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Fulbright awarded to Librarian
Nick Veronin
Issue date: 4/12/07 Section: News
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A San Jose State University faculty member has been selected to travel to Uruguay this year in order to engage in a U.S. sponsored educational and cultural exchange program with the South American country.
Mengxiong Liu, an engineering librarian and professor of library and information science at SJSU, will be among hundreds of U.S. faculty and professionals traveling abroad this year under the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program, according to a Fulbright press release.
"I'm very excited about this opportunity," Liu said. "I will communicate with the counterparts in Uruguay and share the information and help them to improve their programs. Meanwhile I will learn from them."
According to the Fulbright Scholar Program's Web site, former Senator J. William Fulbright proposed the idea of an international educational exchange program to Congress in 1945 as a way to foster mutual global understanding in the aftermath of World War II.
The program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and boasts former recipients who have gone on to become "heads of government, Nobel Prize winners and leaders in education, business, journalism, the arts and other fields," according to the Fulbright press release.
Liu said she will be working with the Latin American Center for Human Economy and The British Schools in Uruguay to help them in providing quality information services at their respective institutions.
"I will have exposure to a very different surrounding and get more multicultural background experience," she said. "I think Fulbright really offers a dynamic opportunity to network with our counterparts throughout the world."
She said she will use her library and information science expertise to advise, evaluate and recommend solutions to the problem of organizing and retrieving information in the ever-expanding global village.
"One challenge," Liu said, "is that I want to develop the information literacy program in Uruguay, because right now we have many sources of information but people don't really know how to use them. … Once people have the information literacy, they are more capable to get the information that they need."
Mengxiong Liu, an engineering librarian and professor of library and information science at SJSU, will be among hundreds of U.S. faculty and professionals traveling abroad this year under the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program, according to a Fulbright press release.
"I'm very excited about this opportunity," Liu said. "I will communicate with the counterparts in Uruguay and share the information and help them to improve their programs. Meanwhile I will learn from them."
According to the Fulbright Scholar Program's Web site, former Senator J. William Fulbright proposed the idea of an international educational exchange program to Congress in 1945 as a way to foster mutual global understanding in the aftermath of World War II.
The program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and boasts former recipients who have gone on to become "heads of government, Nobel Prize winners and leaders in education, business, journalism, the arts and other fields," according to the Fulbright press release.
Liu said she will be working with the Latin American Center for Human Economy and The British Schools in Uruguay to help them in providing quality information services at their respective institutions.
"I will have exposure to a very different surrounding and get more multicultural background experience," she said. "I think Fulbright really offers a dynamic opportunity to network with our counterparts throughout the world."
She said she will use her library and information science expertise to advise, evaluate and recommend solutions to the problem of organizing and retrieving information in the ever-expanding global village.
"One challenge," Liu said, "is that I want to develop the information literacy program in Uruguay, because right now we have many sources of information but people don't really know how to use them. … Once people have the information literacy, they are more capable to get the information that they need."
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