prof. Varma is still actively engaged in research work creating a vast treasure of knowledge with potential for research and review in the times to come.

Professor Varma has taught library classification and cataloguing in B.Lib.I.Sc. for a long time. Besides these, he has taught Research Methodology to M.Lib.I.Sc. and M.Phil. Students. The students of M.Lib.I.Sc. and M.Phil. got the advantages of his supervision in writing their dissertations and research projects.

Professor Varma has done his PhD. on ‘Citation Analysis’. He was the first person to promote researches on‘Bibliometrics’ in the universities of Madhya Pradesh. The Universities of Madhya Pradesh had recognised him as Research Guide in Library and Information Science. He had produced many PhD students from the different universities of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

With great regard this call stands for invitation of your articles, research papers, art work, research methods and experiences for inclusion in a festschrift volume which is to be published to pay our homage and honour to Professor A. K. Varma.

Please Contribute your paper on Recent Advances in Library and Information Science in Digital Era  in about 7500-10000 words (in MS Word) by latest  August ,31^st  2016. An abstract should be provided which containing the outline of the main themes/questions, research method and sample of the study. Please make sure that your abstract includes the Title, Name of the Author, Affiliation, Complete contact details, email address and a short author’s profile and biography. Template and other details attached herewith.

Please send your Paper to:

DR JITENDRA SHRIVASTAVA

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE

      MAHARANI LAXMI BAI GOVT. COLLEGEOF EXCELLENCE, GWALIOR (MP)

CONTACT NO’s: 07089226933, 07512231552(R)