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2009-19-06

 

The 16^th annual international conference Crimea 2009 took place in Sudak on June 6-14, with active participation of the Russian Committee of the UNESCO Information for All Programme and the Interregional Library Cooperation Centre, its working body.

 

Evgeny Kuzmin, Chair of the Russian Committee of the UNESCO Information for All Programme, President of the Interregional Library Cooperation Centre, and head of the conference Programme Committee, read the Committee’s and the UNESCO Moscow Office’s greeting to the conference during its opening ceremony, and a plenary paper on Preserving Language and Cultural Diversity: Reviewing the Results of the UN International Year of Languages.

 

The Russian IFAP Committee introduced the IFAP Strategic Plan 2008-2013 and Programme's priorities to the section, The Information Society, the World Information Infrastructure, National Information Resources, National Libraries and International Cooperation Projects.

 

Invited by the Russian IFAP Committee, Syb Groenefeld, Project Coordinator Russian Federation for Creative Commons International, spoke to the section, Public Access to Legal and Business Information: Problems of Copyright, Library Intellectual and Material Property Protection, on designing a strategy to resolve the paradox of open access and copyright law for libraries in Russia.

 

The Interregional Library Cooperation Centre and the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications organized the Special Workshop: Reading in Global Information Society, after which Mr Kuzmin passed editions of the Russian IFAP Committee and the Interregional Centre to the National Parliamentary Library of Ukraine as a gift.

 

 

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Crimea is an annual world professional forum for leadership and staff of libraries, publishing houses, book trade business, museums, archives, information centres, universities, colleges, computer and Internet companies.

 

 

 

The opening of the international conference Crimea 2009

 

 

Yakov Shrayberg, Director General of the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology

 

 

Grigory Ivliev, Chair of the Culture Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, greeting the conference on the State Duma’s behalf

 

 

Evgeny Kuzmin reading a plenary paper summarizing the International Year of Languages, proclaimed by the United Nations in 2008

 

 

From left, Viktor Plakyda, Prime Minister of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea; Ramazan Abdulatipov, Acting Rector of the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts; and Viktor Mushakov, department head of the Federal Agency for Science and Innovations, during the conference opening ceremony

 

 

Evgeny Kuzmin telling about the new Strategic Plan of the UNESCO Information for All Programme

 

 

From left, Sergey Mironenko, Director of the State Archive of the Russian Federation; Ekaterina Genieva, Director General of the M.I. Rudomino All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature; and Rifat Sarazetdinov, Director General of the GRAND-FAIR Publishing Group

 

Evgeny Kuzmin and Alexander Voropaev, Head of the Book Fairs and Reading Support Department, Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications—anchors of  Special Workshop: Reading in Global Information Society

 

 

Olga Gromova, Editor-in-Chief of The School Library newspaper, Pervoye Sentyabrya Publishing House, addressing Special Workshop: Reading in Global Information Society

 

 

Tamara Vylegzhanina, Director General of the National Parliamentary Library of Ukraine, accepting the gift of publications of the Russian Committee of the UNESCO Information for All Programme and of the Interregional Library Cooperation Centre

 

From left, Nataliya Dunaeva, Director of the N. I. Zheleznov Central Scientific Library, K.A. Timiryazev Russian State Agrarian University/Moscow Agricultural Academy; Elena Khodyreva, press attaché of the Russian Committee of the UNESCO Information for All Programme; Evgenia Kulikova, Deputy Director of the Russian State Children’s Library; Alevtina Pankova, Director of the Publishing Projects Centre, BIBCOM Central Library Collector; and Tatyana Kuznetsova, head of the Chair of Library Studies and Information Technologies, Academy for Retraining in Arts, Culture and Tourism, after Special Workshop: Reading in Global Information Society

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