OREANDA-NEWS. January 21, 2007. Seminar “Current state and problems in development of information & librarian system” was held in the Republican information & librarian center of Communications and Information Agency of Uzbekistan, reported the press-centre of Uztelecom.

Results of activity of information & librarian centers for 2007 and perspectives of improving such activities in the Republic of Uzbekistan was discussed at that seminar.

Director of Republican information & librarian center A.Ishmatov reported on state and prospects in development of information & librarian centers and lightened introduction of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by the center.  He noted on positive results achieved in 2007. He also mentioned that information technologies are not being introduced sufficiently in the activity of the center. The seminar discussed the ways of solving those problems.

Report of Deputy Director of the Сenter on Scientific & Technical and Marketing Reseaches  M. Mukhitdinov on international relations and cooperation in the field of personnel training, conservation and restoration of librarian funds, international exchange by books with such Russian information & librarian centers as “ВИНИТИ РАН", "РНБ" and “РГБ" was of great interest to the participants of the seminar.

Technical Director of the Training Center for the young programmers A.Gafurov made a speech informing on the Center's activity to develop the elaboration of National automotized information & librarian system, probation of which is being implemented in some information & librarian centers. To support the information & librarian centers it has been planned to launch subsidiaries of the Training Center for the young programmers.

Head of Department of the National library of Uzbekistan named after A. Navoi M. Rakhmatullaev informed on tasks of the Center of corporate catalogization in order to exclude a dublication of e-notes in the course of compiling e-catalogues.

Reports made by Directors of information & librarian centers of Ferghana, Andijan and Samarkand provinces  D. Shukurova, Sh. Akhmedova, M. Samadova and K. Karimova devoted to chargeable services and to interactions between information & librarian center and the centers for information resources also provoked the interest among the participants.

The topic of cooperation between information & library centers of UzACI and libraries of military divisions in the structure of the  Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Uzbekistan was presented by the specialist of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Uzbekistan Kh. Kholmatova. Introduction of new forms for statistics and requirements to librarian activity was informed in speech made by specialists of the Republican information & librarian center D. Kudratova and M. Maksumova.