Ali Abbas Mahmoud's testimonial

I have been in the library field for 17 years, I’m an Egyptian working in UAE, I’m very proud to belong to this wonderful field as a librarian, we have never heard of such initiatives, but it’s a unique experience since the nomination step in this program and the ease and speed of response in this amazing initiative.

ILNP program based on knowledge and experience transfer between to partners one of them from far east and the other form far west with different culture, different human races to be one team finds ways to communicate, learn, and benefit from each other’s.

This program gives them huge chances to develop their libraries, it has a great impact to change libraries in (services – activities – etc…). 

I’m in Emirates from Arab world, I working in Academic library and have experiences in Public and School libraries and my partner from USA, she is working in Public library, and our coordinator from Korea, we talk together about our qualification and our social life, and our hobbies, our culture, and we found some ways to communicate and start to transfer our knowledge and experiences to each other’s.

Our project it will be about public library transform, we will show you how the Public libraries in Arab world working on transform and will focusing on the good activities what served our community.

It is great chance to say thank you to all teams:

1- Initiative owner 

2- Organizing team 

3- Implementing team 

4- Coordinators 

5- Participants 

For some reasons: 

1- Excellent organizing 

2- Patience with us, Advice, guidance and counseling 

3- Continues following up 

From heart of Arab world (Shokran شكرا)

Ali Abbas Mahmoud MLIS, Ph.D. Researcher Library Manager 

University of Fujairah, UAE 

Email: Aliabas727@hotmail.com