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About Peter Lor

Peter Johan Lor is a Netherlands-born South African librarian and academic. In retirement he continues to pursue scholarly interests as a research fellow in the Department of Information Science at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Global Gleanings #17: South African contributions to the international LIS literature

Posted on 2023-09-07 by Peter Lor

This quarterly column of news, views and snippets from the international literature of books, libraries, and information, appears in LIASA-in-Touch, the newsletter of the Library and Information Association of South Africa. Lost to local colleagues? Many scholars in the Global … Continue reading →

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Update on Satellite meeting of IFLA Library History SIG

Posted on 2023-07-24 by Peter Lor

The latest and final programme has been released at http://expositions.mundaneum.org/en/conference/preserving-our-origins-world-library-and-information-congress. A reduced student registration fee has been introduced. At EUR 60 it includes refreshments, coffee breaks and lunch on Thursday 17 August and Friday 18 August.    

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Satellite Meeting of IFLA’s Library History Special Interest Group

Posted on 2023-07-17 by Peter Lor

Are you interested in the Belle Époque, internationalism, and the history and archival sources of libraries, library associations, documentation and information science more generally?  Here is an update on an upcoming meeting, announced earlier, which you should not miss. From … Continue reading →

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A Milestone: Danton’s Dimensions of Comparative Librarianship published 50 years ago

Posted on 2023-06-15 by Peter Lor

The 1970s saw the publication of several noteworthy contributions to the theory and methodology of comparative librarianship. The first was Simsova and MacKee’s (1970) Handbook of comparative librarianship, a pioneering but ultimately disappointing work, of which a revised edition followed … Continue reading →

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Global Gleanings # 16: More disruption: chatbots in the news

Posted on 2023-06-10 by Peter Lor

This quarterly column of news, views and snippets from the international literature of books, libraries, and information, appears in LIASA-in-Touch, the newsletter of the Library and Information Association of South Africa. Generative artificial intelligence What is ChatGPT?At time of writing … Continue reading →

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IFLA Satellite Conference at the Mundaneum

Posted on 2023-05-31 by Peter Lor

I’m delighted to share that the IFLA Library History Special Interest Group has organized a Satellite Conference to be held from 17 to 19 August, in Mons, Belgium. The Satellite Conference will immediately precede IFLA’s 2023 World Library and Information … Continue reading →

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JLIS.it issue on peer review

Posted on 2023-04-29 by Peter Lor

  Most readers of this blog will have published articles in peer-reviewed journals. Many of us will have also spent many unpaid hours participating in the reviewing process. It is, in fact, an expensive process, expensive in terms of both … Continue reading →

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Global Gleanings #15: Disruption, disruption…

Posted on 2023-03-09 by Peter Lor

This quarterly column of news, views and snippets from the international literature of books, libraries, and information, appears in LIASA-in-Touch, the newsletter of the Library and Information Association of South Africa.  Long Covid The worst of the disruptive Covid pandemic … Continue reading →

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Submissions to parliamentary hearings

Posted on 2023-03-07 by Peter Lor

Following up on my previous post, I can report that today (7 March 2023) I participated virtually in a hearing of the Standing Committee on Finance, Economic Opportunities, and Tourism, of the Parliament of the Western Cape Province, Cape Town, … Continue reading →

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Unlikely allies oppose signing of South Africa’s Copyright Amendment Bill

Posted on 2023-03-07 by Peter Lor

In a previous post I wrote about South Africa’s seemingly never-ending struggle to enact new legislation to update its 1978 vintage copyright law. The Copyright Amendment Bill, Bill 2023-01-05, which has been in the making for the best part of … Continue reading →

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