Welcome

Welcome to my website, created for me by Jess Vargas Robinson as a student project in the MLIS program of the School of Information Studies (SOIS), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and subsequently transferred to WordPress so that I can maintain it myself, more or less. I have been a Visiting Professor at SOIS since January 2009, arriving here from lovely summery South Africa in one of the coldest weeks of the year. But I’ve had a warm welcome and have gradually been acclimatizing and adapting to academia, American style.

Currently my main area of interest is international and comparative librarianship. During 2009 I designed a new course in international and comparative librarianship for SOIS. I taught it for the first time in Spring 2010, then  online in the Fall of 2010 and now (Spring 2011) on-site again. I’m planning to move back to South Africa in June 2011, where I will be attached to the Department of Information Science at the University of Pretoria. However, I hope to continue teaching this course for SOIS online once a year, probably in the Spring semester when it will be open to students in other schools through the WISE (Web-based Information Science Education) Consortium.

I plan to make this site a resource for others interested in this field. I’ll post articles, papers and links, as well as draft chapters of a book I’m writing on the subject (if I don’t get sidetracked by other diversions, such as this site).