***Apologies for cross posting***

 

Anyone who is interested in this event should follow the instructions below,
or contact Neil Smyth directly.

 

*Globalisation, Education, Information and libraries

 

INTRODUCTION

 

* This event has been brought to Wales by Career Development Group, Wales.

 

WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM ATTENDING?

 

 * Anyone who is interested in the effect of global trade rules on
libraries.

 * Anyone who is interested in new research that shows state funded
libraries, including public libraries, university libraries, government
libraries and school libraries, are living on borrowed time under new global
trade rules. 

* Chartership candidates who need to know about trans-border information
issues for their professional development. This session will be useful for
any Chartership candidate compiling evidence for their Professional
Development Portfolio. 

 * Anyone who is interested in the effects that global trade rules are
having on intellectual property rights issues, whereby trade is overriding
other considerations such as the balance in copyright, moral rights in
copyright and other related humane issues.

 

 

PROGRAMME 

 

10.00 Ruth Rikowski: Globalisation, Information and Libraries

 

11.15 Break

 

11.45 Anneliese Dodds: Globalisation and Higher Education

 

12.30 Buffet lunch

 

1.15 Debate 

 

This event will include a debate on Globalisation, Education, Information
and Libraries, including specific issues related to higher education. All
delegates are encouraged to come prepared to participate in debate. We will
be circulating further information to delegates before the event.

3.30 Close

 

WHERE IS THE EVENT?

 

* Swansea University, on Friday 2nd December 2005.

* The Library and Information Centre, Level 7.

* A university map is available here:
<http://www2.swan.ac.uk/maps/campus.htm>
http://www2.swan.ac.uk/maps/campus.htm

* Please arrive early and if you wish to park a car on campus, please inform
Neil Smyth when you make your booking for the event.

 

HOW TO BOOK:

 

* To book a place on this course, please contact Neil Smyth by e-mail
([log in to unmask]), completing the form below. The form section can be
e-mailed to Neil Smyth. 

* Alternatively, the form can be printed and posted to Neil Smyth, Library
and Information Services, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP.

 

FEES:

 

* £30 + VAT; * Limited free places are available for students and the
unwaged. The booking form below should still be completed

 

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Wales) for £_______________

 

PLEASE NOTE: cancellations received on the day will incur the full fee. If a
cancellation is received in the seven working days prior to the event, 50%
of the fee will be due.

 

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the purpose for which you have provided it. It is not passed to other
organisations unless this is made explicit when you supply it or if we are
legally required to do so.

 

Career Development Group Wales reserves the right to alter details or to
cancel this event should the need arise.

 

Visit our web pages at:

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Neil Smyth.

Library and Information Services,

Swansea University.

Singleton Park,

Swansea.

SA2 8PP.

E-mail: [log in to unmask]

Telephone: 01792 29 5695.

 

 

 

RUTH RIKOWSKI

 

1. Ruth Rikowski is a well-known author and academic with 25 years
experience as an information professional. She is currently a Visiting
Lecturer at London South Bank University and the University of Greenwich.

She is also the Commissioning Editor for the Chandos Series for Information
Professionals and co-editor of the e-journal Information for Social Change,
available at  <http://libr.org/ISC> http://libr.org/ISC. 

 

2. Her book, Globalisation, Information and Libraries: the Implications of
the World Trade Organisation's GATS and TRIPS Agreements, is published by
Chandos, Publishing: Oxford, £39.00. ISBN - 1 84334 084 4

(pbk):

 <http://www.chandospublishing.com/catalogue/record_detail.php?recordID=35>
http://www.chandospublishing.com/catalogue/record_detail.php?recordID=35.

Ruth has given talks about her book In London and Cambridge and at Career
Development Group events in England. She will also be giving a talk at
Birkbeck College, University of London on 8th December 2005. 

 

3. A DVD was made of Ruth's book launch for her book Globalisation,
Information and Libraries, which was held at London South Bank University on
26th April 2005. Copies of this are available from Ruth - so contact her if
you would like a copy (number of copies permitting of course). The talks
that Ruth and Glenn (Rikowski) gave at the launch, and the introduction by
Deian Hopkin, the Vice-Chancellor of London South Bank University, are
available on their website, under the 'Presentations' section. 

 

4. Ruth and Glenn Rikowski now have their own website. The principal foci of
the site are Library, Information and Education Studies but their overall
aims are much wider - as you will see, once you take a look! It is called
The Flow of Ideas and it is at:  <http://www.flowideas.co.uk>
www.flowideas.co.uk

 

ANNELIESE DODDS

 

1. Anneliese Dodds is currently a Research Student at the Department of
Government and Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London
School of Economics. She can be contacted via email.

[log in to unmask], tel. 07980 846235 and web:

 <http://personal.lse.ac.uk/dodds/> http://personal.lse.ac.uk/dodds/

 

2. Most of Anneliese's research work is focused on policies towards
international students in Britain and France over the past thirty years,
with articles based on this appearing in the European Journal of Education
and the Revue International d'Administration Publique. 

 

3. Previously Anneliese examined how the nascent Scottish political system
was dealing with the General Agreement in Trade and Services and its
perceived effects on health and education. 

 

4. She is currently a member of the Integrated Project on New Modes of
Governance, co-ordinated by the European University Institute, examining
networks of regulators at a European level. In addition, Anneliese has
worked on regulatory liberalisation at national and multi-national (mainly

European) levels, and on the changing relationship between risk and
regulation in Britain. 

 

 

 

 

Martin Edwards
Career Development Group, Wales
Library & Information Services
University of Wales, Newport
Caerleon Campus
PO Box 179 
Newport
South Wales
NP18 3YG

 

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