Webinar Title: A Librarian in Galapagos: Experiences from an Outpost in the Southern Seas
Date: 3/22/2019, Friday at 9 am PT / 11 pm CT / 12 pm ET
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Recorded Webinar Link: TBA
Summary: The ACRL International Perspectives DG Webinar invites Librarian Edgardo Civallero to speak about his experiences working as the coordinator of the library of the Charles Darwin Foundations' Research Station at the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador).
Speaker: Edgardo Civallero is an Argentinean LIS professional currently working as the library coordinator of the Charles Darwin Research Station at the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) - the biggest and oldest, and one of the few active libraries in the archipelago. Edgardo has previous training in Sea Sciences and History, and a 20-year experience as a librarian in Latin America working with public and popular libraries, developing libraries in indigenous and rural communities, and collecting oral tradition and endangered sounds. He is a blogger on LIS, and a committed advocate of critical and social librarianship, open access, and social justice.
Thanks,
Ray Pun
Convener of ACRL International Perspectives 2018-2019
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Raymond Pun
Instruction and Research Librarian
Alder Graduate School of Education
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