Call for Papers

Botswana Library Association 7th Annual Conference and AGM 6– 10th July 2015

VENUE: Mahalapye Cresta Hotel

THEME: Access to Information for Sustainable Development 

SUB THEMES

• Creating effective networks for sustainable development
• Inculcating lifelong learning in the development agend
• Turning libraries, records management units and archives into centres of community and national development
• Information literacy and sustainable development
•  Information management and the development agenda
• Transforming  governance through access to information,
•  Role of Libraries and other Information Management Centres in access to information for sustainable development
• Access to Information and sustainable development: what is in it for LIS education
• Rethinking Practice: access to information and sustainable development
• Open access and research for  national development
•  Access to information  for agricultural transformation
•  The role of  records and archives  in development
•  Monitoring and evaluation of school library services for  educational development
•   Innovative information service

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of abstracts: 01 March 2015

Notice of acceptance of abstracts: 15 March 2015

Submission of full papers for peer review: 15 May 2015

Submission of final papers: 15 June 2015