This is Emily at the memorial celebration for Bernard Porter. There was plenty of wine and cheese, his style. It was held in the home he built in Los Gatos, California, on December 30, 2006.

In the second half of October, 2005, I was fortunate to travel to Sweden because of a Fulbright Senior Specialists award. I spent one week at Umeå University and a second at the University at Göteborg.

We spent a sabbatical year in Paris in 2004-05. This included a Fulbright Senior Specialist trip to Tampere, Finland, two trips to Germany, the Kaleidoscope conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Learning in Lausanne, and the ProLearn workshop on learning objects in Leuven.

While in Paris, I worked on the Libr@ries: Changing Information Space and Practice book with Cushla Kapitzke, who came from Brisbane, Australia to finish the editing.

1999 (35:57), 2000 (34:23), 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

I became a Professor in the Graduate School of Library & Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Spring semester of 2000.

“Life’s work earns man his diplomas”, by Mary Schenk, June 05, 1999, The News-Gazette.

Our delegation traveled to Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Prague.

Journal of the Citizen Ambassador Program Reading Education Delegation to Russia and the Czech Republic. Spokane, WA: People to People International.

Sabbatical with major stays in Beijing, China and Brisbane, Australia and stops in Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Texas, California, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Italy, and Wales along the way, 1996-1997. See the map.

See “Learning from China.”

Citizen Ambassador Program Reading Education Delegation to the People’s Republic of China (Spokane, WA: People to People International).

Epilogue: Learning from China

Joined the Dialogues in Methods of Education (DIME) group. DIME members have studied together how to improve their own teaching practices through research, the sharing of ideas, and mutual support. They have also engaged in critical analysis of the disciplinary and institutional forces shaping their work. The history of DIME shows the importance of accommodating difference in providing support for sustained community.