Archive for November, 2007
Chula = Troublemaker
The gentlemen from Basrah have arrived, which means all 10 people made it to the training. Hurray!
The atmosphere is very fun and playful. One of our favorite words is chula or troublemaker. Yesterday the participants were split into two groups for a curriculum development exercise, and the two universities they made up [...]
LIS Education in Iraq
Right now the Iraqis are working on a curriculum development project (see Harvey’s post below), so I’m taking the time to do a little blogging. The first session that we held has been the most interesting to me (sorry Michele and Harvey). Rather than a lecture, it was a rambling conversation about the [...]
Monday musings from Harvey
19 November 2007 – Monday
1:40 pm here in Amman, and we have just finished a long morning session that started at 9am. Michele has done a superb job covering ‘management theory history’ and mixing in the practical with the theory. It is a challenge to get across to our Iraqi colleagues these ideas [...]
A few words from Harvey
17 November 2007- Saturday
It is early Saturday morning here in bright, sunny and cool Amman. I am at ACOR, the American Center for Oriental Research which is where we’ll hold the training sessions for our Iraqi LIS professor colleagues. ACOR is a very good place to hold such sessions, as it is self-contained [...]
Thanksgiving in Amman
Greetings from Heathrow Airport!
It’s Meaghan, your trusty Fellow for Dean’s Initiatives, and I’m on my way to Amman, Jordan with Dean Cloonan. For the next five days (Sunday – Thursday), Dean Cloonan will be co-leading a workshop on teaching management to LIS students for a group of Iraqi library science professors. I’ll be [...]
