 Stuart
Shulman, Associate Professor and Director of the Sara Fine
Institute will present a lecture on "Web 2.0—Library
2.0:
Introducing Democratic Technologies in Kazakhstan." This lecture
will take place on Thursday, October 4 at 12:00 pm at 4217 Posvar Hall.
Shulman was invited by the U.S. State Department to present
a lecture series in Kazakhstan from September 11-13, 2007. The
three part lecture series entitled "Web 2.0-Library
2.0: Citizen-Powered Information" was attended
by representatives from 33 Kazakhstani libraries. While
in Kazakhstan, Dr. Shulman participated in a round-table
series on citizens’ education about e-government
issues hosted local non-governmental organizations. Additionally,
he was interviewed for both a local newspaper and "Kitap
Alemi" magazine, a magazine on library issues.
Dr. Shulman, who joined the SIS faculty in 2004, has expertise
in digital citizenship, e-government, service learning,
and public policy, and is the Director of the Sara Fine
Institute. This visit marks the second time that
Shulman has been invited to Kazakhstan by the U.S. State
Department.
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