The conference topics include, but are not limited to:

         1. Quality Assurance and Accreditation for Libraries .

           • Accreditation Procedure.

           • Implications on the library accreditation shifts from emphasis on library resources to information literacy.

           • Academic Libraries’ role in the accreditation process.

           • Measuring the quality of library services

           • Metrics for evaluating library performance and services .

           • The Impact of quality assurance, efficiency studies, and best practices.

           • Survey of students and faculty as part of a quality assessment program.

           • Gap analysis and Library users’ services quality plan.

         2. Knowledge Discovery & Open Data Mining in Libraries.

           • Big Data in Knowledge Discovery.

           • Data Mining in the Linked Data Cloud.

           • User Mining Behavior: Text/Web/Social …

           • Natural Language Analysis.

           • Information Retrieval .

           • Mobile and Ubiquitous Data Management and Processing.

           • Information Retrieval .

         3. Social Media Analytics and Computing for Libraries.

           • Social Network Analysis.

           • Social Search and Retrieval Systems.

           • Mobile Social Networking and Mobile web.

        4. Innovation and Knowledge Management for Libraries.

           • Service Innovationv.

           • Knowledge Transfer and Experience Management.

           • Service-oriented Architectures and Knowledge Management.

        5. Digital Research in Libraries.

           • Role of Digital Library in Education, E-Learning and E-Publishing.

           • Digital Library Development, Architecture and Management.

           • Multilingualism (Arabic and other languages) Management and Interoperability.

           • Digital Copy Rights Management.

           • Digital Library Case Studies and Best Practices.

           • Digital Library Standards and Policy.

           • Multimedia Content Management.

           • Sustainable Digital Library Model

           • Information Service Marketing.

        6. Infrastructure for E-Libraries.

            • Content Delivery Network (CDN).

            • Location Based Services.

            • Content Services Protocols and Multi-agent.

            • Cloud Computing.

            • Mass Open Online Course (MOOC) Infrastructure.

            • Web Casting and Web Services (XML, SOAP, SAML, WSDL, UDDI … etc).

            • Security Infrastructure.

            • Warehousing and storage infrastructure.