OPEN WORLD PROGRAM

At UCLA’s Department of Information Studies

Local Hosting Coordinator:

Dr. John V. Richardson Jr., Professor

The Open World Program is a unique, nonpartisan initiative of the United States Congress that builds mutual understanding between the emerging leaders of participating countries and their U.S. counterparts. The program also exposes delegates to ideas and practices they can adapt for use in their own work. Founded in 1999 with a focus on Russia, more than 11,000 Open World participants have been hosted in fifty U.S. states. The program’s administrating agency, the Open World Leadership Center, is a legislative branch entity with offices at the Library of Congress.

Class of 2003

· Yelena Borisovna Artemyeva, Head of Research and Methodological Department, Executive Secretary of Doctoral Thesis Department, State Scientific-Technical Library, Russian Academy of Sciences

· Galina Guryanovna Glotova, Deputy Library Head, Scientific Library of Far East State University

· Yelena Anatolyevna Kosareva,Chief Librarian of Scientific Methodological Department, Scientific Library of St. Petersburg State University

· Galina Yuryevna Kudryashova, Library Head, Library of Ural State Technical University

· Liliya Kutuzovna Sagitova, Director, Scientific Library of Belgorod State University

· Grishina, Viktoriya Valeryevna, Head of the Information Department, Saratov Municipal Library

Class of 2004

· Nataliya Viktorovna Goncharuk, Deputy Department Head, National Library of Foreign Literature, Department of Book Restoration & Preservation

· Mariya Petrovna Krylova, Coordinator of the American Future Leaders Resource Center, Pushkin Central Children's Library of St. Petersburg, Branch #11

· Yelena Viktorovna Kyamkina, Assistant Director for General Issues, Sverdlovsk Region Youth Library

· Irina Aleksandrovna Trushina, Senior Research Assistant, Russian National Library

· Syuyumbika Razilyevna Ziganshina, Director of the American Center, Head of Department of Foreign Languages Literature, National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan (facilitator)

Class of 2007

“Women and Leadership: Librarians in the Digital Age”

· Nataliya Abrosimova, Deputy Director of the State Cultural Institution of the Yaroslavl’ Regional Research Library

· Medegma Dagbuyeva, First Deputy Director of the Buryatia National Library in Ulan-Ude, Buryatia, Russia

· Marina Krivoruchko, Deputy Director of the Central Public Library of Novouralsk City District, Novouralsk, Sverdlovskaya oblast, Russia

· Firuza Suleymanova, Head of the Rare Books Department of the State Research Library, Krasnoyarsk Region, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia

· Svetlana Ovcharenko (facilitator)