{"id":1425,"date":"2020-05-07T13:58:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T13:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibulletin.ilisa.ir\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2020-05-14T21:35:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T21:35:08","slug":"5th-congress-of-iranian-information-science-experts-achievements-and-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibulletin.ilisa.ir\/?p=1425","title":{"rendered":"5th Congress of Iranian Information science experts: Achievements and Demands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although the Fifth Congress of Information Science Specialists kicked off in July 2019, in<br \/>contrast to the previous congresses, its executive procedures still were behind schedule.<br \/>However, since the early days, it was tried to pave the way for maximum participation<br \/>of interested ones in various programs of the fifth congress through a precise planning<br \/>in steering, executive and scientific committees. The general direction was set when the<br \/>congress\u2019s theme, \u201cWe and Future: Emerging Developments in Information Sciences,<br \/>Libraries and Archives\u201d, was determined. The mission was highlighted through a memo,<br \/>Intelligent Movement across the Risky Route of the Future and using the same note and<br \/>other initial media activities the experts and specialists were asked to help the congress<br \/>and to make its discussions more useful and to fortify its scientific and professional<br \/>aspects through participating in pre-meetings and main sessions.<br \/>Now that more than a full month has passed from the date of holding the 5<sup>th<\/sup> congress, it<br \/>seems appropriate to highlight some achievements and demands of this event in order<br \/>to be recorded in the history and also to fulfill more pursues and to hold the 6 th congress<br \/>more magnificently.<br \/>Planning for holding congress\u2019s pre-meetings with participation of universities, research<br \/>and professional organizations was one of measures which had been put atop agenda<br \/>like previous congresses. It took the congress out of the framework of a two-day event<br \/>in the year and made it a multi-month current in the space of the related major and<br \/>profession. Many valuable and important points were discussed in these pre-meetings,<br \/>which some of them were in the level of the national seminars, and they became<br \/>popularized on the same time. Holding such pre-meetings paved the way for discussing<br \/>about more serious debates across the two-day congress; especially this year four pre-<br \/>meetings were held in Razavi Khorasan and Fars Provinces, which diverted congress<br \/>programs from the capital city. We hope to witness more provincial meetings in the next<br \/>congresses and to strengthen the national dimension of the congress more than ever.<br \/>Maybe evaluation of achievements due to holding Congresses of Information Science<br \/>Specialists within past five years, especially the 5<sup>th<\/sup> one, is not an easy work and to<br \/>monitor the efficiency of this congress needs more time. However, it must be<br \/>considered that holding this event per se is an important achievement, which in turn is<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">followed by more dynamicity and jubilancy in the scientific and professional<br \/>organizations linked to the information science. The eye-catching presence of about<br \/>1000 people from universities, businesses, organizations and information industry in the<br \/>fifth congress may imply commitment and interest in development in this area.<br \/>The fifth congress was attended by 110 panelists including faculties, students,<br \/>businessmen, and managers from majors related to the information science and other<br \/>majors such as sociology, futurology, computer science, management, psychology and<br \/>other similar majors and helped us to point and discuss about different issues in an<br \/>inter-disciplinary space. These panelists belonged to 20 universities and 23 research<br \/>institutes and organizations of the country. It expects that the interaction between<br \/>specialists of various organizations and majors based on the pivot of information science<br \/>may result in more inter-disciplinary cooperation and theoretical and professional<br \/>development. Also, 25 managers in various levels participated in the congress meetings.<br \/>As the key speaker, the secretary of Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution<br \/>participated in the inaugural ceremony and verbally promised to posit the problems and<br \/>challenges of this science in the supreme council. Other directors including deputies and<br \/>managers of National Library and Archives of Iran (NLAI), director general of IRIB\u2019s<br \/>archives, chairman and deputies of IRANDOC, general director of cultural-artistic<br \/>department, camps and educational spaces of the Education Organization, director of<br \/>archives and media of Astan Quds Razavi, general director of monitoring, surveying and<br \/>future assessing of science and technology of Supreme Council of the Cultural<br \/>Revolution, secretary of healthcare of the Islamic Council Assembly, head of planning<br \/>and development of information science and knowledge management of Ministry of<br \/>Science and Technology, deputy of information and publishing development and<br \/>coordination department of Ministry of Health and Medical Education, directors of<br \/>libraries of universities and educational department directors were among decision<br \/>making managers who participated the congress very actively.<br \/>Given the discussions posited in the 5<sup>th<\/sup> congress (whose detailed reports have been<br \/>published in the website of the congress), some items can be considered as the<br \/>demands of the scientific and professional society and in charge individuals,<br \/>organizations and institutes can be asked to try more for fulfilling such demands.<br \/>\uf0b7 The first demand from authorities of Iranian Library and Information Science<br \/>Association (ILISA) can be this that we expect them to pursue discussions and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">issue posited in the fifth congress and to facilitate their realization through<br \/>holding forums and meetings for making decisions and also through following the<br \/>congress current within the entire year. Also, the council is expected to create a<br \/>think tank, run by thinkers and stockholders, for monitoring the future<br \/>developments in this major and profession. For strengthening and supporting the<br \/>thinkers, the council can extend the website of recording experiences and ideas<br \/>of specialists of information science, which in turn can develop a condition in<br \/>which specialists can interact with the activists of the information industry.<br \/>\uf0b7 The second demand is from all members of the scientific and professional<br \/>community of information science, librarianship and archives to start change for<br \/>effective survival in the risky future. As it has been declared in most meetings of<br \/>the fifth congress, the changes procedure is very quick and the procedures which<br \/>would affect the information science are very diverse, so the risk of omission in<br \/>the case of inefficiency is very serious. For showing an effective presence in this<br \/>risky future, we need to deal with the changes and developments with an open<br \/>mind and to apply necessary alterations in libraries, archives and other<br \/>professional spaces as well as educational and research sectors in order to b able<br \/>to render useful and effective services to our audience community.<br \/>\uf0b7 The main meetings of the 5 th congress were held in days when the internet<br \/>connection has been cut for security reasons and it made very difficult holding<br \/>this congress. However, holding the congress in these days was accompanied<br \/>with the request of specialists of information science to keep and safeguard the<br \/>free access of people to data and scientific information. It is a serious demand<br \/>from the government and other decision making institutes in this field.<br \/>\uf0b7 In this congress, especially in two meetings of children libraries and libraries of<br \/>educational institutes, more attention to children and educational system was<br \/>asked for effective support of reading habits, it seems that we need to leave<br \/>superficial activities in the field of promoting reading in order to be able to start<br \/>some most pivotal and fundamental works in this regard. Changing the<br \/>educational system given the role of libraries and its information resources in the<br \/>process of formal education and also the necessity of paying attention to train<br \/>information literacy to children and students and making them accustomed with<br \/>reading since childhood are among the important demands to which the<br \/>education organization and other responsible organizations and individuals who<br \/>are working in the field of children education need to pay attention. These<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">organizations need to pursue the revival and strengthen of children and school<br \/>libraries and all of us need to play significant roles such as informing, warning and<br \/>helping in this regard.<br \/>\uf0b7 As a serious demand, it is expected that all libraries, especially the public ones, to<br \/>redefine their services to meet daily and emerging needs of people and also<br \/>based on technological capabilities and to provide a proper space for people to<br \/>take part in social activities as a dynamic social organization. Likewise, authorities<br \/>of other libraries such as national library and libraries of universities, given the<br \/>platform thinking, need to pave the way for the effective participation of<br \/>stockholders and also offering new and creative and affective services to them.<br \/>The stance of universities\u2019 libraries should be enhanced and improved and full-<br \/>time professional managers should be recruited to start a constructive<br \/>development.<br \/>\uf0b7 It is expected that the increasing trend of recruiting non-specialist managers in<br \/>the specialized and professional organization to be ceased and recruiting aware<br \/>and specialized people to play some more constructive and effective roles to be<br \/>considered more than ever.<br \/>\uf0b7 For expanding the employment of the graduated ones there is a serious<br \/>demanding: when lose their specialized forces for any reason, libraries, archives<br \/>and other professional institutes need to recruit new forces based on transparent<br \/>and meritocratic criteria. It is natural that the side effects of unwise decisions in<br \/>this field would be felt by the society through evacuation of the professional<br \/>spaces and removal of cultural services. The weakening of the society\u2019s culture is<br \/>gradual and its destructive power would be incremental. In this regard, the Guild<br \/>Studies Committee has conducted some proper studies in recent years and has<br \/>proposed various recommendations to the relevant organizations such as<br \/>Administrative and Recruitment Organization for occupational development. One<br \/>of the most important recommendations in the fifth congress was posited along<br \/>with the idea of establishing the information consulting services system.<br \/>Although it needs more contemplation, it can pave the way for the purposeful<br \/>presence of the graduated students of this course in the society for providing<br \/>effective information services to various walks of life (including academicians,<br \/>researchers, businessmen, craftsmen, managers and others). So, it is necessary to<br \/>conduct some effective measures in the field of academic educations and also in<br \/>the field of profession diplomacy area. Following other courses such as<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">psychology as role models, the council can accelerate this professional<br \/>development. The first step has been taken and we hope members of scientific<br \/>and professional communities materialize this demand through their<br \/>participation and recommending their viewpoints and perspectives.<br \/>\uf0b7 In the session of ethics of information in the fifth congress, the destructive role of<br \/>some of upstream documents, including circulars defined for improving the<br \/>faculties, to create some immoralities in the scientific and research community<br \/>and necessary warnings were given to the Ministry of Health and Medical<br \/>Education to reform this trend in order to prevent more harms in the future. Also<br \/>regarding training this course in two sessions of information science education<br \/>and medical libraries, the demand for applying new changes in rubrics of<br \/>information science and knowledge management and medical librarianship and<br \/>also creating new majors and trends was declared.<br \/>\uf0b7 As a serious demand, paying attention to people and their needs in archives<br \/>was posited in the fifth congress. Archives should not be only research<br \/>organizations anymore and should redefine themselves to serve people and their<br \/>needs. Archivists, as specialists of this area, are expected to propose proper<br \/>scientific solutions to meet people\u2019s concerns, especially in regard to organizing<br \/>and protecting various sorts of family documents.<br \/>\uf0b7 Paying more attention to the international relations and more active<br \/>participation in the effective and strategic institutes and organizations,<br \/>particularly IFLA, were among other demands posited in the 5 th congress. In the<br \/>recent congress, ten senior authorities of IFLA and outstanding scientific councils<br \/>sent their messages and asked for more interaction and cooperation between<br \/>Iranian specialists and organization with their international counterparts. Despite<br \/>the valuable efforts, it is expected that Iranian specialists to play more important<br \/>roles in the international level, especially across the specialized committees and<br \/>workgroups.<br \/>\uf0b7 Paying more attention to the next generation of this occupation and course was<br \/>another demand posited in the fifth congress. Helping to improve the science,<br \/>skills and also intellectual and personality of students of this course through<br \/>strengthening the student scientific associations were among issues posited in<br \/>this congress and we hope that paying more attention to such associations will<br \/>help us to train more future-making students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What reviewed in this short note were some of the most important demands posited in<br \/>the fifth congress. Most of these demands were posited in the early days of this<br \/>congress and then they were reflected in the mass media, including programs of the<br \/>National Media. This editorial was written to complete these activities and to conclude<br \/>the efforts made in this regard. It is natural to meet these demands all members of the<br \/>scientific and professional community are tasked with sparing no efforts and the council<br \/>is also committed to reflect these efforts as best as possible to the society through<br \/>congress of specialists of information and its other programs. I seize the opportunity<br \/>here and ask all interested people and stockholders to help the council to achieve its<br \/>goals.<br \/>Eventually, personally I appreciate all people who work for running the fifth congress,<br \/>especially Dr. Mehrnaz Khorasanchi, the executive secretary and members of steering,<br \/>executive and scientific committees and all sponsors. I also appreciate our colleagues in<br \/>the Lisna news agency who cover all activities of the 5 th congress comprehensively. I<br \/>hope to witness the continuance of the congress in the future and meeting of demands<br \/>of the scientific and professional members as best as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the Fifth Congress of Information Science Specialists kicked off in July 2019, incontrast to the previous congresses, its executive procedures still were behind schedule.However, since the early days, it was tried to pave the way for maximum participationof interested ones in various programs of the fifth congress through a precise planningin steering, executive and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibulletin.ilisa.ir\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibulletin.ilisa.ir\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibulletin.ilisa.ir\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibulletin.ilisa.ir\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibulletin.ilisa.ir\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ibulletin.ilisa.ir\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"https:\/\/ibulletin.ilisa.ir\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibulletin.ilisa.ir\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibulletin.ilisa.ir\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibulletin.ilisa.ir\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibulletin.ilisa.ir\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}