Dubai eGovernment recently concluded a five-day training program on 'how to organize and run libraries and data centers', which targeted supervisors, librarians and employees of public libraries and data centers in Dubai at the Rashidiya Public Library.
The program which was held under the auspices of the Public Libraries Association of Dubai Municipality, aimed to create a better understanding of how advances in information technology can aid smoother and more efficient functioning of libraries and data centers.
"The importance of libraries both as a major source of information and as intermediaries for knowledge and culture is well known. This initiative by the Dubai eGovernment is part of our continuous efforts to propagate a greater understanding of how technology can be optimized to enhance all services provided to the community.”
“We are living in an age when the entire world is moving towards electronic services and it is important to understand its benefits and applications in various sectors of society," said Salem Al-Shair, director of eServices, Dubai eGovernment.
"Libraries and data centers play a key role in building knowledge-based economies and disseminating information. This community outreach program is the first of a two part event, which highlights how new technologies can help to provide cost-effective innovative services that will enable libraries and data centers to satisfy user needs more effectively and better utilize the ready available resources," said Rehab Mohammed Lootah, eServices
Provisioning Officer, Dubai eGovernment.
The core concept of the community outreach program was the introduction of the various rules and procedures that need to be adopted for manual and electronic classification and indexing.
The next five-day session will be held June 14-18, 2003 and will focus on electronic systems and database in libraries. It will also touch on the standards for scheduling and tabling information.
Dubai e-Government is a pioneering initiative in the region to provide online services across the spectrum of corporate and community life in the emirate. Individually automated government departments under the single umbrella of the e-Government initiative, thus empowering employees across lines of businesses and levels of government, besides facilitating the lives of citizens and customers of the government. — (menareport.com)
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