I will be going to Taiwan to be a visiting professor at National Taiwan University the Department and Graduate Institute of Library & Information Science during my sabbatical year. This series of blogs will record my experience traveling to Taipei and teaching at the LIS Department.… Read the rest
Hello again from Roma! It’s Monday morning here, and I’m so stuffed full of information that I can hardly decide which great adventure to relay first. Our second weekend in Rome held trips to Ostio Lido Beach, a wonderful birthday celebration, an excursion to Florence, cooking classes in the apartment of a Roman chef, and most importantly – a very enlightening tour of Vatican City.… Read the rest
Yesterday was incredible! We were treated to a private tour of FAO – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The primary headquarters is here in Rome, and is home to the FAO David Lubin Memorial Library, archives, and digital document repository.… Read the rest
Greetings from Rome! We are nearing the end of week 1 of our time here in a Rome, and I have to say that this group of students are probably the most energetic and enthusiastic bunch of librarians/archivists I’ve ever encountered.… Read the rest
We made it Rome! After a very pleasant direct flight on Alitalia Flight 625 from Boston-Logan to Fiomicino Airport, 13 GSLIS students and 2 GSLIS faculty members arrived in Italy for two weeks of study abroad courses at St. John’s University Rome campus.… Read the rest
Greetings Friends! I apologize for the delay in posting about more of our adventures in Seoul,….but the weekends here are exhausting and unfortunately we only get one weekend. We did as much as we possibly could since we leave this Saturday morning (incredible sad – we want to stay!).… Read the rest
