Скачать или смотреть Paul Sturges Presents, Murder, Sex and Magic: Unexpected Encounters in Library Science

Paul Sturges will draw on stories and other subject material from a long and eclectic career as a researcher, teacher and writer in library science. His observations on experience, mainly in Africa, but other parts of the world too, deal with the way in which searching for answers to information-related problems needn’t stop at the usual academic boundaries. Although he does not promise that the lecture will have equal one third parts devoted to murder, sex and magic, there will be plenty of each. Learn about information in murderous and largely ignored African conflicts; sex as a vector for social and medical problems that have information implications, and the role of the irrational and magical in people’s quest for knowledge and information. Money back if he doesn’t surprise and shock you at least once during the lecture.

Professor Paul Sturges is the SLIS 2015 visiting Allen Smith scholar. He is Professor Emeritus, Loughborough University and Professor Extraordinary, University of Pretoria,
He has traveled widely throughout the world, giving lectures and conference presentations, leading workshops on Intellectual Freedom topics, providing consultancy, and researching. His more than 150 articles, reports and books deal with a variety of issues in information science, with an emphasis on the developing world, and a strong specialization in ethics of information. Consultant to the Council of Europe on freedom of expression and public access points to networked information, and also on library legislation, 1997-2001. Chair of the International Federation of Library Associations’ (IFLA) Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE) Committee 2003-9. Made Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2010 for services to libraries in the UK and overseas, and awarded the IFLA Medal in 2011.