The ninth meeting of the Unified Arab Index will open for the benefit of 5,000 libraries and a million visitors

Zones – Riyadh

The Tunisian Minister of Culture, Mr. Mohamed Zine El Abidine, the honorable ambassador of the Conservator of the Two Holy Mosques of the Tunisian Republic, Mr. Mohamed Al-Ali, and the presence of the assistant general supervisor of the Public Library of King Abdulaziz, inaugurated the ninth meeting of the members of the Unified Arab Index (Tuesday, April 2, 2019). Dr. Abdelkarim Zaid, Director of the National Library of Tunisia. Dr. Raja Ben Salamah, Secretary of the Book House. Dr. Nizar Ben Saad and the Saudi Cultural Attaché in the Tunisian Republic. Dr. Mohamed El-Toum and Director of the Unified Arab Indexing Center, Dr. Saleh Al-Misnad. Libraries in the Arab world and presence of a large number of interested and specialists from various Arab countries.
During the ceremony, the initiative of the King Abdulaziz Public Library was launched on behalf of the "Arab Creators" initiative, which aims to present Arab intellectual and creative production through a service provided by the unified Arabic index, which allows creators to add their personal and confidential data, The portal of the index, and more than five thousand Arab libraries, and more than one million visitors to the portal of l & # 39; Arabic index each year, since the identification of creators and their production and scientific interests and the mechanism of communication with them.
This happened during the speech delivered by Abdulkarim bin Abdulrahman Al-Zaid, Deputy Director General of the King Abdulaziz Public Library, on the occasion of the opening of the meeting, which will last three days between 2 and on April 4, in which he declared that the opening of the ninth meeting of the unified Arab group In Tunisia, we translate our ambitions in the Arab world, especially in Saudi Arabia and in the Tunisian Republic, under the direction of the guardian of the two holy mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and his brother, His Excellency President Baiji Qais Al-Sibsi. Cul to the culture of science, knowledge, literature and the arts as one of the most important elements of sustainable development, which aims to be human development, the focus of the promotion of the spirit of belonging and to pass on knowledge and technical skills necessary for a twenty atheist century.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, under the direction of the guardian of the two holy mosques and His Highness the Crown Prince, and the vision of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the 2030 horizon and its cultural and cognitive objectives ,
"The importance of this event is that it takes place in Tunisia on the days of its celebration as the capital of Islamic culture, a well-known city that occupies an important place for its cultural and Arab heritage." I am sure that God willing, the Ninth Meeting of Members in its various activities is a breakthrough in the performance of libraries and information centers in knowledge management and knowledge service delivery, in line with international standards. and the most recent international practices adopted by the largest knowledge institutions in the developed world. The unified Arab index of this meeting, such as the Arab Innovators initiative and the Unified Arab Index program to support the establishment of national catalogs and the initiative to add non-Arabic languages ​​to the Index database, is part of its responsibility to serve our Arab culture and to enable libraries and information centers to fulfill their responsibilities to our societies. Arab.