Library Science is a significant interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field in which certain specific practices, perspectives, tools of management and information technology etc., are used. Collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources are provided to the users of library. The first American School for Library Science was founded by Melvil Dewey at Columbia University in 1887. Historically, library science has included archival science too. This includes how information resources are organized to serve the needs of selected user groups, how people interact with classification systems and technology, how information is acquired, evaluated and applied by people in and outside of libraries as well as cross-culturally, how people are trained and educated for careers in libraries, the ethics that guide library service and organization, the legal status of libraries and information resources, and the applied science of computer technology used in documentation and records management.
Therefore, this proposal has been planned to provide a platform to enable interaction among library professionals and digital library experts, researchers, academicians, and students to discuss the needed changes to transform library and information science education and training and to adopt, implement and utilize the emerging Digital Library and all other available new technologies and their applications towards shaping information paradigm to bridge the digital divide through knowledge sharing and to provide an opportunity to identify the strengths and gaps in the library system and to suggest new models, policies and mechanisms for reshaping the traditional libraries into next generation libraries.