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.

exhibition report

I was about to write our report of my visiting exhibition. Yesterday (25 August), I went to exhibition again and as I said before, this section is very useful in which we can know more about various databases, services, and many different information products. Anyway, I made an appointment with Ebsco sale manager on 24 August and we negotiated about Jist indexing problem in the Ebsco database. I remind that about two years ago, we sent a request to them to index Jist. Although they accepted, Jist wasn’t included in their index. Fortunately, in our meeting they promised to include our journal. Visiting the other booths was also good and I tried to talk to them about various activities in IranDoc, frankly, Jist indexing in international databases was my priority. I talked about how to get information or document, too (as Dr. Fatemi emphasized), I’m sure that Mrs. Moradi have done that much better, though.
Poster session was another schedule for yesterday. We saw all posters including my colleagues’ (Mrs Sediqi and Mrs. Ensafi). Fortunately, IFLA provided a prit copy of that and installed it. I tried to introduced it and our organization.
The notebook battery is running out and I have to write about today events in another post.

Third day: 25th of Aug

Hi again, I can tell today was one of the rough days, I'd been in the poster session and taken so many pictures, I am going to add them to the weblog later,it's too much to be upload at the moment, They are great in bringing up a think to a bright idea!!

Visiting the rest of boothes I found a database in French for European documents which supports A PAY TO GO document delivery services, the seller was looking forward the financial barriers faces Iranian companies. The interesting part was the designers of libraries and Inf. Centers, they had brough up an idea of a SCREAMING ROOM and a BOXING room in the library in Poland which help the youthes to get through their excitement as well as anger!!! I have to show you the pictures, you gonna be amazed of what they have done with the libraries, it's a WOW one!!( makes you to say WOWWW)

There were also some companies demonestrating their digitalizing services and machines, this can be useful for irandoc as it has so many products, it can also help other insitute to digitalize theirs. In the meantime, there was a booth for CLEANING the book, the machin which cleans every book to get ride of dusts authomatically, I asked them if there have the same machine for cleaning the house, it was a joke though!!!

I've met many publication such as Bowker, J-stor, Duke University and so forth. It was informative. Oh, by the way there were a booth dedicate to European library which claims to solve the copyright problems, I have to check out the website to be assure of this, go to http://www.arrow-net.eu/ to find more about their goals. The responsible person was suprised by Iranian women's improvement specially in science and Technology.

Last but not least, I have to inform that the San Jose university in California has run a new program for master of LIS in a brand new field, you have to check out the website. They have new contract with Queensland of Australia for those have problem to go to U.S.!!check their site out, that would be intersting.

The day has end with a cultural program of Ifla which is run every year by ifla includes the cultural related events of the host country, honestly, this was the only time I could have found a time to visit the Doumo church, there was a concert their arranged by Ifla and a gallery to visit about Mont, the italian painter, works.

yesterday and today fromthe other point of view

Thanks to Mrs. Moradi for creating this blog and sorry for my delay because of some problems in my notebook.
Yesterday (23 August): after the opening ceremony, I took part in new commers section. in fact it was a friendly meeting for introducing some sections of IFLA to new commers and serious discussion wasn’t presented. “IFLA is the voice of libraries” was announced as IFLA2009 motto. Then, I went to exhibition in which some publishers were introducing their products. My visit was short because exhibition visiting is my tomorrow schedule.

Today(24 August): according to our schedule, I participated in EBSCO demo present. In its panel, the participants asked some questions about this database. I liked to know more about EBSCO, so after the meeting, I had a long dialogue with its sale manager. After that, I went to the exhibition and visited some exhibitors. In the view of communication, I believe that visiting exhibition is the most important part of our attendance. Their indexing policy or procedure for our journal (JIST) indexing by these databases, was one of my questons. Additionally, they were questioned about their tools, policy, and cost of their services.
I also took part in two sections: open access and copy right that the first one was very useful and the second was very professional in which some google experts raised new topics.

First day:Aug. 23th

We'd set a program upon our aims, mine was as below:
1.opening ceremony: I'd written about that.
2.Academic and research Library section: It was a great session about HOT TOPICS and an informal sessions which is going to be add to their website later. the main hot topics in their idea were scholarly communication,public relation, library space, we 2.0 technology, and workforce issues.
They were interested in Irandoc projects and service, in the other word they were SUPRISED!
3.The exhibition was opened too. there was a small ceremony for that.

* I've taken pictures but i don't have time to upload it!!!

The second day: 24th PART 1

Hi everybody,

let me start from the very first, I'd scheduled to visit the booths today, exploring what they offer and what they do specially regarding to the open access and copyright issues, there are some companies offer document delivery services and some offering their products and softwares, almost all of them did not support Farsi and they never even though about that before. They though the Farsi is hard to cope with regarding to the techical issued.

The OCLC was the other target, they didn't know we had customized DC, they had a nice statistc demonestration on their website showing the verity of languages in documents with a folksonomy format,it was a bright idea! check out their website and find the mentioned statistics in the STATISTICS section.

Moreover,the united states embassy libraries has told me about Irandoc and they knew it was established 40 years ago, I don't have any idea from where did they find this information!

In the meantime, I've found France has offered their service,specially for Ph.D. thesis ONLINE for free!!

Last but not least, I talked with some institute like Japan and China Institue of IS and IT, somehow similar to Irandoc, I found that we are the premier in services,still!!! Think it was informtive as well as useful!

oh by they way, I have to write about a scholarship for LIS students who are good in french,they are going to attend in a grant program in LIS in France. I gonna write about it with details,later.

p.s:I don't know what's happened with the weblog, it's right to left now!!!do you know how