Organizers: State Committee of Science and Technology of the Republic of Uzbekistan,
Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized
Education, Ministry of Public Education, Uzbekistan Library Association, Open
Society Institute Assistance Foundation-Uzbekistan, Tashkent State Institute of
Law, Khokimiyat (Municipality) of the Bukhara region, Library Association of the
Bukhara region.
Main Sponsor: Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation-Uzbekistan.
Main Venue: City of Bukhara, Uzbekistan,
The Conference Objective – to develop and improve effective cooperation bylibraries,
library associations and other organizations in order to make best use ofthe Internet and
electronic information resources for science, education, culture
and business.
Overall aims of conference:
· To promote an effective exchange of experience about the development of electronic
information resources, the creation of library systems and the use of Internet in
libraries:
· To assist in the creation of consortia to share library and electronic resources,
to organize and exploit training centers for the teaching of new information
technologies, to create virtual libraries and corporate networks.
· To improve and increase activities of libraries regarding the wider use of the
Internet and electronic databases, and by providing open access to existing and
newly to be created information resources.
Languages of conference: Uzbek, English, and Russian
The following topics for presentations and discussions are envisaged:
· Data bases and electronic resources on science, technology, education, culture and
business;
· Internet and cooperative technologies for effective information exchange;
· Development of library consortia.
· Promotion of the eIFL project;
· Internet in libraries and library resources in the Internet;
· Problems of accessing to electronic library-informational resources. Licensing of
information resources;
· New forms of library –information services based on information society technologies
· Library systems, library formats and problems of forming national electronic
information resources.
Simultaneous interpretation will be provided at the Conference. (From English into
Russian, from Russian into English).
You can find more information about the Bukhara Conference on
the following website of the Uzbekistan Library Association :
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