Digital Libraries (DL) are increasingly playing a vital role in business, research and education and facilitating ‘anytime, anywhere access’ to knowledge resources. TERI in partnership with IGNOU organised the Third International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL) around the theme--“Shaping the Information Paradigm”. The three-day conference had a special focus on web-based methodologies in teaching and learning, multimedia content, DL standards, Knowledge Management, Copyright and Digital Rights Management (DRM) etc. The conference essentially focused on all contemporary issues related to development of digital libraries and their impact on changing the information paradigm.

The conference was inaugurated by Hon’ble HRD Minister, Government of India Shri Kapil Sibal. Present at the ceremony were, Smt. D Pundeshwari, Hon’ble State Minister for Education, Government of India, Dr. R. K. Pachauri, Director General, TERI, Dr. Deanna Marcum, Library of Congress and Dr. V. N. Rajshekharan Pillai, Vice Chancellor, IGNOU and other eminent dignitaries. Around 600 participants and 46 eminent speakers from all parts of India and from 40 other nations participated in the conference.