A team of MLA Council members met with visiting Professor Dr Rosalina Othman, Head of Department of Library and Information Science from International Islamic University of Malaysia.

The esteemed professor shared her knowledge through her experience of teaching and curriculum planning for their Masters Programme in Library and Information Sciences a well as their coordination with the University Library.

Discussions also were carried out to conduct an international conference in the Maldives in the area of information literacy, information retrieval, and the importance of information sources in research. Tentative discussions include the Maldives Library Association, the National Library of the Maldives and the Islamic University of Maldives.

Further discussions were also held in exchanging expertise between the Kulliyyah and the MLA and library professionals in the Maldives with regard to the introduction of higher education opportunities at Maldivian universities i in the area of library and information science.