GENERAL INFORMATION



International Library, Information, and Analytical Center (ILIAC) is a non-profit US-based and US-registered corporation of international status set up to contribute to the development of educational, scientific, cultural, and business cooperation between Russia and the CIS, and the USA and other countries.

ILIAC is an information gateway to Russia and the CIS countries for the American public, primarily in library and information field, but also in wider areas of culture, science and education.

ILIAC is the U.S. organization described in section 501 (c) (3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code and acts in accordance with Article of Incorporation and Bylaws.

ILIAC is:

  • an associative member of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
  • a member of the International Association of Users and Developers of Electronic Libraries and New Information Technologies (ELNIT)
  • a coorganizer of major international conferences “CRIMEA” and “LIBCOM” in library-information sphere

GOALS & TASKS

ILIAC GOALS

To ensure efficient and multidimensional international cooperation in library and information field, to contribute to the development of sci-tech, cultural and educational links between Russia and the CIS and the USA and other countries.


ILIAC MAJOR TASKS

1.Organization of international professional research, study and training programs on current problems of library, information and publishing business, web technologies, legal and other aspects of the information society development.

2.Serving as a multi-purpose clearing house and a gateway to library and information resources of Russia and the CIS


3.Consulting and providing information

business contacts in science, culture and education

4.Organization and participation in joint actions, programs and projects of compatriots, cooperation with Russian-speaking diaspora in the United States and other countries.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Plural management body

The Board of Directors meets at least once each year. It develops the Corporation strategy, summarizes its annual professional and financial results. Board of Directors’ resolutions are obligatory for implementation. The Board of Directors has 12 members; one-third of the total membership can be renewed each year.

Yakov Shrayberg, Board Chair; Director General of the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology and ILIAC President, Moscow, Russia
Dan Davidson, President, American Councils for International Education, Washington, DC, USA

Maurice J. Freedman, Past President of American Library Association, Publisher, The U*N*A*B*A*S*H*E*D Librarian, Mount Kisco, NY, USA
Edward Kasinec, Staff Advisor, Education, Programming and Exhibitions Department, the New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA
Irina Lynden, Deputy Director General for International Activities, National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia

Ernest Di Mattia, President and Executive Director, Ferguson Library, Stamford, CT, USA
Boris Marshak, Executive Director, International Association of Users and Developers of Electronic Libraries and New Information Technologies, Moscow, Russia
Vladimir Podoprigora, Director for Research and Development, “AS-Complect” company, Moscow, Russia
Victor Temiraev, Rector, Gorsky State Agrarian University, Vladikavkaz, Republic of North Ossetia – Alania, Russia
Vladimir Vishnevsky, Director General, “Information and Network Technologies Implementation” Scientific and Production Company, Moscow, Russia

Valentina Volynets, Deputy Director, Library for Science and Technology, “Kiev Polytechnic Institute” National Technical University of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

Dmitry Zhukov, Director General, "Akademintorg" Federal State Unitary Enterprise, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia

 

ADVISORY COUNCIL
provides advice and assistance in project implementation


Vladimir Podoprigora, Advisory Council Chair; Director for Research and Development, “AS-Complect” company, Moscow, Russia

Ekaterina Genieva, Director General, M.I. Rudomino All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow, Russia
Vladimir Grachev, Advisor to General Director, Rosatom Nuclear Energy State Corporation; Chair, Public Council and Commission on State Ecological Control, Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Control, Moscow, Russia
Vasily Drigaylo, Director, Library for Science and Technology, “Kiev Polytechnic Institute” National Technical University of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

Victoria Spain, Editor, Library Hi-Tech News, Boston, USA
Kama Urmurzina, President, Republican Library for Science and Technology, Almaty, Kazakhstan

 

 


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