Minister of Welfare, Women and Family Development YB Datuk Hajah Fatimah Abdullah (second left), representing Chief Minister YAB Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri (Dr) Haji Adenan Haji Satem received a token of appreciation from Chief Executive Officer of Sarawak State Library Hajah Rashidah Haji Bolhassan (second right) at the launching of the conference held at a hotel in Kuching on 16 November 2015.
Themed “Knowledge: The Key to a Better Tomorrow”, 200 participants consisting of librarians, archive officers, policy makers, students, and academicians among others are attending the three-day event that began on Sunday, 15 November and will end today, 17 November.
The conference also features two keynote speeches and 35 paper presentations from professionals and experts in the knowledge industry, as well as researchers and academicians, from Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, India, Iran, Algeria, South Africa and Uganda.
The event is the finale of a series of programmes organised in conjunction with the State Library’s 15th anniversary celebration this year; it was the second of its kind since it was first held in 2005.
