Guesdon M.-G. The Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the UNESCO’s MEDLIB Project: a Seminar on Arabic Manuscripts Computerised Cataloguing // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 5. No. 3. September 1999. P. 59—61.
In December 1998, The Bibliothèque nationale de France
and UNESCO conducted a three-day seminar on the computerised
cataloguing of Arabic manuscripts in the framework
of a project of a Virtual Mediterranean Library
(MEDLIB). This UNESCO-initiated project aims to create
a virtual information network for the Mediterranean region
and to promote co-operation among scholars, researchers,
teachers, and other information users and providers. The use
of information resources by setting up co-operative mechanisms
between information sources and users is also meant,
so as to contribute to the scientific and cultural development
of the region. UNESCO is now developing other projects in
the field of information and books, like Memory of the
World, to preserve and promote a universal documentary
heritage. The other projects are the UNESCO Network of
Associated Libraries (UNAL) to encourage public libraries
to undertake activities related to UNESCO’s missions, InfoEthics, Learning Without Frontiers, and Rural Multipurpose
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ИВР РАН проводит 29 октября с. г., во вторник, в Зеленом зале Ново-Михайловского дворца (Дворцовая наб., д. 18) научную конференцию, посвященную памяти Всеволода Львовича Вихновича (1937–2022).