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<excerpt><bold>From: </bold>Ruth Rikowski
<<rikowski.uk@TINYWORLD.CO.UK>

<bold>Date: </bold>Sun Jul 21, 2002  05:05:55 PM US/Eastern

<bold>To: </bold>CRITICALIS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

<bold>Subject: </bold>FW: IFLA Fringe Meeting: Globalisation,
Libraries and Education

<bold>Reply-To: </bold>rikowski.uk@TINYWORLD.CO.UK



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From: </bold>"Glenn Rikowski" <<rikowski@tiscali.co.uk>

<bold>Date: </bold>Sun Jul 21, 2002  04:34:14 PM US/Eastern

<bold>To: </bold><<rikowski.uk@tinyworld.co.uk>

<bold>Subject: </bold>IFLA Fringe Meeting: Globalisation, Libraries
and Education



</excerpt><center><excerpt><bold><fontfamily><param>Arial</param><bigger>INTERNATIONAL
FEDERATION OF LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS & INSTITUTIONS</bigger></fontfamily></bold><fontfamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>

</smaller><bold><bigger>(IFLA)</bigger></bold><smaller>

 

</smaller><bold><bigger>A FRINGE MEETING AT THE IFLA 2002 CONFERENCE
IN GLASGOW</bigger></bold><smaller>

 

</smaller><bold><bigger><bigger><bigger>THE PROFIT VIRUS:</bigger></bigger></bigger></bold><smaller>

</smaller><bold><bigger><bigger><bigger>GLOBALISATION, LIBRARIES AND
EDUCATION</bigger></bigger></bigger></bold><smaller>

 

</smaller><bigger>To be held at</bigger><smaller>

<bold>GLASGOW UNIVERSITY</bold>

<bold>Gilmorehill Centre for Theatre, Film & Television, Room 408</bold>

<bold>9 University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ</bold>

 

</smaller><bold><bigger>Thursday 22nd August 2002, 1.00 - 5.30pm</bigger></bold><smaller>

 

</smaller><bold><bigger>OPEN TO ALL</bigger></bold><smaller>

</smaller></fontfamily></excerpt></center><excerpt><bold><fontfamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>SPEAKERS:</smaller></fontfamily></bold><fontfamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>

 

<bold>Steve Rolfe</bold> - 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?""

 

<bold>Ruth Rikowski</bold> - South Bank University, Book Reviews
Editor for <italic>Managing Information</italic>, 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"

 

<bold>Frode Bakken</bold> - President of the Norwegian Library
Association, EBLIDA WTO Working Group

"Downsizing free public services: means or ends of global trade
policies?"

 

<bold>Paul Whitney</bold> - 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"

 

<bold>Anneliese Dodds</bold> - Edinburgh University, Cuba Solidarity
Campaign

"The GATS and Higher Education: Consultation or Obfuscation?" - with
special reference to Scotland

 

<bold>Dr. Glenn Rikowski</bold> - University College
Northampton, Associate of the Institute for Education Policy Studies
(see:
<underline><color><param>1999,1999,FFFF</param>http://www.ieps.org.uk</color></underline>),
and author of <italic>The Battle in Seattle: Its Significance for
Education</italic> (Tufnell Press) 

"The Woodhead Federation? The Business Takeover of Schools"

 

Followed by a <bold>Reception, 5.30 - 7.00pm </bold>with wine, soft
drinks and biscuits hosted by <bold>LINK</bold>, 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 <italic>Information for Social Change</italic>
(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.

 

<italic>Information for Social Change</italic>, at:
<underline><color><param>1999,1999,FFFF</param>http://libr.org/ISC/TOC.html</color></underline>

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:
<underline><color><param>1999,1999,FFFF</param>john.pateman@merton.gov.uk</color></underline>

 

<bold>Ruth Rikowski</bold>,
contact: <underline><color><param>1999,1999,FFFF</param>rikowski@tiscali.co.uk</color></underline>
  

 

<bold><italic>"<color><param>FFFF,0000,0000</param>Imagine a world
without libraries... it could happen</color>" -
</italic></bold>British Columbia Library Association

 




</smaller></fontfamily></excerpt>jeremy hunsinger

jhuns@vt.edu

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www.cddc.vt.edu

www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy

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