The value and values of libraries (.PDF)

A talk given at the " Celebration of Libraries " Sheldonian Theatre
Oxford, England, September 20 th 2002

Authority Control in the Context of Bibliographic Control in the Electronic Environment (.PDF)

International Conference on Authority Control
Florence, Italy, February 10-12, 2003

How the English See the French, a Personal View (.PDF)

A talk given to the Alliance Française
Fresno, California, October 21, 2003

A profession that looks like America? (.PDF)

Social Responsibility Round Table Newsletter
November, 2003

A unified approach to the teaching of library studies (.PDF)

A paper given at the EUCLID conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, August 12th, 2005

Public libraries in the United States (.PDF)

Seoul, Korea, August, 2006

The heart of the academy (.PDF)

Remarks at the opening of the Leatherby Libraries, Chapman University Orange, California, February 11th, 2005

Library Advocacy (.PDF)

A presentation at the 52nd National Conference of the
Associazione italiana biblioteche ”Le politiche delle biblioteche in Italia. I servizi” Roma, San Michele di Ripa Grande, 23rd November 2005

Cataloguing the Web: an oxymoron? (.PDF)

Alaska Library Association, February 2006

The Wrong Path and the Right Path
The role of libraries in access to, and preservation of, cultural heritage (.PDF)

Keynote speech at the Sofia 2006 conference:
“Globalization, Digitization, Access, and Preservation of Cultural Heritage” Sofia, Bulgaria, November 8th, 2006

The Louder they Talked of Outcomes, the Faster We Counted Our Beans (.PDF)

Measuring the Impact of Academic Libraries, SCONUL, London 29th November 2009