Topic: "The World Summit on the Information Society:
Possibilities and Challenges for Library and Information
Science"
Date: Monday May 14, 2007
Venue: Charter Room East, CILIP, 7 Ridgmount St., London
Keynote Speaker: Deborah Shorley, University Librarian,
University of Sussex.
Event: The 2007 Daphne Clarke Seminar, organised by the
Library and Information Research Group
Details:
Before Deborah took up her post as Librarian at the University
of Sussex in October 2000, she had spent 24 years working in
Northern Ireland. She began her professional career in 1977
at the Belfast Central Library. In 1981 she moved to Ulster
Polytechnic (subsequently University of Ulster) where she was
ultimately appointed Assistant Director, Information Services.
Throughout her career Deborah Shorley has been actively involved
in professional activities. She has been Chair of ARLIS/UK &
Ireland (the Art Libraries Society) and Chair, Library & Information
Services Council (Northern Ireland). She was President of CILIP
from March 2005 to March 2006 and frequently represents the
profession overseas.
Programme:
13.30-14.15 Welcome and lunch
14.15-15.15 Key Note Address: Deborah Shorley, 'WSIS: A rough
guide for UK Librarians'.
15.15-16.00 Breakout Session: can the LIS community make a
difference to the Information Society?
16.00-17.00 Report Back and Plenary Session
17.00 Close
COST: £50 (includes lunch and afternoon tea)
Places are strictly limited.
To book, contact Seamus Simpson ([log in to unmask])
Posted on behalf of:
Dr Seamus Simpson
Principal Lecturer and Research Coordinator
Dept. of Information and Communications,
Manchester Metropolitan University
Geoffrey Manton Building,
Rosamond St. West (off Oxford Rd.)
Manchester.
UK
M15 6LL
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