These talks are always very good. No comment on my own contribution, which I enjoyed preparing but ended up giving during a brief break between back-to-back budget cut meetings. Serenity Now!!
Anyhoo, I'm looking forward to this next session:
Information for International Development: Poverty Reduction, International Organizations, and Civil Society. January 16 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (Eastern).
This session will cover International Government Organization (IGO) and civil society information sources in the areas of economic growth, development assistance, poverty interventions, microfinance, capacity building, inequality, remittances, and foreign aid. We will examine documentation and statistics from International Development Organizations, such as the World Bank & Regional Development Banks, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Institute for Development Economics Research, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, the OECD, and the United Nations Regional Commissions. Sources of international development data will be explored at length, as well as development aid documentation from the World Bank and other international financial institutions. In contrast to, and as a potential challenge to the leading IGO paradigms, we will also explore development strategies and information sources from civil society organizations (NGOs) with an emphasis on those in the Global South, including the Grameen Bank, Brac, ASA, and others.
Presenter Jim Church, is the librarian for economics and international & foreign government information at the University of California Berkeley. He is active in the ALA Government Documents Roundtable where he served as the international documents columnist for the journal DttP for four years, and currently serves as the Secretary of the IFLA Government Information and Official Publications Section. His primary areas of interest include international poverty and development issues, statistics, human rights, NGOs, and digital archiving.
We will meet together for Session #22, online on Wednesday, January 16 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (Eastern). Please RSVP for the Session by January 15 at 5:00 pm using this link: http://tinyurl.com/grs-session22
The session will be recorded and made available after the live session, linked from the NCLA GRS web page (http://www.nclaonline.org/government-resources).
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