Sharjah International Library Conference العربية

Entrepreneurs Need Libraries: How to Develop Your Entrepreneur Center

Libraries can play a vital role in the local economy and workforce development. So many people and students want to become entrepreneurs these days. That is why libraries of different types around the world have now created Entrepreneur Centers. Research shows that Start-Ups in the MENA region face a host of often-debilitating barriers. This full-day workshop will provide you with the knowledge, guidance, strategies, and tools and resources to develop this new service at your library to help those who want to take their ideas and create their own businesses.

The preconference workshop will:

• Provide an overview on why libraries deserve a place at The Table of Economic Resources in a community.
• Outline the various elements and needs of entrepreneurs.
• Showcase examples of current Entrepreneur Centers at public, academic, special, and school libraries.
• Explain how to create a Needs Assessment on business resources currently available in your community.
• Create a scope of services and resources.
• Define stakeholders, deliverables, infrastructure, and sustainability.
• Identify community partners/other collaborations.
• Funding- challenges and opportunities
• Have you Design your own Entrepreneurship Center.
• How to promote and engage and evaluate

Workshop Structure

The workshop will be a mix of presentations, interactive small group discussions, mentimeter polling, and use of gamified applications.

Workshop Handouts

• Business Plan
• Glossary of Business Terms
• List of Favorite Books
• List of Grant Funding Sources
• Libraries Build Business Playbook

Learning Outcomes

• Understand why libraries are important to workforce development (from schools to university to community)
• Who are entrepreneurs and what are their needs
• All the steps needed to create a successful Entrepreneur Center

Presenter:

Diane Luccy,
Business and Careers Manager, Richland Library,
Columbia, SC, USA

Sherine Eid,
Acting Head of the Quality Improvement Unit
Library Sector at Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt.

Cataloging Manuscripts & Archival Collections Using RDA

This workshop is intended for librarians and library staff responsible for cataloging

This workshop will cover highlights of RDA instructions related to cataloging manuscripts and archival materials including government documents. In addition, the Dominican Institute (Ideo) experience towards cataloging Arabic-Islamic heritage.

Also, Introducing the role of the Dominican Institute (Ideo) Library, towards the research community.

Their journey towards being a map for the Arabic-Islamic heritage through their Integrated Library System, where they apply the international standards for cataloging and indexing. They determine the historical context of the work and examine the relationships between the authors and explore their thoughts and gradually integrate the heritage information, which accommodates the needs of the researchers.

The afternoon session will introduce the new updates in the RDA Toolkit in line with the new release of the NEW Toolkit in September 2022; introducing the new features included.

Who Should Attend?

This Workshop is intended for catalogers and archivists who have are working at the heritage and archive institutions and have little or no experience with rare and archival materials but who nonetheless find themselves faced with a rare or unique collection.

Attendees should already be familiar with the basic concepts and application of RDA.

Learning Outcomes

The attendees of this workshop will be able to use the RDA standard and MARC format specific to manuscript and archival collections and create a MARC record from a finding aid.

Presenter:

Rania Osman,
Head of Information Institutions and Professional Skills Department, Bibliotheca Alexandrina,
Egypt Chair of the RDA Arabic Translation Team

Tharwat Al-Olaimi,
Cataloging & Metadata Librarian at University of Sharjah, UAE,
He has experience over 17 years in cataloging and archiving. He is a member of IFLA-BCM review group.

Engy Elgammal,
Cataloging Director of the Library of the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies, Cairo, Egypt