Presentation by Iskander Rakhmatullaev, Uzbekistan Republic, concerning his Digial Libraries Learning Program (DILL) internship with Beth Filar Williams, UNCG Libraries spring 2012.

1. STUDY IN DILL PROGRAMM, INTERNSHIP
AND THEIR IMPORTANCE TO THE
LIBRARIES OF UZBEKISTAN
DILL-4 Student: Iskander Rakhmatullaev, Uzbekistan Republic
Internship supervisor: Elisabeth Filar Williams
Dill-4 professors: Anna Maria Tammaro, Elena Corradini

2. Uzbekistan
1. Located at the heart of Central Asia
2. Population – about 30 mln people.
3. Capital - Tashkent
4. 67 high schools, including 3 branches of
international universities: Westminster, Turin and
Singapore. And 3 Russian universities

3. Russia
China
Afghanistan

7. Libraries (around 12000)
 9500 – school libraries under the Ministry of Public
Education
 1700 – information resourceful center of colleges and
lyceums
 67 – academic libraries
 14 – regional information and library centers (public
libraries) of the Agency of Telecommunication
 More than 1000 departmental libraries;
 25 libraries of the system of the Academy of Science;
 250 medical libraries;
 72 special libraries of the Ministry of Culture.

8. National Library of Uzbekistan
 FOTO

9.  Foto

15. Library reforms
 Uzbek President’s Resolution “On
organization of Information and Library
Support for Population of the Republic”
(June 20, 2006, # PR-381)
 The Law “About Information and Library
“
Activities” 2011

16. ZIYONET

17. DILL
 1. Erasmus Mundus Tempus Course
 2. Summer school (2 weeks in Florence)
 3. Berlin conference “Theory and practice
of digital library”
 4. Foreign professors (Ian Witten)
 5. Moodle system

18. Taught courses
 Users and usage module;
 Acess to digital libraries module;
 Digitisation workflow.
 Collection management.
 Information and reference services
 Economic and legal issues of DL.
 Access to information (metadata and their standards).
 Basics of semantic web.
 Greenstone.
 Drupal.
 eIFL – consortiums
 One Workshop in two weeks

19. DILL
Given tasks:
 - Description of the British Library
(report on one of the section).
 - Building simple Greenstone collection
(example on Steve Jobs memory)
 - Examples of good digital libraries.
(Ziyonet, Library of Congress, Dutch Royal
Library )

20. Importance and benefit of DILL
 Possibility to analyze the current position of DL.
 All conditions to get very important knowledge and skills
for Master degree
 Knowledge on subjects that are not taught in our library
faculties.
 Knowledge and skills of creating library applications
 New subjects to library faculties.
 Creative links with professors and students of different
countries.
 Obtained knowledge is spread to the librarians of leading
libraries of the country.
 Good step to future career.

21.  FOTO

22. LibGuide toolkit
 Composition
 Given tasks
 Toolkits
 Web-site examples

27. Obtained knowledge
 Acquaintance with toolkits useful for time-
management, work and study organization.
 Forming and organization of the toolkits.
 Work with NCUG CMS;
On future:
 Further practice on CMS;
 Skills on using toolkits for Uzbekistan libraries.

28. Importance for international
cooperation
 Motivation of Educational development of our
local librarians and readers;
 Keep up with the latest IT ;
 Cooperation development between the
universities and libraries of the USA and
Uzbekistan .
 Prospects: joint international projects on
education, library and information spheres.

29. THANK YOU!!!