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Synopsis The modern libraries and library and information science professionals face many challenges in the knowledge society driven by the information technology. It is also true that the emerging knowledge society offers many new opportunities. The information and communication technology has changed the ways in which the information is published, stored, organized retrieved, accessed, communicated and utilized. The library without walls in the form of digital repositories and portals are now accessible to users without any barriers of space and time. It is important to discuss and comprehend the implications of these vibrant changes for the benefit of the profession. With this objective ion mind a national conference on Future Librarianship in the knowledge society was organized in the university of Calicut on 28 and 29 March 2007. This volume contains the papers presented in the conference by the practicing library professionals and library and information science teachers, researchers and students. Both, theoretical as well as practical papers were presented in the conference. These papers will certainly be instrumental to encourage the library and information science professionals to understand the great responsibility they have to shoulder and the efforts they have to carry out in the coming days in the ever dynamic knowledge society.