Home PageLibrary advocacy workshop participants at Consulate General Cape Town benefit from Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library experience
Speaker Kathryn Harris of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library looks on during a presentation by local library representative
October 4, 2004 — The Information Resource Center in Cape Town hosted a one-day workshop on library advocacy with featured speakers Kathryn Harris, Division Manager for Library Services at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois, and Karen Hartman, Regional Information Resource Officer from Pretoria. The interactive workshop was aimed at all types of librarians, including those in public, academic, special, or school libraries.
In addition to looking at how to market library services, the workshop presenters also covered how to target stakeholders, decision makers, and customers with library promotion messages and discussed the effective modes for delivering such messages.
New Electronic Journal (Sept. 2004): The Global War on Terrorist Finance
“A key element of terrorist networks that was largely undisturbed prior to 9/11 is the global financial infrastructure that facilitates the rise of groups such as al-Qaida and funds attacks against the United States and our global partners.
“The work to track and shut down the financial network of terror is one of the most critical efforts facing us today, and we have achieved important successes in the mission to bankrupt the financial underpinnings of terrorism. Raising and moving money is now harder, costlier, and riskier for al-Qaida and like-minded terrorist groups. We have frozen and seized terrorist assets, exposed and dismantled known channels of funding, deterred donors, arrested key facilitators, and built higher hurdles in the international financial system to prevent abuse by terrorists. …
“The drumbeat to disrupt and dismantle terrorist financing has been constant and will continue. We will not relent in our mission to root out and halt terrorist financiers. This issue of Economic Perspectives demonstrates how the United States and its allies around the world continue to use all of our authorities, relationships and expertise to attack sources, conduits, and proceeds of the underwriters of terror.”