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From: Ruth Rikowski <rikowski.uk@TINYWORLD.CO.UK> Date: Sun Jul 21, 2002 05:05:55 PM US/Eastern To: CRITICALIS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: FW: IFLA Fringe Meeting: Globalisation, Libraries and Education Reply-To: rikowski.uk@TINYWORLD.CO.UK
From: "Glenn Rikowski" <rikowski@tiscali.co.uk> Date: Sun Jul 21, 2002 04:34:14 PM US/Eastern To: <rikowski.uk@tinyworld.co.uk> Subject: IFLA Fringe Meeting: Globalisation, Libraries and Education
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS & INSTITUTIONS (IFLA) A FRINGE MEETING AT THE IFLA 2002 CONFERENCE IN GLASGOW THE PROFIT VIRUS: GLOBALISATION, LIBRARIES AND EDUCATION To be held at GLASGOW UNIVERSITY Gilmorehill Centre for Theatre, Film & Television, Room 408 9 University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ Thursday 22nd August 2002, 1.00 - 5.30pm OPEN TO ALL SPEAKERS: Steve Rolfe - Chair of the World Development Movement, Scottish Committee "An Overview of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS): the beginning or the of public services?"" Ruth Rikowski - South Bank University, Book Reviews Editor for Managing Information, and a member of Information for Social Change (ISC) and the UK GATS Network "The WTO/GATS Agenda for Libraries - with special reference to public libraries in the UK" Frode Bakken - President of the Norwegian Library Association, EBLIDA WTO Working Group "Downsizing free public services: means or ends of global trade policies?" Paul Whitney - Chief Librarian, Burnaby Public Library, BC, Canada, and IFLA representative to the WTO Seattle Ministerial, and past President of the Canadian Library Association "International Trade Treaties & Libraries: A Canadian Perspective" Anneliese Dodds - Edinburgh University, Cuba Solidarity Campaign "The GATS and Higher Education: Consultation or Obfuscation?" - with special reference to Scotland Dr. Glenn Rikowski - University College Northampton, Associate of the Institute for Education Policy Studies (see: http://www.ieps.org.uk), and author of The Battle in Seattle: Its Significance for Education (Tufnell Press) "The Woodhead Federation? The Business Takeover of Schools" Followed by a Reception, 5.30 - 7.00pm with wine, soft drinks and biscuits hosted by LINK, an organisation in liaison with the UK Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals (CILIP), that links with Third World libraries and librarians and raises awareness of Third World issues. This is a fringe meeting organised by Ruth Rikowski, who edited a special edition of Information for Social Change (number 14, winter 2001/2002) on 'Globalisation and Information'. The special issue contains articles by Jonathan Rutherford, Anneliese Dodds and Alex Nunn on higher education and the WTO/GATS, as well as articles on the WTO/GATS agenda for libraries by writers such as Fiona Hunt and Ruth Rikowski, on gender relations and information (Shahrzad Mojab), and general articles on the WTO/GATS by Bill Lehm, Clare Joy and Glenn Rikowski. Information for Social Change, at: http://libr.org/ISC/TOC.html Information for Social Change is an organisation in liaison with UK CILIP. Itchallenges dominant paradigms of library and information work. If you want more information on ISC, or wish to get involved in its work then please contact John Pateman at: john.pateman@merton.gov.uk Ruth Rikowski, contact: rikowski@tiscali.co.uk "Imagine a world without libraries... it could happen" - British Columbia Library Association
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