INTERNATIONAL VISITORS TO GSLIS
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2003-2005

The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) has a formal Scholar-in-Residence Program, but we also have visits from international librarians and library and information science educators and scholars for short period of a week or two. Below are photos of some of the people who came to GSLIS either as Scholars-in-Residence or as international visitors in 2003 - 2005.

GSLIS Summer, 2005 Scholar-in-Residence: Anne-Marie Bertrand, Director, enssib (the French National School of Library and Information Studies), Lyon (Villeurbanne) France. June-July, 2005

Philippe Cantié, Visiting Intern from enssib (The French National School of Library and Information Studies). August-November, 2004.


GSLIS Spring, 2004 Scholar-in-Residence and Fulbright Visiting Scholar
Dr. M. Krishnamurthy, Librarian, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India.

University of Illinois Library 2003-2004 Mortenson Associate and Visiting Fulbright Scholar
Dr. Ramadevi Tella, Master of Social Work and Master of Library Science, Ph.D on Grey Literature.
Working as a Documentation Officer in National Institute of rural Development (NIRD), India

GSLIS 2003-2004 Scholar-in-Residence and Fulbright Visiting Scholar
Poornima Narayana, Deputy Head, ICAST (Information Centre)
National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, India
Primary Interest: Digital Library Initiatives


GSLIS 2003-2004 Scholar-in-Residence and Fulbright Visiting Scholar
Dr. Pravakar Rath, Senior Lecturer,
Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India.
Primary Interest: Online Education for Library & Information Science

 Visitors from Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic as part of the exchange program between GSLIS and the Department of Library Studies at Masaryk University. Monika, Juchova, Sarka Nekudova, and Vera Volemanova are visiting September 1-28, 2003, to study and research outreach programs in libraries and universities for minorities and persons with physical disabilities and other special groups.

Monika Juchova

Sarka Nekudova

Vera Volemanova

 
Visitors from Croatia, September 16, 2003 Sponsored by U.S. Dept. of State
Boris Badurina and Sanjica Faletar, Research Assistants, LIS, Univ. Strossmayer, Osijek.
Ana Barbaric, LIS, Univ. of Zagreb, Martina Ivanovic, Librarian, City Library Zadar, Robert Acker, U.S. State Dept.
Niksa Matic, Reference Librarian, Dubrovnik Libraries, Franjo Pehar, Librarian, Univ. of Zadar (in front) and Terry Weech

 

  

Visitors from Armenia & Nigeria, November 3, 2003
Hasmik Karapetyan, Olayinka Fatoki (Nigeria), Lilia Vardanyan, Marusia Asatryan, Karapet Minasyan, Dale Silver (GSLIS)
Front Row: Terry Weech (GSLIS), Levon Gharibyan, Fatima Khachatryan

  


NOVEMBER 6, 2003 VISIT OF VIRGINIA TECH FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS WITH GSLIS FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS:
Mini Ulanat, Systems Managerm, Cochin University of Science & Technology, Kochi, India; Pravakar Rath, GSLIS Scholar-in-Residence; Ramesh C. Gaur, Librarian, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India; Linda Smith, GSLIS Associate Dean; Poornima Narayana, GSLIS Scholar-in-Residence.

For photos of International Visitors in 2001-2003, see: http://cpanel.ischool.illinois.ed/~weech/internat/visitors01.htm

For photos of Mortenenson Center Associates, Fall, 2003, see: http://cpanel.ischool.illinois.ed/~weech/Mort03/MortF03.htm
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