The King Abdulaziz Public Library in Riyadh will organize activities for the 10th meeting of Arabic Union Catalog members from Nov. 28-30.
The meeting will study developments in information organization, digitization, and services in the electronic environment, as well as the challenges facing libraries and other institutions concerned with processing knowledge and providing advanced information services.
It also aims to strengthen cooperation and integration between Arab libraries and information centers that work on serving Arab and Islamic culture.
Representatives from cultural and library bodies from the Kingdom, the Arab world, and China, specialists, interested individuals, heads of associations and professional unions, and university professors will participate in the meeting’s activities.
Participants include representatives from the King Fahd National Library, Ministry of Culture, Peking University Library, King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, Arab national libraries, document centers and museums, major public libraries, and school libraries, in addition to a number of publishers, heads of unions and book associations, and representatives from private sector companies.