Vai ter lugar na Sala de Actos Académicos da UA, no edifício da Reitoria, no dia 13 de outubro, às 10h30, a conferência intitulada “Challenges faced by University Libraries”.
A conferência será proferida por Karen Hartman e realiza-se no âmbito do recentemente inaugurado centro documental “American Corner” na Biblioteca da UA, em parceria com a Embaixada dos Estados Unidos da América.

A conferência é realizada pelos Serviços de Biblioteca, Informação Documental e Museologia da UA, sendo a sua entrada livre mas com  inscrição até às 14h00 do dia 12 de outubro, para o email sbidm-biblioteca@ua.pt.

Sobre Karen Hartman:
Karen Hartman is an Information Resource Officer (IRO) posted in Rome, Italy.  She most recently served as IRO for Applied Technology, in Washington, DC.  From 2008-2010, Karen was an adjunct professor at University of Maryland’s School of Library and Information Science.  Karen served in both Nairobi, Kenya, and Pretoria, South Africa from 2003-2008.  Before joining the State Department in September 2002, Karen was the director of the library at the University of Mary Washington’s College of Graduate and Professional Studies in Fredericksburg, Virginia for three years, and was a reference and instruction librarian at the University of Mary Washington’s undergraduate library from 1994-1999.  From 1989-1994 Karen worked as a reference librarian at the American University in Cairo (Egypt) Library.  She has also been a law librarian at a Michigan law firm, a research librarian for the University of Michigan Transportation Research Library, and the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan. 

Karen’s Master’s degree in Library and Information Science was granted from the University of Michigan and her B.A. in English Literature was acquired from Michigan State University.  In addition to working in various libraries in her career, she has presented at several conferences and is the co-author of several college textbooks, with Dr. Ernest Ackermann, computer science professor at the University of Mary Washington.  Their first book, Searching and Researching on the Internet and the World Wide Web, first published in 1997, is now in its 5th edition, published in 2010.