Archive for July, 2006
Airport road 3
Airport road 2
Some scenery along the road into Pristina from the airport
Arrived In Kosova
Post-Parting Perspectives
Background – Kosovo Librarian grant
Here is some background on the Kosovo project. Simmons GSLIS and the Institute for Training and Development (ITD) jointly conducted a 17-week training and academic program for nine Kosovars employed at the National and University Library of Kosovo. The dates of the program were August 21 to December 17, 2005. This [...]
From Iraq (Baghdad) – blog # 2
Hello everyone – this is Harvey Varnet from Kuwait, forwarding along another blog from Abdul Latif. I did some very minor editing, as he asked me to do – corrected group names, etc. I do not try to rewrite his use of the language, as I feel he can communicate his [...]
Blog # 1 from Iraq
Dear Colleagues – I had asked Abdul Latif Khairy if he would blog again this year, and his first entry appears below. Abdul Latif is a very bright, hard-working and caring librarian and LIS faculty member. His English is excellent, though as you’ll see below he speaks better than he writes (though he [...]
Looking in…
This blog was written by Dr. Sidney Berger, professor at Simmons College and husband of GSLIS Dean Michele Cloonan. (Harvey Varnet putting it up on the blog.)
An outsider’s view of the UAE experience
I was not on the official teaching team for the project to train Iraqi
librarians and library educators, but I did give a [...]
