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Peter Lor was South Africa’s first National Librarian and later served as Secretary General of IFLA. After a stint as a visiting professor in the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (2009-2011), he is back in South Africa as an extraordinary professor in the Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria.
Peter Lor
He is working on a book on international and comparative librarianship, of which some draft chapters have been posted on his website, http://peterlor.com/the-book/. His main research interests are the political economic and ethical dimensions of international information relations, national library and information policy, national libraries, and research methodology in comparative research.
He now lives in Sedgefield, a small seaside town on the beautiful Garden Route of South Africa’s Western Cape Province and in addition to his research and teaching commitments he tries to make time for bird-watching, photography, art and music.
He looks forward to meeting many LTR members in Lyon (2014) and of course in Cape Town (2015)!
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Voici les dernières informations sur les appels a communication, publications, bourses ou encore conférences à venir en sciences de l’information et bibliothéconomie. Parce que les données relevant des Sciences de l’information et des bibliothèques, en particulier les workshops et les conférences peuvent êtres rapidement obsolètes, nous vous invitons à suivre notre veille jour par jour sur notre diigo : https://groups.diigo.com/group/library-and-information-sciences
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Appels à communication / calls for paper
call for papers PhD – AIB-WEB – Doctoral Consortium. This pre-conference session has been cancelled.
European Library Automation Group (ELAG 2014) : call for proposal. Conference presentations 11-13 June 2014, Bath, United Kingdom. The deadline for proposals is Friday 31 January 2014.
IFLA 2014_Libraries in the political process: benefits and risks of political visibility. All proposals must be in before 15 February 2014.
The theme “Libraries in the political process: Benefits and risks of political visibility” reflects the global theme of the IFLA 2014 Congress, “Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge”, in many respects. Librarians often complain that libraries are overlooked or taken for granted. But when libraries appear in the headlines, it may be a mixed blessing.
This LTR program will focus on the contemporary roles of libraries and librarians in turbulent political environments: including cases where libraries are damaged or burned in violent protests, and at the other extreme, cases where the public mobilizes in response to the closing of a library. In these times of financial crisis, identity crisis, democracy crisis, managerial crisis…these questions challenge us to rethink our roles in relation to the public we serve.
Our Session will look in a scholarly way at these phenomena, not limiting the session to descriptions of the incidents or the defense of libraries, but at the profession’s responses and at what it says about the way the profession is conceptualising its role in society. Papers exploring research on political roles of libraries will be invited. Indeed, this question includes sociological, professional, educational, philosophical and historical issues, all of which have the potential to contribute to the confluence for knowledge.
More information (in English, in Spanish and soon in French) : click here
Deadline : 15th February 2014
All the team of the LTR_Library Theory and Research ‘s blog wish you an happy new Year 2014 !
Toute l’équipe du blog de LTR_Library Theory and Research vous souhaite une bonne année 2014 !
