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Members of the Dalhousie community and the public are invited to attend
the following lecture in the public lecture series offered by the School
of Library and Information Studies:

 "Sun Tzu's The Art of War' and Strategic Management of Public
   Institutions"

  Speaker: Catherine Quinlan, University Librarian, University of
   British Columbia

  Date: Wednesday, 16th October 2002

  Time: 7:00 pm

  Location: Great Hall, University Club

A reception will follow the lecture at which the Associated Alumni of the
School will present the Outstanding Alumni Award to Ms. Quinlin. A
graduate of Dalhousie (MLS, 1980), Ms. Quinlan also holds an MBA from
Memorial University. She has worked in publicly funded institutions for
the past twenty years, and has been the University Librarian at UBC since
1997.

In Japan, which was transformed directly from a feudal culture into a
corporate culture virtually overnight, contemporary students of "The Art
of War" have applied the strategy of this ancient classic to modern
politics and business with similar alacrity. Indeed, some see in the
successes of postwar Japan an illustration of Sun Tzu's dictum of the
classic, "To win without fighting is best"  (Thomas Cleary - translator's
preface to "The Art of War."). In this lecture, Ms. Quinlan will analyse
and describe the tenets of this strategic management classic as they
pertain to the management of a not-for-profit service based organization.