DOHA: Universal experts on sports libraries and sports information will convene in Doha to participate a public conference organised by Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum, Qatar Museums Authority and Qatar University, tomorrow.
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The two-day educational seminar at Qatar University is the first of its of its kind that brings in librarians and library scientists from international sport libraries and research centres to provide the experiences of their institutions and to discuss about the development of sport libraries in the Arab world, as well as possible collaboration.
“Sports Libraries in the Arab World — growing, learning, co-operating” will include presentations on the planning of the library at the Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum. It will focus on library work and science in the Arab world. It will also have presentations on the work of many of the most essential sport libraries, research centres and Olympic studies centres in the world.
Some of the key highlight presentations will be the Central Library of Sport Sciences in Cologne, Germany, so far the world-biggest special library in the field of sport; Olympic Studies Centre of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, Switzerland; Olympic Studies Centre at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain; Sports Library and Archives of Finland; sports research library and the digital archive of the LA84 foundation in Los Angeles, USA; and the research centre of the US Golf Association Museum in Far Hills, New Jersey, USA. Joiners will also learn about Qatar University’s Sport Science Programme, the general status of libraries and library science in Qatar and the Arab world. The Peninsula
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