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Chandos Book Publishing

2003

 Ruth Rikowski gave at talk at the Library and Information Show at Excel, Docklands, entitled Tripping along with TRIPS , on 30th April 2003.
Talk on the WTO's agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)and the implications of TRIPS for the library and information profession
News item on Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals about LIS, 2003

Ruth Rikowski gave a special lecture to MSc students at Kingston University. Talk entitled
An overview and assessment of TRIPS, focusing in particular on trade, moral and information issues
on 2nd June 2003


2005


Trading in Knowledge? The World Trade Organisation and Libraries. Conference held on 2-3 March 2005, at Moller Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Ruth Rikowski spoke about TRIPS and Libraries
Other speakers included: George Monbiot, columnist in The Guardian , Professor Susan Robertson, Dale Honeck from the WTO and Paul Whitney.
Programme for the EBLIDA/SCONUL Conference - Trading in Knowledge? The WTO and Libraries, 2005

Reports and News Items on the conference Trading in Knowledge? The World Trade Organisation and Libraries

Trading in Knowledge? The World Trade Organisation and Libraries, Report of a Conference held on
2-3 March 2005, Moller Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge by Toby Bainton, Secretary of SCONUL (Society of College, National and University Libraries)
Trading in Knowledge? The WTO and Libraries, Report on Conference, 2005 by Toby Bainton


Monbiot inspirerte bibliotekfolk i Cambridge - Report of a Conference held on
2-3 March 2005, Moller Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge in Norwegian, in Norwegian Library Association Journal by Anders Ericson
(includes picture of Ruth Rikowski sitting next to Dale Honeck , representative of the WTO)
Monbiot inspirerte bibliotekfolk i Cambridge - Report of EBLIDA/SCONUL Conference, 'Trading in Knowledge? The WTO and Libraries by Anders Ericson (In Norwegian - in Norwegian Library Association Journal)

Mikael Book reports on the Cambridge EBLIDA/SCONUL Conference, Trading in Knowledge? The WTO and Libraries, for the Finnish Library Association journal
Mikael Book's report on the Cambridge Conference - Trading in Knowledge? The WTO and Libraries

Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD) News Item about Ruth's talk at EBLIDA/SCONUL Conference

Barbara Stratton, CIILP Senior Copyright Advisor, reports on the Cambridge EBLIDA/SCONUL Conference, Trading in Knowledge? The WTO and Libraries for the UK Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). Report entitled: 'Trade Agreements: Manifesto to help spread word on trade risk to public sector', in CILIP's monthly magazine Update, May 2005, Vol. 4, No. 5, p.15.


Ruth Rikowski spoke about the GATS and TRIPS at Sheffield Hallam University, on 9th February 2005
Spoke to the Yorkshire and Humberside Career Development Group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP).
Session was entitled International and Trans-border Information Issues


Ruth Rikowski spoke about her book Globalisation, Information and Libraries to MSc students at Kingston University on 24th May 2005

GLOBALISATION, LIBRARIES, INFORMATION AND EDUCATION
One-day conference organised through the Career Development Group, Wales of the UK Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)
Held at:
Swansea University, on Friday 2nd December 2005, in the Library and Information Centre, Level 7
10.00 am - 3.30 pm Map
Organised by Neil Smyth, Library and Information Services -
Email: n.t.smyth@swansea.ac.uk
Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea. SA2 8PP
CILIP Career Development Group Wales

SPEAKERS:
Ruth Rikowski talked about her book Globalisation, Information and Libraries
There were also extracts from the DVD of Ruth's book launch
Anneliese Dodds talked on Globalisation, the GATS and Higher Education
Anneliese Dodds is a Research Student, in the Department of Government and Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics, University of London

Pictures of the Swansea Event on Globalisation



Ruth Rikowski talked about her book Globalisation, Information and Libraries at
Birkbeck Seminar,(Birkbeck College, University of London)on Thursday 8th December 2005 in Gordon Square, London.


THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY:


Inaugural Annual Research Programme 2005-6, for the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), Lancaster University

January 19-20 2006
Workshop: Education and the Knowledge-Based Economy

Ruth Rikowski, speaking about her book Globalisation, Information and Libraries: the implications of the World Trade Organisation's GATS and TRIPS Agreements

Knowledge-Based Economy Programme at Lancaster University, October 2005 - July 2006

For enquiries about the Knowledge-Based Economy Programme, please contact:
Dr Steve Fleetwood, KBE Programme Director - s.fleetwood@lancaster.ac.uk

For general information about the IAS and its activities, please contact:
Professor Bob Jessop, IAS Director - r.jessop@lancaster.ac.uk



Ruth Rikowski talked about her book Globalisation, Information and Libraries at the University of Greenwich, on 1st February, 2006, in Queen Anne building to the Research Seminar for PhD and masters research students. There was lots of interest and a good discussion.


Ruth Rikowski talked about her book Globalisation, Information and Libraries at the Discourse, Power and Resistance in Education Conference 5: Research as a Subversive Activity,
on 21st April 2006,at Manchester Metropolitan University
Discourse, Power and Resistance in Education Conference 2006




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