IIUI Chief Librarian attends Conference in USA

Islamabad, Ch. Yaqoob Ali, Chief Librarian of the International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI) participated in the ETD Conference 2009, Bridging the Knowledge Divide, at the university of Pittsburg, USA. The Conference focused on the

• Open Access Movement: Integrating Universities, ETD-Deposit and Research-Deposit Mandates, repositories and Metrics, Broadening Dissemination of New Knowledge
• Scholarly Communications in the Digital Millennium, Preservation in the Digital Age
• A Moral and Legal Obligation, Perspectives on Open Access, EDTs and Scholarly Communications
• The Digital Axis of Communication, Publishing, Open Access & ETDs.

Ch. Yaqoob Ali presented a poster on Introduction to ETD project at IIU. Which included graphical and textual content on lessons learned, issues, challenges and achievements at IIUI. He also attended SLA Conference held in Washington DC after the ETD conference.