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LAST CHANCE ***Apologies for cross posting*** UPDATE: Delegates from East of Swansea (such as London, Bristol and Cardiff) travelling by train are advised to travel on the 16.30 on Friday after the event as other delegates and the speakers are booked on this departure. DISCOUNTS: There is a 20% discount for members of the Career Development Group. There is a 20% discount for members of the Association of University of Teachers. Anyone who is interested in this event should follow the instructions below, or contact Neil Smyth directly. *Title: Globalisation, Education, Information and libraries INTRODUCTION * This event focuses on the possible future for libraries in the United Kingdom under new global trade rules. * This event has been brought to Wales by Career Development Group Wales. * This event is sponsored by the Association of University Teachers. WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM ATTENDING? * 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. * 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. * 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 effect of global trade rules on libraries. * Students keen to learn about international issues that will influence the future development of library and information services in the United Kingdom. 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; * There is a 20% discount for members of the Career Development Group. * There is a 20% discount for members of the Association of University Teachers. *Limited free places are available for students and the unwaged. The booking form below should still be completed BOOKING FORM: I would like to book a confirmed place on the Globalisation, Education, Information and Libraries event at Swansea University. Title: First name: Surname: Organisation (if any): Address: Town: Postcode: Email address: Tel: Fax: Dietary/special requirements (sensory or physical): PAYMENT OF FEE: (if you are responding by e-mail, please make your payment option clear or indicate that you are booking one of the limited FREE place) Option 1: __ Please send an invoice (your payment will be due within 30 days of the invoice date). Option 2: __ I enclose a cheque (payable to Career Development Group 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. Career Development Group Wales keeps any personal information you supply for 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: http://www.careerdevelopmentgroup.org.uk/divisions/waless.htm <http://www.careerdevelopmentgroup.org.uk/divisions/waless.htm> Please give invoice name and address if different from above (delete the lines if you are using e-mail): ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ 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: www.flowideas.co.uk <http://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.