the last day

Thursday 27 August was the last day of IFLA 2009 conference. At morning I participated two sessions; the first in which , Dr. Parirokh, from Mashhad university, presented her paper. Closing ceremony was held simply and after some speeches, the IFLA 2009 president, Dr. Lux, was appreciated for this conference. Then, the next president from Sweden was introduced. Therefore, the next IFLA will be in Sweden, Goutenberg City.
In regard to this was my first experience of particpating IFLA, I’m not capable of describing or criticizing that as Mrs. Moradi wrote in her post. But, some programs of this conference were interesting and useful for me, like exhibition in which there was an opportunity to know other organizations and databases and also some of the new information products and services. The negotiation about IranDoc and JIST was the most important result of this trip. Lack of some ITC facilities and specially WiFi, through which we could had more communications with our colleagues, was the most negative aspect.
Additionally, about Milan and Italy: Although, there was no time to visit all monuments, I will have in remembrance the gorgeous Doumo, forever.

However, I’m not sure about my trip results; we did our best to use of all days in this conference. This experience, certainly, helps me to suggest some plans for the next conferences.
Finally, I do appreciate Dr. Fatemi, Mr. Razmi, Mr. Kazemi, and Mr. Khaleghian who helped us for this conference. Also, Thanks to Mrs. Moradi participated actively and tried to introduce the potentials of IranDoc to the other organizations.

I wish success for the next delegates of IranDoc in IFLA in coming years and for IranDoc to be more active in the international conferences and exhibitions.

The last day: 27th

Finally, the fifth day of IFLA 2009 came, the general them was about cultural heritage so everything has a taste of culture, all in all. The closing ceremony is going to be at 16-18 today and the Secretariat of the upcoming ifla is going to be pass to Swedish librarians. The next year is going to be at Gutenberg of Sweden with the theme which is going to be announced later.

The 75th Ifla has some great points according to scholarly communication, it has a well-organized exhibition which demonstrates well-known companies as well as publications regarding to LIS, but the information services for the product demonstration was weak. There were no person to answer the participant clearly with the boothes information and even the boothes responsible were not being brief by what they were offering!!!

The technological trends of this IFLA was poor regarding to the Internet station they offered, I afraid to say there was about 50 (or less) station for all participant to use Internet which is really astonishing!! you'd to pay for the wireless, I was surprised cause we have this service for free in our conference and hotels and we pay much less for the conference registration!

The comfortable facilities for participant was neat to NOTHING, there were no chair to take a sit for a while or no room to put our stuffs on, there were small tables to offer the catalogs and it was nothing comparing to the demands!

Ifla suppose to assign a human-guide (the volunteer who leads other to the conference venue) to help the participants reach the venue, I think they never even thought about that!!! they could at least put a sign or flag to get participant's attention.

The opening ceremony was in three languages, the french and Italian one could not been translated specially the second tableau (show) was in Italian!!!

The most problem was the responsible persons who could not speak in English and had no idea about the conference information and sessions!!!

The good points for this ifla was the time-table and punctuation as well as the venue. Strengthening the scholarly communication, we met special companies and persons to have further cooperation with.

I am going to stop blogging for a week but I am going to add some photos and other related information by the next weekend. I hope this blog can be update every year by Irandoc delegate.

Thanks again to Dr.Fatemi and other colleagues who support us and my friend,Miss.Haji azizi for her good effort on this Ifla.