[Air-l] Fwd: FW: IFLA Fringe Meeting: Globalisation, Libraries and Education

[jeremy hunsinger]

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> From: Ruth Rikowski <rikowski.uk at TINYWORLD.CO.UK>
> Date: Sun Jul 21, 2002  05:05:55 PM US/Eastern
> To: CRITICALIS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: FW: IFLA Fringe Meeting: Globalisation, Libraries and Education
> Reply-To: rikowski.uk at TINYWORLD.CO.UK
>
>
>
> From: "Glenn Rikowski" <rikowski at tiscali.co.uk>
> Date: Sun Jul 21, 2002  04:34:14 PM US/Eastern
> To: <rikowski.uk at tinyworld.co.uk>
> Subject: IFLA Fringe Meeting: Globalisation, Libraries and Education
>
>
> INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS & INSTITUTIONS
> (IFLA)
>  
> A FRINGE MEETING AT THE IFLA 2002 CONFERENCE IN GLASGOW
>  
> THE PROFIT VIRUS:
> GLOBALISATION, LIBRARIES AND EDUCATION
>  
> To be held at
> GLASGOW UNIVERSITY
> Gilmorehill Centre for Theatre, Film & Television, Room 408
> 9 University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
>  
> Thursday 22nd August 2002, 1.00 - 5.30pm
>  
> OPEN TO ALL
> SPEAKERS:
>  
> Steve Rolfe - Chair of the World Development Movement, Scottish 
> Committee
> "An Overview of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS): the 
> beginning or the of public services?""
>  
> Ruth Rikowski - South Bank University, Book Reviews Editor for Managing 
> Information, and a member of Information for Social Change (ISC) and 
> the UK GATS Network
> "The WTO/GATS Agenda for Libraries - with special reference to public 
> libraries in the UK"
>  
> Frode Bakken - President of the Norwegian Library Association, EBLIDA 
> WTO Working Group
> "Downsizing free public services: means or ends of global trade 
> policies?"
>  
> Paul Whitney - Chief Librarian, Burnaby Public Library, BC, Canada, and 
> IFLA representative to the WTO Seattle Ministerial, and past President 
> of the Canadian Library Association
> "International Trade Treaties & Libraries: A Canadian Perspective"
>  
> Anneliese Dodds - Edinburgh University, Cuba Solidarity Campaign
> "The GATS and Higher Education: Consultation or Obfuscation?" - with 
> special reference to Scotland
>  
> Dr. Glenn Rikowski - University College Northampton, Associate of the 
> Institute for Education Policy Studies (see: http://www.ieps.org.uk), 
> and author of The Battle in Seattle: Its Significance for Education 
> (Tufnell Press) 
> "The Woodhead Federation? The Business Takeover of Schools"
>  
> Followed by a Reception, 5.30 - 7.00pm with wine, soft drinks and 
> biscuits hosted by LINK, an organisation in liaison with the UK 
> Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals (CILIP), 
> that links with Third World libraries and librarians and raises 
> awareness of Third World issues.
>  
> This is a fringe meeting organised by Ruth Rikowski, who edited a 
> special edition of Information for Social Change (number 14, winter 
> 2001/2002) on 'Globalisation and Information'. The special issue 
> contains articles by Jonathan Rutherford, Anneliese Dodds and Alex Nunn 
> on higher education and the WTO/GATS, as well as articles on the 
> WTO/GATS agenda for libraries by writers such as Fiona Hunt and Ruth 
> Rikowski, on gender relations and information (Shahrzad Mojab), and 
> general articles on the WTO/GATS by Bill Lehm, Clare Joy and Glenn 
> Rikowski.
>  
> Information for Social Change, at: http://libr.org/ISC/TOC.html
> Information for Social Change is an organisation in liaison with UK 
> CILIP. Itchallenges dominant paradigms of library and information work.
> If you want more information on ISC, or wish to get involved in its 
> work then please contact John Pateman at: john.pateman at merton.gov.uk
>  
> Ruth Rikowski, contact: rikowski at tiscali.co.uk   
>  
> "Imagine a world without libraries... it could happen" - British 
> Columbia Library Association
>  
>
>
>
jeremy hunsinger
jhuns at vt.edu
on the ibook
www.cddc.vt.edu
www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy
www.dromocracy.com
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