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International scientific-practical conference “Libraries as mobile information centers” continued its work on September 28, within the framework of VI Baku International Book Fair. The conference was attended by national library heads coming from 14 countries, as well as local specialists. Among those countries were Turkey, USA, Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Uzbekistan, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan and Bashkortoston.
AdibaIsmayilova – Deputy Director for service affairs, Azerbaijan National Library, HamdiTurshuju – Director General of Libraries and Publications under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey; Director of the National Library of Turkey, AlenaAissing – UCLA, Charles E.Young Research Library, Librarian/Curator for Slavic, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies, RenaldasGudauskas – Director General of MartynasMažvydas National Library of Lithuania, DzintraMukane – Executive Director of the National Library of Latvia, IsmetOvcina – Director of the National and University Library of Bosnia & Herzegovina, Elena Dolgopolova – First Deputy Director for User service and ideology, National Library of Belarus, LeylaImanova – Director of ANAS Central Scientific Library, AliyusifMammadov – senior lecturer at Bibliographic studies chair of BSU, as well as other local and foreign specialists delivered speeches on the themes of “Libraries as multifunctional mobile centers”, “The use of modern mobile technologies in national libraries”, “The importance of e-library services in the information society” and etc.
It should be noted that materials of the international scientific-practical conference “Libraries as Mobile Information Centers” organizedbythe National Library will be published and distributed to local and foreign libraries.