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Dear Sir/Madam,
I am very happy to bring it to your kind notice that, K. S. Institute of Technology, Bangalore and AKELPA, Bangalore is going to organize two day National Workshop on "EMERGING TRENDS IN E-RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND MANDATORY LIBRARY STANDARDS” on 15th and 16th July 2011. This Seminar will enrich our professional knowledge & benefit for professional activities with respective libraries. Hence I request you all please attend the same and make the event a grand success as we all did in our previous AKELPA events.
We look forward from your participation on 15th and 16th July 2011.
Thanking you.
With due regards
Dr. K. R. Mulla, General Secretary, AKELPA. Ph: 9448031969
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