The Library Conference recommends digital options
During the activities of the second day of the library conference.
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Participants in the "Libraries Conference", which was held from the ninth to the eleventh of this November, on the sidelines of the activities of the 40th session of the Sharjah International Book Fair, recommended developing the use of new technologies, enhancing the use of digital options to provide alternatives that guarantee the principle of reading for all, and promoting Cooperation in the field of expanding databases between libraries, developing the leadership skills of its employees and advancing their role, and enabling their impact on achieving comprehensive and sustainable development.
This came during the conclusion of the work of the eighth session of the conference yesterday, which was organized by the Sharjah Book Authority over three days, in cooperation with the American Library Association, with the participation of more than 300 librarians and international experts from all over the world, who discussed through a series of dialogue sessions new trends in library management. The mechanisms through which libraries have faced the conditions of the pandemic, and the alternatives they have devised to continue serving readers of different categories.
General Coordinator of the Library Conference, Mansour Al-Hassani, said: “The Sharjah Book Authority, in organizing the Library Conference, is based on the vision and directives of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, towards the advancement of the library and its role, and this is what makes us the only international platform in the region that In it, experts and specialists meet to keep pace with the latest library management techniques and activate their role. The importance of the conference is embodied annually in keeping pace with the shifts in the trends of library pioneers, discussing the challenges facing librarians in developing their business system, as well as reviewing the most successful international experiences to enhance the role of public libraries in the course of research work. The cognitive and the educational. He added:“The eighth session of the conference discussed new trends, the work of which constitutes an important step for the future of libraries, especially after the transformations the world has witnessed in the means of education and access to knowledge and books. We look forward to the conference being a new beginning for a new phase of the work of libraries in the world.” On its closing day, the conference sessions reviewed the roles that public libraries played in serving school students and the education sector, with the increasing reliance on virtual education.
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