The City of Damascus has embraced, on the 17th of October 2001, the activities of the second general assembly of the Arab Club for Information (Arabcin), which was convened with a tint of responsibility and sincerity, for activating the role of information in building Arab Society.

The convening of this assembly coincided with the celebration of Arab Document Day; it incarnates the ideas and objectives adopted by (Arabcin), and invites all institutions working in the fields of information, libraries and documentation for cooperation to achieve them.

Arabcin aspired since a long time ago to consecrate the 17th day of October as the Arab Document Day, to be celebrated by all Arab documentalists. It also intended to make this day an occasion for creative cooperation between Arab Documentalists, in order to substantiate their prospective dims and objectives.

This is exactly what was done in the 2nd assembly of Arabcin, for it turned to be a workshop aiming at lancing itself to a more enlightened horizons of creative cooperation, for updating information, and facing the challenges. This can be achieved only by hard working, and the sincere faith in the importance of information and the necessity of prompt and easy accessibility by a greater number of users, that will invest them in the best way, with a view of reaching a brighter future, and to communicate with our Arab heritage for reinstating our luminosity.

The agenda included a bunch of subjects, that were fully discussed, notably a comprehensive survey of what had been achieved since 25.10.1998, the establishing date, in the organizational, information or the Club's activities in the training and rehabilitation of the manpower, through courses, symposia, workshops, or the establishment of other entities related to the club, such as Arab Studies and Research Center; Arab Biographical Center; Arab Information

Institute in addition to the Arab Institution for ICT. Nonetheless, the most important of them all was Arabcin's documentation efforts, along with the resulting titles, preceded by Arab unanimous agreement to adopt the date of (17.10) a day for Arab document, the thing which necessitates a serious work drift on all levels; then the Club drew its future work- plan.
These were some of the main titles and points, included in the agenda, where the discussion thereof enriched the prospective objectives of the club's activity as a scientific institute celebrating its 3rd Christmas, which comprised more than (110) institutes and centers, operating in the realms of information, documentation and libraries, from different Arab countries. It also drew the future work- plan of Arabcin, depending upon the present working phase, with its full technical and scientific requirements on all levels. Notably, that the assembly concluded with the participation of members of the executive office, and representatives of the (13) Arab member states, looking forward to make sincere efforts towards the achievement of competitive and productive Arab database society, specially where we undergo a rushing data era; and those who lack data will be kept in the cold.