While #Halle is covered in snow, the #FID team is in #Cairo at #MELCom International with a presentation on ‘Open to Read, Closed to Publish: Is There an Open Access Dilemma for the Global South? #Decolonising Knowledge’.

#openaccess #globalsouth #MENA #Egypt #cosimena

Gerade auf der #MELCom / #MELA in Kairo einen Vortrag von Amy Andres (Virginia Commenwealth University in Qatar) über "Navigating #Palestine Solidarity and #DEI in an Academic Library" gehört.
Was kann der/die Einzelne tun, um Solidarität im beruflichen Kontext (in einer #Bibliothek und /oder Behörde) zu zeigen?

#palästina #palaestina #nahostkonflikt

#FID on the Road
Last week, Dr Adam represented the #FID at the meeting of the European Association of Middle East Librarians at the Sorbonne in Paris with a presentation on the topic: Digitisation - #OCR/#HTR - what comes next? The #conversion of non-Latin scripts into reliable data sets

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https://www.menalib.de/en/community/roadshows/

#Melcom

The Board of #MELCom (#MiddleEast #Libraries Committee) International is pleased to announce that the 45th annual #conference will take place over three days, from Tuesday 14th to Thursday 16th May 2024 (inclusive) at Aga Khan Library in London, United Kingdom.

https://melcominternational.eu/index.php/forthcoming-conference/

Please bear in mind that the deadline for pre-registration is Sunday 28th January 2024.