A Lecture at Qatar National Library Explores Role of Digital Libraries in Preserving Middle East Heritage
From Al Bawaba:
A lecture at the Qatar National Library on 30 October shed more light on how high-tech archives such as the Digital Library of the Middle East can make information more accessible.
The informative talk by Dr. Charles Henry, President of the Council on Library and Information Resources, highlighted how for centuries Qatar has been a significant crossroads between Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the Far East, and as such, its heritage items trace global social, economic, scientific and religious development.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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