• Short Description
• ILIAC Major Projects

WHAT IS ILIAC?

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

ILIAC GOAL

Introducing a system of continuous representation of Russian interests in the field of science, culture and education, as well as the support of interests of CIS countries - ILIAC partners in the USA and other western countries.

ILIAC MAJOR TASKS

• Development of international information business on the legal basis
• Information support of Russia's entering and membership in G8 programs
• Library interaction and cooperation
• Promotion of Russian sci-tech and library products, educational services, business proposals and increase of cultural exchanges
• Library-information support of investment projects Consulting and provision of business contacts with foreign partners
• Support of compatriots, cooperation with diaspora

ILIAC: BRIEF INFORMATION

ILIAC was registered on May 12, 1997 in Washington, DC, USA as a non-profit American corporation of international status. ILIAC's three principal governing and contributing bodies are: the Board of Directors, Advisory Council, and the Group of Visitors which, include prominent representatives of scientific, public and business communities of Russia, USA, Ukraine and Belarus.

ILIAC Headquarters is located in Washington, DC at 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 700.

The premises is provided by the American Council for International Education (former ACTR), one of the ILIAC incorporators.

The main Russian office is organized in Moscow on the premises of Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology (12 Kuznetsky most, 103919,Moscow, Russia).

Rapid development of the network of ILIAC representative offices is envisaged.

ILIAC MAJOR FOUNDERS AND PARTNERS

• Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology
• Russian State Library
• Library for Foreign Literature (founder M.Rudomino)
• Russian Business Agency
• Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Ministry of Culture of Russian Federation
• Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Information Transmission Problems
• American Council for International Education (USA)
• Interloc Systems Group Company (USA)
• The University of Memphis (USA)
• The Library of Congress (USA)
• International Eastern-European University (Russia)
• The Book Chamber of Ukraine
• V.I.Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine
• Republican Agricultural Library of Belarus
• International Association of Users and Developers of Electronic Libraries and New Information Technologies (former International Association of CDS/ISIS Systems and New Information Technologies Users and Developers)
• International Bureau for Information and Telecommunication

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Plural management body

Yakov Shraiberg - Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology
Herbert Achleitner - The University of Emporia
Vladimir Vishnevsky - Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Information Transmission Problems
Dan Davidson - American Council for International Education
Galina Kislovskaya - Library for Foreign Literature (founder M.Rudomino)
Evgeny Kuzmin - Ministry of Culture of Russian Federation
Boris Marshak - International Association of Users and Developers of Electronic Libraries and New Information Technologies (former International Association of CDS/ISIS Systems and New Information Technologies Users and Developers)
Vladimir Podoprigora - Administration of Novgorod Region
Lester J. Pourciau - The University of Memphis, USA
Nikolai Senchenko - The Book Chamber of Ukraine
Barry Fast - Academic Book Center, New York, USA
Yuri Hohlov - Russian State Library
Dmitry Zhukov , Director General, "Akademintorg" Federal State Unitary Enterprise, Russian Academy of Science

ADVISORY COUNCIL
Defines strategy and assists in the major programs realization

Oleg Bay - Deputy Minister for Information of Ukraine
Ekaterina Genieva - Director General of Library for Foreign Literature (founder M. Rudomino)
Vladimir Golubev - Director of Republican Agricultural Library of Belarus
Victor Gorchakov - Rector of Russian Customs Academy Vladivostok Branch
Vladimir Grachev - Head of the Administration of the Committee for Science, Culture Education, Health Care, and Ecology of Upper Chamber of Russian Parliament
Andrei Zemskov - Director of Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology
Andrei Kozyrev - Deputy of State Duma of Russian Federation
Evgeny Kuzmin - Head of Department for Libraries and Information of Ministry of Culture of Russian Federation
Danny L. McDonald - Chair of American Council of Young Political Leaders, Commissioner of Federal Election Commission of USA
John Van Oudenaren - Chief of European Division of the Library of Congress, USA
Nancy Pettis - President of Voice International Association, Washington, USA
Vladimir Podoprigora - Vice Governor of Novgorod region
Victoria Spain - Editor of Library Hi-Tech News, Boston, USA
Phyllis Spies - Vice President of Online Computer Library Center, USA
Lynne Howarth - Dean of the University of Toronto, Canada

GROUP OF VISITORS
formulates the major programs and projects

Povilas Abarius - Vilnius State University, Lithuania
Victor Veselago - Moscow University of Physics and Technology, Russia
Felix Voroisky - Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology
Wanda Dole - University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Yulia Dresher - Republican Medical Information Center of Tatarstan, Russia
Vasili Drygailo - Kiev State Technological University, Ukraine
Irina Klim - Information Resource Center, Consulate General of the United States of America, St. Petersburg, Russia
Eduard Sukiasyan - Russian State Library
Tatiana Czepurnyi - Hannover University Library and the Technical Information Library (UB/TIB), Germany
Robert Hayes - University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Oleg Shatberashvili - Center for Sci-Tech Information of Georgia

ILIAC BASIC PROGRAMS

• Library program
• Program for scientific, technological and social information exchange
• Educational program
• Business information program
• Consulting program
• Telecommunications program
• Ecological program