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.

ماموريت انجام شد

انتشارات آكسفورد به ما پيشنهاد داد تا مجله‌مان را به آن‌ها بفرستيم آن‌ها قبول كردند كه مجله ما را نمايه كنند.

روز آخر: 27 آگوست

مراسم اختتاميه ساعت 16 تا 18 امروز برگزار شد. ايفلاي 75‌ام نكات مهي را منطبق با ارتباطات علمي داشت. نمايشگاه‌هاي خيلي خوبي كه شركت‌هاي معروف و همچنين انتشارات مربوط به كتابداري و اطلاع‌رساني را به خوبي نشان مي‌داد اما خدمات اطلاع‌رساني براي نشان دادن محصولات و توليدات ضعيف بود. فردي نبود كه به صورت روشن به سوالات شركت‌كنندگان در خصوص اطلاعات غرفه‌ها پاسخ بدهد. حتي غرفه‌هايي كه مسوول بودند نمي‌تونستند به خوبي آنچه را كه ارايه مي‌دهند توجيه كنند.

رويه‌هاي فني اين ايفلا در خصوص ايستگاه‌هاي اينترنتي كه آن‌ها ارايه مي‌دادند بسيار ضعيف بود. متاسفانه حدود 50 يا كمتر ايستگاه اينترنت براي همه شركت‌كنندگان بود. براي خدمات اينترنت بي‌سيم بايد هزينه پرداخت مي‌شد.

امكانات راحت براي شركت‌كنندگان نبود هيچ صندلي براي نشستن نبود و هيچ اتاقي براي اينكه شركت‌كنندگان وسيله‌هاي مورد نياز كنفرانس خود را در آن بگذارند. مهمترين مشكل اين بود كه افراد مسوول و پاسخگو نمي‌توانستند انگليسي صحبت كنند. از نكات خيلي خوب اين ايفلا جدول زمان‌بندي كنفرانس و محل برگزاري آن بود.

اميدوارم اين وبلاگ هر سال توسط نمايندگان ايرانداك به روز شود. با تشكر دوباره از دكتر فاطمي و ساير همكاران به خاطر تلاش‌هايشان براي اين ايفلا كه از من و دوستم پشتيباني كردند

ايفلاي 2009: 26 آگوست

يكي از برنامه‌ها در ايفلا بازديد كردن از كتابخانه‌هاست. بر اين اساس، من از كتابخانه Biblioteca Chiesa Rossa كه در اطراف ميلان قرار دارد بازديد كردم. اين يك كتابخانه براي بچه‌ها و والدين آن‌هاست. در آنجا خدمات پيشرفته زيادي مثل فهرستگان مشترك و ديگر پايگاه‌هاي اطلاعاتي مبتني بر وب وجود دارد. سپس من در دو نشست درباره حق مولف و چالش‌هاي پيايندها شركت كردم و موضوعات مورد علاقه‌ام را در اين ارايه‌ها پيدا نكردم. ايفلاي بعدي سال آينده در سوئد برگزار خواهد شد.

گزارش نمايشگاه

به ياد مي‌آوردم كه دو سال پيش ما در خواست خود را براي نمايه‌سازي مجله‌مان به ابسكو فرستاديم. اگرچه آن‌ها درخواست ما را پذيرفتند اما مجله ما درنمايه آنها قرار نگرفت. خوشبختانه آنها به ما اين بار اين قول را دادند كه اين كار را براي ما انجام دهند. من با غرفه‌هاي ديگر هم صحبت كردم و بيشتر هدف من از صحبت با آن‌ها نمايه كردن مجله‌مان در پايگاه‌هاي بين‌المللي بود.

ديروز بخش پوستر برنامه ديگر ما بود و ما پوستر همكاران خود خانم‌ها صديقي و انصافي را ديديم. خوشبختانه ايفلا آن را نصب كرده بود و من توانستم درباره پوستر و سازمان‌مان توضيح بدم.

روز سوم: 25 آگوست

امروز در بخش پوستر شركت كردم و عكس گرفتم. در ادامه بازديد از باقي غرفه‌ها، پايگاه‌ اطلاعاتي در فرانسه براي مدارك اروپايي يافتم كه خدمات تحويل مدركش پولي بود. بخش جالب، طراحان كتابخانه‌ها و مراكز اطلاع‌رساني بود. آنها ايده اتاق جيغ و اتاق بوكس را در كتابخانه‌اي در لهستان پرورانده بودند كه به جوانان كمك مي‌كرد هيجانات و خشم‌هاي خود را تخليه كنند.

همچنين شركت‌هايي وجود داشت كه خدمات و ماشين‌هاي ديجيتال‌سازي خود را نشان مي‌دهند كه مي‌تواند براي ايرانداك و ديگر موسساتي كه قصد ديجيتال‌سازي دارند مفيد باشد. غرفه‌اي براي تميز كردن كتاب‌ها بود ماشيني كه هر كتابي را به صورت خودكار از گرد و خاك پاك مي‌كرد.

از انتشارات بسياري از قبيل باوكر، جي‌استور و.... بازديد كردم. غرفه‌اي وجود داشت كه به كتابداران اروپايي اختصاص داده شده بود كه به حل مشكلات حق مولف رسيدگي مي‌كردند. آدرس وب‌سايت آن‌ها http://www.arrow-net.eu مي‌باشد.

Mission done

Visiting the booths, I've met a nice Iranian Lady, Mrs.Homa Malek, the dead of Int. Relation of BSI (cite-sciene.fr), she has arranged a visit to their great library in the heart of science in Paris. I thank her and her colleagues for their kindness toward me and my friends. I suggest you to tak a look at their website. Hope we can commence a cooperation between our organizations.

In the meantime, I've found that U.S. national Univ. in San Jose has started a new Ph.D. program with queensland univ. in Austalia as well as a new porgam for Master of LIS.

The opera at Teatro Alla Scala onn Aug. 23th arranged by ifla with the title "Not every sound disturbs librarians", I like the title,how about you?

The Oxford publication has suggest us to send our journal to them for peer reviewing procedure, they welcommed indexing our journal,JIST!!

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.

IFLA2009: August 26th

One of the program in IFLA is the Library Visit. According to this, I visited Biblioteca Chiesa Rossa located in suburb of Milan. In fact, it was a farmland in which there were some buildings for farming and interestingly, they were changed to the library, while their structure was maintained. Although it is a public library for children and their parents, there are many advanced services like union catalogs and the other web-based databases! After that, I went to exhibition and poster session. Today was the last day for the exhibitors. Then, I participated in two sessions about copy right and serial challenges, but I didn’t find my favor subjects in their presents. Regarding to next IFLA which will held in Sweden, Swedish delegates try to introduce their country and show their capacity for this event. It seems that today was the last day of stay for many participants and many of them came IFlA while were carrying their suitcases.

The forth day: 26th

Hi again, Today was scheduled with the library visits suggested by IFLA secreteriat, we had to registered from a month ago.Let me indicate frankly that our libraries are much better than theirs!!! They use Dewey and did not expand it like iranians for Farsi, They have to re-built the library internal structure but not the outlook of the buildings that's why Milan looks like the 17th century, this may cause some problems for libraries regarding to the preservation, for sure. The Librarian does not have the highest prestigue here, the people use to read a lot, though. Beside, the Italian youth avoid going to school and finishing their highschool so the libraries have some projects to attract them to study!!! The music and movie collection is well-acquisied so the young come over to check out the new issues.

You can not find any difference between the library,houses, or museum here, everything seems old by the first glance!! Italian loves everything in it's traditional manner, they spend lots of time to have a good food and hanging out with the old friends. They don't bother themselves for the bad spirit and just go for fun, is obvious from their working environment. They concern about their clothes specially at work, It was amazing for me cause even in U.S. they have a uniform for a work environment which is going on here!

Comparing with Iran LIS achievment, I think they are far from us according to the librarians knowledge, I believe our problems get rouths in the financial issues.

P.S: I have some comments about Ifla on the whole, the management issues, the schedeling, time tables and so forth which I am going to write later.

To put MILAN in a nutshel, Not taking care of tourist issues, I am wondering how Italy attracts the tourists, there is almost nothing in English here and IFLA did not even offer anything regarding to the city orientation. Comparing with Norway, I found IFLA 2005 much better than this year, this is what I have heard from many participant.