2012 GSLIS Spring Lecture with Barbara Ford
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
When Palestine was approved for UNESCO membership in late 2011, U.S. funding for UNESCO was terminated. This has resulted in major challenges because the U.S. funding represented 22% of UNESCO’s budget. Barbara Ford will discuss the role of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO to support worldwide humanitarian development values by coordinating efforts and delivering expert advice on issues of education, science, communications, and culture to the U.S. Department of State. Among the topics to be discussed will be digital information and preservation which support the development of inclusive knowledge societies and UNESCO's mission and are examples of issues that are of interest to the U.S. Commission.
Lecture begins at 6 pm, with a reception to follow. This event is free, with registration required.Lund Auditorium, Fine Arts Building
Speaker: Barbara J. Ford is the director of the Mortenson Center for International Library
Programs and Mortenson Distinguished Professor at the Library of the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. She is also an American Library Association (ALA) representative on the
United States National Commission for UNESCO. The author of many publications and presentations,
Barbara has traveled around the world to address topics such as information literacy, government
information, the future of libraries, the role of library associations, and international
cooperation among libraries, among other topics.
