Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians

Two seminars "Mobile Library Profiles and Services”  and “An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Folklore in Southeast Asia" will be held concurrently in Ina Garuda Hotel,  Jl. Malioboro, Yogyakarta (Central of Java), Indonesia, from 10-12 November 2008. These are two CONSAL Projects approved by CONSAL XIV Executive Board in its first and second meetings in Vietnam.

The 11th annual International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL) with the theme "Universal and Ubiquitous Access to Information", which is scheduled to be held in Bali, Indonesia, from 2-5 December 2008, is now inviting registrations. This annual ICADL series is a significant forum for digital libraries research, providing an opportunity for researchers, educators, and practitioners to share their experiences.

UNESCO is strongly advocating the building of knowledge societies where the power of information and communication help people access the knowledge they need to improve their daily lives and achieve their full potential. In this context, information literacy has become crucially important, as a mean to empower people in all walks of life to seek, evaluate, use and create information effectively to achieve their personal, social, occupational and educational goals.

The World Congress of Muslim Librarians and Information Scientists (wCOMLIS) is continuation of the Congress of Muslim Librarians and Information Scientists (COMLIS) one of the congresses that gather information professionals (consisting of librarians, information scientists, information managers, etc) from Islamic and non-Islamic countries all over the world.