The International Relations Round Table would like to invite interested
librarians and archivists to participate in their 2006 ALA
Pre-Conference.

 

Thinking Outside the Borders - 2006 International Relations Round Table
Pre-Conference

 

This International Relations Round Table (IRRT) pre-conference welcomes
international librarians as well as librarians from the United States.
Using modules provided by the Mortensen Center for International Library
Programs, it seeks to establish working relationships among librarians
of different countries. 

 

This session will explore strategies used in South Africa and in the
U.S. for making our libraries, services, and workplaces more effective
in a multicultural and global environment. The speakers will be Ujala
Satgoor, Head of the Business Library at the University of Pretoria, and
Sandra Rios Balderrama, Consultant; Former President, REFORMA & Former
Director, ALA Office for Diversity

 

Hector Marino, chair of the Sister Libraries Committee of the IRRT, will
provide an overview of the Sister Libraries program. Heleni Pedersoli,
from the University Libraries, University of Maryland, will present an
inside look at the Sister Libraries program highlighting the nuts and
bolts of getting involved and keeping a Sister Library relationship. 

 

The 2006 IRRT Pre-Conference will be held in conjunction with ALA Annual
Conference in New Orleans from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm, June 23rd.  The $40
registration includes lunch and light refreshments.  For more
information, please visit:
http://www.ala.org/ala/iro/iroactivities/preconference.htm 

 

Thank you,

 

Katie McCormick

 

Reference Archivist and 

Coordinator for the Oral History Program

Special Collections - J. Murrey Atkins Library

UNC Charlotte

 

 


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