The iSchool at Illinois welcomes Raphaëlle Bats for a campus visit on October 23-25. Bats is an international relations officer at École Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de l'Information et des Bibliothèques (Enssib), the premier library and information science school in France, and a 2012-2014 GSLIS research fellow.
Bats will visit campus as part of an exchange program recently formalized between Enssib and Illinois, which provides the opportunity for students, staff, and faculty from GSLIS and Enssib to visit each other’s institutions in order to participate in classes and conduct research in areas of shared interest.
Bats will deliver two lectures during her visit and participate in a discussion of the exchange agreement between GSLIS and Enssib as follows:
- "On the way to participatory democracy in libraries: From political discourse to communication to publics," October 24, 11:00-11:50 a.m., 131 LIS (presented as part of this year's Digital Divide Lecture Series)
- The French-GSLIS Exchange Agreement: A Conversation with Raphaëlle Bats & Terry Weech, October 25, 12:00-1:00 p.m., 46 LIS (hosted by the ALA Student Chapter International Committee)
- "Thinking historically about very contemporary cultural objects, such as digital libraries and similar contemporary collections," October 25, 2:00-3:30 p.m., 126 LIS (sponsored by the Cultural Historical Research Group at the University of Illinois Library)
GSLIS students and faculty who would like to meet one-on-one with Bats may sign up for times between 9:00-11:00 a.m. on October 25 and should contact Terry Weech at weech@illinois.edu by 6:00 p.m. on October 24 to sign up for a meeting time.