It is located a short distance from San Francisco, Napa and Sonoma Valleys, the California coastline and Lake Tahoe. Contra Costa County provides service through a Central Library and 22 branches and employs over 280 staff. The library has over 1.3 million volumes and an annual circulation of over 3.8 million. Please mark your calendars and plan to attend. The series draws speakers from every discipline relating to information and its place in society.
All events are free and everyone is welcome to attend.
Anyone who wishes to receive regular announcements of Information Studies Seminars is welcome to join the ISS mailing list. Light refreshments will be provided. Based on her extensive knowledge of both the research and the researchers in the field of library and information science, Dr. Poulain will offer a general overview of a wide range of French scholarship related to libraries, readers, and reading. Martine Poulain, a sociologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Paris, is one of the most noted scholars in the library field in France. Former editor of the major French library periodical, Bulletin des Biblioth ques de France , Dr. Poulain has also directed a series of monographs on reading and readers published by the research service of the Centre Pompidou.