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Display Name | Mandy Taha |
First Name | Mandy |
Last Name | Taha |
Affiliation | Alexandria University and Library of Alexandria |
Twitter handle | mtaha |
Biography | EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Industrial and Management Green Engineering, Production Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, 2015 Master of Engineering- Industrial and Management Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, 2007 Diploma in Industrial Engineering- Environmental auditing and Assessment, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, 2000
2009- 2015 Senior Scientific Researcher and Project Leader IFLA CASL- Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt Major Responsibilities Set and develop the work plan for the first Arabic Library Standards for Information Professionals Project and delivered the Public libraries and school libraries standards Design, develop, arrange and following up with the IFLA-CASL website and newsletter. Edit and update IFLA-CASL's website and newsletter. Answer the information queries related to IFLA and LIS matters Translate IFLA conference papers into Arabic 2005 – 2010 Senior Scientific Researcher and Science and Technology Subject Specialist – Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt Major Responsibilities: Responsible for all resources, Coordination and activities associated with the provision of access and delivery of information services as well as individual in-depth consultation to the researchers segment of the BA on information retrieval methods and their importance to research, scholarship, and education. Develop training sessions on the new technologies on the web for library usage as web 2.0 technologies and tools: http://alexlibrarians2.wordpress.com/
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE During 2008-2011, I was the EIFL-OA country coordinator in Egypt and organized the Open Access Week activities in Egypt (18-24) October 2010, conduction seminars, lectures, designing and posting the posters, promotional materials in Arabic and English under the theme 'Open Access in Egypt: A Step Forward': http://www.openaccessweek.org/main/search/search?q=mandy Editing and the Wiki DRIVER Open Access page about Egypt: http://www.driver-support.eu/pmwiki/index.php?n=Main.Egypt Providing support in Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) Mentoring Network. http://www.ndltd.org/resources/etd-mentoring-network-1 Coordinating work through the library in scientific events in the library of Alexandria as Darwin, 2009 and Einstein 2005. Participated with a case study in "Scientific Information in the Digital Age: Access and Dissemination", 12 – 16 October, ICTP. Trieste- Italy. Participated with a case study in the “Copyright Protection in the Digital Age” workshop, 27 – 28 September, 2009, and the library of Alexandria. Participated in the “Training the Trainers (TTT)” workshop under UNESCO, November 2008, the library of Alexandria. Participated in the “Intellectual Property and The Digital Age”, at the library of Alexandria, 20 Dec 2008-22 Dec 2008. |