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[LTR’People] Focus on Heidi K. Olsen, Standing Committee Member

This third focus on a Standing Committee’s Member, is about Heidi K. Olsen, colleague from Norway.

I am academic librarian at Vestfold University College, a small University College i the southern part of Norway. At VUC we educate nurses, teachers, preschool teachers, engineers, naval officers and social scientists. We have 9 Masters programs, and two programs for PhD-education. VUC is a Center for expertise in Micro and Nano Technology.

 

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[LTR’People] Focus on Yasuyo Inoue, Standing Committee Member

This is the second focus, we are proposing you to better know the team of Standing Committee. After Peter Lor, Yasuyo Inoue, from Japan, has accepted to be interwieved.

IFLA LTR: Who are you, Yasuyo Inoue?

Yasuyo Inoue: Former Librarian, now teaching at Dokkyo University locating at Saitama, northern part of Tokyo.

IFLA LTR: Are you a native of Japanese?

Yes, I was born, grown up, went to a graduate school on American studies in Kyoto. After working at several libraries I went to a library school (Simmons; GLIS) in US. Five years ago I had been spent a year at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in US again.

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[LTR’People] Focus on Peter Lor, Standing Committee Member

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

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)!