{"id":1801,"date":"2019-02-24T23:43:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T22:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2019-02-25T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T23:02:00","slug":"meet-the-candidates-vahe-khumaryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/2019\/02\/24\/meet-the-candidates-vahe-khumaryan\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the candidates: Vahe Khumaryan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2019\/02\/Vahe.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1803\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2019\/02\/Vahe-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2019\/02\/Vahe-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2019\/02\/Vahe.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Vahe Khumaryan<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>National Children&#8217;s Library of Armenia<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ARMENIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My name is Vahe and by now I have only had 1 year experience at the National Children&#8217;s Library of Armenia, as well as around 2 years experience at the Armenian National Section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). I have been also coordinating projects of the Armenian Library Association and by now I am still taking part in its activities. Recently, I have taken up a position of an assistant to MP at the National Assembly of Armenia and I am also involved in educational and IT sectors of Armenia, with my second employment at the TUMO Center for Creative Technologies. With a previous backgound in academia in a capacity of research fellow, I have always tried to bring several important principles to the areas of activities I have been involved in. This is what I also expect to advocate for in the library sphere in Armenia and globally:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Development strategies of libraries must be based on quantitiative data and advanced methodologies.<\/li>\n<li>The introduction and imposition\u00a0 of modern approaches and technologies for customer service and counselling at the libraries (by state).<\/li>\n<li>Introduction of a thorough Armenian, as well as regional, online library catalogue, supported from several centralized IT departments in the regional cooperating states.<\/li>\n<li>Automation of library services, with a respectful approach to the social responsibilities of larger librarian institutions.<\/li>\n<li>Training and support for the development of modern communication departments at the libraries worldwide, which will ensure the library activity and services online through E-Book databases and cooperation with recognized online book sellers (Amazon, Kobo, Google Play Market, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring the accessibility of scientific databases and indexation catalogues to more people worldwide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I believe my participation in IFLA Standing Committee will be a voice of younger generation from a the CIS\/South Caucasus region and I will be happy to share my professional backgound and contribute to the exchange of cultural values library inthusiasts from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about voting for members of the Public Libraries Standing Committee take the time to read our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/2019\/02\/19\/voting-is-now-open\/\">post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vahe Khumaryan National Children&#8217;s Library of Armenia ARMENIA My name is Vahe and by now I have only had 1 year experience at the National Children&#8217;s Library of Armenia, as well as around 2 years experience at the Armenian National Section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). I have been also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":723,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26943,9765],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-armenia","tag-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}