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Date:  01 Oct  2002
From: Taoufik Monastiri <tmonastiri at planet.tn>
Subject:L'AFLI Conference

L'AFLI (Arabic Federation of Libraries and Information), vous informe
qu'elle tient son congrès annuel à Beyrouth du 29 octobre au 1 novembre
2002, sur le thème :"knowledge, competence and quality".
Ci-joint un docement de présentation.

Information  management in the digital environment : knowledge,  
competence and quality 
Beirut 29 October – 1 November 2002.

Introduction :
Information exists in the modern management of institutions.  
Organisations that enter globalisation tournament, became more and more  
involved in the investment of knowledge as a capital to be preserved  
and increased, and also with a good and creative administration of its  
informational fund and immaterial heritage. Investment in the modern  
administration of information is considered as key condition of  
enduring competition between organisations however information could  
not be used and controlled as easy as material property in the present  
situation characterised by the overspread use of internet digital  
technology and multimedia, and these are the main causes.
* Managers’ bad interpretation of the complicated information process,  
because they consider managing information identical to the management  
of material issues where information is immaterial and information are  
complicated, enormous, and reproduced continuously and could not be  
managed unprofessionally.
* The common misleading idea among managers that solutions exist in the  
computerised systems, able to deal wit any activity in the institution  
without any objective study of the real needs of the different parts  
concerned by information and without clear understanding of functions  
and duties of the organisations.
Decision making operations depend nowadays on the advanced systems  
using computers in addition to the networks such as internet that would  
remove borders between companies, and it has capabilities that would  
lead to move deep renovations change in the field of management,  
economy and commerce. These companies will not only perform its  
activities through this network but also change will reach all  
governmental services including information services such as libraries,  
information, and archives centres. It became clear that economics  
globalisation has been changing ways of commerce, selling and by buying  
of different types of products (good and services) using the internet.  
It lets the way of concurrence between then until reaching all  
activities to what is called electronic economy (such as electronic  
trade, electronic money and electronic financial transactions systems).
On the other hand, the rapid growth of information technology and  
especially the internet technology ( next generation internet) has lead  
to deep move in the professions of information intermediates, the  
knowledge transporters, and to renovations in the informational  
functions. We would mention for example:
Knowledge navigators
Major facilitators of individual  knowledge.
The ultimate search engines
Information consultants.

Issues :
How would  organisations and institutions be redesigned to move from  
the material to the information ?
How do specialists plan for the general framework to manage human  
resources in the institutions, competence and knowledge and assure  
interrelations between different counterparts ?
Would management change the force of Arab libraries and information  
centre in the era of networks  ?
What are the means and approaches to be flowed by librarians and  
information specialities to improve means of seeking and increasing  
knowledge ?
What are the limits of legal responsibilities of digital information  
producers and users ?
How information and its policies planned in the digital environment ?

Objectives :
To provide the appropriate framework to deepen the thought about new  
concepts of information management such as : performance criteria,  
total quality and excellence modal.
The understanding of new innovations in the field of knowledge   
management and their impact on libraries and information centre.
To learn from Arab and foreign experience in the field.
To study the situation of Arab information service and exchange ideas  
on means to cope with developments in the fields knowledge management  
and total quality.
Topics of the 13th conference :
Topic 1 :  Strategic management of knowledge.
1.1	- Innovation and concurrence in the process of the new and  
knowledge expansion.
1.2	– Knowledge management and its role in the creation and production  
of knowledge their collection, transformation, diffusion and sharing (  
Arab and foreign experiences)
1.3	– The redefinition of functions and naming of technical services  
related to the management of access to information.
1.4	– Knowledge management and information technology : role of  
internet and intranet in the knowledge retrieval, exchange and  
improvement.

Topic 2 : Whole quality in libraries and information centers
2.1	– Quality control of information services in the electronic era :  
measurement of group performance, technical producer and user services.
2.2	– Total quality in the management of institutions in the Arab  
world : motivation excellence and productivity.
2.3	- Human resources management in the information services :  
redefinition of specialists functions and skills ; the concept of  
leadership in the information centre administration.
2.4	– Building and equipment of information services :
The new information and common technology and its impact on the  
architecture of libraries.
Access approach of access to information available in the virtual  
libraries (internet , intranet, information bases).	

Topic 3 : Standards and library legislation
3.1 – Standardisation and it role to measure the performance of  
libraries and information services.
3.2 – Standardisation of technical operations and information services  
in the Arab world and ways of review and improvements.
3.3 – Arab libraries and information services legislation : legal  
developments in the digital era.
3.4 – Intellectual property rights of electronic information : Authors  
and user’s right

  Topic 4 : Information planning and policies
4.1 – Planing to create or improve national knowledge systems .
4.2 – National information policies.
4.3 – Cooperative program and information networks.
4.4 – Distance learning and the role of libraries.

Topic 5 : Knowledge economy
5.1 – Information trade exchange and globalism : electronic commerce of  
information supports and marketing.
5.2- Information costs and fees payments
5.3 – Aptitude of individuals and institutions in a concurrent  
environment.
5.4 – Continuous follow-up of information and strategic planning of  
institutions

Round table : Libraries in Al-Quds
Scientific committee :
To assure the scientific level of the conference and objectivity of  
choosing contributors, a committee was created from countries to  
evaluate suggestions and papers.
Conditions to contribute with paper :
Contributions must respect the suggested topic and deadlines of sending  
application from and full texts and then papers have to be accepted buy  
the scientific committee The later will consider good quality studies  
and scientific addition. Papers should not be presented or published  
before. Organisers promise to publish the accepted papers in the  
proceedings of the conference.

Time tables :
15/06/2002 : deadline to receive applications forms
05/07/2002 : deadline to relieve the full text of the papers with  
abstracts in Arabic and English (about 250 word) and paper formats.
15/09/2002 : Announcement of accepted papers and the schedule of the  
conference.

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