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On February 17, director of the Azerbaijan National Library Mr. Karim Tahirov met with Mr. Nabil Saadallah, the manager business development of the Innovative Interfaces Global Ltd. Deputy director on Informatization and technological development Elchin Musayev, deputy director on Scientific affairs and international relations Malak Hajiyeva, deputy director on Reader services Adiba Ismayilova also took part in the meeting. Mr. Nabil Saadallah said that the aim of his visit is to meet face to face with the director and staff of the Azerbaijan National Library, to discuss the perspectives of VTLS-Virtua system that is used in the National Library, and to give detailed information about the Innovative updates, future products and projects. In the meeting, speaking about the status of current system, Mr. Nabil Saadallah interested in whether there is any problem that the colleagues of the national library are facing. Besides, he gave detailed information about the migration to new programs “Sierra” and “Vital”, stressed that both of them is successfully applied to more than 1000 libraries all over the world (including USA, Canada, Switzerland, Turkey, Poland, China, Russia, Malaysia and other North Africa countries), and made a great presentation about the topic. Talking about the new program, the countries that it is used, and the new features that it includes, director of the National Library Karim Tahirov mentioned that he had to think a little bit about migration to “Sierra” and “Vital” and only then he would make a decision.

During the meeting, photos were taken with the guest, at last, director of the Azerbaijan National Library Karim Tahirov presented the guest Azerbaijan National Library “Photo album” (in Azerbaijani, English and Russian languages), Azerbaijan map, Azerbaijani carpets (also DVD) books.