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Research and academic librarians: A global view

Ludmila Kozlova

S. W. Massill

P. B. Mangla

“Research and Academic Librarians: A Global View” will be presented byACRL’s Research Committee at the ACRL National Conference at Salt Lake City, Utah. The program will be held on Tuesday, April 14 from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Six international speakers will discuss the role of academic library research, the rewards and impact of comparative research, and the success academic librarians have experienced in conducting their research on a continent with emphasis on their own country.

The speakers for the session will be Ludmila Kozlova, director, Department of International Library Relations, the Lenin State Library, Moscow; P. R. Mangla ofthe University of Delhi, India; S.W. Massill, sub librarian, University of London, England; A. L. Carvaho de Miranda, director of the Institute Brasileiro De Informacao Em Ciencia E. Tecnologia, Braslia, Brazil; James Ng’ang’a, director, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya; and Colin Taylor, chief librarian, University of South Australia, Pooraka. R. N. Sharma, director, University of Evansville Libraries, Indiana, will moderate the program. T ake advantage of this rare opportunity to hear the views of librarians from other countries and ask them questions.

“The committee is very impressed with the quality of speakers that has been proposed. We think they will do a great deal to add to the National Conference,” said Charles Townley, chair, ACRL Research Committee, 1989-91.

The program has been made possible due to the contributions of Jerry Alper, Inc., Blackwell North America, Data Research, EBSCO Subscription Services, ERIC Document Reproduction Services operated by CBIS, Federal, Inc., Kenya Airways, Ohio State University Libraries, Public Affairs Information Services (PAIS), and the C. Walter and Gerda B. Mortenson Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Libraries. The Committee would like to thank Paul Nauta, Secretary General of IFLA for helping select speakers for this special session of the ACRL Conference.—R. N. Sharma, University of Evansville, Indiana

James Ng’ang’a

A. Carvaho de Miranda

Colin Taylor

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