EBLIDA/SCONUL 2-DAY CONFERENCE ON
TRADE AGREEMENTS & LIBRARIES:

TRADING IN KNOWLEDGE? THE WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION AND LIBRARIES
To be held at:
THE MOLLER CENTRE, CHURCHILL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND,
2 - 3 MARCH 2005

European Bureau of Library, Information & Documentation Associations (EBLIDA):
http://www.eblida.org and Society of College, National & University Libraries
(SCONUL), UK & Ireland: http://www.sconul.ac.uk

Programme, Registration & Further details:
http://www.sconul.ac.uk/event_conf/WTOConference/wtoprogramme
(Places still available)

Speakers to include:

GEORGE MONBIOT
Columnist in The Guardian, author of Captive State: The Corporate Takeover
of Britain, The Age of Consent, and Manifesto for a New World Order, and
Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University

RUTH RIKOWSKI
Visiting Lecturer at London South Bank University, author of Globalisation,
Information and Libraries: the Implications of the WTO's GATS and TRIPS Agreements,
and Co-Editor of Information for Social Change

DALE HONECK
Counsellor in the Trade in Services Division, World Trade Organisation, Geneva

SUSAN ROBERTSON
Professor at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, and
Co-ordinator of the Centre for Studies of Globalisation, Education and Societies

KJELL NILSSON
Deputy National Librarian, Sweden and Chair of EBLIDA's Expert Group on the
World Trade Organisation

PAUL WHITNEY
City Librarian, Vancouver, Canada and Canadian Appointee to the Copyright
& Other Legal Matters Committee (CLM) of IFLA



GLOBALISATION, INFORMATION AND LIBRARIES



A BOOK LAUNCH
For
Ruth Rikowski's New Book:
Globalisation, Information and Libraries: the Implications of the World Trade
Organisation's GATS and TRIPS Agreements
CHANDOS PUBLISHING: OXFORD, 2005
ISBN - 1 84334 084 4 (pbk) £39.00; 1 84334 092 5 (hdbk) £59.95
http://www.chandospublishing.com/catalogue/record_detail.php?recordID=35


TO BE HELD AT:
LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY
TUESDAY, 26th April 2005, 5.30pm onwards
Keyworth Centre, Keyworth Street, Room 806/7

Introduced by Professor Deian Hopkin, Vice-Chancellor of
London South Bank University

REFRESHMENTS

Map for directions to London South Bank University: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about/maps.shtml

R.S.V.P. Ruth Rikowski: [log in to unmask]






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