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<div class="title-row">Could be interesting. The panel below
will be in the UIUC GSLIS (library school) building, on 5th and
Daniel. Room 126 is on the east side, just up the stairs from
the parking lot.<br>
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<h2 class="detail-title">Libraries Under Siege: Censorship,
Access, and Endurance in the Middle East</h2>
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<span class="column-label">Date </span><b><span
class="column-info">Feb 7, 2014</span></b>
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<span class="column-label">Time </span><span
class="column-info"><b>10:00 am</b> - 11:30 am </span>
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<span class="column-label">Location </span><span
class="column-info">GSLIS 126</span>
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<span class="column-label">Sponsor </span><span
class="column-info">Graduate School of Library and Information
Sciences ALA Student Chapter</span>
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<span class="column-label">Views </span><span
class="column-info">5</span>
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<span class="column-label">Originating Calendar </span><span
class="column-info"><a
href="http://illinois.edu/calendar/list/2885">International
Programs and Studies Events</a></span>
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<div class="description-row">Panel discussion focused on the role
of Middle Eastern libraries in environments fraught with civil
unrest and military conflict. The participants will discuss
censorship, access, power and politics in Syrian, Lebanese, and
Egyptian institutions. Panelists include Syrian librarian and
Professor Inaam Charaf, Lebanese librarian and president of the
Lebanese Library Association Randa Chidiac, and UIUC GSLIS
librarian and professor Laila Hussein Moustafa. The panel will
be a joint virtual/physical event moderated by GSLIS professor
Kathryn La Barre. Refreshments will be provided.</div>
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