Below find information about an interesting event and the announcement of Ruth Rikowski's book "GLOBALISATION, INFORMATION AND LIBRARIES" from Chandos Press.
EBLIDA/SCONUL 2-DAY CONFERENCE ON TRADE AGREEMENTS & LIBRARIES:
TRADING IN KNOWLEDGE? THE WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION AND LIBRARIES To be held at: THE MOLLER CENTRE, CHURCHILL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND, 2 - 3 MARCH 2005
European Bureau of Library, Information & Documentation Associations (EBLIDA): http://www.eblida.org and Society of College, National & University Libraries (SCONUL), UK & Ireland: http://www.sconul.ac.uk
Programme, Registration & Further details: http://www.sconul.ac.uk/event_conf/WTOConference/wtoprogramme (Places still available)
Speakers to include:
GEORGE MONBIOT Columnist in The Guardian, author of Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain, The Age of Consent, and Manifesto for a New World Order, and Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University
RUTH RIKOWSKI Visiting Lecturer at London South Bank University, author of Globalisation, Information and Libraries: the Implications of the WTO's GATS and TRIPS Agreements, and Co-Editor of Information for Social Change
DALE HONECK Counsellor in the Trade in Services Division, World Trade Organisation, Geneva
SUSAN ROBERTSON Professor at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, and Co-ordinator of the Centre for Studies of Globalisation, Education and Societies
KJELL NILSSON Deputy National Librarian, Sweden and Chair of EBLIDA's Expert Group on the World Trade Organisation
PAUL WHITNEY City Librarian, Vancouver, Canada and Canadian Appointee to the Copyright & Other Legal Matters Committee (CLM) of IFLA
GLOBALISATION, INFORMATION AND LIBRARIES
A BOOK LAUNCH For Ruth Rikowski's New Book: Globalisation, Information and Libraries: the Implications of the World Trade Organisation's GATS and TRIPS Agreements CHANDOS PUBLISHING: OXFORD, 2005 ISBN - 1 84334 084 4 (pbk) £39.00; 1 84334 092 5 (hdbk) £59.95 http://www.chandospublishing.com/catalogue/record_detail.php? recordID=35
TO BE HELD AT: LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY TUESDAY, 26th April 2005, 5.30pm onwards Keyworth Centre, Keyworth Street, Room 806/7
Introduced by Professor Deian Hopkin, Vice-Chancellor of London South Bank University
REFRESHMENTS
Map for directions to London South Bank University: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about/maps.shtml
R.S.V.P. Ruth Rikowski: Rikowskigr@aol.com
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