"A Year of Achievements and Challenges" at the First Regional Conference on the Digital Map of Arab Libraries and Information Centres

Abstract

"The article reviewed the first regional conference of the Digital Map of Arab Libraries and Information Centres, entitled A Year of Achievements and Challenges. The conference was held on (8-9 July 2019) at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States in the Arab Republic of Egypt. The conference consisted of three sessions. The opening session featured the welcoming and opening speech delivered by Hala Gad, Director of Information, Documentation and Translation Department. The panel session included ten discussion contributions by the working group. The scientific session included fifteen scientific contributions. The workshops dealt with training workshops. The closing session reviewed the honouring of the participants and active members of the project. The conference recommended that librarians should be encouraged to work voluntarily within the team of the digital map of Arab libraries and information centres because of their knowledge of the libraries in their surroundings, and to educate workers and administrators in libraries and information centres about the importance of geographical information awareness. This abstract was written by System 2022"