(via Dr. Clara Chu,\u00a0Director and Mortenson Distinguished Professor at Mortenson Center, UIUC Library)<\/p>\n
Is your library wanting to build community?\u00a0Join colleagues from around the world in learning and planning globally to create change locally.<\/p>\n
The aim of\u00a0Engineering Change in Libraries\u00a0<\/em>is to understand\u00a0the Other and mobilize our libraries to provide more effective and equitable services and programs to underserved communities. Inspired by Dr. Agnes Kaposi, a catalyst for change and 31st Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture,\u00a0Engineering Change<\/em>\u00a0is organized into two components: (1) the lecture<\/a>\u00a0(setting the context) and (2) a two-session workshop for library staff and stakeholders to engineer change in libraries in a process of\u00a0understanding the Other\u00a0and\u00a0planning globally\u00a0to\u00a0create change locally.<\/p>\n Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Agnes Kaposi\u00a0was born in Hungary in 1932, a year before Hitler came to power. She started school at the outbreak of World War II. Many of her family and friends were murdered in the Holocaust, together with half a million other Hungarian Jews, but a series of miracles and coincidences allowed her to survive. She worked at age 11 as a child laborer in the agricultural and armament camps of Austria and was liberated by a rampaging Soviet Army. She struggled through post-war hardship to re-enter Hungarian society, only to be caught up for a decade in the vice of Stalinism. In 1956, the Hungarian revolution offered the opportunity to escape. Entering Britain as a graduate engineer, she started a family and built a career as a researcher, educator and consultant. She was the third woman to become a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. She is the author of a recent memoir co-written with historian Laszlo Csosz of University of Budapest, Yellow Star-Red Star<\/em> (i2i Publications, Manchester). More information on Dr. Agnes Kaposi is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Facilitators<\/strong><\/p>\n Clara M. Chu (Director and Distinguished Professor, Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)–more information available here<\/a> Workshops<\/strong><\/p>\n “Inaugural Workshop on Dislocation”<\/strong><\/p>\n Tuesday,\u00a0Februray 15, 8:00-9:30 AM CDT<\/strong>–Session 1 |\u00a0Tuesday,\u00a0March 15, 8:00-9:30 AM CDT<\/strong>–open consultation |\u00a0Tuesday,\u00a0April 19, 8:00-9:30 AM CDT<\/strong>–Session 2<\/p>\n To register (there is no charge), please go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Workshop on Propaganda”<\/strong><\/p>\n Tuesday,\u00a0March 1, 4:00-5:30 PM CDT<\/strong>–Session 1 |\u00a0Tuesday,\u00a0April 5, 4:00-5:30 PM CDT<\/strong>–open consultation |\u00a0Tuesday,\u00a0May 3, 4:00-5:30 PM CDT<\/strong>–Session 2<\/p>\n To register (there is no charge), please\u00a0go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nAjit K. Pyati (Associate Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario)–more information available here<\/a><\/p>\n