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COLICO Lecture 2011
Delineating the Public Space was the topic of the COLICO lecture for 2011 which was given by Dr. Marian Fitzgibbon, Head of the School of Humanities in Athlone Institute of Technology.
In 2004 COLICO (Committee on Library Co-operation in Ireland) established a lecture series to debate issues of interest to the library and information services sector. The lectures are usually part of the programme of the Joint Conference of the Library Association of Ireland (LAI) and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) which takes place annually in April.
The COLICO lecture 2011 took place on 14th April at the Library Association of Ireland/CILIP Ireland Annual Joint Conference in Bloomfield House Hotel, at Belvedere, just outside Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.
The library service, the arts service, education and local government all occupy the public space. Dr. Fitzgibbon explored how professionals in the public space must find ways of carrying out their roles and negotiating their environment in a manner that does not betray the ethos of public service. The presentation examined the topic and proposed some approaches to this dilemma.
Dr. Marian Fitzgibbon is Head of the School of Humanities in Athlone Institute of Technology. She is a graduate of University College Cork where she was a Honan Scholar from 1971-1974. She holds qualifications from the faculties of Arts and Commerce in UCC and UCD as well as an MBA from the Open University. Her professional life has alternated between the arts and education, having worked variously for the Institute of Technology, Tralee, the Arts Council and Athlone Institute of Technology in different capacities. A Newman Scholarship to UCD in 1996 allowed her to pursue doctoral studies in the field of innovation and the arts. She has been a board member of the Dunamaise Arts Centre in Portlaoise and is currently the Taoiseach’s nominee on the board of the National Library.
The full text of the lecture can be downloaded here.
Details and text of the COLICO Lectures for 2005 -2010 can be accessed here