[OPLINLIST] Creating Culturally Permeable Institutions

[Mary Stansbury]

Please join us and promote this event to your staff and patrons.

David Carr, Associate Professor, SLIS, UNC Chapel Hill will present 
“Advancing Culturally Engaged Institutions through Permeable 
Partnerships,” on Monday, May 15^th , 2006, from 7:00 pm until 8:00 pm 
at the Hudson Library & Historical Society, 96 Library St., Hudson, OH. 
This event is open to the public and is sponsored by the School of 
Library & Information Science, Kent State University and The Ohio State 
University Libraries.

Dr. Carr will explore the idea of cultural institutions as spaces that 
inspire people to cross the limits of routine thought, into experiences 
of reflection and possibility. In this presentation, Carr will explore 
what institutions such as libraries and museums can do for, and perhaps 
owe to, the lives of users and citizens.

His many presentations, articles, book chapters, and more recently 
published collections of essays, “The Promise of Cultural Institutions” 
(2003) and “A Place Not a Place” (May 2006) center on these themes of 
lifelong learning.

For more information, please contact Dr. Mary Stansbury, SLIS – Kent 
State University, 330-672-0015, mstansbu at kent.edu

I apologize for any cross-postings and the late notice. This event has 
only recently fallen into place.

Thanks,
Mary Stansbury