May 15, 2025 

Time

NY 1:00 pm EDT
Cairo 8:00 pm EEST
Muscat 9:00 pm GST
Amsterdam 7:00 pm CEST

IFLA’s Management of Library Associations Section (MLAS) in collaboration with the New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG), the Women, Information and Libraries (WILSIG), and the IFLA MENA Regional Division is pleased to announce a web event part of its webinar series, Building Strong Library Associations.

The mission of the Management of Library Associations Section (MLAS) is to build and support strong, well-managed library associations. The Section on Management of Library Associations (MLAS) includes dynamic leaders from library associations who seek to advocate for the interests, aspirations and concerns of the library associations represented among IFLA members.

This year MLAS is presenting webinars under the theme Building Strong Library Associations and its priority areas: information integrity, library advocacy, membership retention, financial sustainability, and strategic planning. Each webinar will feature different priority areas according to the needs of library associations in each region of the world. The webinars format includes interactive opportunities to engage attendees in conversations in languages spoken in the regions. This new webinar series by MLAS and its collaborators is for all library associations across regions of the world.

The webinar with IFLA MENA Regional Division focuses on various themes of interest for library associations in the MENA region: strategic planning, membership retention, and training.

We are pleased to feature library associations and librarians from all regions of the world in this webinar series.

Big Thanks to IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group for their significant collaboration managing zoom and the breakout rooms part of the webinar series.

The webinar will be recorded.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Speakers:

Loida Garcia-Febo, Chair IFLA MLAS, Member IFLA Governing Board

Dr. Saif AlJabri, Chair IFLA MENA, CEPS Library Director, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

Dr. Imad Bachir, MLAS Member, Former Chair IFLA MENA, Dean of Libraries at the AUIB

Dr. Heba Mohamed Ismail, IFLA CPDWL Member, Former IFLA MENA Member, Vice President of Arab Federation for Libraries and Information. Libraries Technical Manager, Egypt’s Society for Culture and Development (ESCD)

 

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