BA part of 4th SIBF–ALA Library Conference

CAIRO – 9 November 2017: The Sharjah International Book Fair/American Library Association (ALA) Library conference’s fourth edition will be held in the Expo center of Sharjah, UAE, from November 7 until November 9, during the Sharjah Book Fair.

The conference draws in library expertise from across the Arab world and internationally on libraries and will feature speeches by President of the Arab Federation for Libraries and Information (AFLI) Khaled Elhalaby and Jim Neal, ALA president. The conference's first edition took place in 2013, and offers programs on a wide variety of topics to help out librarians from various public and private Libraries and allow them to network and share resources.

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina’s contribution occurred during the poster session on Wednesday, November 8. The poster, titled "Disseminating International Library Standards in Arabic", was represented by Gina Younis of the BA's Research and Technology Department and Rania Osman, the BA’s head of libraries of the Future Section.