Presentations

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Recent presentations

• Internationalization of LIS education: practical partnerships and conceptual challenges, co-authored with Johannes J. Britz. This paper was prepared for the IFLA-ALISE-EUCLID Pre-conference on Cooperation and Collaboration in Teaching and Research: Trends in Library and Information Studies Education, Swedish School of Library and Information Science, Borås, Sweden, 8-9 August 2010.

• 2010 survey of international activities and relations of national libraries, report co-authored with Chunsheng Huang. This PowerPoint was presented at the session of the Special Interest Group for National Organizations and International Relations (NOIR), IFLA World Library and Information Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden, 13 August 2010.

• Digital demonology: This presentation was prepared as a keynote for the Center for Research Libraries/Global Resources Network Forum on Fair Dealing and Sustainable Management of Archives and Cultural Evidence, George Washington University, Washington, June 25, 2010.  I’ve added speaker notes. They can be found in the notes pane at the bottom of the screen in the “Normal” view of PowerPoint 2007 (but not when PowerPoint is in “Slide Show” mode) . The notes pane can be enlarged by dragging upwards the “splitter bar” which separates it from the slide pane upward.

If this is Greek to you, refer to the Microsoft help page at: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HP100670431033.aspx?pid=CH102459611033. It’s Aramaic to me. I’m still trying to figure out a simple and  efficient way to create a version that displays both the slides and the screen at the same time.

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• Methodological decisions in comparative studies: Still inching forward, in this presentation, given at a SOIS ‘brown bag lunch’ on March 12, 2010, I tried to develop further the theme of my guest lecture in Urbana-Champaign last October. It was intended to ‘surface’ some submerged or cryptic methodological issues in comparative studies, and here I homed in more explicitly on  comparative librarianship.  The exploration continues, with an article (not very far) in the pipeline.

• International comparative studies? This was a guest lecture delivered in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Urbana-Chanpaign, on October 19, 2009. There is a lot of overlap with the previous presentation, but I was inching forward in exploring the field.

• SOIS Student Research Symposium (October 17,  2009), Keynote Address: Comparisons are Odorous: Comparison in Science and the Science of Comparison. This was a first result of my readings in comparative education, comparative politics, comparative law, etc. And snippets of comparative anatomy and philology…

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• Keynote paper presented at the August 2009 Preconference of the IFLA Special Interest Group on LIS Education in Developing Countries: Creative Tensions: Reflections on Education for Librarianship and Information Work in Developing Countries

• Paper presented at the Conference: The Library in the World / The World in the Library. Towards the Internationalization of Librarianship in Palazzo delle Stelline, corso Magenta, Milano (March 12 and 13, 2009): Librarianship, an International Profession

• Lecture to SOIS (July 1, 2005), entitled “What’s so international about international librarianship”.  It has attracted a lot of hits, but my thinking has moved on and I’m not happy with it any more. If you’re interested, rather have a look at my book.

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List of conference and seminar papers, etc.

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List of publications

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Interviews

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• Podcast discussion with Sarah Long of Library Beat‘s Longshots Podcast regarding International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and the preservation and digitization of historical documents (April 19, 2010): The Importance of International Librarianship

• Podcast discussion with Sarah Long of Library Beat‘s Longshots Podcast regarding the state of libraries in South Africa (December 15, 2009): Building the Role of Libraries in South Africa

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