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Dear all As you all know the socio-technical environment within which libraries of developing countries operate is changing more rapidly than libraries are changing to meet it. Indian libraries of any type or size are enthusiastic users of open source software and open standards and zealous promoter of Open Access movement. Indian libraries are now feeling the need of library discovery systems both for bibliographic domain and other non-bibliographic domains like cultural and heritage objects, museum and monument objects etc. The need of single-windows search interface for a wide range of library resources in order to save users in running from post to pillar is another compulsion in Indian libraries where automated library systems and digital library systems are often two separate entities. In view of the foregoing, Annals of Library and Information Studies ( http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/66), an open access Indian LIS journal publishing since 1954, has taken an initiative to publish one special issue (December 2016 issue) of ALIS on Library Discovery Systems discovery to deliberate different aspects of resource discovery systems in general and the open source solution VuFind in particular. As guest editor of the special issue on Library Discovery System of ALIS, I would like to request you all to contribute paper/short communication on aspects of library discovery systems as mentioned in CFP available from http://www.niscair.res.in/jinfo/ALIS/ALIS-SpecialIssueNotification-11May16.pdf As a note to this CFP. I would also like to mention that we are fortunate enough to have Demian Katz, the original developer of VuFind and a stalwart in the domain of library discovery systems as advisor in shaping this special issue. The submission dateline is approaching quickly (August 31, 2016) and you are requested to act accordingly. Thanks and regards -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kalyani, Kalyani - 741 235 (WB), India -----------------------------------------------------------------------