Apologies for cross-posting. Please share. You are invited to the next IM Public Lecture. See below and attached poster for details.
The Information
Management Public Lectures give attention to exciting advances in research and professional practice. The topics are diverse reflecting the
importance and global extent of Information Management in today’s society. The lectures are open to all members of the Dalhousie campus and surrounding community. Click here for
the full schedule. We encourage you to attend in person, but if that is not possible you can access a recording on
our website following the lecture. Live streaming is not currently available.
Guylaine Beaudry
Concordia University
Lecture Details
Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
4:00pm
Room 3089, Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building
Reception with light refreshments to follow.
Co-sponsored by Dalhousie Libraries
Bio: Guylaine Beaudry is Vice-Provost, Digital Strategy and University Librarian at Concordia University (Montreal). She led the major renovation of the Webster Library and the transformation
of the chapel of the Grey Nuns motherhouse into a reading room. Since August 2017, she has been leading the university-wide digital strategy. She was previously Executive Director of Érudit (www.erudit.org), a publishing platform for humanities and social
sciences scholarly books and journals. She wrote many publications on scholarly publishing, notably, the books La communication scientifique et le numérique, (Hermès/Lavoisier, Paris), Le nouveau monde numérique et les revues scientifiques (Les
Presses de l’Université de Montréal (PUM) and La Découverte, Paris, France), that was translated and published by University of Calgary Press (Scholarly Journals in the New Digital World) and Profession : bibliothécaire (PUM). She was recently
elected member of the Royal Society of Canada and served in 2014 on its Expert Panel on the status and future of libraries and archives in Canada. She holds a doctorate in history of the book from École pratique des hautes études (Paris). Her thesis is entitled
“Scholarly communications and the digital revolution: Analysis of a mutation period from a historical perspective”.
Kim Humes, BPR
Administrative Assistant
School of Information Management
Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building
6100 University Avenue, Suite 4010
PO BOX 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Tel: 902.494.3656
Fax: 902.494.2451
