Iranian Library and Information Science Association’s Broadcast Incorporate with National Library and Archive of I.R.Iran Bimonthly June-August 2020 Volume 3 Issues 15&16 Dr. Mitra Samiei, Faculty Member of Allameh librarians and administrators. Scice 2015 tion and Dissemination of Written Heritage, try. In the Sixth Congress, it is intended to Tabatabai University, Board member of LIS De- to 2019, five congresses have been held Digital Heritage” on November 5-6, 2017. address the issue of “digital transformation”, th partment, and Scientific Secretary of the 6 An- to discuss and exchange views on librar- - The 4th Congress of Information Science so our main slogan in the Sixth Congress is nual Congress of Information Science Experts | ians’ and information activists’ experience, Experts with the main slogan of “Academic “We and the Digital Transformation”. Digi- The Annual Congress of Iranian Information whose main slogan and dates are as follows: Education, Human Resource Empowerment, tal transformation means recreating an en- Science Experts is held in November by the -The First Professional tity to succeed in the digital age, or in other Iranian Library and Information Science As- Congress of Dynamics” words, building an entity at the level of the sociation in order to establish scientific and Information on November digital age. This entity can be a country, a professional ties between information sci- Science Ex- 17-18, 2018. community, a government, an economy, ence researchers and librarians. This year, perts with the -The 5th Con- an industry, an organization, a library, an due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic main slogan gress of Infor- archive, a museum, or even an individual. outbreak, the Sixth Congress of Information of “Informa- mation Science Digital transformation in libraries, ar- Science Experts will be held as a semi-pres- tion and So- Experts with chives and museums means preparing ence (semi-virtual) meeting in May 2021. ciety: Library the main slo- them for success in the digital age. Digital The Congress of Information Science Ex- Services, Ar- gan of “We transformation requires everyone to work perts is held in order to 1) reflect the scien- chives and and the Fu- together to build a new and better version tific progress in our field and discuss and Museums ture: Emerging of library, archive and museum, so that exchange views on its status, 2) discuss for National Developments they understand the logic of this age and and exchange views on the problems com- Develop- in Informa- can survive and then grow. Although this munity of librarians, students and graduates ment” on October 29-30, 2015. tion Sciences, Libraries and Ar- is a fundamental change centered on digi- face with, 3) reflect the librarians’ practi- - The Second Congress of Information Sci- chives” on November 20-21, 2019 tal technologies, digital transformation is cal achievements in libraries and informa- ence Experts with the main slogan of “the Fortunately, the Congress of Information more a social, human, and cultural issue tion centers, 4) get acquainted with the Right to open Access to Information in Citi- Science Experts, like the IFLA Congress, than a technological one. Digital transfor- general issues of libraries and information zenship rights” on November 6-7, 2016. has become part of our professional identity mation has such a broader and more com- services of the country, 5) hold a consulta- - The third congress of information science nationally and a platform for all members of prehensive look at information technology tion between researchers, teachers, students, Experts with the main slogan “Preserva- the professional community across the coun- that it affects the ... [continued to Page 4] Greece & Iran in Iranian Stonebooks & The Library Publishing Coalition UNESCO’s MOW Manuscripts in NLAI On July 13, 2020, Zamani Advisor to Director The LPC is an independent, com- of North Texas, and Virginia Tech regard- “In the past, to reproduce books, scribes of the NLAI, in a meeting with Nik-khah Qomi, munity-led membership association. ing the need for a community dedicated to copied from books and then calligraphed and Iran’s new cultural advisor in Greece, said, “So Its purpose is to support an evolving, advancing the field of library publishing. engraved a calligraphy on the stone, and it far, more than 50 written works in the field of distributed range of library publishing Academic libraries and the researchers and was embossed, inked and finally printed on documentary heritage have been nationally reg- practices and to further the interests of li- organizations they support are facing a new paper.” Ojabi, Director General of Manu- istered; More than ten works in the world have braries involved in publishing activities. paradigm in scholarly publishing. The web, scripts and Rare Books of NLAI Said, He been registered worldwide; several important About the Strategic Plan. This strategic information and social media technologies, added that there is a complete stone book works have been jointly and regionally regis- plan was created by the Library Publish- and the open source and open access move- bank in this organization. Some libraries, tered in the UNESCO’s Memory of the World ing Coalition Board based on community ments are changing the framework in which such as the Marashi Najafi Library or the Program; under such circumstances, if there are input from the 2016 and 2017 member- scholarship is created, collected, organized, Astan Quds Razavi Library, specialize in fo- valuable Persian manuscripts in Greece, it may ship meetings, a SWOT (Strengths, and disseminated. Yet, as shown by the cusing on religious books. Still, the NLAI, be jointly registered in the UNESCO’s MOW” Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) highly regarded Strategies for Success proj- the Majlis, or the University of Tehran librar- The meeting focused on developing science, Analysis, and an environmental scan. ect (funded by IMLS and led by Purdue Uni- ies possess a wide variety of manuscripts. knowledge, culture, and the expansion of library It also benefited from the contributions of versity, the University of Utah, and Georgia The book “Single Spice” consists of five vol- activities based on a joint effort to deepen equal a group of LPC community members who Tech), library-based publishing groups lack umes. It includes the knowledge of medicine cooperation in the Library and archival fields. volunteered to support this work by serving a central space where they can meet, work and pharmacology of centuries ago, which be- Zamani said that Greece is the cradle of thought on Board sub- together, share longs to the Andalusian physician and phar- in the modern world and the West; it could be committees, re- information, macologist named Ibn Samagūn, who had expected that there might be works in Shiism viewing drafts, and confront collected all the ideas of his previous and con- and Islam in that country. He continued that pre- and providing common issues. temporary physicians with a critical approach. viously, there had been a memorandum of un- input on the in- The Strate- The prominent biologist Sezgin identi- derstanding for cooperation between Iran and progress plan. gies for Success fied the second to fifth volumes of this im- Greece, which already expired. However, they The plan will project laid a mortal work of pharmacology and published tried to extend this memorandum as the histori- be used by the strong founda- it as a facsimile, stating in the abstract cal documents in Greece are of particular impor- Board to di- tion for further that the first volume had not been found. tance; the documents include correspondence, rect LPC’s re- action. The vi- Fortunately, the General Directorate of travelogues, commercial, political, and cultural sources (human sion outlined Manuscripts and Rare Books of the NLAI contracts. “we are dealing with the Coronavirus and financial) toward activities that will in that proposal was vetted by representa- found and purchased the first volume of this pandemic; it would be possible for exhibitions have the biggest impact on the organization tives from 18 major libraries and consortia book, which belongs to the 6th lunar century. of joint Iranian-Greek documents to be virtually and the larger community of library pub- in July 2012 before being released to pro- In the end, Ojabi spoke about the held with the cooperation of the two countries.” lishers, and it will be used by the standing spective participants in August 2012. More purchase of several prominent cop- Zamani said. He added NLAI is one of the top na- committees to focus their work on high-pri- than 50 academic libraries formally joined ies in this organization, which are: tional libraries in the world. Given the widespread ority areas. Specifically, action items in the the project team before the project kicked • Al-Amali manuscript of Al-Shaykh al- outbreak of Coronavirus, we are trying to provide plan will be mapped onto projects and ac- off in January 2013. Over the next eighteen Saduq with the calligraphy by Ibn Sakūn services to Iranians worldwide, as its motto is tivities to be undertaken by the organization. months, participants worked to produce the along with the printed books of the library of National Library is at every Iranian’s Home. Nik- Between January 2013 and December LPC’s first deliverables, including the Li- the late Abbas Qomi (in the field of religion); khah Qomi also welcomed the NLAI’s coopera- 2014, 61 academic libraries, in collabora- brary Publishing Directory and the inaugural • A small octagonal Qur’an with a di- tion to sign a memorandum of collaboration with tion with the Educopia Institute, founded Library Publishing Forum. At the request of ameter of 3/2 written in 784 AH; the NLG and said that those valuable resources the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC).