"Empowering Library Professionals to Empower
Society (ELPES)" is an initiative taken by Biju Patnaik
Central Library for extending maximum cooperation and
coordination among library & library professionals to
strengthen and also to learn new trends and techniques in
the field of Library & Information Science. The discussion
started in the year 2013 while BPCL was about to conduct "National
Workshop on Library Automation (Koha), Data Migration
and Content Management System (Joomla): Challenges &
Prospects". BPCL successfully conducted on May 2-5,
2014, the aforesaid workshop
under the Series "Empowering Library Professionals to
Empower Society-1 (ELPES-1).
This conference is designed in the continuation of the
series with the Title "National Conference on Emerging
Trend & Techniques for Electronic Resource Management in
Libraries: Issues & Challenges" under ELPES-2 having the
same aim and objectives.