The press-conference on the eve of the 7th International conference «Central Asia-2013 - Information and library resources in science, education, culture and business» was held in the National library of Uzbekistan, at which were discussed questions of the organization of the conference and the current results of operations of the library.

 

The Director of the National library of Uzbekistan A.Khodjaev noted that the International conference which is held once in two years, contributes for revitalization of the information and library institutions, educational institutions, archives, museums and other organizations for the effective and efficient cooperation in the development and use of electronic information resources in various spheres.

 

The organizers of the traditional conference this year are the Committee of the Legislative chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan on information and communication technologies, the State Committee of communications and Informatization and telecommunication technologies of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the national library of Uzbekistan named after Alisher Navoi, the Ministry of culture and sports, national education, higher and secondary special education and a number of other agencies and organizations.

 

Native and foreign experts will review the legislative and normative-legal base of information and library activities in our country, will make a report concerning the development of library - information resources in science, education, culture and business, as well as to discuss issues of training, retraining and raising of qualification of specialists of the industry in the framework of the International conference.

The information concerning the activities of the National library which is the coordinating and methodological centre for all the information and library institutions of the country was given at the press-conference.

 

It was noted that, in accordance with the decree of the President Islam Karimov «On measures on organization of activities of the National library of Uzbekistan named after Alisher Navoi - information resource center» of March 20, 2012 conditions are created and information resource base to comprehensively meet the intellectual, cognitive, educational, spiritual-moral and cultural needs of the population with the use of modern information-communication technologies. In particular, over the past year  2013 the collect of the library increased by more than 19.5 thousand copies and is currently more than 6.5 million copies.

 

Work is continuing on the creation of electronic resources and replenishment of electronic catalogues. From the beginning of current year employees of the National library of Uzbekistan made electronic copies of more than three thousand books, with the greatest demand among readers. In General created 380 thousand electronic bibliographic data, as well as electronic forms more than 314 thousand editions.

 

Great attention is paid to the implementation of social projects.  13 thematic and personal exhibitions and four exhibitions of new arrival books was held in the reading rooms of the library. Dozens of different spiritual-enlightening events - literary evenings, meetings with poets and writers, and competitions were held in the library.