International Conference

organized by
INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND LIBRARY SCIENCE
Faculty of Management and Social Communication, Jagiellonian University

in cooperation with:

Consulate General of the US in Cracow

Consulate General of the United States in Krakow

Polish Librarians Association

Supporting partner: Information Society Development Foundation

Media sponsorship: Nowy EBIB

How to Teach Students in Information

and Library Science (LIS)?

Academic Curricula vs. Labour Market
and Evolution of Science

Kraków, Poland, 6^th – 7^th June, 2011

Dear Participants,

We invite you to discover the abstracts of the keynote speeches which are to be given by our honourable Guests on the plenary session (Monday, 6^th June):

Professor Daniel Bougnoux (Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3, France),

Professor Paul Struges (Loughborough University, UK; University of Pretoria, South Africa)

Dr Maria Burke (University of Salford, UK),

Mrs. Peg Walther (Embassy of the U.S. in Warsaw).

Thanks to a very fruitful cooperation with the American Information Resource Center at the Consulate General if the U.S. in Krakow, we are happy to propose you a videoconference with Mrs. Karen L. O’Brien, Director of the ALA Office for Accreditation, entitled Accreditation of Library and Information Science Program in the United States – Process and Policy

The videomeeting will have place at the Consulate General of the USA in Kraków, 9 Stolarska St., on Monday 6^th June (15.00 – 16.00).

Short bio of Mrs Karen O’Brien