{"id":62574,"date":"2023-08-27T20:48:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T17:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slaagc.org\/demo\/about-27th-annual-conference\/"},"modified":"2024-11-23T17:27:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T14:27:17","slug":"about-sla-agc-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/slaagc.org\/en\/about-sla-agc-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About SLA\/AGC"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Special Libraries Association \"SLA\" is a specialized global organization founded in 1909 with Head Office in the United States. It adopts innovations of specialists and professionals in the field of information and libraries. SLA serves more than 12,000 members in 83 countries in the information profession, including corporate, academic and government information specialists. SLA promotes and strengthens its members through learning, incentives, and networking initiatives.<\/p>

SLA members are professionals working in economic firms, private companies, Governmental Departments, Scientific Centers and Institutes, museums, Medical Service Centers and consulting agencies. The mission of SLA is developing the concept of professional leadership for the Specialists in libraries and information centers including shaping information policies for serving our communities.<\/p>

The Arabian Gulf Chapter was established in the year 1992 through the initiative of Aramco Library Staff and later a number of professionals in the Arabian Gulf area joined this branch. The Bahraini Ministry of Information adopted this branch and therefore the Head Office was established in the Kingdom of Bahrain.<\/p>

The Arabian Gulf Chapter \"AGC\" used to hold his annual conference in one of the Arabian Gulf Countries where professional's members of the AGC Board of Directors supervise the programs. The Arabian Gulf Chapter Publishes a Quarterly Newsletter for distribution to the members and organizes two workshops annually in addition to the Exhibition accompanying its annual Conference in which they usually demonstrate the latest state of art technology in the field of Libraries and Information Centers.<\/p> \n \t<\/div>\n \t <\/div>\n \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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